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Best book you’ve read this year

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lastqueenofscotland · 25/11/2019 23:26

Doesn’t need to have been released this year, just one you’ve read in 2019 and why.

I really enjoyed The Dust That Falls From Dreams recently, which was far better than its shitty title implied it would be

Also reread Oryx and Crake. Which is one of my all time favourites.

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BeardedMum · 28/02/2020 11:43

Sorry Such a Fun Age

BeardedMum · 28/02/2020 11:43

I am really enjoying Such a Fun She by Kiley Reid.

Belacqua1975 · 27/02/2020 09:29

Mine were Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
and
The Lost Properties of Love by Sophie Ratcliffe
Glad to hear you liked the Elif Shafak, am going to take a look at that. I also really liked Elanor Dymot's Slack-Tide...

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ironicname · 09/02/2020 20:42

Elif Shafak - 10 minutes, 38 seconds in this strange world.

Xylophonics · 09/02/2020 20:33

Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver, loved it .

alifeintheday · 09/02/2020 16:16

I’ve just finished Tell Me Everything by Cambria Brockman...a psychological mystery set in a college in Maine. I found it compulsive reading...for a first novel I thought it was excellent. Plenty of twists and turns and the setting was exquisitely described.

FabulousGuineaPig · 07/02/2020 15:55

I've only read one book this year. Point Break. Ollie Ollerton. A genre I've never touched before but it opened my eyes to a world I knew nothing about.

Elasticatedwaist · 04/02/2020 16:15

Out of 8 books I’ve read since Christmas the two I enjoyed most were The Nanny at Number 43 by Nicola Cassidy and Susan Hills latest Simon serrailer The benefit of hindsight .

carbuncleonapigsposterior · 02/02/2020 18:21

........and forgot to add these two - Engleby - Sebastian Faulks, Clock Dance - Anne Tyler

carbuncleonapigsposterior · 02/02/2020 18:14

Nothing as good as 2018's best read, "The Heart's Invisible Furies" These were my favourites from my 2019 "50 Books" thread

The Dark Circle - Linda Grant
Educated - Tara Westover
Ordinary Thunderstorms - William Boyd
Milkman - Anna Burns
Different Class - Joanne Harris
The Butterfly Room - Lucinda Riley
A Friend From England - Anita Brookner
How was it for you? Women, sex, love and power in the 1960s - Virginia Nicholson (non fiction)
The Family Upstairs - Lisa Jewell
Blood Orange - Harriet Tyce

frankiefirstyear · 31/01/2020 22:01

The corset thanks @iklboo for mentioning this book!

pangolina · 28/01/2020 20:23

The Mixed Martial Artist by Lanta Brown. It popped up on Kindle unlimited so I gave it a try and oh my god! Like nothing else I've read.
It's a bit of an alternative love story that goes in a direction you would not expect and the characters really stick with you!

I recently read "Pages for You" by Sylvia Brownrigg which I absolutely adored

MaccaPacca81 · 19/01/2020 08:22

Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons.

Epic sci fi on a huge scale. Beautifully written. Just amazing.

buckeejit · 18/01/2020 23:36

I've just compiled my reads of 2019 like this.

Top 5 are

The blue castle- L M Montgomery fantastic! My favourite ever book

Where the crawdads sing
Educated
This is going to hurt
Why be happy when you could be normal?

Loved Sally Rooney & Jess Kidd too

Best book you’ve read this year
JiltedJohnsJulie · 05/01/2020 10:06

Fiction would be Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler. I only discovered Anne Tyler a couple of years ago and I'm gradually working my way through her books.

Non-fiction would be Untangled by Lisa Damour. It was recommended to me by the Mum of an older girl.

MrsEricBana · 05/01/2020 00:51

Station 11 hands down.

Also loving Olive Kitteridge - only reading it now because I went to hear Elizabeth Strout talking about her new book, Olive Again, and decided to read it then the new book.

InABigCountry · 05/01/2020 00:42

Two books I read in 2019- although they are not recent- I really enjoyed were-
The Handmaid's Tale- hard going at times but brilliant.
The Rosie Project- loved it!

Egghead68 · 04/01/2020 20:35

This is going to hurt was the one I read most quickly - very funny.

Libertylee · 04/01/2020 20:33

Two I’ve just read that I found totally engaging - The secrets of Tenley House and the Penmakers Wife.

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GorkyMcPorky · 02/01/2020 23:05

I enjoyed Circe most I think. I was a bit disappointed with The Testaments though.

ipreferaflan · 29/12/2019 18:45

Loved...

Where the Crawdads Sing
The Nightingale
After the End

Megabustravelling · 29/12/2019 18:37

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine. Bit of a marmite I think but I totally loved it and identified with the protagonist's humour.