My All Time Favourite Books
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by The Broke and The Bookish. Every week they post a new top ten list and invite everyone to share their answers. This week we are looking at my top ten all time favourite books from the last 3 years (some of these were not published in the last 3 years but don’t tell anyone).
My All Time Favourite Books
1. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. I am literally incapable of talking about my favourite books without mentioning Ready Player One. Its about gaming and pop culture, what’s not to live?
2. World War Z by Max Brooks. I was five pages into this book when I decided I loved it. Its a typical zombie story but told through interviews with survivors of the “zombie war“.
3. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. This is a really complicated historical/ sci-fi type story. But the thing I enjoyed was that to understand it fully you need to read the book then watch the movie at least a few times.
4. A Tale For The Time Being by Ruth Ozeki. Its about a Japanese girl writing about her life and an author who finds the diary. And its fantastic.
5. An Astronaut’s Guide To Life On Earth by Chris Hadfield. The dude sang Space Oddity on the freaking international space station. And he is pretty good at writing books too!
6. The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence. Its about Kurt Vonnegut and growing old. Thats all I will say.
7. Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan. Its about books and graphic design. Basically my two favourite things.
8. The Killing Moon by N.K. Jemisin. This is a really fantastic fantasy. But also has a really interesting religion in which the priests are allowed to kill people.
9. The Forever Watch by David Ramerez. I love that this book is full of computer science and even though it is futuristic it is based on real world computer science.
10. Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell. I pretty much grew up reading Star Trek fanfiction and I loved being able to read about fanfiction from the perspective of someone who writes fanfiction.
45 Comments
Iridescent Spirits
Oooh, these all sound so cool – In the last few days I was thinking what should I read next. Thanks! 🙂
And great job writing telling about each in one sentence 😀 I could never make it 😀
bluchickenninja
Hope you found something you like! I didn’t try to sum up each book in a sentence. That sort of just happened… 😀
Iridescent Spirits
Definitely^^ Number 4 and 8 seem to be perfect for my taste^^ Thanks again! 🙂
You are lucky 😀
bluchickenninja
A Tale For The Time Being is probably going to be my favourite book of the year. And I pretty much told my sister that she had to read The Killing Moon. Hope you like them!
Iridescent Spirits
I’ll tell you my opinion (if you are interested) as soon as I finished them. 🙂
bluchickenninja
Yes! I would love to know what you thought of them.
Iridescent Spirits
Agreed then 😉
bluchickenninja
😀
ワシントン・ジアニ
#7 is my favorite of these!
bluchickenninja
I love Mr Penumbra’s!!!
waynemullane
I’ve got numbers 5 and 6 on my hit list. I enjoyed reading this 🙂
bluchickenninja
Both are brilliant!
mamalisa4
I love book recommendations – i’ll have to check these out! 🙂 🙂 🙂
bluchickenninja
Read all the books!!!
creatyvebooks
Fangirl is my favorite. I guess because I can relate to Cath so much. I mean I’ve ordered the special collector edition that comes out in May. Both Canadian version and Barnes and Noble one. Can you say obsess? Great list. Great reads.
bluchickenninja
Yeah I enjoyed it. I found the american college system strangely fascinating. It seems so different from my experience of college.
I try not to buy duplicates of books. Whats the point in buying a book twice when you could get something different. Though it does mean that I have to do lots of research to find the edition I want!
AliceIsMental
I’ve already bought more books than I can read, stop tempting me! (Also read Fangirl last month. Was pretty cool)
bluchickenninja
hahahaha I went shopping on Monday (by shopping I mean walking around book shops all day) and I was so pleased that I only bought two books. So you’re not the only one 🙂
coffeennotes
Great books 🙂
bluchickenninja
Thanks 🙂
Dagny
I didn’t make a list, but Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore would be on it for sure.
What happened to Duma Key? Did you read it over three years ago?
bluchickenninja
Ohohohohoh I totally forgot about Duma Key. Doh!!! I had it out just the other day as well. I would use the excuse that it came out more than 3 years ago but yeah… my bad memory.
Hannah
So as 2, 3, and 5 are definitely on my list of favourite books from the past couple of years, I’m off to read the rest of your selection:-) I saw Cmdr Hadfield at the National Geographic Society in London. He sang it again. It was awesome. He is also an amazing speaker!
bluchickenninja
You got to see him?!?!?! Thats so cool, I am super jealous.
Hannah
Yeah, he was awesome, and he has such an amazing story to tell. I almost cried when he sang, with all the pictures of space going by behind him. Just imagining what it was like to be up there, and what it took to get there. I have so much respect!
bluchickenninja
Yeah, thats really awesome 🙂
Dan Antion
Some of these sound very interesting, particularly forever watch.
bluchickenninja
I loved The Forever Watch. I have a little review of it here if you want to take a look.
Dan Antion
Thanks !
Hila
Might pick up Fangirl. Thanks for this.
bluchickenninja
Hope you like it!
Laura
I’m surprised I haven’t read any of these. I’m looking to step out of my usual reads and genres. Perfect timing!
bluchickenninja
If you haven’t read any of these I recommend you start with Ready Player One 🙂
curiousdaisies
Mr Penumbra is also on my list. Yaay! Happy reading 🙂
bluchickenninja
Everyone loves Mr Penumbra! Happy reading!
Kalisha
I love Ruth Ozeki…thank you for sharing! Kalisha
bluchickenninja
Love her!!! You’re welcome:)
Kelly Grace
I just scored Mr. Penumbra at my local Almost Perfect Used Bookstore—-hurray 😉 Thanks much for the list.
bluchickenninja
Awesome! Enjoy.
bluchickenninja
I mean it is a love story, but it is also about fandom and it sort of goes into real fiction vs fanfiction.
karend2007
I totally agree about ‘Cloud Atlas’, I think it is a brilliant book. I have seen the film and felt very disappointed with it. For me, the fun of this book is working out how all of the elements of the story fits, the film just spelled everything out.
bluchickenninja
I actually really like the movie. They tell the same story in different ways.
andgoosandbooks
Nice list! Especially Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore sounds very interesting.
joseelavallee
I’ve only read one of these books…thanks for the list…Definitely will be checking some of these out!
bluchickenninja
Enjoy!