KindleWorm Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 I also read this one, and raved about it. Around the same time, I also read Cuckoo by Julia Crouch - if you liked Before I Go To Sleep, you'd probably like this one too. Not the same style, but the same excellent writing. Thanks for the comparison.... now I am beginning to see how belonging to the forum will make my book wishlist grow overnight!! Haha - I'm just on my way to Amazon now.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karsa Orlong Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 I've got to add Dan Simmons' Hyperion to my list. Loved it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weave Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 Without a doubt ~ 'Room' by Emma Donoghue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sofia Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 Room as well for me....loved it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KindleWorm Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 Have now added Room and Hyperion to my list.... The other great book that I'd forgotten about from this year is The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw - a really unusual (magic realism style) and touching love story. It stayed with me long after I'd finished it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 The other great book that I'd forgotten about from this year is The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw - a really unusual (magic realism style) and touching love story. It stayed with me long after I'd finished it. Yep, another great book - and one not many people seem to have read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 Hmm.. if I discount re-reads, I think my favourites come down to Before I Go To Sleep, Cuckoo, A Discovery of Witches and Black Swan Rising. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
green Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 The Help by Kathryn Stockett-looking forward to the movie. Closely followed by Fires In The Dark by Louise Doughty,Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden & Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted August 22, 2011 Share Posted August 22, 2011 I really enjoyed The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, as the post on my reading list shows: From others' posts on the forum I could see that this looked like a "love it or hate it" book, and I definitely loved it. It often takes me a couple of chapters to get into a book, but I enjoyed this gothic tale from the very first page - the fact that it involved book lovers, an author and a bookshop definitely helped, but I liked the style of writing and very quickly became engrossed in the story. It was one of these books that I kept rushing through other parts of my day so I could get back to my reading! Excellent choice, it is a fabulous read! And I cannot see who could actually hate the book. No friends of mine, for sure! As I'm still going for favourite book(s) of the year so far, I have another to add to my list, Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi, loved this book! Wow, you really loved the book, didn't you Without a doubt ~ 'Room' by Emma Donoghue Another excellent choice! I think I will also have to go with Room by Emma Donoghue. However, I'm now reading Lesley McDowell's Between the Sheets - The Literary Liaisons of Nine 20-Century Women Writers, and I've only read the introduction part, and I'm already loving it and really looking forward to reading the rest. It might just be the best book of the year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weave Posted August 22, 2011 Share Posted August 22, 2011 Yep, another great book - and one not many people seem to have read. I read it and enjoyed it, its a very different kind of read, lovely Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smilerbabeuk Posted August 22, 2011 Share Posted August 22, 2011 Interesting the same few books keep coming up. I shall definitely be bumping Room up my tbr mountain. I've given 5 stars to four books this year so far: The Help Frankenstein Stuart, a life backwards Year of wonders With hindsight though, I'm not sure the last belongs in the same league as the other three. Maybe I'll downgrade it to 4 and 3/4 s instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anisia Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Without a doubt ~ 'Room' by Emma Donoghue This Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BookGeek20 Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 I've changed my mind, my favourite book of the year also has to be Room by Emma Donoghue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ptashka Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawnbirduk Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 My favourite book so far has to be Vows of Silence by Susan Hill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busy91 Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 I have 2: The Help Hunger Games I was in a fiction reading rut, those 2 brought me out of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Roo Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 My favourite book of the year so far by a long way is The Unseen by Katherine Webb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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