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Showing posts with label Favorites of Decade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Favorites of Decade. Show all posts
January 26, 2020
A Decade of Favorites (2010 - 2019)
2010
Mudbound by Hilary Jordan (5/5)
The Help by Kathryn Stockett (5/5)
Lift by Kelly Corrigan (5/5)
Every Last One by Anna Quindlen (5/5)
Faithful Place by Tana French (5/5)
World Without End by Ken Follett (5/5)
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski (5/5)
Room by Emma Donoghue (5/5)
Left Neglected by Lisa Genova (5/5)
Stiltsville by Susanna Daniel (4.75/5)
2011
Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult (4.5/5)
Shoot to Thrill by P.J. Tracy (4.5/5)
Joy For Beginners by Erica Bauermeister (4.5/5)
The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown (4.5/5)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson (4.5/5)
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (4.5/5)
The Pioneer Woman: From High Heels to Tractor Wheels by Ree Drummond (4.5/5)
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (4.5/5)
Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson (4.5/5)
Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante (4.75/5)
Beachcombing For A Shipwrecked God by Joe Coomer (4.5/5)
The Arrivals by Meg Mitchell Moore (4.75/5)
Faith by Jennifer Haigh (4.5/5)
2012
The Homecoming of Samuel Lake by Jenny Wingfield (5/5)
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (4/5)
Gone by Mo Hayder (5/5)
Little Princes by Conor Grennan (5/5)
Paris in Love by Eloisa James (4.5/5)
The Hunchback of Neiman Marcus by Sonya Sones (4.5/5)
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver (4.75/5)
Emily, Alone by Stewart O'Nan (4.75/5)
The Passage by Justin Cronin (4.75/5)
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (4.5/5)
2013
The Lost Art of Mixing by Erica Bauermeister (4.5/5)
Broken Harbor by Tana French (4.75/5)
The Shadow In the Streets by Susan Hill (4.5/5)
The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman (5/5)
The Fifth Wave by Rick Yancy (4.75/5)
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell (4.75/5)
The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin (4.75/5)
The Fault In Our Stars by John Green (4.75/5)
Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler (4.5/5)
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes (4.75/5)
2014
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (4.5/5)
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger (4.75/5)
Attachments by Rainbow Rowell (4.5/5)
East of Eden by John Steinbeck (4.5/5)
Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt (4.5/5)
A Dog's Purpose by Bruce Cameron (4.5/5)
The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe (4.5/5)
This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash (4.75/5)
The Circle by Dave Eggers (4.5/5)
That Part Was True by Deborah McKinlay (4.5/5)
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller (4.75/5)
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (5/5)
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (4.5/5)
Orphan Train by Kristina Baker Kline (4.5/5)
2015
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (4.5/5)
The Various Haunts of Men by Susan Hill (4.5/5)
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande (4.5/5)
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion (4.5/5)
The Bear by Claire Cameron (4.5/5)
Wonder by R.J. Palacio (5/5)
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz (4.75/5)
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Brackman (4.5/5)
Inside the O'Briens by Lisa Genova (4.75/5)
Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult (4.5/5)
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin (5/5)
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf (4.5/5)
2016
You Will Not Have My Hate by Antoine Leiris (4.5/5)
Behind Closed Doors by B. A. Paris (5/5)
Leveling the Playing Field by Rod Scher (4.5/5)
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch (4.5/5)
The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult (4.75/5)
Say What You Will by Cammie McGovern (4.5/5)
Be Frank With Me by Julia Claiborne Johnson (4.5/5)
A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash (4.5/5)
City of Thieves by David Benioff (5/5)
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker (4.5/5)
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar (4.5/5)
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah (4.5/5)
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd (4.5/5)
What Comes Next and How to Like It by Abigail Thomas (4.5/5)
2017
The House at Tyneford by Natasha Solomons (5/5)
The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying by Nina Riggs (5/5)
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (5/5)
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff (5/5)
Night by Elie Wiesel (5/5)
News of the World by Paulette Jiles (4.5/5)
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (4.5/5)
The Children's Crusade by Ann Packer (4.5/5)
A Celibate Season by Carol Shields (4.5/5)
The Book That Matters Most by Ann Hood (4.5/5)
2018
This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel (5/5)
Tell Me More by Kelly Corrigan (5/5)
Inside the O'Briens by Lisa Genova (4.75/5)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (4.75/5)
Dear Fahrenheit 451 by Annie Spence (4.5/5)
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne (4.5/5)
The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn (4.5/5)
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles (4.5/5)
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate (4.5/5)
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult (4.5/5)
2019
Maybe You Should Talk To Someone by Lori Gottlieb (5/5)
Henry, Himself by Stewart O'Nan (5/5)
Night of Miracles by Elizabeth Berg (5/5)
How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny (5/5)
Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny (5/5)
Becoming by Michelle Obama (5/5)
The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker (4.5/5)
Devotion by Dani Shapiro (4.5/5)
Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane (4.5/5)
A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne (4.5/5)
My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman (4.5/5)
Kitchen Yarns by Ann Hood (4.5/5)
The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny (4.5/5)
After You by Jojo Moyes (4.5/5)
Whiskey When We're Dry by John Larison (4.5/5)
A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny (4.5/5)
The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny (4.5/5)
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