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My best books of the year:

 

-THE MISTRESS OF SPICES Chira Banerjee Divakaruni

-THE KIN OF ATA ARE WAITING FOR YOU Dorothy Bryan

-LIFE OF PI Yann Martel

-THE GIVER Lois Lowry

- THE RED TENT Anita Diamand

- THE MOONSTONE Wilkie Collins

-MADAME PAMPLEMOUSSE AND HER INCREDIBLE EDIBLES Rupert Kingfisher

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Here are my top five of the year so far

The Artnof Racing In The Rain. Garth Stein

To Kill A Mockingbird. Harper Lee

Gone Girl Gillian Flynn

The Sandcastle Girls. Chris Bohijian

A Different Kind of Normal. Cathy Lamb

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I've read another 17 books since starting this thread, I was just going to add the books with the highest rating I have given to the list but thought instead I would look at my list and see which ones I remembered most fondly, and they are...

 

Torn by David Massey (a great YA about the realities of war, for fans of that particular genre, one I am trying to persuade my 13 year old to read!)

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

Home Front by Kristin Hannah

Ordinary Dogs by Eileen Battersby

A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron

 

How's the reading year going for everyone? :smile::readingtwo::smile:

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I've had a few fantastic ones this year:

 

Earlier this year The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins simply blew my mind - really well done social commentary.

And more recently:

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (best plot ever).

The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling.

Wool by Hugh Howey (very good book, really gets one thinking).

 

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Here are my top 10 this year -

 

Henry VIII, king and court - Alison Weir

The rise and fall of ancient Egypt - Toby Wilkinson

Quiet belief in angels - R J Ellory

A safe place - Lorenzo Carcaterra

The Ghost of Lily Painter - Caitlin Davies

The Poisonwood bible - Barbara Kingsolver

Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel

The owl killers - Karen Maitland

The time travellers guide to Medieval England - Ian Mortimer

The shadow of the wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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I haven't read a lot this year, but what I remember being excellent are the following:

 

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Book on Fire by Keith Miller

The Magicians by Lev Grossman

After Silence by Jonathan Carroll

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My top 10 for the year

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Non-fiction book of the year, and overall no. 1

The Pinecone by Jenny Uglow

 

Fiction book of the year

Pure by Andrew Miller

 

The other 6-star books (in alphabetical order by author)

Dam Busters by James Holland

Wind Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

City of Fortune by Roger Crowley

Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf

 

The four 5-star books that make this year's top 10

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Tom-All-Alone's by Lynn Shepherd

The Waves by Virginia Woolf

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