BestBook2017

Alive | Piers Paul Read

#DecDays Another book that will earn a spot on my #bestbook2017 list... On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes. Out of the forty-five original passengers and crew, only sixteen made it off the mountain. Despite the freezing #cold conditions & dire circumstances the survivors made a pact . This true story of resilience, courage, belief & friendship is awe inspiring 🙌🏻❤️

Bookzombie I read this in high school. It was actually assigned, but I loved it. 7y

SandyW Ditto @Bookzombie 7y

TrishB Good choice 👍🏻 7y

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Cinfhen That's awesome @SandyW @Bookzombie 🤗 thanks @trishb 7y

FountainBookstore Not really interested in the book, but thanks for the hot photo! 😉 7y

Cinfhen Haha @FountainBookstore Adam Levine is pretty hot, I agree 😍 7y

Reviewsbylola This is on my #tbrbingo and my #pop18 so I will get to it! 7y

Cinfhen Woohoo🙌🏻💕you know I'm a big fan... and the book has pictures 😁 @reviewbylola (edited) 7y

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Reggie

Exit West: A Novel | Mohsin Hamid

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I feel like there were a lot of zombie literature parallels in this book. Anyways, I thought this book was great. Nadia and Saeed leave their unstable, not named country, through a door, one of many, that leads elsewhere. Mohsin was brilliant at showing the creeping horror of instability that leads to migration to the uncertainty of a new country to all the changes it means for a person‘s self. He covers so much, beautifully. #TOBLonglist

RohitSawant Wonderfully put! 7y

Cinfhen Great review and a #bestbook2017 for me 💚 7y

Ms_T Nice review! I‘ll be reading it this month 👍🏻 7y

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Reggie @rohit-sawant @Cinfhen Thanks, he managed to pack so much in such a short book. I love his writing. 7y

Reggie Thanks @Ms_T I hope you like it. 7y

Cinfhen I agree, Reggie!! I really loved this one 7y

readordierachel Great review! I loved this book. 7y

Lindy I‘ve been narrowing down my favourites of 2017 and this is one of them. @ReadingEnvy wants to know about just one, but I‘m stuck at my top 13. 😐 7y

Reggie @Lindy lol, yeah, that top thirteen can be rough. I had about 5 favorites I read this year but there are some books that talk to me every couple days that I read months ago. And they keep talking to me and make me think about them. Do any books talk to you still more than the others? 7y

Lindy @Reggie I LIKE the way you describe that phenomenon. It‘s the books that stay with me that I value most. 7y

ReadingEnvy @Lindy if you're recording, it's everything you can fit into five minutes ;) 7y

Lindy @ReadingEnvy That‘s good to know, thanks. My project for today. 😊 7y

Reviewsbylola I wanted to love this but it just didn‘t work for me. 7y

Reggie @Reviewsbylola why do you think it didn‘t work for you? 7y

Reviewsbylola I just didn‘t connect with the writing style and I didn‘t like the magical realism aspect. But I generally hate magical realism. 7y

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sprainedbrain

The Song of Achilles | Madeline Miller

Love this question from @CharissaWeaksAuthor ❤️

It will likely come as a surprise to zero people that The Song of Achilles is the best book I've read this year. It's now one of my favorite books ever... I still think about it all the time and can't stop posting about it. Sorry not sorry. 😃

#recommendsday

Mommamanzi Totally not what I expected but loved it even more than what I hoped for. Ahhh the ending. I was crying like a baby SO GOOD!!! 7y

kricheal I definitely need to bump this on my tbr! 7y

GondorGirl I loved tat book so much! It was certainly one of the best books I've read this year. 7y

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Graciouswarriorprincess I loved this book as well when I read it two years ago! 7y

Anneblythe Loved this book! ❤❤❤ 7y

Emilyrjones22 It's in the top three of my list this year too!! 7y

CharissaWeaksAuthor I have to read this! She has another book coming out too.

Circe

CharissaWeaksAuthor #BestBook2017 7y

sprainedbrain @CharissaWeaksAuthor yes! I am very much looking forward to Circe. 😃 7y

RadicalReader @sprainedbrain

The Girl on the Train: A Novel

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Laalaleighh

A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel | Ruth Ozeki

Thanks @CharissaWeaksAuthor for starting this #BestBook2017 ! Can't wait to see everyone's responses.

A Tale For The Time Being was my best book of 2017 (so far) followed closely by Pachinko and The Forgotten Garden.

It was incredibly cathartic for me. All the interwoven story threads created a rich tapestry that tackled the meaning of life and humanity from so many lenses & angles. I got lost in this book and found myself again at the end✨

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Waking Gods: Book 2 of the Themis Files

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Trina_L The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo ❤️❤️ 7y

emilyhaldi Oh wow! I've had this book on my shelf for a couple years now and keep passing over it... Thanks for motivating me to move it up on the list! 7y

Jess7

A Man Called Ove: A Novel

kylienoele

American Gods

cariashley This book is sooo good. 7y

Theresa I loved, loved, loved this book!!!

Brown Girl Dreaming

Gailthurber One of my favourites as well. 7y

CharissaWeaksAuthor YAY! Glad you shared! 7y

Laalaleighh @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @trazo @Minispok @Trina_L @Jess7 @theresa I have alllll of those on my shelves. Will have to move them up! 7y

Laalaleighh @kylienoele one of my favorite novels of all time. Have you read neverwhere? Or

Good Omens

Laalaleighh @emilyhaldi you're welcome! Hope you love it as much as I do! 7y

Laalaleighh @cariashley @Gailthurber 👯 7y

Laalaleighh @CharissaWeaksAuthor it's a great hashtag! I hope more people pick it up! 7y

kylienoele I LOVED Neverwhere!!!! I still need to read Good Omens thought! They are making it into a show, correct? (edited) 7y

Laalaleighh @kylienoele good Omens is my fave. And it's a great Terry Pratchett intro. They are! Neil Gaiman is writing it Bc that was Terry Pratchett's request. 7y

Laalaleighh Also @kylienoele he's writing a neverwhere sequel ... 7y

kylienoele I saw that!! I'm so pumped omg!!!! 😍@laalaleighh 7y

Suet624 Loved this book too and often think about the different characters still. 7y

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Libby1

The Good People | Hannah Kent

Tell me! Tell me!

The best book I've read so far this year is The Good People by Hannah Kent.

#BestBook2017

Thanks, @CharissaWeaksAuthor , for the photo and the idea.

PetuniaCraftyKneecaps Either of those were my favorites this year!

Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman

PetuniaCraftyKneecaps Oops and Fierce Kingdom. Thought I had both tagged

Fierce Kingdom

bookishkai

This Is How It Always Is

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kalinichta .

The Snow Child

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

The Nightingale

Varshitha

The Kite Runner: Rejacketed

TobeyTheScavengerMonk

The Goblin Emperor

LauraBeth

Anything is Possible

Librarybelle So many good ones! To pick just one, I'll say

A Man Called Ove: A Novel

Jess7 Second best would be

Confessions of a Domestic Failure

batsy Just one? 😱

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena: A Novel

Minispok

Waking Gods: Book 2 of the Themis Files

missberlyreads Fiction:

All Grown Up

missberlyreads Nonfiction:

Born a Crime and Other Third World Problems

MinDea Fiction

News of the World: A Novel

maich ❤❤

CharissaWeaksAuthor Glad you shared! :) 7y

Libby1 I've read those ones and have enjoyed them too, @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks , @Varshitha , @Jess7 , @missberlyreads , @kalinichta 💕 (edited) 7y

Libby1 @PetuniaCraftyKneecaps - Fierce Kingdom sounds amazing.

Fierce Kingdom

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Sing, Unburied, Sing is going to be a close second though!

The Nightingale

Libby1 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks - Sing, Unburied, Sing is in Mount TBR.

Sing, Unburied, Sing

Libby1 @bookishkris - I like the look of that one. 7y

Libby1 Your selections are in Mount TBR, @LauraBeth , @Librarybelle , @Amandajoy , @batsy , @MinDea , @shawnmooney , @Jess7 , @Booksnchill , @slhbooks , @BarbaraBB 🌄 (edited) 7y

Libby1 I thought I'd commented on everyone's selections but I think I missed you, @TobeyTheScavengerMonk , @Minispok , @trazo , @maich . I'll check those out! ⭐️ 7y

maich Thank for add😍

Me Before You

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CharissaWeaksAuthor

The Luminaries | Eleanor Catton

And...GO! 📚📚📚#BestBook2017

BarbaraTheBibliophage

The Heart's Invisible Furies

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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Familiar, Volume 2: Into the Forest

Mommamanzi I have honestly loved everything I have read this year BUT I could not put this one down.

Throne of Glass

LDuffN One of the best I've read this year.

A Stranger in the House

Jamielouise

The Snow Child

Jess7

A Man Called Ove: A Novel

hyacinth so far...

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

DrexEdit Best book I read in 2017

My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels, Book One

Natasha.C.Barnes Tough pick. Probably

The Wangs Vs. the World

DrexEdit Best book I read in 2017 that was published in 2017:

The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir

Natasha.C.Barnes Aaaaaa or maybe this one?!

Delicious Foods: A Novel

Soubhiville

The Sparrow: A Novel

Beachesnbooks

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

AceOnRoam By far the best...

Do Not Say We Have Nothing

CharissaWeaksAuthor @Jadams1776 I need to get to this one! I've had it for years. 7y

CharissaWeaksAuthor @4thhouseontheleft Yes! On my list. 7y

CharissaWeaksAuthor @BarbaraTheBibliophage I almost got that one for BOTM! 7y

CharissaWeaksAuthor @Bookcation74 I need to read this and try the show. 7y

CharissaWeaksAuthor @Libby1 OOOOH. I haven't seen this one. So intrigued! And it's right up my alley. 7y

CharissaWeaksAuthor @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks That book has my heart! 7y

CharissaWeaksAuthor @BooksAtNight I have this book! I need to move it up on my list. 7y

CharissaWeaksAuthor @heylaurenmack Oh wow. I haven't read House of Leaves but have always wanted to. I'm curious, especially now that I know he's written more books. 7y

CharissaWeaksAuthor @Mommamanzi I read the opening of this one! My only stall was that it's a long series and right now I'm inhaling stand alones. But, it's on my list to tackle in the spring. 7y

CharissaWeaksAuthor @LDuffN Ooh! I haven't seen this thriller yet. Looks good. 7y

CharissaWeaksAuthor @Jamielouise This is on my list! And the audio was $4.95 yesterday. 7y

CharissaWeaksAuthor @AceOnRoam Oh, that sounds great. 7y

CharissaWeaksAuthor @Beachesnbooks Roxane Gay is totally on my list. Glad to hear you liked it. 7y

CharissaWeaksAuthor @Soubhiville Oh wow! I'm so intrigued by this! Totally looking into this one. 7y

CharissaWeaksAuthor @Natasha.C.Barnes Wow! Haven't heard of this one. I totally didn't expect that blurb based off the title! 7y

CharissaWeaksAuthor @DrexEdit That looks really good. 7y

CharissaWeaksAuthor @Natasha.C.Barnes I have this one! I just have to get to it 😂 *moves up on list* 7y

CharissaWeaksAuthor @Jess7 I have this audio. I need to inhale it. It's such a quick read. 7y

CharissaWeaksAuthor @Rcoco Nice!! I haven't seen this one before. I love just about any old NY stories. 7y

CharissaWeaksAuthor @chlobee Gah! I've seen this one soooo many times and been so tempted, but have yet to buy it. I'll have to add it to my buy list. 7y

CharissaWeaksAuthor @hyacinth That sounds really good. 7y

BooksAtNight @CharissaWeaksAuthor The world building in the book is incredible. I fell in love with the world and the characters from the beginning. I hope you enjoy it when you do get around to it! 7y

heylaurenmack @CharissaWeaksAuthor You must! 7y

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @CharissaWeaksAuthor ❤️❤️ 7y

andrelei I was late to the party... 😅 Jay Kristoff's Nevernight ☺️ 7y

Natasha.C.Barnes @CharissaWeaksAuthor I'm not totally sure which book I mentioned you're referring to buy I'm guessing Delicious Foods based on your comment. It's VERY good and sometimes funny and so original but also a bit brutal. So be forewarned! 7y

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