- Billie Girl
by Vickie Weaver
- Room
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
- Feed
- The Lady Matador's Hotel
by Cristina Garcia
- The Passage
by Justin Cronin
- Bone and Jewel Creatures
by Elizabeth Bear
- Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
by Helen Simonson
- So Much for That
by Lionel Shriver
- Shadow of Your Smile
by Mary Higgins Clark
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
by Stieg Larsson
This week I want to know what the best book you read this year was...period. No restrictions here. I have already had 2 nominations for The Glass Castle by staff here at the RA desk. The BPL book groups read it this year, and Kathy and I loved it so much, we convinced most of the staff to read it too. It will definitely make my top 10 to come out in 2 weeks.
So don't hold back. Give me at least one and no more than three of the best books you read this year. It doesn't matter when the book was published; in fact, the older the better. Next week I will be asking you to look to the future.
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My top three:
On the Way to the Wedding by Juila Quinn
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by e. lockhart
Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof
Hours of Idleness by Lord Byron. It is my favorite book of all time. I have it in a first edition of his complete works printed not long after his death. I read it or, rather, re-read it before judging Poetry Idol this year. Some of the poems I have read so many times that I almost have them memorized yet I love the way they look on the page so I read them over and over. I always say that I like these poems because of their deep message and meaning but it's really so much more than that. The tone of them and their attitude is so wonderful to see that I don't think there has ever been better poetry than this. Before I read this book I didn't even like poetry.
As Becky mentioned, I loved "The Glass Castle." It was just such a crazy story told in such a perfect way. Another one I loved, that I had never read before, was also a book club pick - "My Life in France" by Julia Child. I really thought I would not like this book but it was lovely. And I am a sucker for luscious descriptions of luscious food. And just as an afterthought - OMG! Two more non-fiction books, nutty.
"A Visit from the Goon Squad", by Jennifer Egan, "The Lonely Polygamist" by Brady Udall and lastly, "The Hunger Games Trilogy" by Suzanne Collins.
My favorite book that I read this year is, "Little Bee" by Chris Cleave. I finally got around to reading Elizabeth Kostova's "The Historian," which I also loved. And I'd also have to go with "Winter's Bone," by Daniel Woodrell (which was also made inot a film this year. He is one of the authors where I read this one book of his and had to read everything else of his I could.
~verna
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