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message 1: by Sara (new)
Nov 02, 2017 06:25AM

Sara It's a free for all! Anything suggested by anyone in this group will work here!


message 3: by Kenya (new)
Nov 02, 2017 10:19AM

Kenya Starflight | 985 comments For fans of fantasy and sci-fi who would like a recommendation:

Denner's Wreck
Radiance
The Martian
The Snow Child
A Wizard of Earthsea

And just to balance things out with a couple of non-fantasy/scifi titles:

The Handmaid's Tale
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared


message 4: by Nadine in NY (new)
Nov 02, 2017 10:50AM

Nadine in NY Jones | 9687 comments Mod
This should be a good one!! When 2017 is over, I'll make a list of my favorite reads of the year and put it here.


message 5: by Anabell (new)
Nov 02, 2017 10:59AM

Anabell | 355 comments Some of the favourite ones from the challenge 2017

A Dirty Job
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
It Ends with Us


message 13: by Reenah (new)
Nov 03, 2017 10:25AM

Reenah | 32 comments My recommendations:

1. The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud:
The Amulet of Samarkand, The Golem's Eye, Ptolemy's Gate

I'd call it Urban Fantasy, the best part is the djinni who is hilarious and sarcastic, and just one of the best characters ever invented!

2. Peter Grant Series by Ben Aaronovitch: The first book is Rivers of London
- Urban Fantasy as well, also sarcasm

3. A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
Just one of the best book ever, I love Nick Hornby... and I could identify with the characters somehow... quirky, British...

4. Short Story Collections:
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman (Neil Gaiman... enuff said!)
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang (The movie Arrival is based on one of these short stories. I really loved this collection. Great, different stories)

5. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character AND / OR What Do You Care What Other People Think? both by Richard Feynman - these are non-fictional, sorta memoir-ish, but more like hilarious/interesting anecdotes of one of the most fascinating human beings ever


message 25: by Claire (new)
Nov 06, 2017 04:45PM

Claire (fletchasketch) My top 5 from the 2017 challenge (so far):]

Celine
We Were Liars
84, Charing Cross Road
The Hate U Give
Sweetbitter


message 26: by Molly (new)
Nov 06, 2017 05:27PM

Molly King (mkaudio) | 6 comments River God by Wilbur Smith


message 28: by Jamie (new)
Nov 07, 2017 07:51AM

Jamie Ghione (jannghi) | 30 comments Prozac Nation--Elizabeth Wurtzel
Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs--Wallace Stegner
Best. Night. Ever.--Jen Malone
Reading Lolita in Tehran--Azar Nafisi
Martin Chuzzlewit--Charles Dickens
Wives and Daughters--Elizabeth Gaskell
The Big Rock Candy Mountain--Wallace Stegner
The Blacker the Berry--Wallace Thurman


message 29: by Lindi (last edited Nov 07, 2017 01:58PM) (new)
Nov 07, 2017 10:16AM

Lindi (lindimarie) Considering everyone's great recommendations, this one will be an easy freebie :)


The Hating Game - GREAT chick-lit
Gone with the Wind
The Cuckoo's Calling - Love the characters
Darkfever - If you love urban fantasy and masculine love interests
The Time Traveler's Wife
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Jane Austen Project - If you love romance, Jane Austen, and time travel!
The Nightingale
Me Before You

Biography:
The Kennedy Women: The Saga of an American Family - Not for everyone but I had to throw this in here

Memoirs:
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Unqualified
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
The Scarlett Letters: My Secret Year of Men in an L.A. Dungeon
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology


message 30: by Mel (last edited Nov 07, 2017 01:46PM) (new)
Nov 07, 2017 01:45PM

Mel | 90 comments Some of my recommendations from the books I read this year:

Fiction:
The Power
If We Were Villains
The Secret Place & The Trespasser
The Blinds
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Murder on the Orient Express
Mystic River
Day After Night
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
White Oleander

YA Fiction:
Wonder Woman: Warbringer
What Girls Are Made Of
A Thousand Nights
The Walls Around Us
When Dimple Met Rishi
We Are Okay
Gabi, a Girl in Pieces
Rebel of the Sands
A Tyranny of Petticoats
Challenger Deep
Labyrinth Lost
Someone Like You
The Art of Being Normal
Thicker Than Water\
The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
The Darkest Minds

Classics:
The Secret Garden
The Age of Innocence
To the Lighthouse
The Handmaid's Tale
Lady Susan

Graphic Novels:
Princeless, Vol. 1: Save Yourself
Lumberjanes, Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy
Saga, Vol. 1

Non-Fiction:
Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age Story
Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores
What Happened
Between the World and Me
Rad Women Worldwide: Artists and Athletes, Pirates and Punks, and Other Revolutionaries Who Shaped History
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World
Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World
Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History
Women Who Love Books Too Much: Bibliophiles, Bluestockings & Prolific Pens from the Algonquin Hotel to the YA-YA Sisterhood

Poetry:
Milk and Honey
The Sun and Her Flowers
The Collected Poems


message 32: by Raquel (Silver Valkyrie Reads) (new)
Nov 09, 2017 03:52PM

Raquel (Silver Valkyrie Reads) | 896 comments Children:
Wonder Just plain one of those books everyone should read.

Tuesdays at the Castle A charming story.

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie British mystery as solved by precocious chemistry obsessed eleven year old. Fun read!

100 Cupboards A Narnia-but-darker style adventure.

YA:
These Broken Stars I loved everything about this book, up until the point where it ripped out my heart and stomped on it, and even after that I couldn't seem to stop myself from recommending it to everyone.

Cinder This series makes one of my favorite sets of fairy tale re-writes to date, and I read lot of fairy tale re-writes.

The Paper Magician A thoroughly enjoyable alternate England with magic story.

Fantasy:
(urban):Neverwhere A very satisfying urban fantasy that permanently changes the way you look at nooks and crannies of cities.

The Eyre Affair Not sure how to categorize this, but we'll call it fantasy. Or maybe British humor. Or just every book lover's secret dream.

Sci-fi:
Redshirts Don't bother unless you're a Trekkie, but if you are (and have a decent sense of humor about it), it's a must read.

Pathfinder One of those odd sci-fi/fantasy crossovers, but as always Orson Scott Card is spot on in his characterization and his exploration of time and space in this one is a lot of fun.

Classics:
The Scarlet Pimpernel Swashbuckling adventure and romance with clever plans. Slow start, but once you hit the 'good parts' you won't want to put it down.

Northanger Abbey My personal favorite of the Jane Austen books because of the humor (this is the gothic romance that makes fun of gothic romances).

Non fiction:
The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith

A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty

Five Equations That Changed the World

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient - Powered by the Science of Games


message 35: by Tara (new)
Nov 16, 2017 07:26PM

Tara Bates | 1008 comments Thank you so much poshpenny! I will be doing it with my kiddo again because we really enjoyed it :)


message 37: by Nikky (new)
Nov 17, 2017 03:57PM

Nikky Herschell | 97 comments I just finished The Widow by Fiona Barton I think. Really enjoyed it and the way the story was told was a little different too


message 39: by AF (new)
Nov 19, 2017 05:36PM

AF (slothlikeaf) | 398 comments My recommendations:
The Stars Are Fire by Anita Shreve
A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood


message 40: by Rachel (last edited Nov 20, 2017 02:29AM) (new)
Nov 20, 2017 02:28AM

Rachel Heaney | 210 comments I'd like to recommend:

Fiction
The Martian by Andy Weir
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Wasp Factory
I See You by Clare Mackintosh
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Anne of Green Gables by L.M.Montgomery
I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
Wonder by R.J.Palacio
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
A Walk Across the Sun by Corban Addison
Eeny Meeny by M.J.Arlidge
Finding Emma by Steena Holmes
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Non Fiction
One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway by Asne Seierstad
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh
The Happiest Refugee: A Memoir by Anh Do
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal by Asne Seierstad
Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland by Amanda Berry
Joe Cinque's Consolation, A True Story of Death, Grief and the Law by Helen Garner
The Anti-Cool Girl by Rosie Waterland
Beautiful by Katie Piper


message 44: by Erin (new)
Nov 23, 2017 09:06AM

Erin Dowling | 6 comments Here are some of my favorites from my 2017 list:

Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
Eligible by Curtis Sittenfield
And the Mountains Echoed by Khalid Hosseini
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi


message 45: by Cornerofmadness (new)
Nov 26, 2017 06:23PM

Cornerofmadness | 806 comments Reenah wrote: "My recommendations:

1. The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud:
The Amulet of Samarkand, The Golem's Eye, Ptolemy's Gate

I'd call it Urban..."

Thanks for this. I've been looking at Aaronvitch's book in my shelf for a while now. Looking forward to reading it.


message 46: by Edie (last edited Dec 31, 2017 09:17AM) (new)
Nov 26, 2017 07:14PM

Edie | 60 comments Some of my favorites read in 2017
Homegoing
Lincoln in the Bardo
The Twelfth Tale
News of the World
The Care and Management of Lies
The Chalk Artist
the Golden Spruce
My Cousin Rachel


message 47: by Chrissy (new)
Nov 29, 2017 10:26AM

Chrissy Busick (chrissycracksabook) These were books we read this year in a book group I am in. If not for the book group I probably never would have read them. They were amazing books.

Making Faces
Mud Vein

A couple more that I just loved this year include:
Atheists Who Kneel and Pray
Songlines
Eden Wakes
The Half of me books by Diana T. Scott


message 49: by Alicia (new)
Dec 03, 2017 06:54AM

Alicia Ellsworth (sanukipityreads) | 160 comments The Nightingale
At the Water's Edge
Goodnight June

any of her 3 and hopefully her 4th comes out next year
Robert Galbraith

I have also liked all the Jojo Moyes I have read


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