The Next Best Book Club discussion

Put your 5 star reads here as you finish them and share the love with your fellow TNBBC'ers.

My 2 most recent 5 star reads -

1. I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak

and

2. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Very different books, but both highly recommended.

My recent 5 Star reads are...
1. Outlander and Voyager in the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon

and

2. The Book Thief

and

3. The Shadow of the Wind

Others are:
The Host
The Woman in White
Pride and Prejudice

Okay right now my 5 star books are a series.The Mommy track mysteries by Ayelet Waldman.They are a fun and addicting cozy mystery series.I am on the 4th one.

My 5 star reads go to "Eat, Pray, Love".
I loved it.

I don't really give that many five stars. Four and three stars though, I do.

My most recent though was Jane Eyre. Loved it so much. Such a fantastic reading experience as well. I read it in October and I remember that I had exams to do and I just couldn't waaaait for the exam to be over, not because, well, then I was done, but because then I could go back to the book and finish it :)

I've been seeing a lot about The Stand lately, and its got me excited to read it. I'll have to bump it up closer to the top of my TBR pile.

I'm SO excited about ICTC...do we need to start a thread for that?

You should...start the thread and then go READ!

Allison wrote: "My recent 5 Star reads are...
1. Outlander and [b:Voyager|1845|Into the ..."

I also finished The Shadow in the Wind and gave it 5 stars.

My most recent 5-star reads:
The Count of Monte Cristo. Unabridged all the way. It was amazing!
Persuasion
Dead Until Dark
Blindness
Sense and Sensibility
The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel

And then here are some 5-star favorites:
The Stand
The Shining
The Book Thief
I Know This Much Is True
To Kill a Mockingbird
Pride and Prejudice

De buitenstaanders by Renate Dorrestein
Tre metri sopra il cielo.
The Loop
A Fortune-Teller Told Me Earthbound Travels in the Far East (especially in italian)
The Last Don

The Little Prince
The Ten Trusts What We Must Do to Care for The Animals We Love

The Whale Rider
snow-maxence farmine

for now..

Stephen King and Colleen McCullough are pretty much sure fire 5 star reads for me!

Outlander is a five star read.

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

I don't give a lot of 5 star rating either but here are a few.
The Air We Breathe A Novel
Loving Frank A Novel
Memoirs of a Geisha
March
Holy Fools A Novel and of course
Pride and Prejudice.

I gave a five star to Dewey: The Small Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
Karen Kingsbury I have given many of her books five stars.

Apparently I RARELY give five starts: 24 out of 803 books (excluding the complete works of Calvin & Hobbes)?!?!.

But I just finished Jealousy for the winter challenge & it is probably going to get a 5.

Fiona wrote: "I think I give them too easy. But I feel really bad if I don't. I need to re-adjust some of my stars.

I feel guilty if I give it less then a 4, in case you know... it feels unloved.

(Just re-adju..."


That's so cute!! Books need love too!

Recent 5 star reads:


Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis by
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
The Shock Doctrine The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

Longtime 5 star Favorites:

The Dispossessed An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
Howards End by E.M. Forster
The Reprieve A Novel by Jean-Paul Sartre
Tracks by Louise Erdrich
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas
People's History of the United States 1492 to Present by Howard Zinn
Cadillac Desert The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition by Marc Reisner

I just finished Wicked by Gregory Maguire- looooved it. Definitely a 5-star.

I always have to shout out my alltime favorite 5-stars:
The Rapture of Canaan, Sheri Reynolds
Passage and The Doomsday Book, both by Connie Willis
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Eliza, you are one of the few people who enjoyed Wicked that much. I thought it was OK myself, but most people that I've seen here hated it. Glad to know you loved it that much! :)

A few of my five stars (I give the rating more than I thought!):

Looking for Alaska by John Green
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Graceling by Kristin Cashore (spreading the love!!)

some others that I think were treasures for me:
Silk (read it in italian)

The Bridges of Madison County

Maya and Sophie's World

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Prodigal Summer A Novel
Pride and Prejudice
The Shadow of the Wind

Pompeii A Novel

The Lord of the Rings

Well I really have too many to list - and some of my 5 stars would be self-promoting so I'll decline to list...but I really enjoy reading others so keep them coming ;-)

I am only going to put my 5 stars for 2009. Too lazy to go back and look at the others :)

Mystic River: by Dennis Lehane
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: Lisa See
Kite Runner:
Last Lecture: by Randy Pausch
She's Come Undone: by Wally Lamb
The Book Thief:

THE WORLD WITHOUT US by ALAN WEISMAN

Off the top of my head ... The Kite Runner!

My most recent Five-Star winner:

The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury.

I first read it at ... 9? I hadn't re-read it in some years. I do recall that when I first read it I had no idea what was happening in "There Shall Come Soft Rains"; I had never heard of the concept of "nuclear shadows." I realized this time what a magnificent short story it is.

Most recent add to my five star list: When You Are Engulfed In Flames by David Sedaris. I recommend Sedaris to everyone. The man is a riot. :)

These are just a few random books that are 5-stars for me:


Angle of Repose
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
My Antonia
Gilead A Novel
Cold Sassy Tree
The Poisonwood Bible
Life of Pi

Last two 5-Pointers...

City of God A Novel of Passion and Wonder in Old New York by Beverly Swerling - the latest in her historical fiction series chronicling the lives of families in New York (this one takes place during the years leading up to the civil war)

The Virgin Queen's Daughter by Ella March Chase (historical fiction about the possibility that Queen Elizabeth i.e. The Virgin Queen wasn't quite so virginal and actually had a daughter)

I'm so impressed! I'm still working on it.!

Roxanne wrote: "I also finished The Shadow in the Wind and gave it 5 stars. "

Love all those-especially Gilead.


Mary wrote: "These are just a few random books that are 5-stars for me:


Angle of Repose
[b:A Tree Grow..."

Roxanne wrote: "I also finished The Shadow in the Wind and gave it 5 stars. "

My latest 5 star read was "The Art of Racing in the Rain" Garth Stein. Very touching read.

The Shadow of the Wind
North River
The Book Thief
Three Weeks to Say Goodbye
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Skeletons at the Feast

Great idea for a thread, Laura!

Sort of recent five stars:

The Book Thief
Skeletons at the Feast
The Name of the Wind
The Thirteenth Tale A Novel
A Game of Thrones
Guernsey
The Graveyard Book
The Lightning Thief

Latest 5-star read:
Watchers by Dean Koontz
Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery

Graceling - Kristin Cashore

((Kind of over the top feminist, and reads like a women's lib book more than a fantasy novel... but it's still extremely enjoyable none the less))

First, let me say this is a great idea for a thread!
Seond, I am going to post a link to my Far Better Than Most shelf here, which is where I place all my 5 stars.

There are too many to list!

http://www.africa-eu.com/review/list/...

Fiona wrote: "The Loop - Nicholas Evans"

Fiiioooonaaaaaaa :-)

ooh Laura, i didnt notice you sneak in a thread.

im like Fiona i feel guilty about 2s and 3s have only given about 3 x 1stars (the poor people probably took years to write em lol) - however ive also recalibrated recently and my fives now have to be really really special - theres a lot more in the 4s now lol


my recents:

The Hours
The God of Small Things
The Bone People
The Joy Luck Club(actually ive been having palpitations over whether to drop this down to a four, but feel too mean as i loved the film so much and am convinced it was only cos i allready knew the story/script so well that it took the edge off the book for me, i think it would have been unquestionable 5 if i was completely new to it - what to do!

oh where was I

Middlesex
Music & Silence/rose tremain
To Kill a Mockingbird

Thanks everyone, I'm glad this thread seems to have caught on! With so many speedreaders here, it should grow and grow....

The Loop, The Loop . . . that may be my next one . .

Laura, I'm afraid after hearing about it so much lately The Loop will be coming up soon for me as well.

Blast those bookpushers! Sounds like it may be worthwhile tho Allison.

yes ma'am.

Hopefully the other 5+ books I've already added to my TBR list this morning will be too. LOL.

The Thornbirds
Where The Heart is
Sisterhood series by Fern Michaels
Chesapeake series by Nora Roberts
The Immigrants Series Howard Fast

Laura and Allison, i am looking forward to hear what you think about it!!!!!And about the rest of his books!:-)))

Here's my most recent five star ratings...

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Lud-In-The-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. Valente
The Orphan's Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice by Catherynne M. Valente

Howdy -- I'm new here.

My five stars for this year so far:
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Life with Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse