There are so many to choose from, it’s hard to make a top 10. I keep remembering more. In no particular order here are my 10, actually 11; why not break a rule?
Yeah I loved the garden of evening mists both as a book and for the context of receiving it- i actually think that’s true of most of my favourite books!
There are so many to choose from, it’s hard to make a top 10. I keep remembering more. In no particular order here are my 10, actually 11; why not break a rule?
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus
Pachinko - Min Jin Lee
Yellow Face - Rebecca F. Kuang
DCI Ryan series - LJ Ross
The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides
Becoming - Michelle Obama
Hamnet - Maggie O’Farrell
I am Pilgrim - Terry Hayes
Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
Girl Woman Other - Bernadine Evaristo
Oh yes pilgrim!! Great inclusion.
I’ve finally got a list which could well change by morning!
The Enchanted Wood/ The Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton
The Lover - Marguerite Duras
Louis de Bernieres Latin America Trilogy
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
Wild Swans - Jung Chang
The Beach- Alex Garland
The Paper Palace - Miranda Cowley Heller
How to kill your family- Bella Mackie
Missed one The Authority Gap - Mary Ann Sieghart!
The secret history! One of my faves! Adding Wild Swans to my TBR
I did my top 10 of all time but I’ll share anyway!
I Claudius - Robert Graves
The Golden Child - Penelope Fitzgerald
And then there were none - Agatha Christie
Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond
Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
Harsh times - Mario Vargas Llosa
The worldly philosophers - Robert Heilbroner
Long walk to freedom - Nelson Mandela
Conclave - Robert Harris
The garden of evening mists - Tan Twan Eng
Why not! Rules are made to be broken! So many good ones in here… oof garden of evening mists 🫶
Yeah I loved the garden of evening mists both as a book and for the context of receiving it- i actually think that’s true of most of my favourite books!
Here is my list of 10 favourites
•Hamnet - Maggie O’Farrell
•Moderate Becoming Good Later - Toby Carr
•American Wife - Curtis Sittenfeld
•DCI Ryan series -LJ Ross
•I Let You Go - Clare Mackintosh
•Go As a River - Shelley Read
•A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
•Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman
•The Giver Of Stars - JoJo Moyes
•Kicking The Bucket List - Cathy Hopkins
Such a good list! There’s a lot of love for Eleanor Oliphant
I love DCI Ryan too!
Here's mine in absolutely no particular order:
1. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
2. The Power by Naomi Alderman
3. Christadora by Tim Murphy
4. Middle England by Jonathan Coe
5. Help Yourself by Curtis Sittenfeld
6. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
7. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
8. Holes by Louis Sachar
9. The Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling
10. The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic
I had completely forgotten about The Power! So good! Amazing list.
Here’s my (memory-limited/ recency bias influenced) list, in no particular order:
1. 2666 by Roberto Bolano
2. Christadora by Tim Murphy
3. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
4. Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
5. The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy
6. Safe by Ryan Gattis
7. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
8. The Son by Philip Meyer
9. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
10. Traindreams by Dennis Johnson
Luke,
Love these! Some really excellent books in here. Adding The Son to my to read pile 📚