Best book you read in 2021

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Klara and the Sun. Quietly scary and somehow, hopeful.

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Anonymous wrote:The House in the Cerulean Sea was a nice little feel good book.

This one was up there for me, but if I have to pick one - I’ll say City of Girls.

If you liked City of Girls ,I recommend the Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo !

I did really like that one, too!

And the other two books (you'll see certain characters appear in all the books) - Malibu Rising but the best one is Daisy Jones and the Six.

I did also like Daisy Jones! I haven’t read Malibu Rising yet, but I want to.

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The Paper Palace

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Anonymous wrote:The Girl with the Louding Voice - such a cool style of writing, heartbreaking and uplifting at the same time.

Loved this too, and the audio version is amazing!

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Anonymous wrote:Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe. It's nonfiction but is more of a page turner than most fiction books I've read. It's about the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

I really want to like Patrick Radden Keefe, but he reminds me of the old saying about good authors killing their darlings. He's a great researcher but his work contains so many loose research threads.

you might like his Winds of Change podcast. Such an interesting subject, but so many loose threads.

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Anonymous wrote:Klara and the Sun. Quietly scary and somehow, hopeful.

I think this is my pick as well, though I haven’t read as much this year as I usually do. I love pretty much anything by Ishiguro.

Also finally got around to reading Commonwealth, which I liked a lot.

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Anonymous wrote:Klara and the Sun. Quietly scary and somehow, hopeful.

I think this is my pick as well, though I haven’t read as much this year as I usually do. I love pretty much anything by Ishiguro.

Also finally got around to reading Commonwealth, which I liked a lot.

Klara and the Sun was easily the best book that I have read in a couple of years. Everybody that I know who read it, loved it!

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I loved Susanna Clark's Piranesi