Library Lovers discussion

This may be hard for some, easy for others.

Of the books you read this year, which one or ones did you enjoy reading the most?

Best Books of 2017
Here were my favorite-
A Manual For Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie
Charlatan-America’s Most Dangerous Huckster and the Man Who Pursued Him and the Age of Flim Flam by Pope Brock
Celine by Peter Heller
Dead Wake – The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larsen
Follow You Home by Mark Edwards
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Max Perkins: Editor of Genius by Scott A. Berg
The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier
Princesses Behaving Badly-Real Stories from History Without the Fairy Tale Endings by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
The Wicked Boy-The Mystery of A Victorian Child Murderer by Kate Summersdale

Julie wrote: "Best Books of 2017
Here were my favorite-
A Manual For Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie
Charlatan-America’s Most Dangerous Huckster and the Man Who Pursued Him and the Age o..."

Nice list!

Lady♥Belleza★✰ wrote: "This may be hard for some, easy for others.

Of the books you read this year, which one or ones did you enjoy reading the most?"

Case of the Missing Morris Dancer - Cathy Ace
The Snow Empress - Laura Joh Rowland
Etched in Bone - Anne Bishop
Rich Peoples Problems - Kevin Kawn
Chalk Pit - Elly Griffiths
Spider Womans Daughter - Anne Hillerman
Hunting Badger - Tony Hillerman

I read quite a few 5-star books this year, but my favorites were probably:

Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully by Allen Kurzweil
My Brother Peter: Murder or Suicide?, by Nomi Berger
The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass, by Bill Maher

Going through my list, I had more than I expected!

1.Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman
2.Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
3.All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
4.Dinner with Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship by Isabel Vincent
5.The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
6.Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
7.News of the World by Paulette Jiles
8.Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
9.Plainsong by Kent Haruf
10.A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
11.Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
12.The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming
13.The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by Dalai Lama XIV, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Abrams

I had several 5-star reads in 2017. In no particular order:

A Man Called Ove
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
A Gentleman in Moscow (5***** and a ❤)
My Name Is Lucy Barton
Under This Unbroken Sky
Eventide
Double Indemnity
Dracula

and these were re-reads:
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
West with the Night
A Night to Remember