Speaking of Jodi Picoult … I just finished her new book Leaving Time. I really enjoyed the elephant parts of the story…got lost for a couple of pages…then I realized what was happening. I recommend it.
Has anyone read Richard Flanagan’s <em>The Narrow Road to the Deep North</em>? It won this year’s Man Booker prize. I don’t know anyone who has read it.
Slightly off topic, because this can’t possibly be on anyone’s “best books” list. But it looks hilarious, and everyone on my Christmas gift list is getting one: [SkyMaul</a> 2: Where America Buys His Stuff](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/SkyMaul-Where-America-Buys-Stuff/dp/1250053021]SkyMaul”>http://www.amazon.com/SkyMaul-Where-America-Buys-Stuff/dp/1250053021)
I thought someone might be interested in this link:
<a href=“http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2014.html#fic”>http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2014.html#fic</a>
I’ve only read one book listed: All the Light We Can Not See - a finalist, fiction. Really really good. I think it’s already cropped up on this thread a time or two.
I also have Greenglass House - Longlist, YA Literature. I actually picked it up at the library yesterday.
Anyway, I always enjoy looking at lists this time of year.
Another fan of *All the Light We Can Not See * here. I just finished The Blackhouse by Peter May and loved it. I usually listen to books at night and drift off after about 30 minutes but this kept me awake wanting more and more and more. I plan to start the second in the trilogy as soon as I catch up on my sleep. Thanks to Jonri for the recommendation.
I just read the second book in JK Rowling’s detective series (The Silkworm, by Robert Galbraith). I like it - the detective and his office assistant are really growing on me. I hope she keeps writing.
^^^ I like the books also. Galbraith 
plans to write quite a few more.
<a href=“http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/10977685/JK-Rowling-discloses-plot-of-next-Robert-Galbraith-novel.html”>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/10977685/JK-Rowling-discloses-plot-of-next-Robert-Galbraith-novel.html</a>
I agree. I really enjoyed the Galbraith books. JK is such a good storyteller.
I recently finished Carry the One and since I just saw Fault in the Stars on a plane, I picked up the YA novel to read also. It is a quick read.
Major disappointment to me in that Audible, and no other US company I can find, has the rights to the second book in the Lewis Trilogy by Peter May. I was excited to start it and so enjoyed the narrator. Looks like I’ll be going back to traditional reading for the two remaining. Horrors! I did start the new Amy Poehler book but not far enough in to decide how much I like it.
cartera, have you read the Shetland Island Quartet series by Ann Cleeves? Similar to the Peter May book (although I’ve only read Black House) - someone who’d left the islands gets drawn back in. Raven Black is the first one.
Haven’t read those zeebamom but I’ll check them out. Thanks.
Just finished novel “Eyrie” by Aussie author Tim Winton. Amazing. Writing to bite your teeth into.
Read “The Imperfectionists” and was very disappointed, considering all the praise it got.
For those who enjoyed The Rosie Project, you will be glad to hear that the sequel, The Rosie Effect, is coming out at the end of December.
@cartera45, I just got the new Peter May from the library and am looking forward to it. The first one was a breath of fresh air in the British mystery genre.
A few I have read lately and liked:
The Silent Sister - Diane Chamberlain
Mr Owitas Guide to Gardening- Carol Wall
I Love You More- Jennifer Murphy
Mambo in Chinatown- Jean Kwok
I’m just finishing Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood, and have enjoyed it. It’s been years since I read any Atwood, and I’d forgotten how compulsively readable she is. It’s in one of my favorite genres, dystopian near future. My only real complaint is the skipping back and forth in time. I always find that annoying. Still, a good read.
Listened to a greta interview of Margaret Atwood on NPR’s Diane Rehm show–<a href=“Margaret Atwood: "Stone Mattress: Nine Tales" - Diane Rehm”>http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2014-11-10/margaret_atwood_stone_mattress_nine_tales</a>
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson.
I agree about Life After Life. A sequel of sorts is coming out next spring, which is called A God In Ruins and follows the story of Ursula’s brother, Teddy.
Ooh, good to know GoldenWest. I liked Life After Life as well.