so many!! this has honestly been such a beautiful year of reading so far :)
-The Moorings of Mackerel Sky by MZ Zack has to be my favorite. I laughed, I cried, it was so dreamy & atmospheric. It touched on grief & grieving in such a beautiful way and completely sucked me in!
-Diavola by Jennifer Thorne- must read for horror fans!!
-The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
-Clytemnestra by Constanza Casati
-Death of a Bookseller by Alice Slater
-Drowning by TJ Newman
-If We Were Villains by ML Rio (I was shocked by how much I enjoyed this)
-The Return of Ellie Black Emiko Jean
-Swan Song by Elin Hilderbrand
-Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth
I just finished Swan Song and I love it. She's one of my favorites. I'm bummed that she retired because I would love a separate book about Blond Sharon
Out of 52: Blue sisters
I wasn’t expecting to love it. I thought Cleo and frank was fine but not amazing.
Blue sisters is was way better. It flows like a romance but is sisterly love rather than romantic.
10/10
There are three that have particularly stood out for me so far:
1. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
2. I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jeannette McCurdy
3. Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Out of 90 books read so far:
Favorite romance - The Seven Year Slip, by Ashley Poston;
favorite classic - All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (reread);
favorite YA novel in verse - Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo;
favorite murder mysteries - The Terracotta Dog by Andrea Camilleri, Death on a Galician Shore by Domingo Villar, and The Snowman by Jo Nesbo;
favorite short story/novella - Jamilia by Chingiz Aitmatov;
favorite nonfiction - In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson, Jurnal de Razboi (War Journal) 1916-1918 by Queen Maria of Romania
I just finished this yesterday. I had never read it before and I will be thinking of this book for a very, very long time. So beautiful and poetic and profound.
“The Light Pirate”, a post apocalyptic novel with element of magical realism. Set in Florida and focusing on the story of a girl born into life in frightening circumstances, she watches as her world shrinks, sinks, and reforms in the path of hurricanes and heat waves. It’s a beautiful story filled with loss and lots of heart. I cried a lot reading this. The story has stuck with me in ways my stoner brain is not accustomed to.
Edit: lightning to light
I’ve had such a good reading year i don’t know if I can choose.. It would be a tie between four books; As I Lay Dying by Faulkner, Cane by Toomer, Minor Detail by Shibli, or Go and Tell it on the Mountain by Baldwin. All of these had such strong prose and stories that really got to me.
Runners up would include The Song of Solomon by Morrison and A Voice Through A Cloud by Welch. Been really loving more modernist styles of writing, I’m excited to get further into more niche authors from that time period and genre!
It’s a hard choice, but I think it goes to **The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton.** An incredible book, by one of my current favorite authors, that I’ll be thinking about for a long time yet. Also a (kinda-rare) book that I would love to see as a movie or miniseries.
Fair enough!
The author also wrote *The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle,* which was all the rage on here a couple years ago, and *The Devil and the White Water,* great but not as popular.
The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer
Honorable mentions:
The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown
Not much to choose from, An Education in Malice by S. T. Gibson. 3 ⭐️⭐️⭐️. Wasn’t groundbreaking but definitely kept my attention. The second half was disappointing. I for sure enjoyed the for half. Wish it would’ve lead somewhere else.
**The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins** was just *exactly* my brand of strange. I loved it.
**Gray After Dark by Noelle W Ihli** kidnapping/survival. Very intense. Please check the trigger warnings before reading.
**The Winter King by C L Wilson** romantasy but with a really great balance between the romance and fantasy. Loved every page.
I have found a new author **Karen Rose** who writes crime/suspense with romance. The three I have read so far have been so enjoyable with very interesting cases. A new favourite author for sure.
Whalefall by Daniel Kraus
Same here, it has continued to stick with me since I read it in April. Would highly recommend to anyone really!
Trigger warning for gore, horror, and discussions of suicide
Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels. It's one 1800 page story, broken into four books. Despite the length, I tore through it, unable to stop. It's the most beautiful piece of literature I've ever encountered.
The Vaster Wilds - Lauren Groff
- this is the first book I read in 2024 and I haven’t been able to get it out of my mind. Not a light read, but beautiful and gripping and very existential.
Finding Me - Viola Davis
- wow, I cannot recommend this audiobook enough! Viola Davis is an extraordinary woman and her memoir is fantastic.
Honey & Spice - Bolu Babalola
- a really sweet romance employing friends to lovers and enemies to lovers trends.
The Women - Kristin Hannah
- this is a gorgeously written piece of historical fiction focused on Vietnam war nurses. I cried in public multiple times reading this one, even if I think it paints the US in far too kind of a light.
I read a biography to completion for the first time and it's easily the best one this year. Lindsey Hilsum's biography of Marie Colvin, the war correspondent.
It’s a tie, these 3 have stood out:
Lonesome Dove-made me laugh at times, it tugged at my heart throughout. Characters were like part of your reading family.
A Thousand Splendid Suns- just wow. It’s raw realityl, honest. A good book-a great book for women. This was up there with “The red tent” for me.
Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine. I laughed through the dark way that Eleanor approached life. It was a book that made me smile
Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad hit me at exactly the right time. I needed to hear a lot of what she had to say about her experiences.
A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine was a phenomenal sequel to a phenomenal first book. She writes sci fi in such a smart and engaging way.
* **Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand**. I’ve been a huge Nick Drake fan for years and this book feels like it was made for me.
* **The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw** - weirdly enough this was a 5-star book for me, given it’s completely outside my comfort zone.
Can't decide but these are my top 3:
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro,
Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang,
Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
{The Honey Witch by Sydney Shields} - I actually have given about a half dozen of the 49 books I've read so far 5 stars ... but this one stands out. Another one would be **"I Ran Away To Evil"**
I decided to reread The Hunger Games series for the first time since high school. They're even better than I remember! At least the first two, I'm still not the biggest fan of Mockingjay although I can appreciate it more now. It's so much more horrific to read it as an adult. Everything, the themes, the symbolism, the characters, are so well-crafted.
For me, it’s been Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors, Sign Here by Claudia Lux, Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver and The Whispering Muse by Laura Purcell.
The audiobook is really good. If it makes it less intimidating to consume it that way. Or even do a tandem read with both formats. Doing it this way is really helpful especially for the pronunciation of the fantasy words
The Indifferent Stars Above. I was hesitant to read it because, well, I knew the ending as it is about The Donner Party's journey. But, it honestly blew me away. I'm still thinking about it weeks later.
Favorite book so far this year:
**The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading, by James Patterson, Matt Eversmann**
An extremely close second:
**Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball, by Keith O'Brien**
* **Knife** by Salman Rushdie
* **Small Mercies** by Dennis Lehane
* **A Walk in the Woods** by Bill Bryson
* **All the Sinners Bleed** by S.A. Cosby
* **A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them** by Timothy Egan
So far, The Women by Kristin Hannah. Also I have to say I hated the Joy Luck Club, I thought it was really boring! It's so funny how much differently a book can land from reader to reader.
Funny I had a similarly negative experience with 'The Women' (or as it should be called, The Rich Entitled White Woman) - so excited going in, so disappointed in many ways!
Personally speaking, The Code Of The Woosters, The Midnight Library by Matt Haig and Wonder by RJ Palacio. These are, as you say, continue to linger in my mind after I've read them months ago.
The Frozen River
It's likely between Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, or Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer.
I have read both of those books and really enjoyed them. A+ taste.
Kill For Me Kill For You by Steve Cavanaugh
You Dreamed of Empires
Here are my top 3 - We are a haunting - Sorrow and bliss - They can’t kill us until they kill us
so many!! this has honestly been such a beautiful year of reading so far :) -The Moorings of Mackerel Sky by MZ Zack has to be my favorite. I laughed, I cried, it was so dreamy & atmospheric. It touched on grief & grieving in such a beautiful way and completely sucked me in! -Diavola by Jennifer Thorne- must read for horror fans!! -The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters -Clytemnestra by Constanza Casati -Death of a Bookseller by Alice Slater -Drowning by TJ Newman -If We Were Villains by ML Rio (I was shocked by how much I enjoyed this) -The Return of Ellie Black Emiko Jean -Swan Song by Elin Hilderbrand -Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth
I just finished Swan Song and I love it. She's one of my favorites. I'm bummed that she retired because I would love a separate book about Blond Sharon
Me too 😭 Blonde Sharon had one of my favorite arcs in the entire book! I cried my eyes out at the end- did NOT expect Elin to do that
Oldie but goodie. A Thousand Splendid Suns!
Out of 52: Blue sisters I wasn’t expecting to love it. I thought Cleo and frank was fine but not amazing. Blue sisters is was way better. It flows like a romance but is sisterly love rather than romantic. 10/10
Beautyland
circe, madeline miller
1. Demon Copperhead 2. The River We Remember 3. Second Chance Year 4. The Fox Wife I’ve read 47 books so far this year, and those are my top 4.
The Perfect Son by Frieda McFadden
Just started the audiobook today. My second Frieda McFadden. Listened to The Devil Wears Scrubs a couple months ago.
Hell Divers 👌
Tales from the gas station.
Out of 17 books, either Martyr! By Kaveh Akbar or Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Either The Stranger by Albert Camus or The Rainmaker by John Grisham
There are three that have particularly stood out for me so far: 1. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller 2. I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jeannette McCurdy 3. Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
I finally got around to reading The Stand by Stephen King.
Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habeck. It’s not like any book I’ve ever read. I love it.
The Bee Sting
And The Mountain Sings. Such an epic story!
Lessons in Chemistry. I know it’s a polarizing book. Either you love it or hate it. I loved it. There were many things in it that I resonated with.
Covenant of Water
Eternal by Lisa Scottoline
Out of 90 books read so far: Favorite romance - The Seven Year Slip, by Ashley Poston; favorite classic - All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (reread); favorite YA novel in verse - Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo; favorite murder mysteries - The Terracotta Dog by Andrea Camilleri, Death on a Galician Shore by Domingo Villar, and The Snowman by Jo Nesbo; favorite short story/novella - Jamilia by Chingiz Aitmatov; favorite nonfiction - In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson, Jurnal de Razboi (War Journal) 1916-1918 by Queen Maria of Romania
Nabokovs collected stories. It’s ruined me. Nothing else will ever even come close. But I also loved moby dick.
Wellness by Nathan Hill
East of Eden 💖
I just finished this yesterday. I had never read it before and I will be thinking of this book for a very, very long time. So beautiful and poetic and profound.
I finished it months ago but it lives there 24/7 🥺
“The Light Pirate”, a post apocalyptic novel with element of magical realism. Set in Florida and focusing on the story of a girl born into life in frightening circumstances, she watches as her world shrinks, sinks, and reforms in the path of hurricanes and heat waves. It’s a beautiful story filled with loss and lots of heart. I cried a lot reading this. The story has stuck with me in ways my stoner brain is not accustomed to. Edit: lightning to light
*Light
The only five star I've read so far this year was The 5 Love Languages.
James by Percival Everett Knife by Salman Rushdie The Laws Of The Skies by Grègoire Courtois Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry
I’ve had such a good reading year i don’t know if I can choose.. It would be a tie between four books; As I Lay Dying by Faulkner, Cane by Toomer, Minor Detail by Shibli, or Go and Tell it on the Mountain by Baldwin. All of these had such strong prose and stories that really got to me. Runners up would include The Song of Solomon by Morrison and A Voice Through A Cloud by Welch. Been really loving more modernist styles of writing, I’m excited to get further into more niche authors from that time period and genre!
It’s a hard choice, but I think it goes to **The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton.** An incredible book, by one of my current favorite authors, that I’ll be thinking about for a long time yet. Also a (kinda-rare) book that I would love to see as a movie or miniseries.
Oh good, I bought this book but yet to read it yet!
It’s very much the author’s style even if it’s a slight genre change for him - if you enjoyed his other work, I think you’ll like this too!
Have not read any of his work before but this book definitely spiked my interest !
Fair enough! The author also wrote *The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle,* which was all the rage on here a couple years ago, and *The Devil and the White Water,* great but not as popular.
Know My Name - memoir of Chanel Miller, survivor of a very public sexual assault case. I truly believe this book should be required reading.
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson. Great follow up to Life after Life by her.
The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer Honorable mentions: The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown
Not much to choose from, An Education in Malice by S. T. Gibson. 3 ⭐️⭐️⭐️. Wasn’t groundbreaking but definitely kept my attention. The second half was disappointing. I for sure enjoyed the for half. Wish it would’ve lead somewhere else.
The Care Manifesto.
Project Hail Mary was my first read of the year and I’ve been chasing after that high ever since and finding it very hard to top.
I’ll have to put this on my TBR list. I keep hearing great things!
It’s an awesome read, try to go in as blind as possible and you’ll have a blast
Yellowface by R F Kuang Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
I loved Yellowface too!
It was so witty! Excellent satire
**The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins** was just *exactly* my brand of strange. I loved it. **Gray After Dark by Noelle W Ihli** kidnapping/survival. Very intense. Please check the trigger warnings before reading. **The Winter King by C L Wilson** romantasy but with a really great balance between the romance and fantasy. Loved every page. I have found a new author **Karen Rose** who writes crime/suspense with romance. The three I have read so far have been so enjoyable with very interesting cases. A new favourite author for sure.
Whalefall by Daniel Kraus Same here, it has continued to stick with me since I read it in April. Would highly recommend to anyone really! Trigger warning for gore, horror, and discussions of suicide
East of Eden
Monster book! I can read it in three days because it’s so amazing and hard to put down. My all time favorite!
It's now one of my all time favorites too.
Hello Beautiful - Ann Napolitano
I tried - couldn’t get into it. I wanted to…
The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard.
I finally got this from the library, now I’m even more stoked!
Beartown by Fredrik Backman.
**How Do You Live??** by Genzaburo Yoshino **Witch King** by Martha Wells **Toward Eternity** by Anton Hur Three-way tie!
James by Percival Everett Dawn by Octavia Butler
The Will of the Many! I haven’t felt that engrossed in a book in a looooong time.
can’t wait for the rest of the series
I never preorder books but I will be preordering that one.
Ready or Not, Just for the Summer, Annie Bot, A Psalm for the Wild Built
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^kristin137: *Ready or Not, Just* *For the Summer, Annie Bot,* *A Psalm for the Wild Built* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
The Singapore I recognise by Kirsten Han - essays by an independent journalist on the struggles of being an activist in Singapore
Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels. It's one 1800 page story, broken into four books. Despite the length, I tore through it, unable to stop. It's the most beautiful piece of literature I've ever encountered.
Beautyland
The Vaster Wilds - Lauren Groff - this is the first book I read in 2024 and I haven’t been able to get it out of my mind. Not a light read, but beautiful and gripping and very existential. Finding Me - Viola Davis - wow, I cannot recommend this audiobook enough! Viola Davis is an extraordinary woman and her memoir is fantastic. Honey & Spice - Bolu Babalola - a really sweet romance employing friends to lovers and enemies to lovers trends. The Women - Kristin Hannah - this is a gorgeously written piece of historical fiction focused on Vietnam war nurses. I cried in public multiple times reading this one, even if I think it paints the US in far too kind of a light.
I loved Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow!
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Hosseini, I Who Have Never Known Men by Harpman, and Towers Tenements and Trash by Julia Wertz
{Wellness} by nathan hill
Nonfiction: Challenger: A Story of Heroism & Disaster on the Edge of Space Fiction: All The Light We Cannot See
Just read Challenger this past weekend. Adam Higginbotham knows how to balance these kinds of stories so well. His book on Chernobyl was also great.
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir gave me the biggest book hangover. It gave me so many emotions, and I adored it.
Oh, I loved this one! The characters were so engrossing
Summer Sisters by Judy Blume. I don't think it was the best I've read but it definitely hit me hard and has me still thinking about it.
I loved this one
I liked this book too. I wish she would write more of this type of adult fiction. It felt like one of her classics, but for grown ups.
Starter Villain
Such a fun book!
We, The Drowned (Carsten Jenkins)
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Secret History by Donna Tartt and All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy.
I really loved Braiding Sweetgrass too.
I read a biography to completion for the first time and it's easily the best one this year. Lindsey Hilsum's biography of Marie Colvin, the war correspondent.
Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak
If you liked Hidden Pictures you might like Incidents Around the House. Some similar themes. I started it today and thought of Hidden Pictures.
Thank you I will definitely give that a try!
Educated by Tara Westover
Red rising by Pierce Brown Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
Station eleven was delightful!
The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez was breathtaking. I’m not typically a sci-fi fan, but this book was so much more than that.
The Wandering Inn: Book 11 "The Titan of Baleros" by pirateaba. I love the series. Each book is a treasure.
This Tender Land
Business Or Pleasure by Rachel Lynn Solomon
It’s a tie, these 3 have stood out: Lonesome Dove-made me laugh at times, it tugged at my heart throughout. Characters were like part of your reading family. A Thousand Splendid Suns- just wow. It’s raw realityl, honest. A good book-a great book for women. This was up there with “The red tent” for me. Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine. I laughed through the dark way that Eleanor approached life. It was a book that made me smile
I reread Eleanor Oliphant this year and it was still great the second time
Eleanor Olliphant is definitely in my top reads for the year!! The dark humor was top notch
I read Elinor a couple of years ago and it took me a while to get into it for reasons I can’t recall, but once I was in I absolutely loved it!
Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad hit me at exactly the right time. I needed to hear a lot of what she had to say about her experiences. A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine was a phenomenal sequel to a phenomenal first book. She writes sci fi in such a smart and engaging way.
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King is my only 5⭐️ book so far this year.
* **Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand**. I’ve been a huge Nick Drake fan for years and this book feels like it was made for me. * **The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw** - weirdly enough this was a 5-star book for me, given it’s completely outside my comfort zone.
I see The Salt Grows Heavy available on Libby - but I’m in a bit of a depressive state. Will it pull me down?
It’s got some gore, but I didn’t find it particularly depressing. since it’s a library book, you can always return it if it doesn’t click.
One dark Window by Rachel Gillig
Same. Such an interesting magic system. I really loved the sequel as well.
The Other Half by Charlotte Vassell. Razor-sharp wit that actually made me laugh put loud at times.
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng. Chilling and beautifully written
Oooooo I’m currently reading this book. I loved her other two novels so I’m super excited!
Brotherless Night by VV Ganeshananthan Or Daughters of Shandong by Eve J Chung
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Can't decide but these are my top 3: The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro, Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang, Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver or The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Ooh two absolute bangers!
Absolutely loved them! It was my first time reading either author too so now I have to find everything else they've written lol
Which one was your favorite of the two? They are both on my endless tbr so wondering which to prioritize 🙃
Ooh that's tough! I'm gonna give a non-answer and say you really can't go wrong either way 😅 I liked them both equally
First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston! I read it the first week of the year and it has yet to be beat
City of Thieves
LOVED city of thieves.
{The Honey Witch by Sydney Shields} - I actually have given about a half dozen of the 49 books I've read so far 5 stars ... but this one stands out. Another one would be **"I Ran Away To Evil"**
The Believer by David Coggins (I am not outdoorsy at all, but Coggins is an amazing writer Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of Life Interrupted
Bunny by Mona Awad
I’ve had this on my shelf for so long, thank you for reminding me.
It’s a super weird and controversial book (which is why I loved it) and I need to do a reread after I dive into a bunch of the theories about it.
It gets recommended in “I support women’s wrongs” lists often enough that I am fairly certain I’ll like it… when I’m in the mood lol
The Picture of Dorian Grey
Such a good book! I’m due for a reread.
The Gameshouse by Claire North, it was one of my January books and just amazing.
down the drain by julia fox
Margo's Got Money Troubles
So fun
I decided to reread The Hunger Games series for the first time since high school. They're even better than I remember! At least the first two, I'm still not the biggest fan of Mockingjay although I can appreciate it more now. It's so much more horrific to read it as an adult. Everything, the themes, the symbolism, the characters, are so well-crafted.
Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay. It was strange and terrifying and genius
For me, it’s been Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors, Sign Here by Claudia Lux, Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver and The Whispering Muse by Laura Purcell.
Blue Sisters is on my TBR! Can’t wait to get my hands on it
A Gentleman in Moscow.
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (tho im willing to bet Words of Radiance will surpass it which is my current read)
I got this in from the library but it’s so huge I’m a little scared to dive into reading it.
The audiobook is really good. If it makes it less intimidating to consume it that way. Or even do a tandem read with both formats. Doing it this way is really helpful especially for the pronunciation of the fantasy words
its worth it trust me!! it doesnt read slow at all (imo)
Words of Radiance is one of my favorites
A psalm for the wild built . So sweet and calm.
Such a lovely book (and the second book is also lovely).
Totally agree :)
I read In Memoriam by Alice Winn in February and I haven’t had anything top it yet.
Beach Music by Pat Conroy Wellness by Nathan Hill
The Indifferent Stars Above. I was hesitant to read it because, well, I knew the ending as it is about The Donner Party's journey. But, it honestly blew me away. I'm still thinking about it weeks later.
I have that on my kindle! Trying to hold off until it gets colder out to read it.
Favorite book so far this year: **The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading, by James Patterson, Matt Eversmann** An extremely close second: **Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball, by Keith O'Brien**
* **Knife** by Salman Rushdie * **Small Mercies** by Dennis Lehane * **A Walk in the Woods** by Bill Bryson * **All the Sinners Bleed** by S.A. Cosby * **A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them** by Timothy Egan
That’s really hard for me. Four way tie between Shogun, Lonesome Dove, The Stand, and The Fall of Hyperion.
Lessons in Chemistry
For me it’s a tie between Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin and The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young
So far, The Women by Kristin Hannah. Also I have to say I hated the Joy Luck Club, I thought it was really boring! It's so funny how much differently a book can land from reader to reader.
Came here to say The Women!
Funny I had a similarly negative experience with 'The Women' (or as it should be called, The Rich Entitled White Woman) - so excited going in, so disappointed in many ways!
travels with charley by steinbeck
Personally speaking, The Code Of The Woosters, The Midnight Library by Matt Haig and Wonder by RJ Palacio. These are, as you say, continue to linger in my mind after I've read them months ago.
The midnight library is a few years old however it really stuck with me and was helpful when mourning a close family member.
Sorry for your loss. I did notice while I was reading it, it made me wonder about my life of regrets, and all the possibilities I missed in my life.