2024 - Your Best Five Reads of Q1 (January - March)

I'm late!
Please share five of your favorite books you've read in the last three months. How did you kick off your reading year?

Happy list making!

My five favorites in the order I read them are:

Gangsters Don't Die by Tod Goldberg
Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine by Mohammad Sabaaneh
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa

Chaos Terminal, System Collapse, The Other Great Game, The Rise of Rome, Anatomy of a Campaign; basically read in that order.

A did a lot of re-reading this quarter in an attempt to kick myself out of depression. The best books that I read for the first time are, in the order I read them, Dandelion Wine, A Change of Circumstance, and The Aye-Aye and I.

Re-reads that I loved include The House in the Cerulean Sea, State of Wonder, and The Jane Austen Project.

The Edge of The Light - Elizabeth George
Schindler's List - Thomas Keneally
Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs - Jennifer Finney Boylan
Whispers - Dean Koontz
Gracie: A Love Story - George Burns

My five favorites in the order I read them are:

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Joy Ann Fowler
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Thirteenth Tale by Dian Setterfield
Beyond These Walls: Escaping the Warsaw Ghetto - A Young Girl's Story by Janina Bauman
The Devastating Boys by Elizabeth Taylor

>4 ahef1963: I've been meaning to read Dandelion Wine for a long time! My Secret Santa gave it to me since it's her favorite book.

Thank you everyone for sharing!