Top 10 favorite *newer* books

[PeacefulSeams]

I need some more books to read. What are your favorite top 10 *newer* books?

Newer books I have read so far
*The Birth House
*Sweetness in the Belly
*Plum wine
*Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
*The Namesake

[kittywitty]

Divorced, Beheaded, Survived

Paula Spencer by Roddy Doyle

Joy Luck Club

I think that's about all the newer ones I've read.

[bullfrog]

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

Don't Lets go to the Dogs Tonight

Thousand Splendid Suns
Kite Runner

MiddleSex

Josephine B. trilogy

In the Company of the Courtesan

[Luvmyboyz]

Here is my pop fiction top ten off of the top of my head


The Book Thief

A Thousand Splendid Suns

The Kite Runner

MiddleSex

Water for Elephants

Eat, Pray, Love (pop nonfic)

She's Come Undone

The Lovely Bones

The Time Traveler's Wife

The Historian

[Traci mom23boys]

*The Book Thief*

*The Hummingbird's Daughter*

*Animal, Vegetable, Miracle*

*The Birth House*

*The Glass Castle*

*Eat, Pray, Love*

*The Time Traveler's Wife*

*The Secret Life Of Bees*

Diana Gabaldon's- *Outlander* series

Happy Reading,

[BookGoddess]

Dispatches from the Edge
Funny in Farsi
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets (loved this story!)
Nigella Express (a cookbook)
Something Borrowed
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up At the Table
Comfort Me With Apples (the second part of Tender at the Bone memoir)
Not Buying It
Foreign Affairs

[boingo82]

Profiles in Injustice
Fast Food Nation

[Amaranth]

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan (last year, but still newish)
A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini
The Sharing Knife books, by Lois McMaster Bujold
Rules (YA, Newbery Honors, amazing book), by Cynthia Lord
Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism, by Roy Richard Grinker
You Suck, by Christopher Moore
Origin, by Diana Abu-Jaber (a mystery, set in Syracuse, NY in a chilly winter - very scary, with SIDs and mysterious toxins)
Flirting in Cars, by Alisa Kwitney (stupid title, good story)
Learning to Drive, by Katha Pollitt (non fiction essays, memoir)

[alaskaberry]

here are four-ish:

The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani

The Birth House

Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey + other books in series

Daggarspell by Katharine Kerr + other books in series

[A&A]

Peace Like a River

Water for Elephants

The Road

[Scribe]

That I've read in the last year...

The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
Hillbilly Gothic: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood by Adrienne Martini
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
The Stardust Lounge: Stories from a Boy's Adolescence by Deborah Digges
Finn: A Novel by Jon Clinch
Welfare Brat: A Memoir by Mary Childers

[Thalia the Muse]

The Glass Castle
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (LOVED THIS!)
The Echo Maker

[MysteryMama]

the road
the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime
the glass castle
a million little pieces
my friend leonard
running with scissors
possible side effects
magical thinking
naked
dress your family in corduroy and deniem

[ABCguys]

I just Finished What is the What-by Dave Eggers

[bullfrog]

Originally Posted by Thalia the Muse

The Glass Castle
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (LOVED THIS!)
The Echo Maker

Man that book took me forever to read and I LOVED it too! I didn't want it to end really.

[mata]

Pramoedya Ananta Toer's The Girl from the Coast (actually, any of his work)

Cristina Garcia:

Dreaming in Cuban
The Aguero Sisters
Monkey Hunting

Marianne Fredriksson's Hanna's Daughters

Karen Connelly's The Lizard Cage

[PattyCakes_726]

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

[oceanbaby]

Eat Pray Love

The Short History of a Prince (not new, but I love it)

Secret Life of Bees

Anything by Anne Lamott