Best reads of the year

Season is here and Book Bites is starting up! I want to know what are the best books you've read this year? 

My top choice is:

1. The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker 

Wow, even when the entire planet is undergoing major cataclysmic changes what  it is to be a 12 year old girl is still the same.

After that in no order are:

Arcadia by Lasuren Groff

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai

I also have lots of other runners up but those 4 left me breathless or teary at many points.  (I couldn't speak for a good minute at the end of Age of Miracles--what a fabulous book!)

And if you are in town don't forget:

BOOK BITES

Beginning of Season PARTY!

Join us

Thursday, December 13^th

at 4:30

when we discuss

THE BEST BOOKS YOU’VE READ THIS YEAR!

This is YOUR book club—come discuss and share the books you love.

Sci Fi, Mystery, Espionage, Literary, Romance…

COME ONE COME ALL!

Best books of 2011

December's Book Bites discussion was about the best books you've read this past year.  (They do not have to be new books.)
My two fav's were:
1.  The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian.  A nice marginally creepy book involving a plane crash where 39 people die, a town of Stepford like wiccans all named after different herbs and spices, and a door in the basement bolted shut with 39 carriage bolts.
2. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan.  Wow, when I finished this one I wanted to turn around and just start it all over again.  Inter connected stories that form a picture of where we have been and where we might end up.

And I have to give a shout out to One Day by David Nichols--not necessarily the best book I've read, but it had quite an effect on me.  Emotionally I carried it around with me for days.