I Read Therefore I Am discussion

This is tricky, but I think my choices are:
Life After Life , Period Piece, There but for the, Instructions for a Heatwave, Cat's Cradle, Darkness at Noon , Day and We

If I had to plump for two books only I think they would be Day and We - both absolutely amazing reads.
The book that surprised me the most was Cat's Cradle - I didn't think it would be my cup of tea at all but I loved it.

Ok here goes: Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Cloud Atlas, Palimpsest, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, The Master and Margarita, A Monster Calls, Middlemarch, The Three Musketeers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, In the Night Garden, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Vanity Fair, Mistborn: The Final Empire, and Mockingbird were all the new to me 5 star reads this year as well as 3 re-reads I gave 5 stars to: Jane Eyre, To Kill a Mockingbird and The Great Gatsby

The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton.

Favourite new read are The Dark Tower Series, Gone Girl, Mansfield Park, The Avengers: A Jewish War Story, Oh Dear Sylvia, I'm Not Scared, The Garden of Evening Mists,

Favourite re-reads are Children of the New Forest, The Foundation Trilogy, the Woman in White.

Laurel has reminded me of The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories - definitely one of my best reads this year - and as for rereads - Wolf Hall , We Have Always Lived in the Castle, and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell were the best

Yeah The Bloody Chamber was brilliant wasn't it? I really need to read Wolf Hall and also the Dark Tower books

@Laurel. You'd enjoy the dark tower but it is seven books long. How he came to write it is strange. He started writing it at the beginning of his career but took years to bring out the final book. What spurred him into completing it was that he was hit by a car and almost died. I read one book straight after the other it was so compelling. I don't think I'll spoil it for you by saying the ending, literally the last few sentences and what they meant, was the most emotionally disturbing ending of any book I have ever read.

@laurel - How great is Hound if the Baskervilles? I am loving Sherlock at the moment :-)

@ Angela - if you haven't already read The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - I would start there - the Hound of the Baskevilles is great but it's even better if you get to know Holmes and Watson first - would you agree Laurel?

Yeah, I would start at the beginning with the first two longer stories he wrote A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four and then The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - that way you're reading them in the order they were published and you get to know Holmes and Watson from their first adventures together. Hound of the Baskervilles is absolutely brilliant though, probably my favourite of all the Holmes stories! I'm waiting (not very patiently) for series 2 of Sherlock to come through Lovefilm so I can catch up!

@ Hilary - The Dark Tower is one of those books where I'm really shocked that I haven't read it yet - it is totally up my street! Being 7 books longs isn't a problem (Wheel of Time fan remember?) so I will make that one of my goals for next year to finally get to them.