One of my favorite places to learn more about a book and to see what others have rated it is goodreads.com/. You can also read reviews by other readers there. But I've found that just because someone thinks a book is fabulous doesn't mean it will strike a chord with me. There have been a number of books this year that people raved about that just didn't do it for me and I sent them back to the library unfinished. .
January
- The Moonlight Child. Karen McQuestion
- >The Christmas Dress. Courtney Cole
- One More for Christmas. Sarah Morgan
- Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes. Claire Wilcox
- |The Yule Tomte and the Little Rabbits: A Christmas Story for Advent. Ulf Stark and Eva Eriksson
- Things Organized Neatly. Austin Radcliffe
- Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times. Katherine May
- >The Consequences of Fear. Jacqueline Winspear
February
- The Keeper of the Bees. Gene Stratton-Porter
- The Butterfly and the Violin. Kristy Cambron
- The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse. Charlie Mackesy
- |The Children of Green Knowe. L. M. Boston
- One Summer in Paris. Sarah Morgan
March
- >The Sewing Machine. Two families. Three secrets. Millions of stitches. Natalie Fergie
- >The Summer Seekers. Sarah Morgan
- Small Things Like These. Claire Keegan
- >The Magnolia Palace. Fiona Davis
- |The Moorchild. Eloise McGraw
April
- A Glitter of Gold. Liz Johnson
- All the Flowers in Paris. Sarah Jio
May
- >D-Day Girls. The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II. Sarah Rose
- >Summer at the Cove. RaeAnne Thayne
- With Love from London. Sarah Jio
- The Path to Sunshine Cove. RaeAnne Thayne
- Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life ... And Maybe the World. Admiral William H. McRaven (U.S. Navy Retired)
- Goodnight June. Sarah Jio
June
- |Goodnight Moon. Margaret Wise Brown. Clement Hurd, illus.
- |Mister Dog: The Dog Who Belonged to Himself. Margaret Wise Brown. Garth Williams, Illus.
- A Sunlit Weapon. Jacqueline Winspear
- Family for Beginners. Sarah Morgan
- |>I Wish You More. Amy Krouse Rosenthal & Tom Lichtenheld
- |>That’s Me Loving You. Amy Krouse Rosenthal. Teagan White, illus.
- |Dear Girl: A Celebration of Wonderful, Smart, Beautiful You. Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Paris Rosenthal. Holly Hatam, illus.
- |One Smart Cookie: Bite-Size Lessons for the School Years and Beyond. Amy Krouse Rosenthal. Jane Dyer and Brooke Dyer, illus.
July
- The Cartographers. Peng Shepherd
- >Bloomsbury Girls. Natalie Jenner
- |Every Dog in the Neighborhood. Philip C. Stead, illustrated by Matthew Cordell
- Beach House Summer. Sarah Morgan
- |If You Come to Earth. Sophie Blackall
- |Hello Lighthouse. Sophie Blackall
- |Negative Cat. Sophie Blackall
- High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out. Amanda Ripley
August
- >Take Me With You. Catherine Ryan Hyde
- >Haven Point. Virginia Hume
- |Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear. Lindsay Mattick. Sophie Blackall, illustrator
- Just After Midnight. Catherine Ryan Hyde
- The Best is Yet to Come. Debbie Macomber
September
- The Scent of Water. Elizabeth Goudge
- Missed Connections. Love, Lost & Found. Sophie Blackall
- Farmhouse. Sophie Blackall
- Flying Solo. Linda Holmes
October
- |Higglety Pigglety Pop! Or There Must Be More to Life. Maurice Sendak
- Eden Hill. Bill Higgs
- Fresh Water for Flowers. Valerie Perrin
November
- A Man Called Ove. Fredrik Backman
- In the Middle of Hickory Lane. Heather Webber
- >Ellie and the Harp Maker. Hazel Prior
December
- The Christmas Escape. Sarah Morgan
- Snowed in for Christmas. Sarah Morgan
- |>The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey. Susan Wojciechowski. P. J. Lynch, illustrator
- >Christmas at Holiday House. RaeAnne Thayne
- >The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. Barbara Robinson. Judith Gwyn Brown, illustrator
What have been your favorite books this year?
--Nancy.
Ohhh thank you for this list of books, I'm going to comb through them and choose some to read while on holiday soon.
ReplyDeleteBig hugs, Tazzie xox
You are welcome for the book list, Tazzie. I hope you find some good books to read on your vacation!
DeleteThank you for sharing your book list! There are so many new to me. I recently read The Book of Longings, and re-read The Secret Life of Bees, both by Sue Monk Kidd, and loved them. Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome for the book list, Cynthia. I have not heard of The Book of Longings but reserved it and am looking forward to reading it. I read The Secret Life of Bees a few years ago and enjoyed it. Thanks for recommending both!
DeleteHappy New Year to you and your family.
I need to get back to reading. I decided to give up my favorite genre, mysteries, because they are about deception, murder, evil, dishonesty, and on and on. I wanted to read something more positive and uplifting. But, I miss the chase, I miss the puzzle, and I miss the satisfaction of the bad guy getting caught in the end. So I usually quilt instead of picking up a book to read. I like it when someone I know and trust shares some book titles for me to to try. I love Gene Stratton Porter and have most of her fiction downstairs. I used to hunted for an old copies each time I went antiquing. I've been thinking I should reread The Keeper of the Bees, or The Harvester. Such satisfying stories. Your Flower quilt is coming along great. That quilt makes me feel content.
ReplyDeleteI can identify with you and your reasons to read mysteries, Robin. In even the most wholesome ones some violence or dishonesty happened. I have enjoyed the Maisie Dobbs mysteries. If a mystery can be wholesome, these might be. They are set in years just before WWI into WWII.
DeleteI haven't read The Harvester. I just reserved it from the library. I Ioved Keeper of the Bees for the wholesome, honest, and upright character of the bee keeper.
Happy New Year!
I forgot to thank you for your kind words about Flowers, Robin. I go through periods of loving this quilt, disliking it, then loving it again. I hope I love it when it's finished
Delete