2019 - Your Best Five Reads of Q3 (July-Sept)

What were your 5? favorite books, fiction or non-fiction, you read in the last 3 months? Please share with any comments you care to add!

Fiction ~
No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency: BBC Radio Casebook: BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations (Volumes 1 & 2) by Alexander McCall Smith (audio)

The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware (audio)

Vendetta in Death: An Eve Dallas Novel by J. D. Robb (audio)

That Churchill Woman: A Novel by Stephanie Barron (audio)

Non-fiction ~
They Called Us Enemy (graphic memoir) by George Takei

Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak (eBook)

The Man Within My Head by Pico Iyer
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Conundrum by Jan Morris
Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl

A Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep
The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

>4 JulieLill:

I enjoyed listening to Mr. Dickens and His Carol during a holiday season a while back.

>5 Molly3028: I loved that book and it was a quick read too!

In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin tops the list. The rest of the books are in random order.

Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
The Lost Man by Jane Harper
44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall-Smith
The Man Who Died by Antti Tuomainen

My favorites in the order I read them were:

The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait by Carlos Fuentes
Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen
The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls by Anton DiSclafani
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

My 4.5 star honorable mentions were:
Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower IV) by Stephen King
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross

My favorite books were excellent, well-researched, and quite in depth.

The Case for God by Karen Armstrong
Fields of Blood by Karen Armstrong
The Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong
The Great Partnership by Johnathon Sacks
Not in God's Name by Johnathon Sacks

1. The Girl on the Train by British author Paula Hawkins

2. Don't Move by Italian Margaret Mazzantini

3. Emma by British Jane Austen

4. The van by Irish Roddy Doyle

5. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

A World of Love by Elizabeth Bowen
A The Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier
The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy'
Inland by Tea Obreht
Dreamers: When the Writers Took Power, Germany, 1918 by Volker Weidermann