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

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Boys in the Boat
Big Brother

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Loved this book.

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Anonymous wrote:The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. It’s the only book I can read multiple times.

Loved this book.

I liked it a lot too.

NP. I thought it was just ok. Certainly not nearly as good as her first book, The Interpreter of Maladies. That one I thought was excellent.

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Anonymous wrote:The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. It’s the only book I can read multiple times.

Loved this book.

I liked it a lot too.

NP. I thought it was just ok. Certainly not nearly as good as her first book, The Interpreter of Maladies. That one I thought was excellent.

I loved both.

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The Circle: best thought provoking book

A Gentleman in Moscow: best historical fiction

The Matchmaker: one of the best Elon Hilderbrand light beach reads

Conversations with Friends: best romance which isn’t a romance book

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Anonymous wrote:The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. It’s the only book I can read multiple times.

Loved this book.

I liked it a lot too.

NP. I thought it was just ok. Certainly not nearly as good as her first book, The Interpreter of Maladies. That one I thought was excellent.

I think I have read the other one too, will look it up. For me, The Namesake and Americanah, did a great job capturing the immigrant experience. In the Namesake, it was more about the sense of not fully belonging, despite being born and raised in the country of residence. While Americanah resonated with me (I have also immigrated at the age of 18 and lived in all the areas she's lived in), I think The Namesake is closer to my kids' experience.

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Anonymous wrote:The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. It’s the only book I can read multiple times.

I read this technically more than 10 years ago but loved it. I did also love The Lowlands by her.

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Anonymous wrote:I see we have many intellectuals on this board. "Last Mrs Parrish" as the best book of the decade. 🙄

Contribute or go away.

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Anonymous wrote:The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. It’s the only book I can read multiple times.

Loved this book.

I liked it a lot too.

NP. I thought it was just ok. Certainly not nearly as good as her first book, The Interpreter of Maladies. That one I thought was excellent.

I think I have read the other one too, will look it up. For me, The Namesake and Americanah, did a great job capturing the immigrant experience. In the Namesake, it was more about the sense of not fully belonging, despite being born and raised in the country of residence. While Americanah resonated with me (I have also immigrated at the age of 18 and lived in all the areas she's lived in), I think The Namesake is closer to my kids' experience.

We’re Bengali and the Namesake hits so close to home. So many beautiful moments. The books is a sliver into time that is so familiar and American to me. She’s a beautiful writer.

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Anonymous wrote:These lists always leave me feeling like the only person who did not love Educated.

I couldn't finish it. And I've read every other book in this genre - and loved many. Couldn't get into this one.

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Anonymous wrote:These lists always leave me feeling like the only person who did not love Educated.

I couldn't finish it. And I've read every other book in this genre - and loved many. Couldn't get into this one.

I finished it, but it's nowhere near the best book I've read in the past 10 years.

I don't know that I could say what is really the best. Here's some five stars:

This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim
The Dove Keepers by Alice Hoffman
Nonfiction: Unbroken

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Caste

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Anonymous wrote:The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson. I think every American should read it. I can’t wait to read Caste although I understand it is grueling.

Almost finished with The Warmth of Other Suns, I think it's among the absolute best books I've ever read and I've read thousands. I just bought the audible version of Caste to listen to on my next long drive trip, can't wait.

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This tender land was good.

The guernsey literary and potato peel pie society.
I read for a living. This one.

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A Little Life.