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What is the best book you have read this year?

116 replies

TravellingSpoon · 14/08/2022 07:35

Got a book voucher for my birthday so I am going to pop up to Waterstones and treat myself, but am lacking inspiration.

OP posts:
Oblahdeeoblahdoe · 14/08/2022 22:31

Bit late to the party but Where the Crawdads Sing.

ballsdeep · 14/08/2022 22:32

It ends with us - Colleen Hoover

theveg · 14/08/2022 22:33

Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
The whalebone theatre Joanna Quinn
Cloud Cuckoo Land Antony Doerr

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PeacockMansion · 14/08/2022 22:36

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry or A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Gr33ngr33ngr4ss · 14/08/2022 22:36

We Are All Birds of Uganda.
Again Rachel
Book of Form & Emptiness

Start reading Elly Griffiths Brighton series or Ruth Galloway series

SquirrelFan · 14/08/2022 23:01

Golden Hill by Francis Spufford

Thornethorn · 14/08/2022 23:02

Department of speculation.

Best book of my decade

MissBattleaxe · 14/08/2022 23:05

Another vote for Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. It was jaw droppingly good. My book of the decade. I'm in love with Six Thirty. You'll see.

Quia · 14/08/2022 23:26

MissBattleaxe · 14/08/2022 23:05

Another vote for Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. It was jaw droppingly good. My book of the decade. I'm in love with Six Thirty. You'll see.

What's Six Thirty? I can't find any book with that title.

Blueberry40 · 14/08/2022 23:28

This is not a pity memoir- by Abi Morgan. And the beekeeper of Aleppo by Christie Lefteri

jd88123 · 14/08/2022 23:30

Anything by Shalini Boland. Highly recommended.

Clawdy · 14/08/2022 23:30

Shadow Girls - Carol Birch.

Painintheass22 · 14/08/2022 23:34

Following too for ideas ☺️

Dotcheck · 14/08/2022 23:34

Hamnet ☺️

@RiverSkater A Woman of Substance is great 😊

clipclop5 · 15/08/2022 00:51

Gas Man by Colin Black

Hydrangeapetals · 15/08/2022 02:33

The Choice by Claire Wade

yossell · 15/08/2022 02:40

The Doloriad: A Novel
by Missouri Williams

MinnieMountain · 15/08/2022 06:04

Last Summer in the City. It makes me want to go back to Rome.

GettingStuffed · 15/08/2022 06:38

Snow like Ashes

FiveGoMadInDorset · 15/08/2022 06:41

The Echo Chamber by John Boyne

MissBattleaxe · 15/08/2022 07:32

@Quia sorry, Six Thirty is a character in Lessons in Chemistry. Very lovable.

beastlyslumber · 15/08/2022 07:47

Another vote for Lessons in Chemistry.
Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
My Dark Vanessa by... can't remember her name - but incredible book
Night Bitch by Rachel Yoder

Justwanttobebythesea · 15/08/2022 07:52

Lessons in Chemistry
Still Life
Where the Crawdads sing
The Paper Palalce
The Midnight Library

DisplayPurposesOnly · 15/08/2022 07:52

Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser. Biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder who wrote the Little House on the Prairie books.

Lullabies2Paralyze · 15/08/2022 08:04

I really enjoyed The Ghost Tree by Christina Henry.
bought it a while ago and only just read it when mat leave started while waiting on baby arriving. Was really good. Couldn’t put it down.
I think it’s in the horror section but it’s not scary scary.

I also buy any Lisa jewel book on offer in supermarkets or kindle. They are usually always really good and very easy to read.