Litwit Lounge discussion

Here's our annual thread where we invite you to look back on the year just past, and single out a few of your top reads for special mention. (Personally, I try to pick my top five. That's usually a challenge!)

I'm not quite ready to post my own picks for this year; if I can finish one of the books I'm reading now by Dec. 31, it will be a contender, but I'm not certain that I can. :-) But I figured it wouldn't hurt to get the thread up for others to post on when they're ready!

I am trying to compose a list; more later.

"1776,"David McCullough
"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," Betty Smith
"The Tuscan Child," Rys Bowen
"People of the Book," Geraldine Brooks
"The Bookshop," Penelope Fitzgerald"
"Cooking for Picasso," Camille Aubray
"The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden," Jonas Jonasson"
"The Letters of John and Abigail Adams," John Adams
"The Girl With Seven Names," Hyeonseo Lee
"The Designer," Marius Gabriel
"Still Life," Louise Penny

The top favorite books I read, or finished reading, in 2018 were (drum roll):
The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper.
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry.
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas.
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories (this is a three-volume set).
Pride's Children: Purgatory by Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt.