Can I ask for the best book you've read in 2016?

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It doesn't matter what genre, whether it's YA or adult or what year it was originally written in or whether it's fiction or non-fiction. Tell me what made it "best"

I used to read a lot and I just burned out of it, I realise I really miss it and want to get back into it so I'm building an Amazon wishlist to work through

All Suggestions Welcome

Midnite are you Australian? Caisel Mor isn't in print here. There are a few 3rd party sellers but no direct sales.

The Wool Trilogy, Hugh Howey.
Jump, Jilly Cooper.
Dr Sleep, Stepjhen King.

I know they werent written this year but I buy my books second hand and my budget is around £3 so I just pretend

It doesn't matter what year it was written, just what you read, no-one reads things solely published in the current year.

Wool Trilogy is already on my list actually.

Don't you need to have read the Shining for Dr. Sleep?

The nightingale Kirsten Hannah

Un- put- downable

Ridiculously it's the Harry Potter books. Best one was probably the first but I'm now on no 5. I'm sure you've already read them though.
I was always that annoying smug git who said "of course I haven't read HP, I'm a GROWNUP!"
but then I went Ina long flight & got the audiobook of the first book for free. About 15 mins in I was hooked! Downloaded the rest of the books and am now obsessed with them!

I was in my late teens/early 20s when Potter happened. I was very

Gave the first a go so I could "prove" how massively overrated it was.

Sent my Mum out in the car to get the 2nd same day

Fates and Furies and the Buried Giant - I loved them both.

If you're looking for something different but amazing, try Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter. Bit of a weepy but very funny too.

It has to be I Let You Go.

Orphans of the Carnival by Carol Birch. The amazing story of Julia Pastrana, born in Mexico, and star of freak shows and stage. She had medical conditions which meant she was covered in hair, and had a deformed face which made people think she was half-animal. The story of her life and love makes incredibly moving reading, especially as it's a true story!

The Girl who saved the king of Sweden by Jonas Jonnasen (sp).
Complex plot but funny, heart warming, with incredible ideas that I can't see anyone else on this planet being able to replicate. I really really loved it.
And also Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver. I loved the main character and how the main event of the book leads her to make changes in her life. It kind of summarizes all those little life details that have to keep happening, even in the face of major change.

newlabel I have Fates and Furies unread, Buried Giant for the list

jam that had caught my eye, but seemed very thin for the price

Room I hated the other Jonas one, Poisonwood Bible by Kingsolver is amazing.

iron I read something vague about it that is also somehow a spoiler, in that I'll approach it differently now.

Clawdy that sounds really different. Listed.

Without a doubt the best book I e read so far was called 'Me Before You' apparently it's been made into a film now but the book was absolutely brilliant and it made me cry! I've read loads this year but this one was best!

Ooo it's the Jamrach's Menagerie woman I liked that

Uprooted by Naomi Novik. It's a retelling of some Eastern European myth - think Baba Yaga - and is amazing. I devoured it. Loved the characters, loved the story, loved the writing.

Erk blitz I'm a wheelchair user so I've steered clear of Me Before You for various reasons.

Kiwi sounds great

The Bees which is actually about a hive of bees but really sucks you in, at first I was only reading it because it was odd and then I couldn't put it down.

Every single one of Chris Carters books - proper gory thrillers with excellent twists.

Nevernight - Beautiful cover, amazing book and with a twist that nearly made me throw it out of the window in anger that the author would dare do that.

Put the two named ones you mentioned on my list LadyDeadpool thanks for reminding me of The Bees

I keep a list of all the books I read (saddo). I just went back through that list and here are my top three for the year so far:

The Witches, Stacy Schiff (non-fiction)
The Book of Aron, Jim Shepard
Everyone Brave Is Forgiven, Chris Cleave

I absolutely despised The Other Hand by Chris Cleave, making me nervous of giving him another go..... Dot

Will look at the others

Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch. Because it is about the London I recognise and it has ghosts in and the gods and godesses of the rivers and the Met.
And it is part of a series - so it doesn't end after one, too short, book!

I am so desperate for it to be made into a TV series.

A man called Ove by Fredrik Backman. It's just such an unlikely protagonist, very dry sense of unique and unbelievably heartwarming. I was in floods of tears and am def not a cryer by nature. Everyone I know who's read it has adored the book

Perspicia - read them love them also want a series!

I disliked Foxglove Summer though, left a bad taste in the mouth re : Soham, new one is out shortly, next month?

Fledgling - will add to list