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Best Books Ever...
Ok, so I'm padding my "to read" list and I just really don't want to miss anything super awesome! No pressure LOL!! You don't have to pick like the one single best book of all time, but more like, what are a few of your all time favorites??
I'll have to work on my list now, but one of the books that will always be on my favorite book list as my number one book (since highschool) is Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver -- I have pretty much always read all of her books right as they come out, but Animal Dreams is the book from her that I adore the most, and I feel like it is 100 million times better than the most recent book from her (sorry bk!) A few other absolute favorites: Distant Land of My Father by Bo Caldwell Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger The Secret Life of Bees and the Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd Jewel by Bret Lott Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen oh and The Help - so so good! Add to that pretty much anything by Amy Tan and Barbara Kingsolver I've also LOVED the divergent series (one to go!) and the Hunger Games books although mostly the non games parts LOL, and I totally got sucked in by the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series a bit ago too... What about you, what are your BEST BEST reads??? |
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The outlander novels
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Favorite books of all time...
Anything by Sharon Kay Penman The Stand by Stephen King Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Harry Potter - obviously...I always feel like including HP on lists like this is just silly b/c it is so far and beyond everything else lol A Song of Ice and Fire Series by George R.R. Martin Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry North and South Trilogy by John Jakes Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith Calico Palace by Gwen Bristow Anne of Green Gables Series by L.M. Montgomery Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier Anything by Anya Seton Anything by Jean Plaidy The Giver by Lois Lowry Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks Recent loves... Ready Player One by Ernest Cline - (I freaking loved this book...listen to the audiobook narrated by Wil Wheaton if you can..it's awesome) Anything by Rainbow Rowell All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer - this book was AMAZING Burial Rites by Hannah Kent - another of my top reads this year A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness - this is a graphic novel but SO incredible The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman - middle grade but probably my fave Gaiman so far Between Shades of Gray Ruta Septeys - Young Adult set during WWII Daughter of Smoke and Bone Series by Laini Taylor The Diviners by Libba Bray The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer - this book is a delight The Gollum and the Jinni by Helene Wecker Anything by Kate Morton Wool Series by Hugh Howey Anything by Susanna Kearsley Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and Hollow City by Ransom Riggs Masters of Rome Series by Colleen McCullough The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield The Hangman's Tale Series by Oliver Pötzsch Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Schaffer
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini The Help by Kathryn Stockett The Honey Thief by Najaf Mazari The Book Thief by Markus Zusak State of Wonder by Ann Patchett Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks Guernica by David Boling People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks 11/22/63 by Stephen King Now I'm off to add some of these others mentioned to my growing want-toead list. |
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Ok a few of my faves (warning... I like a lot of fluffy easy reading. Nothing that makes my brain work too hard. I have enough of that in real life. LOL)
11/22/63 by Stephen King Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden Timebound by Rysa Walker Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn I also read the Texas, Vegas, and Kentucky series by Fern Michaels many many years ago. It's actually 3 different trilogies (actually Texas might be 4 books), but they all tie together. It's just like reading a soap opera. LOL And of course I have to add Hunger Games & Harry Potter to my list. I know there are so many more that I loved, but I'm totally drawing a blank right now. |
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This is my Top Ten list in no particular order:
1. Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis 2. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 3. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry 4. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 5. The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay 6. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 7. Monte Walsh by Jack Schaefer 8. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 9. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 10. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Roots by Alex Haley used to be on my list, but I had to give it the boot when I read The Book Thief. I wouldn't call most of these books "easy reads," but they are all really good. I recently really enjoyed Okay for Now by Gary D Schmidt and The Poisonwood Bible.
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I love a lot of the books already listed. A very recent addition to my all-time favorites (and I don't add them often!) is the Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. I also loved her The Secret History.
Some others on my list: A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (this is probably my single favorite book of all time -- if I had to recommend one, it would be this one) All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole The Poisonwood Bible (you've probably already read this one if you like Barbara Kingsolver) |
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I can't believe I forgot Anne Rice...
I love her Vampire Chronicles and the newest comes out this fall and her Mayfair Witches Trilogy
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most of the ones you all have mentioned are my faves too - there a few i need to get now!! and I thought of this one too that I really loved
So Young, Brave, and Handsome by Leif Enger
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