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Best Books: Reviews of my All-Time Favorites
Each year I add my top 5 books to my all-time favorites list. Most of these received a 5-star rating. I’ve also thrown in a couple of gems, read before I started blogging.
- The Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller
- Gillespie and I, by Jane Harris
- The Fault in our Stars, by John Green
- Good Behaviour, by Molly Keane
- In the Country of Men, by Hisham Matar
- The Sense of an Ending, by Julian Barnes
- The Memory of Love, by Aminatta Forna
- A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement, by Anthony Powell
- South Riding, by Winifred Holtby
- Testament of Youth, by Vera Brittain
- The Custom of the Country, by Edith Wharton
- Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
- The Post-Office Girl, by Stephan Zweig
- Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner
- The Snow Geese, by William Fiennes
- Home, by Marilynne Robinson
- Sorry, by Gail Jones
- The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro
- A Death in the Family, by James Agee
- The Idea of Perfection, by Kate Grenville
- All Passion Spent, by Vita Sackville-West
- Unaccustomed Earth, by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Cry, the Beloved Country, by Alan Paton
- A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Husseini
- Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri
- To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
- Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Suite Française, by Irene Nemirovsky
- The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck (this was also my very first blog review!)
- Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
- Birdsong, by Sebastian Faulks (no review available)
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Best Midweek@Musings Posts
- My Not-so-Secret TBR Shelf (May 2, 2012)
- Knitting Socks, by the Book (April 18, 2012)
- Is Nonfiction Better Than Fiction? (December 14, 2011)
- Favorite Lit Blogs, Part 3 (BBAW Edition) (September 14, 2011)
- Favorite Lit Blogs, Part 2 (The British Invasion) (March 2, 2011)
- Favorite Lit Blogs, Part 1 (Old Friends) (February 1, 2011)
- Lest we Forget (November 10, 2010)
- A Complete Booker Retrospective (October 13, 2010)
- Literary Legacies (August 4, 2010)
- “Everything Changed” During my Lifetime (June 30, 2010)
- What my kids are reading this summer (June 16, 2010)
- Why I’m a Vegetarian (April 28, 2010)
- 10 Ways to Make Google Reader Work for You (April 14, 2010)
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Best Sunday Salon Posts
- Book Cataloging Nerdiness (August 26, 2012)
- Bookish Birthday Cornucopia (February 19, 2012)
- A Five-Star Week (January 22, 2012)
- Shout out to my Favorite Commenters (September 11, 2011)
- Where Have All the Men Gone? (August 7, 2011)
- When Internet-Only Friends go Quiet (May 1, 2011)
- Why I Read Jane Austen (March 6, 2011)
- Would Lisa and Mary please read and return their library book? (February 13, 2011)
- Should I Give up on the Pulitzer Prize? (July 18, 2010)
- Giving thanks for my “Solsisters” (June 20, 2010)
- An Orange Prize rant (June 13, 2010)
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