Challenge: 50 Books discussion

I was curious to see if anyone wanted to share what they felt was the best book that they read in 2010....So my question would be...What's your 5 Star Book of 2010?...for me without a doubt it was The Shadow of the Wind *****

My top vote would go to Unwind by Neal Shusterman

I really enjoyed Shadow of the Wind when it came out. (And I really enjoyed Angel's Game, too.)

The Children's Book

I loved The Children's Book by A. S. Byatt. I have always liked her writing, and I enjoy a long book with many complex characters.

Dead heat between Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson & Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron by Jasper Fforde.

I loved Major Pettigrew. Oh, I forgot about The Breaking of Eggs by Jim Powell. That was outstanding!

The Breaking of Eggs: A Novel

My top two would have to be Beat the Reaper and Rot & Ruin.

I just looked through my list and I think I have to say my top read of 2010 is The Hand that First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell. The story just stayed with me for weeks.

My favorites this year were
1) Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder

and

2) The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

The Cardturner: A Novel about a King, a Queen, and a Joker
by: Louis Sachar

The Thin Executioner
by: Darren Shan

I think that mine has to go to...drumroll...

I'm also going to go with

But I also loved

I don't give a lot of 5 stars to books. I like a lot of books but I keep 5 star for exceptional reads. I read 50 books in 2010 and only 3 books got 5 stars.

I would have to say my favorite was Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie.



Just an all around excellent fantasy novel. Love, laughs, sorrow, blood, guts and glory!

I have 6 books with 5★ out of the 59 I read this year... it's difficult to pick just one, but I think it has to be:

The Shining

I couldn't stop reading it, even though I was scared to death!

It's rare for me to award a 5-star rating to a book. Of all the books on my Goodreads list, only two have gotten 5 stars. Maybe I should lower my standards. I'll just say that of all the books I read this year, the one I enjoyed the most was The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. But I'm not giving it 5 stars.

I have to say my 5 star read for this year was...

by Kathryn Stockett and coming in at a close second was...

by Shant Kenderian.

My best this year were The Elegance of the Hedgehog, We Need to Talk About Kevin, and To Kill a Mockingbird. All excellent reads!

Two choices for me...Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Water for Elephants

My 5* reads include and . They were both absolutely amazing reads.

Lillie

My 5 star read for 2010 was by Stuart Macbride. It was quite revolting but thoroughly and unbelieveably entertaining. Best read of the year imo

My favorite read for 2010 was The Help

My favorite read for 2010 would be a toss-up between Frazen's Freedom and Marlantes' Matterhorn. I also loved The Help.

I also loved Elegance of a Hedgehog. It's such a stylishly written novel--every sentence was beautifully crafted.

My favorites of 2010 were the Harry Potter series and The Help.

Definitely the Hunger Games! Snuck it in as my last book of 2010 but loved it more than any others this year. This series was quite refreshing as it had been a long time since I read a book that truly caught my attention in the way this book did. I think I read the entire trilogy in 4 days and usually I'm not that avid a reader. I highly reccomend it to anyone that enjoys heart wrenching stories about dystopian societies.

Still Alice, Hunger Games and Woman in White

My top read for this year was definitely Gilligan's Wake: A Novel. I read a lot of good books this year, but that one really stuck with me.

I can't decide which one I adored more but my three absolute favourites were One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, The Tenderness Of Wolves by Stef Penney and Horns by Joe Hill.

Call me a stereotype but what I liked the most this year was:

uh - i wanted to read "the help" - now i'm looking forward to it (if it ever will become available at the library that is...)
my highlight was:

but i do give 5 stars quite often, especially if the book has some real creative / interesting ideas that i would not have expected.

A Confederacy of Dunces . My 2010 fave hands-down.

Badlydone wrote: "My favorites this year were
1) Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder

That book is one of my top 10 of all time!!!!

My favorite was Les Miserables--what a brilliant book!
My second favorite was The Swan Thieves.

Rose

I didn't read too much last year, that wasn't a series, but yeah this would be it. I had read Ham On Rye at the end of 2009 and got another Bukowski book, and I guess the best thing about it for me, was I didn't know it would be Henry Chinaski again. That was fantastic, probably my favorite character in a book, and then come to find out actually reading about is books, Chinaski is a character in all of his novels. Wonderful. But yeah, that would be my pick for 2010.