What is your book of the year so far?

[Sadik]

One only, no cheating with multiples (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.

Agent glad to have done a good job on the VF sell. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Sadik just started Too Like The Lightening. It’s been sat on my bookshelf since Christmas last year so your review has given me the shove to get started.

Hope you enjoy it Scribbly - I suspect it's something of a marmite book, will be interested to hear what you make of it.

"The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet" by Becky Chambers, I haven't read much sci-fi for a while but really enjoyed this one, and the second by the same author ("A closed and common orbit"). Will have to put the third one on my Christmas wishlist :)

I've just finished The Hearts invisible Furies - which was absolutely brilliant and I never would have read it if I hadn't checked in here for suggestions.

A warning of typos ?

What new hell is this?

Without a shadow of doubt The Hearts Invisible Furies ❤️

Can anyone help me remember a book I read in the summer please as I'd like to see if there's anything else by the author. It starts in the 1970s about an impoverished Scottish boy who lives with his mother (Dad dies early on in the book). She gets a job in a shoe shop and eventually marries the manager. He grows up to become a very successful photographer. In the meantime he and a girlfriend steal a car to go to a concert and crash the car on the way home. Its set in a small Scottish community ... so good but I just can't remember the title or the author! Nappy brain!!

"Lie with me" by Sabine Durant, amazing and original thriller and the first book in a long time I've been unable to put down.....got another of her books on my reading list to look forward to!

Push by sapphire
The book from the movie precious

The power.

I'm trying to find a book but I don't remember the title or author but the plot is a sister is being accused of murdering her younger sister because she was last seen with her

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine. Loved it.
A place Called Winter.
The Light BetweenThe Oceans. Really enjoyed that.

Light from other windows, I'm reading it at the moment.

Thin air by Michelle Paver, a haunting tale.

From children’s/YA fiction The house with chicken legs by Sophie Anderson is beautifully written.

I have completely fallen back in love with reading after returning to work from mat leave. I didn't get to read a single book in the year I was off. Now my bus journey to and from work is my happy time.

I think it has to be Milkman for me.

So many good books this year - almost all of them recommendations from you lovely lot!

Difficult to pick a favourite but :

The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Milkman by Anna Burns
Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng
Educated by Tara Westover

Currently listening to Michelle Obama's Becoming and I think that may well get into the list.

Normal People, Sally Rooney

Yes! Absolutely loved this. Also Nutshell, Ian McEwan

Would find it impossible to pick a stand alone this year (sorry OP!)
But some of my favourites have been:
Priestdaddy - Patricia Lockwood
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock - Imogen Hermes Gowar
Sing, unburied, sing - Jesmyn Ward
Educated - Tara Westover
thing of Darkness- Harry Thompson
The end we start from - Megan Hunter
Why I am no longer talking to white people about race - Reni Eddo- Lodge
Circe - Madeline Miller
The seal woman’s gift - Sally Magnusson.
The reading cure: How books restored my appetite- Laura Freeman
The long take - Robin Robertson
Becoming - Michelle Obama
The book of night women- Marlon James
The Mars Room - Rachel Kushner