Anonymous
Post 12/01/2020 11:19     Subject: Re:Best book you’ve read in the past 10 years?
If we are speaking about the lists:

Amercanah (I mentioned it upthread, it's #1 for me). Others, in no particular order:
The Namesake
Olive Kitteridge
A Tale for the Time Being
The Winter of Our Discontent

Nowhere near the top, but I actually liked Michelle Obama' book.
Anonymous
Post 12/01/2020 11:06     Subject: Best book you’ve read in the past 10 years?
Anonymous wrote:
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.
Anonymous
Post 12/01/2020 10:51     Subject: Best book you’ve read in the past 10 years?
These lists always leave me feeling like the only person who did not love Educated.
Anonymous
Post 12/01/2020 10:45     Subject: Best book you’ve read in the past 10 years?
Anonymous wrote:The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. It’s the only book I can read multiple times.



Loved this book.
Anonymous
Post 12/01/2020 10:29     Subject: Best book you’ve read in the past 10 years?
NPR's book concierge came out today, which always has great suggestions:
https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#view=covers&year=2020
Anonymous
Post 12/01/2020 09:51     Subject: Best book you’ve read in the past 10 years?
Forgot to add Siri Hustvedt's The Blazing World and Rachel Cusk's On Becoming a Mother.

Part of the reason I love this thread is that I have never heard of 80 percent of the books mentioned. Must be the expat gap.
Anonymous
Post 12/01/2020 09:44     Subject: Best book you’ve read in the past 10 years?
Non-fiction - Hunger by Martin Caparros. Haunting.
Novels - The Black Sheep by Balzac
My Struggle by Karl Ove Knaussgard
Short Stories - Contes Carnivores by Bernard Quiriny
Poetry - Marianne Moore
Terrance Hayes
Anonymous
Post 12/01/2020 09:30     Subject: Re:Best book you’ve read in the past 10 years?
Hands down, Unbelievable, which later became a Netflix series starring Toni Collette. I never read books involving rape etc. and I couldn't put it down. It was so compelling, and the fact that it was true, floored me. It is also really hopeful in terms of the fact that we are slowly and gradually making change about how we treat rape, and women, in this country.

Also really enjoyed A Woman is No Man.

Anonymous
Post 12/01/2020 07:50     Subject: Best book you’ve read in the past 10 years?
Fiction:
The Signature of All Things
Cutting For Stone

Non-Fiction:
Nothing to Envy
Anonymous
Post 12/01/2020 05:30     Subject: Best book you’ve read in the past 10 years?
Anonymous wrote:Still Alice
Every Note Played by the same author. Not light reading tho


Still Alice gets my vote as the most depressing book of the last 10 years. I'll take What Alice Forgot any day over that one!
Anonymous
Post 12/01/2020 05:27     Subject: Re:Best book you’ve read in the past 10 years?
Anonymous wrote:I see we have many intellectuals on this board. "Last Mrs Parrish" as the best book of the decade. 🙄


Ugh. So formulaic--same plot as The Wife Between Us and others. Also, writing was mediocre.
Anonymous
Post 12/01/2020 02:25     Subject: Re:Best book you’ve read in the past 10 years?
The Clan of the Cave Bear and the next two sequels.

It is a series of six books, all with a whole lotta pages. The first three books were fascinating to me. The next three just kind of dragged on.

It is fiction about the cave man days. The author very thoroughly researched the lifestyle and culture of early humans.
Anonymous
Post 11/30/2020 23:53     Subject: Re:Best book you’ve read in the past 10 years?
The Power Broker. Best political biography ever.
Anonymous
Post 11/30/2020 22:35     Subject: Re:Best book you’ve read in the past 10 years?
Anonymous wrote:Crossing to Safety (by Stegner)


Love that book!
Anonymous
Post 11/30/2020 16:09     Subject: Best book you’ve read in the past 10 years?
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.