All About Books discussion

This thread is where you can post your favorite book each month . You can create your post with the template below . At the end of each month when you edit your post , send a post telling us that you have updated it . For anyone interested , it's a good way to share our favorites .

Copy the template below, and each month come back and edit your post with the favorite book you read that month. Then you pick out of those 12 for your favorite book of the year.

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Best of the year -

This is where I will post my favorite each month in 2016.

January -Georgia: A Novel of Georgia O'Keeffe and Thomas Murphy
February -In the Land of Armadillos: Stories
March -Lilac Girls
April -On the Shores of Darkness, There Is Light: A Novel and This Must Be the Place
May -no clear favorite but notable for the interesting narrative structure- The History of Great Things
June - LaRose
July - Brown Girl Dreaming
August -Christodora ( I have to list here these two other books because they will no doubt beat out some others for best of the year . ( The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko and A Gentleman in Moscow)
September -News of the World
October -And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
November -The Winter in Anna: A Novel
December -no pick

Best of the year - News of the World and In the Land of Armadillos: Stories

Closing out my favorites for 2016 with my 2016 on Goodreads :
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show.... A five star year .

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My favourite books of 2016


January - Invisible Man
February - The Story of an African Farm
March - A God in Ruins
April - Medea
May - Angle of Repose
June - The River
July - The Chosen Ones: A Novel
August - The Noise of Time
September - Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas
October - Days Without End
November - Becoming Faulkner: The Art and Life of William Faulkner
December - Autumn

Best of the year - The Chosen Ones and Days Without End

My favorite books of 2016
January- The Titan's Curse
February- The Night Circus
March- Matched
April- In the Woods
May- Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes
June- The Book of Tomorrow
July-
August- Don't Look Back
September- Between Shades of Gray
October-
November-
December-

Best of the year-

My Fave Books I've Read in 2016 for my Reading for Pleasure Challenge:

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My Favorite Books for 2016: (I have decided to only include first time reads)

January - Lamb in His Bosom
February - Crossing to Safety
March - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
April - The Forsyte Saga
May - Angle of Repose (honorable mention: Rivers)
June - Long Man
July - The Buccaneers
August - Wide Sargasso Sea
September - Home
October - A Gentleman in Moscow
November - The Tsar of Love and Techno
December -

Best of the year -

My favorite books for 2016:

January: Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain (not five, but four stars)
February: We, the Drowned
March:Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
April: Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe (followed closely by Bastard Out of Carolina and But You Did Not Come Back)
May: An American Childhood
June:Corrag followed closely by Leningrad: Siege and Symphony: The Story of the Great City Terrorized by Stalin, Starved by Hitler, Immortalized by Shostakovich
July: Sunset Song
August: The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between four stars
September: Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel (four stars, but VERY good)
October:Cider With Rosie four stars, a gorgeously written memoir of prose poetry
November:Fingers in the Sparkle Jar: A Memoir (finally a five star book!)
December:At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails a four star book

Best of the Year:
Sunset Song

My favorite books for 2016:

January - After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress (5-star)
February: As I Lay Dying (4-star)
March: The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy (4-star)
April: Joyce's Dublin: A Walking Guide to Ulysses (5-star) (loved the details and comments)
May: Mister Pip (5-star)
June: Irma Voth (4-star)
July: Six Records of a Floating Life (5-star)
August: Judas: The troubling history of the renegade apostle (5-star)
September: Easy Hiking Around Vancouver (4-star) -- I had a bad reading month with novels. They were all 3 star or less. :(
October: Jane Eyre (4-star)
November: The Story of a New Name (4-star)
December: A Great Reckoning (5-star)

Best of the Year: ......it's a TIE!
Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen Fu
AND
Judas: The troubling history of the renegade apostle by Peter Stanford

My favorite book for each month in 2016.

January - The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
February - Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving
March - Ancient Light by John Banville
April - The Women by T.C. Boyle
May - A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale
June - A Perfectly Good Man by Patrick Gale
July - The Girls by Emma Cline
August - Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
September -
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November -
December -

Best of the year

My favorite books for 2016:

January: The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
February: Il paradiso brucia e altre poesie by Anise Koltz
March: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba
April: Antigone by Jean Anouilh
May: All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
June: The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
July: House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
August: Treasure Hunt by Andrea Camilleri
September: Random Acts Of Heroic Love by Danny Scheinmann
October: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
November: The Shining by Stephen King
December: I milanesi ammazzano al sabato by Giorgio Scerbanenco

Best of the Year: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba

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May - Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
June - The Second Life of Nick Mason
July - Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
August - Ratf**ked: How the Democrats Won the Presidency But Lost America
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Favorites of 2016:

January: The Martian
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My favourite books of 2016 - conveniently the same post number as 2015 :)

January - The Diary of a Provincial Lady
February - Translations
March - The Devil's Disciple
April - Jar City (new-to-me) or Oedipus the King (reread)
May - The Postman Always Rings Twice
June - Tartuffe: Born Again, Antigone (reread) & The Deleted World: Poems
July - Silent Spring or Captain Blood (reread)
August - Palace Walk & A Thousand Acres
September - The Chill
October - I Capture the Castle
November - Rendezvous with Rama
December - Richard Wilbur's translations of Tartuffe (reread) & Phaedra & The Three Hostages

Best of the year - A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

My favorite books of 2016:

January - Dusk and Other Stories by James Salter
February - Father and Son by Larry Brown
March - In the Loyal Mountains by Rick Bass
April - After Rain by William Trevor
May - All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
June - Everybody's Fool by Richard Russo
July - The Night in Question by Tobias Wolff
August - A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion
September - Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
October - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
November - Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
December - Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo

Best of the year - Father and Son by Larry Brown

My favorite books for 2016:

January: Inside the O'Briens
February: Pride and Prejudice
March: Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League
April: We Need to Talk About Kevin
May: The War that Saved My Life
June: The Summer Before the War
July: The Kitchen House but Ender's Game was reaaaallly good too :)
August: A Man Called Ove
September: Americanah
October: Fall of Giants
November: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
December: Crossing the Horizon: A Novel

Best of the Year:

My favorite books for 2016:

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My favourite books for 2016:

January - Still Alice 5*
February - A Room of One's Own 4*
March - We Were Liars 4*
April - A Thousand Splendid Suns 5*
May - The Miniaturist 4*
June - The Glass Castle 5*
July - I have a tie this month - two 5* reads for me: Multitudes and HHhH.
August - The Glorious Heresies 4*
September - The Rehearsal 5*
October - A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories 5*
November - A Gentleman in Moscow 4.5*
December - none

Best of the year - A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories 5*

My favorite books for 2016:

January - The Forgotten Garden
February - I Know This Much Is True
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My favourite books of 2016

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My favourite books of 2016:

January - One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment
February - Canada
March - A Prayer for Owen Meany
April - The Loney
May - Us
June - The Crane Wife
July - Nod
August - The Forgotten Garden
September - The Girl with All the Gifts
October - Housekeeping
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My favourite books of 2016:

January - Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
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My favorites of 2016:

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March:Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi
April: Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
May: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
June:
July: Heidi by Johanna Spyri
August:
September: Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
October:
November: The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams
December: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Favorite of the year: Heidi by Johanna Spyri

My favorites of 2016:

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My favorites of 2016:

January - Les Misérables by Victor Hugo 5*
February - Nine Lives by William Dalrymple 4,5*
March - Life and Death are Wearing Me Out by Mo Yan 4*
April - The Brothers Ashkenazi by Israel J. Singer 5*
May - none
June - Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 4*
July - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 3*
August - I primi sette anni e altri racconti by Bernard Malamud 4*
September - Letter to His Father by Franz Kafka 4*
October - The Fly Trap by Fredrik Sjöberg 4*
November - none
December - Letters Against the War by Tiziano Terzani

Best of the year:

fiction:
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
but also
The Brothers Ashkenazi by Israel J. Singer

non-fiction:
Letters Against the War by Tiziano Terzani
and second place to
The Fly Trap by Fredrik Sjöberg

Special mention to two emerging Italian authors:

Mario Pacchiarotti and
Marco Freccero

Also: books read 52 (I hope to finish my 52nd book!)
pages read: 16,083

My favorites of 2016:

January: Emile Zola La bestia umana *****
February: Kate Chopin, The Awakening ****
March: Louise Penny The Brutal Telling *****
April: Simon Goodman L'orologio di Orfeo ****
May: Pascal Mercier,  Treno di notte per Lisbona ****
June: Lucy Maud Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside *****
July: Michael Cunningham The Hours ****
August: Elisabeth Strout,  My Name Is Lucy Barton ****
September: Carlo Levi Cristo si è fermato a Eboli ****
October: James Weldon Johnson The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man ****
November: Elisabeth Howard,  Casting Off ****
December: Sandor Marai Divorzio a Buda ****

Best of the Year:  Simon Goodman L'orologio di Orfeo *****

My Favorite Books of 2016

January

My favourite books of 2016


January - Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks
February - The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
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January - Der Trafikant by Robert Seethaler
February - The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
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January - This is not a Test - Courtney Summers
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2016 Favorite Books

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I have updated Message 4 with my favourite book for January. It is Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. I thought it was magnificent..

Gill wrote: "I have updated Message 4 with my favourite book for January. It is Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. I thought it was magnificent.."

Great book that one Gill! I read it - a part fro the first time in University - a couple of years ago with ROwena.

I updated my January favourite in message 29. It wasn't easy since I've read such great books this month, but my favourite was: Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks.

I updated my message number 2 to add my favorite for January. I just could not decide so I cheated and added two titles - Georgia: A Novel of Georgia O'Keeffe and Thomas Murphy.

This got me thinking that some months I may list a favorite because it's the one I liked best that particular month but there may be one I liked a lot more in another month that I didn't list . So when I'm doing a year end favorite list based on monthly favorite I may miss it . I'm going to keep that in mind each month . Highly recommend both of those books.

edited message 26.

The only book I've read in January but it's also worth to stay on a best-book-list: Les Misérables

Angela--added Thomas Murphy to my TBR. Georgia was already there. I agree Les Mis is worthy of any "best" list.

I have added Lamb in His Bosom as my January favorite. I have decided to only consider books that are being read for the first time. This one was amazing and I was shocked that I had never come across it before.

I have added my favorite for January: : Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain Please see message 8.

Wow, that sounds like a marvelous read, Chrissie!

Sara wrote: "Wow, that sounds like a marvelous read, Chrissie!"

Excellent book. It is also a movie now, but I prefer books.

This is a horrible thread. My to-read just keeps getting longer.

Jennifer wrote: "This is a horrible thread. My to-read just keeps getting longer."

lol. Jennifer, I have that same problem.

Sara wrote: "Angela--added Thomas Murphy to my TBR. Georgia was already there. I agree Les Mis is worthy of any "best" list.

I have added Lamb in His Bosom as my January favorite. I have decided..."

Sara, I have added that o my lists.

Angela, you know that I am just waiting for the one on O'Keeffe to be availalbe.

dely wrote: "edited message 26.

The only book I've read in January but it's also worth to stay on a best-book-list: Les Misérables"

Will start that in the beginning of March.

Jennifer wrote: "This is a horrible thread. My to-read just keeps getting longer."

I agree with Jennifer, this is killing me. Already functioning on 6 hours of sleep......lol

Mimi wrote: "Jennifer wrote: "This is a horrible thread. My to-read just keeps getting longer."

I agree with Jennifer, this is killing me. Already functioning on 6 hours of sleep......lol"

You need sleep? lol.

I've just added many books to my TBR list, thanks to the wonderful books listed.
Chrissie, I have Testament Of Youth in my overflowing pile of books here at home. I'm so glad to hear that you loved it. I'll try to get to it soon.

I have added my favorite book for January to post 9. It was the sci-fi book, After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall. This is the second of Nancy Krell's books that I've read and have enjoyed them both. She writes realistic sci-fi (with humans; not robots or such) and that makes it seem real and possible.

Petra, I am confident you will like Testament of Youth. I am so glad you are NOT listening to the audio.