I
made my first choice for favorite Book of the Year in August two years ago. So
for consistency, my year will continue to run from August to July. My book
selections this year:
August 2016:
The Invention of Wings- Sue
Monk Kidd
September 2016: Prep- Curtis Sittenfeld and Goldberg Variations- Susan Isaacs
October 2016:
The Light of Paris- Eleanor Brown
November 2016:
Remnant Chronicles- Mary
E. Pearson and Little Beach Street Bakery-
Jenny Colgan
December 2016: The Chemist- Stephanie Meyer
January 2017:
The Art of Racing in the Rain- Garth Stein
February 2017: Falling Together- Marisa de los Santos
March 2017: The
Goldfinch- Donna Tartt
April 2017: A God in Ruins- Kate Atkinson
May 2017: The Bear and
the Nightingale- Katherine
Arden
June 2017: Death
of A Liar- M.C. Beaton
July 2017: The Art of Hearing Heartbeats- Jan-Philipp
Sendker
This
has been another good year for reading. As usual, more books were read or
listened to on tape than I reviewed, but the ones above made the cut. I decided
a while ago that I was not going to disparage another author’s work. If I don’t
like it, I won’t review it.
That being said, my favorite book this year was, The
Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. Running a disturbingly
close second was A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson. Both
of these novels have stayed with me and both authors are masters of their
craft.
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