What is the best book you have read this year?

[TravellingSpoon]

Need some inspiration for my book challenge and know which ones to avoid from the other thread, but need some good reads.

Mine would definitely be A Gentleman in Moscow or The Women in the Castle.

@Givemestrengthorgin

A little life by Hanya Yanagihara. Amazing book, one of the handful I will remember for the rest of my life.

I didn’t read this this year but I agree, absolutely loved it.

The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
Sophie's Word by Jostein Gaarder

The midnight library (matt Heig)
Hero's ( Stephen fry)
& I revisited the harry Potter collection during lockdown 1 with my youngest... brilliant!

A Little Life. I read most of it last year but finished it this year
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, which is about the post-apocalyptic experiences of survivors of a novel strain of flu that wiped out almost the entire world, perfect reading for last spring

Agreed with the suggestion of A Little Life. So good, difficult to read in parts, but just amazing!

I’ve been reading ya books for work mostly. Bearmouth is brilliant, I thought about it for ages afterwards.

All That Remains. Sue Black. Female forensic anthropologist recounting past cases.

Troubled Blood
The Five

Reading Hamnet at the moment and it's fab.
Where the Crawdads Sing is next on my list and then after that I think I'll re-read Song of Achilles as so many people have mentioned it on reading threads recently. I loved Circe but can't really remember Achilles so I think I need to read it again!

Ooh yes A Gentleman in Moscow was absolutely brilliant!

I'm reading The Giver of Stars now and really enjoying it.

Also loved The Family Upstairs (light but un-putdownable!) and Margaret Atwood's The Testaments.

Where the Crawdads Sing was slightly disappointing for me as the end let it down so badly (loved it until about half way through )

@Ylvamoon The Glass Palace is one of my favourite books ever along with the Sea of Poppies trilogy

All Among The Barley by Melissa Harrison

Shuggie Bain

I read lots of great books this year but the stand out for me was Hamnet, i was utterly enthralled by it.

There's another thread for this The best books you read in 2020? http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/whatweree_reading/4096577-The-best-books-you-read-in-2020

Where the Crawdads sing. It was absolutely stunning.

@ badlydrawnbear I was going to suggest station eleven as well. The audiobook is also really good.

Everything I never told you.
Seven days of us.
All adults here.

This is a good post . Can anyone help me from here as I'm looking for a book which is happy reading. I've had a spell of thrillers off my kindle and now nead a bit of a cheer up one please

I've really enjoyed the Jackson Brodie novels by Kate Atkinson. I've actually loved every single one of her books that I've read, have a few to go

Engleby by Sebastian Foukes

Most enjoyable new book: The Mercies - although subsequently the author really annoyed me by getting another author sacked as a judge so I won't be reading anything else by her for a long while!

Most influential: Jog On - Bella Mackie as it actually got me running.

Most enjoyabl classic: They were Sisters - Dorothy Whipple. I had wanted to read some D. Whipple for a long while and I wasn't disappointed.

I’ve just finished Into the Water by Paula Hawkins. She’s the author who wrote the Girl on the Train, and this one’s even better.

Also enjoyed Queenie by candice carty Williams and ghosts by dolly aldertono

Where the Crawdads sing was my favourite this year too. I’ve just bought it for my mum for Christmas (my copy was on Kindle or I’d have passed it on).

The Happiest Man on Earth
by Eddie Jaku

Mr Loverman by Bernadine Evaristo.
Lanny by Max Porter.
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead.
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford.
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout.
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay.
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell.
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel.