Recommended books this year
Some of the good books I read in 2005:
Marilynne Robinson. Gilead.
Jacqueline Winspear. Maisie Dobbs. [Recommended to me last Christmas by my cousin Kate Dukelow - thanks Kate!]
Jon Hassler. The Dean's List.
Jasper Fforde. The Big Over Easy. [I loved this quirky book - a new Nursery Rhymes series from Fforde. Fforde's Tuesday Next series is also worth reading - they defy description but are lots of fun to read.]
Miyuke Miyabe. Shadow family. [A Japanese crime novel about internet games.]
Christopher Paul Curtis. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963. [A children's book. My favorite book read in 2005. I listened to it on audioCD read by Levar Burton.]
I also read lots of mysteries, including new titles by Elizabeth George, Jonathan Kellerman, Kathy Reichs, Nevada Barr, and Tony Hillerman.
What did you all read this past year that you'd recommend?
Marilynne Robinson. Gilead.
Jacqueline Winspear. Maisie Dobbs. [Recommended to me last Christmas by my cousin Kate Dukelow - thanks Kate!]
Jon Hassler. The Dean's List.
Jasper Fforde. The Big Over Easy. [I loved this quirky book - a new Nursery Rhymes series from Fforde. Fforde's Tuesday Next series is also worth reading - they defy description but are lots of fun to read.]
Miyuke Miyabe. Shadow family. [A Japanese crime novel about internet games.]
Christopher Paul Curtis. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963. [A children's book. My favorite book read in 2005. I listened to it on audioCD read by Levar Burton.]
I also read lots of mysteries, including new titles by Elizabeth George, Jonathan Kellerman, Kathy Reichs, Nevada Barr, and Tony Hillerman.
What did you all read this past year that you'd recommend?
posted by Ruth at
5:57 PM
1 Comments:
Hi Ruth, from Jan Aronson
I read and did a review of Gilead this year. Really loved the book but many in my book group thought it was hard to follow "who was who". I read it carefully a second time and loved her use of language and the family names came through much more . Marilynne is in Iowa City and my sister-in-law there is in a study group with her. That would be fun. THe other book I really liked was The Kite Runner, a book that correctly describes Afghanistan according to our friends here who lived there several years.
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