Best book you’ve read this year

[lastqueenofscotland]

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.

I really enjoyed The Alice Network, which is largely about a female spy network operating during WWI.

www.amazon.co.uk/Alice-Network-Novel-Kate-Quinn/dp/0062654195?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

Moving by Jenny Éclair - fantastic
Tamar by Mal Peet - superb wartime story with a twist that genuinely stunned me.

Too many to list this year.

Non fiction:

All That Remains by Sue Black

I am I am I am by Maggie O’Farrell - totally gripping

Fiction:
Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue

Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid is a really fun and easy read

After You’d Gone by Maggie O’Farrell - I know I’m late with this one but I’ve read and loved loads of hers and this was my most recent

The Wicked Cometh by Laura Carlin - so well written and atmospheric

Recommendations please !!!! Can’t get enough of reading at the moment with the turn in the weather

The Heart's Invisible Duties was recommended and I loved.

The Testaments.

My sister, the serial killer.

My year of rest and relaxation.

I can't choose between 'The Nightingale' by Kristen Hannah, 'The Goldfinch' by Donna Tartt, 'Circe' by Madeline Miller and 'Educated' by Tara Westover - they were all brilliant and very different!

I also enjoyed 'The Heart's Invisible Furies' and 'My Sister, the Serial Killer'. You can't beat a good book, particularly on a dreary day.

The tattooist of Auschwitz

Yes, zafferana I loved ‘Educated’

What a strong woman she is

Educated by TaraWestover. Gripping.

Non fiction:
The Heartland: Finding and Losing Schizophrenia by Nathan Filer

Fiction:
The Siege by Helen Dunmore

Oh, I must put some of these on my Christmas list.
Non-fiction I loved Becoming by Michelle Obama and Christine Armstrong The Mother of All Jobs.
Fiction, I sped through The Dry by Jane Harpur and her two subsequent novels. Gripping good reads, hope there will be more.

Without a doubt it is Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo. Memorable characters

Tara I also loved The Siege, though I read it a couple of years ago.

The Heart's Invisible Furies

Educated

Mythos

Becoming Michelle Obama

Am about half way though A Prayer for Owen Meany and I think it will be one of my top books this years as well

A Prayer for Owen Meany is one of my top 10 of all time. Loved it. If you like that, you might like A Son of the circus and Until I Find You. Really exceptional story telling and I marvel at how Irving manages to bring so many strands together to close his books

The Choice by Edith Eger was powerful and uplifting. Also loved Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance. Highly recommend that to everyone who liked Educated.

It was definitely Station 11, followed by All The Light We Cannot See.

@PickleChipsareyummy Thanks for the recommendation

@ImportantWater - I'm about 10 pages away from finishing Station 11. Lovely book. I don't want it to end. I want to read another 800 pages about the new world and about Station 11.

Rebecca - compelling and truly unforgettable.

Himself by Jess Kidd - very lyrical and engaging

@lastqueenofscotland Thank you for starting this thread it's a planned trip to the library on Saturday which I usually dread it because there's to much to choose from 😂

I've had one of those years where pretty much all the books I have read have been ok (or hard work - like The Goldfinch).

The ones that have been better than OK, but still not anywhere near my top ten were The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter, Little Fires Every by Celeste Ne and My Sister The Serial Killer by Oyinkin Braithwaite.

I also really, really enjoyed the Cormoron Strike books written by Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling's pseudonym).

I have just reserved Station Eleven, so hopefully this changes my year :)

I've really enjoyed
Educated by Tara Westover
Milkman by Anna Burns
The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan
Hag Seed by Margaret Atwood

I've loved:
The underground railway
A thousand ships
Erebus
The testaments

American Wife by Curtis Sittenfield- brilliant book

Also Engleby by Sebastian Faulks - a very very dark comedy