Best book you’ve read in the past 10 years?

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Nothing To See Here by Kevin Wilson -- just odd and funny and sweet

Secret History by Donna Tartt -- SOO much better than The Goldfinch. This would have made an amazing film, if done well.

I know these aren't intellectual powerhouse reads, but I really liked them.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing To See Here by Kevin Wilson -- just odd and funny and sweet

Secret History by Donna Tartt -- SOO much better than The Goldfinch. This would have made an amazing film, if done well.

I know these aren't intellectual powerhouse reads, but I really liked them.

Oh, and I'll add The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner.

The Very First Bad Man by Miranda July

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Anonymous wrote:It wasn't published in the last 10 years, but for me the answer is The Secret History, by Donna Tartt.

+1

I just started that but couldn’t get into it before the library loan expired. I did like Goldfinch.

Ooo I loved Goldfinch.

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Anonymous wrote:All the Light We Cannot See
The Overstory

Yes- All the light we cannot see

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Hearts Invisible Furies

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Anonymous wrote:I read about a book a week, so I don’t know that I could go back 10 years, but some of the most engaging, thought provoking reads that come to mind are quirky ones:

Mary Toft, or The Rabbit Queen
Hollow Kingdom
World War Z
the Deep (Alma Katsu, also The Hunger by the same author. Historical fiction, a little scary, and both allegories about something bigger than their main plots)

Others that are more mainstream:
Ask Again, Yes
Song of Achilles (preferred over Circe)
News of the World
Mrs. Everything
Circling the Sun

I loved Homegoing, but it’s intense. I HATED Where the Crawdada Sing
This Is How it Always Is

News Of The World was so good! It motivated me to find other books, non-fiction, on the same subject, which is just fascinating.

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Educated
Americanah
Unbroken
A Death in the Rain Forest
Maybe you should talk to someone
West with the night
Valley of Genius
Know My Name: The Chanel Miller story
Code Girls
Just Kids by Patti Smith

Thank you goodreads app for remembering my top 10.

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Anonymous wrote:Hearts Invisible Furies

Best book ever!

I also really liked The Kitchen House and The Nightingale.

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Anonymous wrote:Ulysses Grant’s biography “Grant” by Ron Chernow

This is on my list!

I have been reading this off and on for almost a year. It is excellent but LONG and now I am filled with Grant and Reconstruction facts. There are a lot of parallels between the 1870s-1880s and now.

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Ten Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini - I loved it and thought it way better than his more famous Kite Runner
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan series

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I’m boring but Pride and Prejudice always does it for me. I second place is “so you want to talk about race.”

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Circe was a really really wonderful read for me. It pulled me back into reading after a long dry spell. A close second is pachinko.

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Anonymous wrote:the dutch house

I found this book boring as hell. Nothing ever happens. Even Tom Hanks couldn't save it for me.

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Anonymous wrote:When breath becomes air

Life changing

Really? Why? I felt so conflicted about that book. His passing is sad, but to be honest, the only good part was the epilogue written by his wife. Also, him going back to work and butchering a surgery felt wrong. He risked someone’s life because he wanted to live fully. Anyway, as I said, I felt uneasy about the book (and bored).

DP. Not all books are for everybody, but I loved it because it because the prose and narrative was excellent, it presented thought-provoking questions about what it means to be a human and what it is to live a good life, his attitude toward excellence was inspiring, and in general it made me want to be a better person. I would never consider an admission of a mistake to be a negative in a book.

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Anonymous wrote:Where the Crawdads Sing
Eleanor Oliphant
Before we were yours
Educated

The only good book among these is Crawdads. Before We Were Yours was awful.

I hated where the crawdads sing. Loved educated. The other 2 ok but wouldn’t really recommend.

Agree with this. Crawdads was so insanely overrated, wtf.