What is the best book you have read this year?

[imojoebunny]

I am compiling a list of books to read next year, preferably in paperback.  

Of all the books you read this year, what was your favorite.  Doesn't have to be "worthy" of great literature.   Any book you really liked.  

Thank you!  Look forward to seeing the titles.  

[Deleted]

Devil in the White City

[Deleted]

Probably the Kingkiller Chronicle books by Patrick Rothfuss.

I also loved The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman.

[SpartanGirl]

The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicles Day One) by Patrick Rothfuss

[bcv513]

The forgotten garden and the secret keeper by Kate Morton

[cajunmom]

The Light Between Oceans.

[Deleted]

Ocean at the End of the Lane

[boiler717]

The Goldfinch

[winnied]

The Art of Racing in the Rain

[Deleted]

None of these were new this year, but the ones I liked most were:

Nothing to Envy
A Short History of Nearly Everything
What Remains (but my GOD I cried)

[lilibet]

Not new this year - The Fault in Our Stars or Warm Bodies
New this year - The Tao of Martha

[BeagleMama]

The Paris Wife
The Casual Vacancy
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

I was on a good roll there with good ones at the beginning of the year...

[vtdiamond]

The Cuckoos Calling
What Remains
Divergent
The Art Forger
The Night Circus
Beautiful Day

[irene adler]

I love this post!!!!

The Night Circus was enchanting, and I loved America, You a Sexy Bitch.

[Deleted]

It didn't come out this year but mine was 11/22/63.

[imojoebunny]

It doesn't have to come out this year, just be your favorite book that you read... Thus far, you guys have some great suggestions.

[y4m]

Unbroken is the best I've read in a long time.

[rootbeerfloat]

Me Before You, JoJo Moyes

[mrst2]

11/22/63
Fangirl
Hopeless
These is my words

[Deleted]

I'm reading The Orphan Master's Son right now and it's excellent. v, it may interest you, it's fiction about North Korea.

[Deleted]

Dec 1, 2013 19:12:56 GMT -5 @carmensandiego said:

I'm reading The Orphan Master's Son right now and it's excellent. v, it may interest you, it's fiction about North Korea.

I will add it to my list, thanks!  I find North Korea endlessly fascinating.

[doobeedoo]

Dec 1, 2013 19:08:55 GMT -5 mrst2 said:

11/22/63
Fangirl
Hopeless
These is my words

Ditto These Is My Words...I never wanted it to end. 
I just finished Where'd You Go, Bernadette and found it to be pretty entertaining...a light read. 

[craftyesq]

Harry Potter
Hunger Games
The Thornbirds
Roots
Godfather
The Marriage Plot

[Deleted]

Dec 1, 2013 19:08:55 GMT -5 mrst2 said:

11/22/63
Fangirl
Hopeless
These is my words

LOVE These Is My Words.

[ESF]

Dec 1, 2013 19:26:14 GMT -5 craftyesq said:

Harry Potter

The Marriage Plot

Loved this.

I didn't do very much reading at all this year, but I did really like This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz.

[Deleted]

Fall of Giants
Winter of the World
The Worst Hard Time
the Big Burn
The Kitchen House
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Extraordinary, Ordinary People

[pupcake]

Water For Elephants

Gone With The Wind

[rikki]

What Remains
Cutting for Stone (might have read last year)

[Nonny]

Another vote for 11/22/63. I just finished it last night, and every time I picked it up to read it I'd spend about 2 hours getting sucked in.

[jillboston]

Dec 1, 2013 20:40:50 GMT -5 Nonny said:

Another vote for 11/22/63. I just finished it last night, and every time I picked it up to read it I'd spend about 2 hours getting sucked in.

Just finished this yesterday afternoon after listening on the way home from T'giving for 4 hours in the car. It was excellent but comes in second after Life after Life  by Kate Atkinson (just realizing the similarities between the two books)