Mid-year favorites

[litskispeciality]

Last year at the end of the year someone posted a thread about your favorite books of the year by genre. I'm hoping we can do a mid-year review, really because I'm looking for new suggestions. If you're game, please list your favorite reads so far, and feel free to add any categories I may have missed:

Fiction
Non-fiction
Sci-fi
Romance
Young Adult
Fantasy
Mystery
Classic
Memoir
Horror

[rainbowchip]

I'm surprised at the variety I've read this year!

Fiction - The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Non-fiction - Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Sci-fi - The Passage by Justin Cronin
Romance - Blood Vow (BDB Legacy) by JR Ward
Young Adult - Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Fantasy - Shadow and Bone series by Leigh Bardugo
Mystery - The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware (I technically finished this one in December but I don't have anything good to put in this category)
Classic - The Handmaid's Tale
Memoir - Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Horror - Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill

[Vespasia]

I only have a few of these.


Fiction: The Bear and the Nightingale 
Sci-Fi: The Book of Strange New Things
Fantasy: The Queen of the Tearling
Mystery: In the Woods
Memoir: Born a Crime

[abs]

Fiction: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Fantasy: Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs
YA: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Romance: Too Late by Colleen Hoover

[snshne322]

Fiction
- Fall of Giants/Winter of the World - Ken Follett
Sci-fi
- The Passage by Justin Cronin
Romance
- The Hating Game - Sally Thorne
Young Adult
 - The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas
Fantasy
- The Falling Kingdoms series (someone please read these, I want to talk!) Morgan Rhodes
Classic
- The Handmaid's Tale (Does this count as Classic or just Iconic?) Margaret Atwood

[travella]

Fiction: Girl at War by Sara Novic

Non-Fiction: Atlas Obscura by Joshua Foer
(I only just started this book, but I'm loving it. It will take me forever to read because I find myself looking up more information about the things and places discussed in the book. It appeals to my wanderlust!)

Mystery: Home by Harlan Coben
(Difficult genre since it's my favorite and I read so many good mysteries.)

Romance: Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole

I read a few books from the other genres, but nothing stuck out as being worth mention.

[booknerd]

Fiction: The Rose Garden
Romance: Come Sundown by Nora Roberts
Young Adult: Tell The Wolves I'm Home
Mystery: Pretty Girls
Classic: Jane Eyre

[mrspez07]

Fiction: This is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel
Romance: Eligible by Curtis Sittenfield
Non-fiction: Edible Estates

[minzy]

Fiction: probably A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Nonfiction: tie, Earth in Human Hands - Shaping our Planet's Future by David Grinspoon and The Warmth of Other Suns - The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
Sci-fi: Red Rising by Pierce Brown (I did not love it but think it was the only sci-fi I've read this year?)
YA: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Fantasy: A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
Mystery: All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda (I also did not love it but it may be the only mystery I read)
Memoir: re-read of A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

[ufcasey]

I'm loving this - lots of good book ideas! My strong recommendations are in bold

Fiction - Be Frank With Me by Julia Claiborne Johnson
Non-fiction - In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
Sci-fi - Dawn by Octavia E Butler
Romance - Dream a Little Dream by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Young Adult - Split by Swati Avasthi and The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Fantasy - A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab (sadly the first and third book in this series aren't that great though)
Mystery - A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny
Classic - The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
Memoir - The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner
Horror - The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison

My new categories:
Historical Fiction - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Young Adult Fantasy - Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Historical Romance - Three Weeks with Lady X by Eloisa James
Paranormal Romance/Urban Fiction - Silence Fallen by Patricia Briggs

[dorothyinAus]

I've only read 4 books that were not technically mysteries, and as such, I'm having a hard time figuring out my favorites within the listed categories. So I'll just list the 5-Star books as of the end of June.

Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout
A Mystery in Carlton House by Ashley Gardner
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
Murder on St. Nicholas Avenue by Victoria Thompson
Prisoner's Base by Rex Stout