Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Review of 2019

Another year has ended.  It's been a good year of reading for me.  I read many, many good books!  I read 60 books, with 5 of those being non-fiction.  As I count down to my top book read in 2019, first I will list the books that I read that I rated as either very good, great, or excellent:

The Clock Dance-AnneTyler
sweet water-Christina Baker Kline
The Girls-Lori Lanson?: great
Where The Crawdads Sing-Delia Owens
Ginny Moon-Benjamin Ludwig
The Glass Room-Simon Mawer
The Cloister-James Carroll
Varina-Charles Frazier
The Golden Hour-t. greenwood
Cemetery Road-Greg Iles
The Thornbirds-Colleen McCullough
Idaho-Emily Ruskovich
Breaking Water-t. greenwood
Bodies of Water-t.greenwood
The Story of Forgetting-Stefan Merrill Block
The Clockmaker’s Daughter-Kate Morton
Before We Were Yours-Lisa Wingate
The Nickel Boys-Colson Whitehead
The Historian-Elizabeth Kostova
This Tender Land-William Kent Krueger
The World That We Knew-Ann Hoffman
Olive, Again-Elizabeth Strout
The Testaments-Margaret Atwood
The Boys in the Boat-Daniel James Brown
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse-Charles Mackesy

So, 25 out of 60 were very highly rated by me.

Here's my top 10:


The Clock Dance-AnneTyler
Where The Crawdads Sing-Delia Owens
The Cloister-James Carroll
Varina-Charles Frazier
Idaho-Emily Ruskovich
The Story of Forgetting-Stefan Merrill Block
The Clockmaker’s Daughter-Kate Morton
The World That We Knew-Ann Hoffman
Olive, Again-Elizabeth Strout
The Testaments-Margaret Atwood

And now, my top 5:

The Cloister-James Carroll
Varina-Charles Frazier
The Story of Forgetting-Stefan Merrill Block
Olive, Again-Elizabeth Strout
The Testaments-Margaret Atwood

My top 3 are easy:

The Story of Forgetting-Stefan Merrill Block
Olive, Again-Elizabeth Strout
The Testaments-Margaret Atwood

Now, the going gets really tough. I loved these 3 books. It's very hard to choose. But, oddly enough, for my top favorite book of the year I am going to choose:

The Story of Forgetting by Stefan Merrill Block. It is a book that I cannot get out of my mind. It was published in 2009, ten years ago! I have read it twice and still want to read it again. Powerful book!

Story of Forgetting: A Novel

My goal for 2020? I think that I want to be able to read 60 books again! Or more. So off I go to read!


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