Best book you have read all year ?/

[MRsnail]

I have a libary and as a result buy hundreds of books a month - it;s a bit of an addiction - I am just wondering if you would all be so kind as to list your favourite books and authors please - here is a few of mine from this year -

Richard templar - the rules of life
linwood barclay - don[t look back
dr phil - self matters

[suechu]

The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch

[jd_here]

Too many to list, but on I do return to every couple of years, To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee.

[quizbag]

The Invisible bridge by Julie Orringer
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Cross Stitch by Diana Gabaldon
Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa
The Far Pavilions by M M Kaye (My all time favorite)

[rockyracoon]

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and the others in the Millenium Trilogy by Steig Larsson, they had me gripped.

[MrIncredible]

11/22/63 By stephen King, first time I have read a SK book, might try another of his!

[jake-the-peg]

Well I'm a huge Umberto Eco fan

Was forbidden to buy Prague Cemetary (Christmas Pressie) Really looking forward to reading that now - I hadn't thought there'd be another as he's nearly 80.

I'm being strict with myself and finishing Sommerset Maugham's "The Razor's edge" before starting that.

[The Builder]

A couple of unusual ones you might be interested in, by Yoko Ogawa. Very Japanese, but beautifully translated.
The Housekeeper and the Professor.
Hotel Iris

[lady-janine]

re-reading Saki

[lady-janine]

meant to add gently amusing, but that is only one book among many read this year. too many to list.

[askyourgran]

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and the Millennium series.
No new ones really - Jo Nesbro is a bit longwinded but OK. I've been re-reading the Hobbits. At the mo Peter Robinsons books.

[beeseejay]

O'Henry's short stories. So varied and each one interesting.

[Polly1958]

The Kite Runner.-Khaled Hosseini
A thousand splendid suns.- "
Secret Scripture.- Bernard somebody
The Distant Hours -Kate Morton
To name but a few.

[DTCwordfan]

Herman Hesse - The Glass Bead Game.

[bednobs]

i have just finished a great book called "So That's Why They Call it Great Britain: How One Tiny Country Gave So Much to the World"

[BlueScorpion]

Linwood Barclay - Too Close to Home
Stephen King - 11/22/63
Terry Pratchett - Snuff

I'm looking forward to reading Conqueror by Conn Iggulden

[pa___ul3]

Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut

Loved it so just started Slaughterhouse 5!

[ichkeria]

I'd recommend James Ellroy's American underworld trilogy - American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand and Blood's A Rover (especially the last). If you can survive the shock to the system of reading the first chapter of American Tabloid the rest is compulsive stuff, or at least it was for me.

And Ulysses by James Joyce

[DiddlyQuaQua]

'The Hotel New Hampshire' and 'The World According to Garp' both by John Irving have never been beaten in my eyes.
Many have come close though.