Books, books, books!

[litlover12]

Pretty much everyone else is doing a books post, so I figured I might as well join in. :-) Below (in chronological order of my reading them) are the books to which I gave five stars this year on Goodreads.

• After America, Mark Steyn


• Further Papers on Dante: His Heirs and His Ancestors, Dorothy L. Sayers


• A Commonplace Book, Alec Guinness


• A Positively Final Appearance, Alec Guinness


• Something Other than God, Jennifer Fulwiler


• Charles Dickens on Poverty, Charles Dickens, ed. Pete Orford


• The Death of Ivan Ilych & Other Stories, Leo Tolstoy


• Four Faultless Felons, G. K. Chesterton


• Hot Water, P. G. Wodehouse


• All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr


• Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good, Jan Karon


• Give War and Peace a Chance: Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times, Andrew D. Kaufman


• My Sisters the Saints, Colleen Carroll Campbell

And the runners-up: the books to which I gave four stars.

• The Complete Saki, Saki


• Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant, Jennifer Grant


• Dickensian Laughter, Malcolm Andrews


• The Light in the Ruins, Chris Bohjalian


• Uneasy Money, P. G. Wodehouse


• Mozart, Paul Johnson


• My Life in Middlemarch, Rebecca Mead


• The Book of Jonah, Joshua Max Feldman


• Theatre, W. Somerset Maugham


• Sun Shine Down, Gillian Marchenko


• Song of the Quarkbeast, Jasper Fforde


• Hideout, Gordon Korman


• Full Dark House, Christopher Fowler


• Landline, Rainbow Rowell


• The Water Room, Christopher Fowler


• A Son at the Front, Edith Wharton


• The Song of the Lark, Willa Cather


• The 13 Clocks, James Thurber


• The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say about the Stages of Life, Edward Mendelson


• Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, & Swells: The Best of Early Vanity Fair, ed. Graydon Carter


• Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More--Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist, Karen Swallow Prior


• Dare Mighty Things: Mapping the Challenges of Leadership for Christian Women, Halee Gray Scott


• The Moving Toyshop, Edmund Crispin


• Lila, Marilynne Robinson


• The Accidental Empress, Allison Pataki


• The Eye of Zoltar, Jasper Fforde

I would link you to my Goodreads "Your Year in Books" page, but it's maddeningly incomplete. I don't know if it was a technical glitch or if they leave certain books out for reasons best known to themselves, but it drives me nuts!