Books #42

[Eureka]

I really hate old timey books and find these lists really boring. I'd love to see a list of the top 100 contemporary novels.

 

[biscuitthief]

Not posted on here for a while but I am loving seeing everyone's top 10s I love that we all have such varied taste in books

It was quite difficult coming up with my top 10. But these are the books that I think about most often

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Beartown - Fredrik Backman
I am Pilgrim - Terry Hayes
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt - Lucinda Riley/Harry Whittaker
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Jamaica Inn - Daphne Du Maurier
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

 

[wishiniwasskinny]

My top 10 in no particular order. Winter Solstice is my utter comfort book. I re-read it every year. The Paper Palace has really stayed with me, it feels like a gorgeous hazy summer dream. I think I’ll re-read this summer.

1. Winter Solstice - Rosamunde Pilcher
2. Small Things Like These - Clare Keegan
3. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
4. Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
5. Tomorrow x 3 - Gabrielle Zevin
6. The Help - Kathryn Stockett
7. City of Girls - Elizabeth Gilbert
8. The Paper Palace - Miranda Cowley Heller
9. Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
10. Rules of Civility - Amor Towles

 

[veronica71]

I’m

 

[MissHavisham]

No particular order, cannot guarantee I'd compile the same list next week, only two male authors, and two novels with the surname Mole in the title!

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 - Sue Townsend
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins (agree that the Guardian list containing zero Collins but multiple Dickens is crap)
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
Prep - Curtis Sittenfeld
Good Behaviour - Molly Keane
Miss Mole - EH Young
We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
The Country Girls - Edna O'Brien
The Code of the Woosters - PG Wodehouse

 

[Eureka]

I was listening to the radio yesterday and there was a woman on advocating for all schools to have libraries and she cited a statistic that less than 25% of young people read regularly and that made me feel really sad.

 

[anniemouse]

I love this discussion about kindle/books - I find other people’s reading habits fascinating

another plus of the kindle I remembered last night is I can keep reading way past my bedtime with the lights off.

And you can drop it on your face and not lose your place

 

[ShiftyAndGrifty]

This list thing is so, so hard! I have put below some recent faves combined with others that I go back and reread every so often. In no particular order:

The Bestseller - Olivia Goldsmith
Adrian Mole Secret Diary aged 13 3/4 - Sue Townsend
The Glass Lake - Maeve Binchy
The Paper Palace - Miranda Cowley Hellier
Tomorrow x 3 - Gabrielle Zevin
Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus
The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
Big Little Lies - Liane Moriarty
Watermelon - Marian Keyes

 

[ordinaryjelly]

I had surgery today. Came back to Tattle just now and see this thread has grown by 4 pages. Never in my wildest dreams did I think dino-erotica would feature. 🫣

 

[Niknak]

My list is taken from when I started adding them to Goodreads in the last four years or so. There could well be others I've forgetten about

1. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
2. The Road - Cormac McCarthy

Then in no particular order:
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
One Day - David Nicholls
The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi
Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart
Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
Remote Sympathy - Catherine Chidgey
Nesting - Roisin O'Donnell

Putting this list together has made me realise I generally like pretty sad stories

 

[Carapop]

Ooooooh look what I just got in Netgalley

 

[Cheddar Chalpupa]

I forgot every book I ever read and it'll probably change tomorrow (apart from the first two)....

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
11/22/63 - Stephen King
Project Hail Mary - Andy Wier
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
Five Little Pigs - Agatha Christie
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
A Company of Liars - Karen Maitland
The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder

 

[Carapop]

My card has been cancelled due to fraudulent activity so that means no more online shopping til my new card arrives. There better not be any good kindle daily deals in the interim!

It was rather mortifying as I had to go through recent spends with the agent on the phone and explain why there were SO MANY 99pence transactions with Amazon 🫣

 

[ToolaRoola]

I'd let them see my genuine review.

Imagine it's a series, or they find similar books to give to you.

A lifetime of faking reviews

 

[OwlHen]

I've agonised so much over mine! But other than number 1, which will always be my true love book, the others are in a totally random order.

1. Timeline - Michael Crichton
2. The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead
3. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
4. The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid
5. Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
6. All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye - Christopher Brookmyre
7. The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
8. The Tailor of Panama - John Le Carre
9. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling
10. Slow Horses - Mick Herron

 

[emmer_moans]

In no particular order:-

1 - The Running Grave - Robert Galbraith - I didn't breathe throughout the entirity of this reading experience
2 - Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - reading it at 15 kickstarted my interest in reading classics and it has a special place in my heart
3 - 1984 - George Orwell - so poignant and applicable to life, quoteworthy and sometimes I think of Room 101 and the Memory Hole
4 - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole - Sue Townsend - made me cackle as a teen, made me cackle upon rereading as a 30-something.
5 - The Deathly Hallows - J K Rowling - captivated me as a child, rereading now.
6 - Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - again fond of this from my teen years
7 - Persuasion - Jane Austen - favourite Austen, yearning and second chances.
8 - Northern Lights - Philip Pullman - still lives rent free in my head, I need my own Pantalaimon.
9 - The Grand Sophy - Georgette Heyer - just vibes and Regency fun
10 - An Imaginitive Experience - Mary Wesley - really cared about the characters.

 

[AllieBee]

In true book thread style i donated to charity and look what they gave me for my kindness

 

[ToxicPony]

My Top Ten list!

1. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
2. Northern Lights - Philip Pullman
3. Piranesi - Susannah Clarke
4. Topics About Which I Know Nothing - Patrick Ness
5. Bewilderment - Richard Powers
6. The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead
7. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
8. Sea of Tranquility - Emily St John Mandel
9. How High We Go In The Dark - Sequoia Nagamatsu
10. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

 

[LaBlonde]

posting my april reads now as i won’t be reading another book before friday!

so thrilled for you - holly bourne
the knight and the moth - rachel gillig
you’re the problem, it’s you - emma alban
prima facie - suzie miller
olive kitteridge - elizabeth strout
heart the lover - lily king

i would have given so thrilled for you four stars but i dropped one for nicki - the most hateful character i have read in a book this year so far

 

[Chocolategoggler]

My list:
1. The Librarians of Rue de Picardie by Janet Skeslien Charles
2. The House In The Cerulean Sea by T J Klune
3. The Switch by Beth O'Leary
4. Atlas The Story Of Pa Salt by Lucinda Riley
5. The Very Secret Society Of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
6. A Wedding In Provence by Katie Fforde
7. Date With Justice by Julia Chapman
8. Twelve Days of Christmas by Trisha Ashley
9. A Civil Contract by Georgette Heyer.
10. The Hallmarked Man by J K Rowling