Not a hiking post per se … but hiking gives me extra time to enjoy good books (my Kindle is always my luxury item but so worth the weight).
This is year #5 of my personal challenge of reading one book every two weeks on average, for a total of 26 books minimum a year.
I keep a list of book recommendations from various sources and load them onto the Kindle as I go through them. You can see from the pictures that they span a variety of topics and genres.
Always tough to choose but my favourites were:
- The Dog Stars: Surprising. Different. Really good.
- Olive Kitteridge: Watched the show first because I love Frances McDormand. Then read the book. I thought that might have been a disadvantage but I thoroughly enjoyed remembering her face and gestures as they are described in the book.
- Cilka’s Journey
- The Dutch House
- Any Haruki Murakami book!
Books I enjoyed:
- American Dirt
- Before we were yours
- Anxious People
- The Honey Bus
- The Nickel Boys
Books that were hard work:
- The Overstory: A good topic, something I care about. But very boring to read
- Girl, wash your face: I cannot recommend this. Repetitive nonsense.
- The Devil in the White City: What could be an interesting topic instead drifts into side and side’s side stories
I’m still waiting for the first Stephen King novel to appear on your list. You’re missing so many good stories ! ! Nice to see the Jo Nesbo novels and America Dirt. I enjoyed them as well.
Yes … Nesbo is always a treat that I try to put inbetween more serious reads! But now I’ve read them all 🙂
Thanks Biggi! I’ve read several of these and now I’m likely to read a few more.
Always interested in book recommendations!