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Here is my top 9 for this year so far:The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
Educated by Tara Westover
The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson (actually all four of the Mistborn books that I have read so far)
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
Still Me by Jojo Moyes
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
I've started a new thing of a "2019-favorites" GR bookshelf where I've added, more or less, one book each month.Jan: The Sense of an Ending (Julian Barnes)
Feb: Black Leopard, Red Wolf (Marlon James)
Mar: A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
Apr: The Briefcase (Hiromi Kawakami)
May: none
Jun: LaRose (Louise Erdrich)
Jul: A Brief History of Seven Killings (Marlon James)
My favorite book this month so far:
Red Sister (Mark Lawrence)
How interesting that none of our picks overlap! 😊
It's so hard to narrow them down! My top 10 so far this year are probably:The Alice Network
Cutting for Stone
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
Daisy Jones & the Six
Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance
Hum If You Don't Know the Words
Tin Man
Save Me the Plums
The Book Thief
Ask Again, Yes
My top 7Wonder
Joe's Allotment: Planning and planting a productive plot
Beartown
Us Against You
600 Hours of Edward
Like Water for Chocolate
The History of Bees
Ilona and SarahKat have both picked Educated so I might need to bump that up my list!
Crimson Petal and WhiteThe Kiss Quotient
The Alice Network
Hotel Silence
Chasing the Dram
The Watch House
The Reaper Man (I re-read this after many years and it is still as good as I remember it)
Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up
The Alice NetworkThe Nightingale
Dear Martin
Me Before You
Thunderhead
The Gown
Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
I've given a 5-star rating to two books so far this year, both excellent:Of Mice and Men
The Caine Mutiny
Runners-up at 4.5 stars are:
Ready Player One
The Nightingale
My 5-star reads so far in 2019: 
The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Beast in View by Margaret Millar
The Big Sky by A.B. Guthrie Jr.
Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie by Neil Gaiman
In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
Top reads for me so far this year, all 5 stars:The Song of Achilles
The Green Mile
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
The Heart's Invisible Furies
Freshwater
Tipping the Velvet
The Binding
Uprooted
Salt Houses
Vita Nostra
Red Rising
The Wonder
Human Acts - Han Kang Bonjour Tristesse - Françoise Sagan
The Valley of Amazement - Amy Tan (currently reading, but loving it so far :)
Night by Elie WeiselBecoming by Michelle Obama
So far this year I have given these two books 5 stars: - This is Where I Leave You
- The Wife Between Us
1. Milkman
2. Once Upon a River
3. Heads of the Colored People
4. Another Country
5. Cloud Atlas
6. Thirteen Ways of Looking
7. Ducks, Newburyport
8. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
9. Girl, Woman, Other—currently reading
2. Once Upon a River
3. Heads of the Colored People
4. Another Country
5. Cloud Atlas
6. Thirteen Ways of Looking
7. Ducks, Newburyport
8. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
9. Girl, Woman, Other—currently reading
I can drop my top three so far this year; who knows, maybe I'll get a new one in the last couple of weeks!1)
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SarahKat wrote: "My top 8, not including graphic novels because that would complicate things further.
Man's Search for Meaning by [author:Vikto..."
Man's Search for Meaning - I was just reading over what everyone read - this book is a must-read for everyone. I absolutely loved it.
Man's Search for Meaning by [author:Vikto..."
Man's Search for Meaning - I was just reading over what everyone read - this book is a must-read for everyone. I absolutely loved it.
Too many 5 star books to choose from this year -
Irish Born Trilogy by: Nora Roberts
A Life Without Water - Marci Bolden
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine. by Gail Honeyman
The Favorite Daughter by: Patti Callahan-Henry
Irish Born Trilogy by: Nora Roberts
A Life Without Water - Marci Bolden
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine. by Gail Honeyman
The Favorite Daughter by: Patti Callahan-Henry
This is nice seeing everyone’s lists so diverse :)Normal People by Sally Rooney
The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter
Forget Me Not by Ellie Terry
Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Room by Emma Donoghue
Educated by Tara Westover
11/22/63 by Stephen King
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas