Best book you read this year

abba916

Borders is closing and I need some new reading material and even though my to-be-read pile is big ~I'm always looking for rec's (and if I can get books on sale- double bonus)

I want any and all rec's- parenting books, ficton, non...I just like to read... 

Irisheyes1247

I'm about halfway through "the immortal life of Henrietta lacks" a non fiction about a poor black woman in the 1950s who was diagnosed w cervical cancer and inadvertently became the basis for a huge amount of recent medical discovery - doctors performed a biopsy on her cancerous tissue and it was the first time researchers were able to sustain cell growth outside the human body. They used those cells to develop polio vaccines, treatments for cancer, sent to space to study the effects of outerspace on human tissue, meanwhile they didn't ask her permission, she dies a few months later and her family is left poor and with no idea about the contribution their mother made to modern medicine and they are so poor they can't afford to see a dr. It is super interesting.

xKimx

I read through the Hunger Games trilogy very quickly. Not something I would typically pick up but I really enjoyed it

MOMMYINNY

Ok we just did a discussion on this in one of my groups so I will give you the breakdown of what everyone there came up with for suggestions.

• "my blood approves" series. It's my favorite!
• The Sookie Stackhouse Series, Shifters Series (Rachel Vincent), Diary of a Mad Fat Girl (Stephanie McAfee), Trylle Series (Amanda Hocking), Queen of Babble Series (Meg Cabot), Vampire Academy (Richelle Mead), House of Night series (P.C. Cast) is an absolute favorite of mine
•  These authors are just straight romance but are phenomenal: Lisa Kleypas and Eloisa James. Fantastically written novels.
•  Hush Hush (Becca Fitzpatrick), Timeless (ALexandra Monir) and The Eternal Ones (Kirsten Miller) - all YA books. And I absolutely LOVE the Immortal Instruments and Infernal Devices series by Cassandra Clare.
• For Romance novels I go with Nora Roberts usually
• Oh and Karen Moning is good if you like the fantasy/romance. Lots of Faeries, Highlanders, etc.
•  Falling Home by Karen White!
• Conversations With The Fat Girl right now. It's meh...I just finished re reading Something Borrowed and Something Blue, and I enjoyed them.
• The Other Boleyn Girl (so so so so much better than the movie) and really liked all her other books, too.
•  Johanna Lindsey, and Jude Devareux.
• Philippa Gregory and any other author who follows a similar style for historical fiction.
•  I tried starting the Phillipa Gregory books after we read Ransom My Heart for book club, but just wasn't in the mood. But I do plan on returning to her someday. I read The Tudor Secret by CW Gortner and is was a good historical fiction.
• I finished the Help a couple nights ago. Now I'm starting Jaycee Lee Dugard's book.
• We just read "Before I Go to Sleep" for book club. Two thumbs up!
•  The Shack and Water for Elephants.
• I've recently gotten into the Stieg(sp?) Larsson trilogy - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, ...who Played with Fire, etc.
  They're so unexpected and the heroine rocks!

   
 

TinaL99

I just finished Bossypants by Tina Fey.  I love dry humor so I really enjoyed this.

Now I'm reading The Help which is good so far!

Mrs_Hark

looking at my 'read' list on goodreads i can't say 'omg i loved this book' since i read the hunger game series.

but since then i've read:

auntie mame- love the old Rosiland Russel, movie the book was more in depth and enjoyable

room- loved it, primarily b/c of the pov it was told from even though it was such a horrific situation

elizabeth street- italian immigrant woman pov in nyc at the turn of the century storyline was interesting, the 'current' storyline that was told parallel was 'meh'

the handmaids tail- it had potential, but i'm still pissed, the ending was complete crap.

killer- interesting read, stephen king-ish tale of a writer that has somehow documented a series of murders

the shoe queen- waste of time

the sweetest thing- i liked the 1930 setting, northern girl in immersed into southern culture aspect, but there was a lot of Jesus talk

The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars like the title suggests it's the documented story of a murder that took place in NYC at the turn of the century and the newspaper war that took place covering/sensationalizing it

 

the help- i liked it

 

Read2Me

Here are a few of my favorites for the year:

Room by Emma Donaghue

Feed by Mira Grant

Still Alice by Lisa Genova

the Rev. Claire Fergusson series by Julia Spencer-Fleming

the Grant County, Will Trent and Georgia series by Karin Slaughter

Divergent by Veronica Roth

Stolen by Lucy Christopher 

the Kingkiller Chronicle series by Patrick Rothfuss

I also just started the A Song of Fire and Ice series by George RR Martin and I loved the first book (A Game of Thrones) and I just got the second one to start reading soon.