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What is your book of the year so far?

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Sadik · 13/11/2018 21:39

One only, no cheating with multiples Grin (And I am totally asking this for Christmas present purposes)

Mine is Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer. It's not the best written book I've read this year (objectively it has lots of faults), but it's the stand out for me because of the world-building, endless ideas to think about, and good characters.

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EmmaGrundyForPM · 16/11/2018 04:40

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. Really well crafted and moving.

waycat · 16/11/2018 04:08

A Place Called Winter and A Perfectly Good Man, both by Patrick Gale.

Very moving stories.

SummersB · 16/11/2018 02:50

Thanks for starting this thread OP - lots of great suggestions!

VanderlyleGeek · 16/11/2018 02:19

I'm really loving The Library Book, Susan Orlean's new one.

Otherwise, my hands down best book of 2018 is actually a reread: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon.

Pinkruler · 15/11/2018 22:39

How to Stop Time by Matt Haig - read it early in the year, still my favourite.

OnMyWhistle · 15/11/2018 22:17

The Silent Companions - loved it

AliceLutherNeeMorgan · 15/11/2018 22:14

Winter, by Ali Smith. I loved her Autumn as well

Petalflowers · 15/11/2018 19:52

The Horse Boy - not a new book but a true life account about a dad and his autistic son, and his trek across Russia meeting horse tribes, as he discovers his son as a natural affinity with horses.

Petalflowers · 15/11/2018 19:50

The Rules of Seeing - Joe Heap - an intrigueing novel about a blind girl and another girl who meet by chance.

One Day in December - haven’t finished this book yet but really enjoying it.

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Sadik · 15/11/2018 19:43

That sounds wonderful Dottie (to be honest, just the title alone would be enough to get me to read it)

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Dottierichardson · 15/11/2018 11:35

The Engineer of Human Souls by Josef Skvorecky. A brilliant novel from the 1970s written by a writer in exile from the-then Iron Curtain Czech republic. The chief character is teaching literature in a remote part of Canada but his thoughts are dominated by his memories of life in Czechoslovakia, particularly the years of the Nazi occupation and then the takeover by Stalin's forces. He reflects on his family, his lost loves and what happened to him and his friends after the war. It's interspersed with scenes of refugee life in Canada. Funny, moving, thoughtful, literary, informative, incredibly readable and absorbing. Am excellent novel. Also the portrait he constructs of life under fascism/totalitarianism, refugee life all very timely.

BookWitch · 14/11/2018 19:20

Edge of Eternity - Ken Follet

Growingboys · 14/11/2018 17:17

I've enjoyed I Am Pilgrim, Dear Mrs Bird, Standard Deviations...

shumway · 14/11/2018 17:09

Florida - Lauren Groff, Sight - Jessie Greengrass, Dakota Winters - Tom Barbash.

Growingboys · 14/11/2018 17:03

I've ordered it too, thank you!

SavageBeauty73 · 14/11/2018 17:01

Just ordered The Heart Invisible Furies - thank you!

carbuncleonapigsposterior · 14/11/2018 16:44

"The Heart's Invisible Furies"

Towerofjoyless · 14/11/2018 14:42

Probably The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne

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