Two of my favorites this year were re-reads from previous years, and are here listed as #1 and #2. The list is in no particular order. If I were to choose the BEST book I read this year, I would choose The Secret Piano, listed as #3.
1. Master Butcher's Singing Club -- Louise Erdrich - a wonderful storyteller, a small-town family saga
2. Life of Pi - Yann Martel - A metaphor for life, spirituality and humanity
3. The Secret Piano - Zhu Xiao-Mei - strength, courage and fortitude in a Chinese prison
4. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - Rachel Joyce - beautiful story of healing and loss
5. An Unquenchable Thirst - Mary Johnson - a former nun in Mother Theresa's order
6. The Casual Vacancy - J.K. Rowling - politics in a small English town.
7. Behind The Beautiful Forevers - Katherine Boo - life in the slums of Mumbai
8. Sixty-Five Roses - Elizabeth Summerhayes Cariou - a sister tells the family story of life with cystic fibrosis/
9. The O'Briens - Peter Behrens - a family saga set in Montreal and the CP Railway
10.Elizabeth the Queen - Sally Bedell Smith - a wonderful bio of a wonderful woman
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