I'll add all of the books we've read eventually, but for now I'm starting with my personal top 5. Maybe on a slow day at work I'll just add the link to the discussion thread in the list. (That would actually be a good pinned post: a chronological list of all books read and the discussion thread linked) 1. Lonesome Dove 2. Miracle in the Andes 3. Ready Player One 4. Revival 5. Ghost in the Wires What's everyone else's top 5? Most of the other books we've read are: Where the Crawdads Sing Cloud Atlas 11/22/63 Under the Dome Dr. Sleep (Created the series' rule -- no series books allowed unless stand alone -- ala Lonesome Dove) The Night Circus Steelheart (My intro to Sanderson) Fleischman is in Trouble The Orphan Master's Son Stephen Florida (One of the few I would like to read again, it's in the 5-10 range for me) Seveneves (Would be top 5 of my Powerless rankings) The Lies of Locke Lamora The Passage Wool Mr. Mercedes Shadow of the Wind The Stand Girl on the Train Off to be a Wizard The Martian Gone Girl A Brief History of Seven Killings (This is the book that put me out of the book club for a while, I couldn't listen to one for a long time after this trog) Which leads me to the book club books I need to read still: The Outsider Catch 22 The North Water Dark Matter Nickel Boys Brave New World Washington Black Citizen Soldiers Uprooted The Handmaid's Tale An American Marriage Magpie Murders Cabin at the End of the World I'll Be Gone in the Dark Redshirts In Cold Blood Dune Salem's Lot The Art of Fielding Nutshell Big Little Lies Darktown Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World The Shining Girls Let You Go Slaughter House Five (I think? Though I didn't find the thread, I swear we had a Vonnegut book)
Narrowing it to 5 is impossible for me In no order 11/22/63 Lonesome Dove The Passage Gone Girl A Brief History of Secen Killings The Martian Ready Player One An American Marriage In Cold Blood - this was a great book, but learning there were a lot of liberties taken after i read takes some of the shine off it.
top tier Gone girl Ready player one 11/22/63 The Passage The Martian Dark matter next tier The stand Wool Uprooted Cabin at the end of the world Shadow of the wind Off to be a wizard Redshirts next tier Ghost in the wires Seveneves Under the dome - fuck this ending, amazing first 40-60% Brave new world Lonesome dove Shit tier Cloud atlas Seven killings Shining girls In the woods Crossers haven’t read the rest
Dayummmnn.... Never thought I'd see anyone with Lonesome Dove in the same tier with Seveneves, and behind "Off to be a Wizard".
Books I think were book club books, but aren't on my list does anyone remember if they were or weren't? The Son by Phillip Meyer Crossers by Philip Caputo In the Woods by Tanna French Also, please let me know if you see any I forgot or have any on that weren't actually book club books. If so, I'll try to make a post linking all the books we've read and their discussions (if they are still here).
Not my book. Really long. I really struggle reading older books. It’s jarring to go from modern writing to something written 30-40 years ago and my brain doesn’t like it as much.