Since it is my blog anniversary today, I follow my tradition of posting my top ten books that I reviewed during the previous year. This year was a difficult one, because I had three books by Dorothy Whipple appearing in my Best of Five series, and my rule is to select only one book by an author in my year’s top ten.
As usual, this is a mixed bag of books, combining one nonfiction and one short story collection with several classic books and only one contemporary one (if you don’t count multigenerational sagas). Historical novels feature quite heavily this year.
So, with no further ado except a comment that this year I decided to list them in backwards order from when they were posted, here are my top ten books for this year:
- The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
- The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel
- They Were Sisters by Dorothy Whipple
- Alas, Poor Lady by Rachel Ferguson
- The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith
- In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut
- Coming into the Country by John McPhee
- The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
- Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
What? Me Read? 
Happy anniversary! I have read Alas, Poor Lady and The Garden of Evening Mists and loved both.
I guess I made good choices, then! Thanks!
Happy Blogoversery! I think I just got a copy of The Weight of Ink, but I could be wrong I got quite a few Kindle books recently on some sort of sale.
Thanks! If you got it, I hope you enjoy it!
Happy blogiversary! From your list I have only read The Last Painting… and liked it a great deal. I have several others on my TBR.
Good! I hope you like them!
Congratulations!
The Garden of Evening Mist is one of my absolute favourite book. Just loved it. Have another one by him, but not yet read. I hope it will be as good.
I will have to look for it.