Whats the best book you've read this year???

[Love2bake]

Mine would be The Kite Runner.

Have also read 1000 splendid suns, notes on an exhibition and atonement this year...all good.

Have lots more to put on my to-read list now

A tale of two cities

I have been such a slooow reader this year..but so far the one I enjoyed most is Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald.

Have wanted to read it for ages and loved it.

I would say for me either The Private Lives of Pippa Lee by Rebecca\Miller or The Road Home by Rose Tremain. Both very well written and memorable.

MaryAnn - how did you get on with the Ukrainian language in that book?

In the Woods by Tana French.

Also the Kite Runner for the third time!

Secret Diary of a Slummy Mummy made me weep with laughter.

When a crocodile eats the sun just made me weep.

I really enjoyed Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian too.

What is the Kite runner about?

Sky Burial by Xiran! Completely absorbing and mindblowing. Best thing I've read for ages.

1000 splenedid suns. best book ever, not just this year.

i really , really wanted to enjoy atonement, but found that briony's rambling thoughts went off at such tangents that i kept losing my concentration and hence lost the thread.

did anyone else find that about the first chapters of atonement?

Kill Your Friends by John Niven

The main character is horrible but yet compelling and in places very funny. I really enjoyed it and could quite easily read it again.

Secret Diary of a slummy mummy is next in the pile so good to see it it getting a good review

The post birthday world - Lionel Shriver - very good.

Kite runner also

the other boleyn girl, fascinating

John Updike's Rabbit series. Absolutely superlative - some of the best writing I've ever come across.

Miyazaki, I'm just about to read A Tale of Two Cities! Have it on the table to start after I finish current book - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon - also very good indeed.

All the Stephanie Plum series. I laughed like a drain.

really into lesley pearce at the mo, best book this year,'remember me'

Mingming, Kite Runner is about the friendship between 2 boys of different class who are friends in Afghanistan. It's about love, war and betrayal.

elasticwoman at Ukrainian !!
I read 1,000 Splendid Suns too but curiously not as crazy about it as everyone else, similarly Kite Runner before that...

the brand new Jodi Picoult, but can't remember the name of it. V interesting, all about the death penalty and really got me thinking

If you liked kite runner and a thousand splendid suns then you should read 'half of a yellow sun'.

Absolulty fantastic, one of the best books I have ever read, if not THE best.

Notes from an Exhibition, fantastic

SilentTerror - I have the Andrew Taylor on my wanted list as I loved "The American Boy". I don't like his usual detectivey stuff though.

I seem to have read an awful lot of rubbish this year unfortunately (including some of the ones mentioned on here - I loathed "Attonement" for example) but I did enjoy The Caliban Shore.

I was a bit disappointed with "A Thousand Splendid Suns" - think he needs to extend his repertoire a bit.

didn'r rate Half of a yellow sun either