Best Book you have read so far.

HELP. My iphone lost my book list with over 4000 titles on there. Please send some recommendations of books you are reading right now. Thanks :D

Redundancy, redundancy, redundancy!

Well, everyone's taste is different, but here are a few I've enjoyed:

One More for the Road, Ray Bradbury
Ava's Man, Rick Bragg
The Martian, Andy Weir
A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman
The Forgetting Time, Sharon Guskin
I Am Legend, Richard Mather
The Gates of the Alamo, Stephen Harrigan
Evicted, Matthew Desmond
Leaving Cheyenne, Larry McMurtry
Midwives, Chris Bohjalian

Uh. . . .what's the timeline? In my life of in the last few years? heh heh

I'm so sorry that your list is lost, but belonging to LT will save you from that eventuality in the future. Welcome to the lifeboat!

I'd happily share titles with you, but I'd really like to know where your current reading interests lie because our habits may not align, or because you may have recently discovered new interests that differ from your lost reading history. I read mostly contemporary literary fiction, historical fiction, science, history, international fiction with an emphasis on Asian authors, and some mysteries.

Top books I have read since January 1st-
The Best of Richard Matheson
In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash - Jean Shepherd
The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough

>2 LyndaInOregon: "Redundancy, redundancy, redundancy!"

Ain't that the truth! I have lists, feeding into lists, feeding into lists; not to mention setting up a "Goodreads" account last year specifically on the grounds of "just in case."

In the case of suggestions, I mostly read science fiction, fantasy and history.

I'd highly recommend Arkady Martine, as her recent novels are very good and deserve all the acclaimed that they've received.

As for non-fiction I'm going to suggest If Then and Four Lost Cities.

Best (so far) this year:

Fiction:

Into the Beautiful North, by Luis Alberto Urrea
Einstein's Dreams, by Alan Lightman
The Liar's Dictionary, by Eley Williams
The Dictionary of Lost Words, by Pip Williams
Vita, by Melania Mazzucco

Non-fiction:

Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life, by Louise Aronson
Terms and Conditions: Life in Girls' Boarding Schools, 1939-1979, by Ysenda Maxtone-Graham
Winter Pasture: one woman's journey with China's Kazakh herders, by Li Juan
All that she Carried: the journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake, by Tiya Miles
Portrait of Dr. Gachet: the story of a Van Gogh masterpiece, by Cynthia Saltzman

Don't know if these titles align with your tastes, but here are my personal recent "BESTS"

Biography: Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
By Robert K. Massie

Chinese Authors: War Trash
By Ha Jin

Historical Fiction: Everyone Brave Is Forgiven
BY Chris Cleave

Fantasy: Circe
BY Madeline Miller

Humor: The Guncle
By Steven Rowley

Contemporary Fiction: A Fragile Thing
By Kevin Wignall

Murder Mystery: Smallbone Deceased
By Michael Gilbert

General Nonfiction: Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
By Liza Mundy

Classics: La Vagabonde
By Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

International Literary Fiction: The Housekeeper and the Professor
By Yoko Ogawa

American Literary Fiction: A Mercy
By Toni Morrison

Four recent novel faves ~

When the Stars Go Dark: A Novel
by Paula McLain

The Last Thing He Told Me
by Laura Daves

Personal Librarian
by Benedict and Murray

Radar Girls: a novel of WWII
by Sara Ackerman