I'm pretty tempted to say Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. I'd never read it before and always had it in the back of my mind. Few books this year have come to mind as often as that one. Runners up for fiction would be Lonesome Dove and The Secret History, and for non-fiction, The Righteous Mind and A Web of Our Own Making.
Lonesome Dove and The Thorn Birds top my list, so I think I’ve officially become my parents. I remember both tomes on their nightstands in the ‘80s! Also loved The Covenant of Water.
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Nonfic, read by the author, wonderful marriage of science (she's a botanist) and Native American history and lore. Absolutely breathtaking.
Demon Copperhead
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Lonesome Dove was great!
I'm pretty tempted to say Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. I'd never read it before and always had it in the back of my mind. Few books this year have come to mind as often as that one. Runners up for fiction would be Lonesome Dove and The Secret History, and for non-fiction, The Righteous Mind and A Web of Our Own Making.
Lonesome Dove and The Thorn Birds top my list, so I think I’ve officially become my parents. I remember both tomes on their nightstands in the ‘80s! Also loved The Covenant of Water.
Early list:
Pappyland
Master of the Senate
Common Sense
The New Map
Paris to the Moon
Splendid and the Vile
Napoleon: A Life
The Art Thief
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Cuba (Ferrer)
The Best Minds, by Jonathan Rosen.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/318309/the-best-minds-by-jonathan-rosen/
Trust, Hernán Díaz
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Nonfic, read by the author, wonderful marriage of science (she's a botanist) and Native American history and lore. Absolutely breathtaking.
The Covenant Of Water- Abrams Verghese
The Sweetness Of Water- Nathan Harris
The House Of Doors- Tan Twan Eng
Open Water- Caleb Azunah
Cry The Beloved Country- Alan Paton.
Impossible to name 0nly one Jeremy 😁
100 years of solitude and cloud atlas!
Resurrection - Tolstoy
Lonesome Dove
The Count of Monte Cristo
An Apprenticeship or the book of pleasures - Lispector
The book of laughter and forgetting - Kundera
We - Zamyatin
If on the winter’s night a traveler - Calvino
East of Eden (still reading)
Demon Copperhead and The Wager!
Lonesome Dove. Hands down. East of Eden would give a run for its money but it’s a reread so have to give it to Lonesome Dove.
Finally knocked off a few books I’ve long wanted to read, and they paid off! My three favorites were absolutely:
Three Body Problem - Cixin Liu
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
It - Stephen King