Listen up, all you non-contest types, the ones who KNOW you won’t win and never enter anything: Today’s giveaway is so exciting that even some BookPage staffers are dying to have a shot at it (no, that’s not allowed under our contest rules, but still).
The Top 10 books from the BookPage Best of 2012
The winner will receive copies of the Top 10 books of 2012, as selected by the editors of BookPage. That’s right, you could win 10 hardcover first editions of the best books of the year, and the top two books on the list are signed by the authors (Junot Díaz and Cheryl Strayed)! This collection will look great on your bookshelf, but the real treat will come in discovering what’s inside the covers of these amazing books:
1. This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
2. Wild by Cheryl Strayed
3. Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
4. May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes
5. The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan
6. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
7. The Round House by Louise Erdrich
8. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
9. Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
10. The Light Between the Oceans by M.L. Stedman
All you booklovers, this contest is worth a try, even if you’ve never entered one of our contests before. And your odds of winning are much better than the lottery!
TO ENTER: In the comments, tell us your favorite book from the Top 10 list, or the book you’re most excited about reading if you win.
CONTEST RULES: A winner will be chosen by random.org from among entries received by 5:00 p.m. CST on Friday, December 7. Winner will receive copies of the 10 (ten) books pictured in this post. Prize must be shipped to a North American address, and Rhode Island residents are not eligible. (Full contest rules here.) Good luck!
View our complete Best Books of 2012 list.
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ETA: Congratulations to our winner, Alexa, who is looking forward to reading Where’d You Go, Bernadette! She also recommends The Lifeboat “for something completely different.”
Thanks to all who entered! Contest is now closed.
I never win anything but would love to have my luck change for this contest. Would love to read all the books on the top 10 list especially Gone Girl
omg gone girl has got to be one of the better books i have read in a long time so much that i went and read her other books but by far gone girl was her best!
I drove over 25 miles to another library in order to read “This Is How You Lose Her,” and it was well worth the trip! My local library offers inter-library loans, but libraries are usually hesitant to loan new publications. I would love to win any of these books!
Found Gone Girl to be a thrilling read! Would love to crack open more of the top 10! Fingers crossed.
After the holidays, I am looking forward to much more reading. I have been looking forward to reading “Gone Girl” for quite some time. Would love to win a copy.
Have read
The light between the oceans, where’d you go Bernadette and the lifeboat. Would share the books with my granddaughters and daughter. Can’t wait to read the round house.
Hi: I would like to read Hillary Mantel’s new book. I have started Gone Girl.
Most interested to read The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan
Happy Holidays!!!
May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes
The only one I’ve read is Round House by Erdrich, and it was wonderful. Several of the others are on my list, so I’d love to win copies of them all. Thanks.
I haven’t read any of these yet, but the one I’m most excited to read is Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up the Bodies.
Contest ends on my birthday…maybe that will bring me some luck!!!
THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS…..seems to explore different perspectives of decisions made…and a certain amount of sympathy and understanding for the steps taken…but at what price? Intriguing!
Haven’t read “Wild” yet and my wife keeps telling me I’d like it.
Still on the library wait=list for Junot Diaz – I’d love to skip the line!
I’m most excited about reading GONE GIRL!
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel is on my must read list!
I LOVED Gone Girl-so many twists and turns!
The round house was my favorite. I didn’t expect much from it, but it was a very good book. I’m most anxious to read, Where’d you go, Bernadette? I’ve heard mixed reviews, so I want to judge for myself if it’s a good read or not.
I loved Cheryl Strayed’s Wild. It was my favorite book this year. I would be happy to read any of the others though. I appreciate this list and look forward to the top picks each year. Thank you!
I too thought the Round House was really well done. It held my interest throughout.
I need to read wild! Big changes are coming in my life, and very interested in how she handled her changes.
Hands down – “Where’d You Go, Bernadette?” Hilarious!
Where’d You Go Bernadette is on my reading wish list. I’d love to win it.
My favorite book from the list is This is how you lose her.
What a great giveaway! I’m really excited to read The Round House by Louise Erdrich. Thanks for the chance, Athena.
I want to read Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
I have Wild on my To Read list.
I loved “Where’d You Go Bernadette.” So funny — a breath of fresh air.
I would probably choose to read Gone Girl first. I heard it was hard to put down.
Definitely – Gone Girl.
Anything from Louise Erdrich is a true gift to the world. I’m glad she is part of this collection.
Considering I have four of the top 10 still on my reading wish list; it is a hard choice. I think I am most looking forward to reading “Wild”.
Wild was a great read…really gets you thinking about the paths we take. I would love to read Gone Girl.
I guess I’d have to say “Wild” since it’s the only one I’ve read from this bunch (I’m a bit slow, I guess). Cheryl Strayed wrote a poignant memoir of a very dark time in her life. I’d love to win all of these books!
From this top 10 list, my favorite so far is Gone Girl. I really didn’t like Amy’s voice in the beginning, but then I just started to dig it. Very interesting tale, and the end left me with the same creepiness I feel at the end of watching Psycho. Very well done.
I haven’t read all the top 10, though. I’d be most interested in the Junot Diaz book. I’ve never read a book by him before and I feel like I should.
The signed Junot Diaz sounds amazing and would look great on my bookshelf. Everyone tells me I need to read Wild.
This is a new list of books for me. More to add to my never-ending to read list. I’ve heard of Gone Girl and plan on reading that.
I would LOVE to read the Junot Diaz first…but all of them, of course.
The Round House because I love Erdrich!
I really liked Wild by Cheyl Strayed. If you like books like “The Glass Castle” or “The Memory Palace” you will like this book. There are several books in your giveaway that I have been wanting to read esp. “Gone Girl”. I have heard so much about it.
I would really look forward to reading Gone Girl and This is How You Lose Her
Hands down, Where’d You Go, Bernadette. What a fun book!!
I would most look forward to The Light Between Oceans, with The Lifeboat a close second.
Fingers crossed….
I really liked “Where’d you go, Bernadette?” And “Gone Girl”. I liked “Wolf Hall” so I’m really looking forward ti “Bringing up the Bodies” I just haven’t gotten to it yet!
I really loved Gone Girl. I listened to it on an audiobook and it added so much to hear the parts in male and female voices. It kept you guessing until the end.
I’d really love to read “Gone Girl.” It was a runaway hit at the library, and although the vast majority of readers loved it, there were several folks who felt it was terrible. I’d like to see for myself how good it is!
They all sound fantastic but I’m most excited to read This is How You Lose Her. Thanks for sponsoring the contest.
Gone girl!
The Light between the Oceans sounds like it would be good!
Cannot wait to read Gone Girl, currently on the waiting list at the library but the list is soooo long.
Would love to read May We Be Forgiven. Interesting title. They all look great.
I’ve read and loved Gone Girl and Light Between Oceans. Would love to read all the rest but Bernadette, especially! Thanks!
Really, REALLY want to read “The Round House” by Louise Erdrich, “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” by Maria Semple, and “Bringing Up the Bodies” by Hilary Mantel (soon as I read “Wolf Hall” which I just purchased from an independent bookstore
. Have read “Wild,” “The Lifeboat,” “Gone Girl,” and “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” and highly recommend all four of them. I would love to win the set to share with my two book clubs!
Just read “The Lifeboat” — what a great read! Want to read “Bring Up the Bodies” next — but would love to read all of these books!
I am working my way through Wolf Hall so I can read Hilary Mantel’s Bringing Up the Bodies. I would be quite thrilled to be able to read her book as a winner of this contest.
How could I pick just ONE I’m most excited about reading! Did yall sneak a peek at my to-read list? Dang. But I guess if I HAD to pick one- “Where’d you go Bernadette” has been on my list the longest!
I really want to read “Gone Girl”. I have heard good things about this book.
I’m SUPER excited to read ‘Bring up the Bodies’ by Hilary Mantel. I heard an interview with her on NHPR last week and am completely fascinated by the topic of her trilogy, as well as how insanely smart she is. I am knocking wood and crossing fingers that I win!!!!!
May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes.
I haven’t read any of these yet, but this is the one I would begin with.
I abandoned another book midway through when a copy of This Is How You Lose Her became available for me to read; devoured it in a night and a half. Diaz can’t write anything that I don’t like. I’m now apparently on a “stray” kick: reading Wild (Cheryl Strayed) right after having finished a book that I believe should be on this list: Astray, by Emma Donoghue.
I can’t wait to read “Wild” by Cheryl Strayed!
The Light Between Oceans is a book I have been dying to read….I’m number 47 on the library wait list!
Hi, ALL these books are on my to-read list! But i guess the one I am most anxious to read is Gone Girl. Everyone I know who has read it loved it, both the casual readers and the obsessive (like me!).
Really enjoyed Wild.
Gone Girl sounds amazing!
First I would read This is how you lose her. I think it would be an interesting read.
Both THE ROUND HOUSE and BILLY LYNN’S LONG HALFTIME WALK are high on my TBR list!
I just finished Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn and loved it! I really want to read Wild. It’s on my wish list.
I loved The Light Between the Oceans. I also really liked Gone Girl, but have not read any of the other books in this grouping, YET!
Definitely most interested I readig ‘This Is How You Lose Her’ by Junot Díaz!
Wild, i could not put that book down. Even thought about hiking a trail like that here on the east coast.
Gone Girl is at the top of my wish list.
The Round House has been on my to-read list since it has come out. I would really like to read all these books. Since I broke my wrist and can’t do much, I’ve got the time to read them all!
I haven’t had the opportunity to read any of these books yet…my book budget is best spent on used books (more for the money!) so I’m usually behind on the newest ones. I have had The Light Between the Oceans on my to read list for a bit now and am very much looking forward to it.
Have read one on the list, all the rest are “high priority” on my “To Read” list. The one I read, Gone Girl, shot to the top of my all-time favorites. Besides being unputdownable, it spoke some difficult, but profound truths about marriage’s lost opportunities and pitfalls. Thanks so much for this opportunity.
“Wild” – I have heard only good reviews about this book!
I’m excited to read Wild! Thanks for the giveaway!
What a fantastic giveaway offer. I’m looking forward to reading several from the top 10 list: This is How You Lose Her, Where’d You Go, Bernadette, The Round House, and The Light Between Oceans.
Gone Girl was a great book! Next, I’d like to read This is How You Lose Her.
I’m anxious to read The Light Between Oceans.
Read Bring Up the Bodies, would be interested in Gone Girl.
I’ve been hoping to read several of these–Gone Girl, This is How You Lose Her and Bring Up The Bodies in particular.
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Have not read any of the books yet, but do want to read The Round House and Gone, Girl. I have heard good things about most of the books on the Top Fifty list.
All of them!!!
Ok, ok, if I had to pick one to answer to enter the contest it would be The Lifeboat. Its on my TBR list already.
I read Wild, loved it and can’t wait to read it again!! And i would even like to follow her path!
This list is fantastic! Almost all the books are on my “to-read” list. I am currently reading Gone Girl and am absolutely loving it. I borrowed it from a co-worker but am already planning to buy it; it’s that good. I would love to win this collection of books!
Iloved Gone Girl. It was really different.
I LOVED Where Did You Go Bernadette? And can’t wait to read Gone Girl!
Never found the time to read Junot Diaz, but always wanted to. If I won this, I’d FIND the time!
I am most excited to read the Louise Erdrich book as the reviews have been deliciously tempting. The only one on the list that I have already read is Gone Girl which I found silly and even a little unpleasant.
I’m keen to see what Junot Diaz did after Oscar Wao and I guess I’m looking forward to Ms Mantel’s prize-winning sequel. Wolf Hall wasn’t the easiest read, but it was a rewarding one. I may have skipped Bring Up The Bodies if it hadn’t gone and won the Booker, but it’s kind of unmissable now.
Read/liked Gone Girl, but am most excited about This is How You Lose Her.
I am dying to read Gone Girl!
Wonderful books. My favorite is The light Between the Oceans.
I have read “Where’d you go, Bernadette?” and “The Light Between the Oceans”. I enjoyed both books. Looking forward to sharing these with others and reading 8 new books!
Read Gone Girl and The Lifeboat. My favorite was Gone Girl. Thanks for the opportunity to win such a great prize!!
I have been planing to read Gone Girl. It would be great to win it along with the other great books.
Louise Erdrich’s book keep getting better and better. I would love to read The Round House.
I LOVED Wild by Cheryl Strayed and Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn… I am excited to read The Lifeboat! I really hope I win, even though I never win anything…
I would love to read Gone Girl!
I couldn’t put Gone Girl down until I read the entire book.
How to choose from such a stellar list?? I have read five of the ten and would have to say “The Light Between the Oceans” is my favorite. Now need to get started on other five!!
The book I’m most eager to read is The Round House by Louise Erdrich I’ve loved all her books.
Haven’t read any of these books yet. I do have The Round House checked out from the library though.
I just read “The Lifeboat” – it is a healthy counterpoint to “The Life of Pi” which I had just watched at the cinemas. Definitely fodder for thought
I loved Gone Girl and Wild. I really want to read The Light Between the Oceans, The Lifeboat and Bringing Up the Bodies.
Looking forward to reading “Wild”–sounds fascinating!
Wow: At the top of my list from that excellent selection would be “The Lifeboat.” Happy Holidays, BookPage!
The Light Between the Oceans
I liked Gone Girl.
I’ve read Gone Girl and enjoyed it, but I’m really looking forward to reading Bring Up the Bodies. I think historical fiction is very special.
I’ve been wanting to read Where’d You Go, Bernadette, but I’d be happy to read all of them!
I would enjoy reading Wild.
I have read The Light Bewtween Oceans and enjoyed it but I am most excited about reading Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. I hear it is very good! Keeping my fingers crossed! Thanks for this chance.
Gone Girl was great! Can’t wait to read the Lifeboat:)
Four of these books are already on my to-be-read list! I am most excited about The Light Between the Oceans and Gone Girl. My TBR pile is getting a little too small for comfort, so this timing would be perfect!
I read ‘Gone Girl’ and loved it! Didn’t get a chance to finish ‘Wild’ before it was due back. But I really want to read A.M. Homes’ book. I’m a big fan of transgressive fiction and yet somehow I haven’t gotten around to reading anything of hers yet.
After hearing that the author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette had worked on Arrested Development, I knew I had to read it, but I’m somewhere around # 247 on the library waitlist. For something completely different, I do recommend The Lifeboat – intriguing historical fiction!
I’m most excited to read Gone Girl.
I already read GONE GIRL, but that’s it from the list so far. I am most excited to read THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS (it’s going to become a HUGE book club book), but also the National Book Award Winner, THE ROUND HOUSE. I would love to read all of them eventually ….
I loved “Gone Girl” and have recommended it to everyone who asks for a good book to read. I’m looking forward to reading “This is How You Lose Her” because I love Junot Diaz.
Just started Gone Girl. Looking forward to reading Round House and May We All Be Forgiven. Looks like a good book list for the winter
Great selection of books. Bring Up the Bodies was incredible. So many of these books are on my “to read” list! Thanks for the contest!
I would love to read all of them, but I am especially interested in Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn and The Round House by Louise Erdrich.
Eager to read several of them!
i am most excited to read “gone girl”. please pickme! i never win : ) have a great day!
Having recently embarked on an MFA in creative nonfiction, I am most excited to read Cheryl Strayed’s Wild. It’s the hottest thing in CNF right now, so it should be good instruction along with being a good read.
I would love to win all of these books. My favorite is Gone Girl. That book seriously blew me away. It is amazing.
I’d be most excited about the Junot Diaz or Where’d You Go, Bernadette — though I’ve heard excellent things about all of these (and only read one of them!).
I loved The Light Between Oceans, and I really want to read Bring up the Bodies.
I really enjoyed The Light Between Oceans, but I’m most interested in reading Where’d You Go, Bernadette, and I need to read The Round House for my book discussion group. I’d love to win this collection.
Out of the ten books I have only read Gone Girl. It was amazing and worth rereading. I am looking forward to reading Bring Up the Bodies and The Light Between the Oceans.
I LOVED The Light Between Oceans…can’t wait to read Bring Up The Bodies!
I want to read them all but I’d especially appreciate Gone Girl!
Can’t wait to read Bring Up the Bodies. But I will read *all* of them!
These are all great titles. I recently saw Louise Erdrich speak and she read from Round House. I can’t wait to read that one and Wild by Cheryl Strayed as she is booked for a presentation next year in my town. I think I will love reading them all. Hope I win!!!
I want to read This is How you Lose her by Junot Diaz, I was fortunate enough to hear Mr Diaz speak in Boston and I made a mental note to get his book.
I would be most excited to read Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. It’s been on my to-read list for quite a while.
its so hard to pick one, as so many of these books have been on my list. I cannot wait until things slow down in my world, so i can relax and disappear into one of these books. probably the one i would dive into first is gone girl, because of everything i’ve heard about it, plus i always want to read the book before its made into a movie!
I loved Wild!
The book I am especially excited to read is Gone Girl. I have many friends who have read it and have read so much about it.
I can’t wait to read Bring Up The Bodies!!!
My husband read the Hilary Mandel book and loved it. But it would be a real hard choice between “Gone Girl” and “The Light Between Oceans” So I guess I have to win to make the choice!!!! Then at least I would be able to read both.
I really enjoyed Where’d You Go, Bernadette and I’m dying to read This is How You Lose Her.
I love love love Hilary Mantel! She’s so great!
Loved The Light Between Oceans. The best book I read this year.
All of these books are on my “big” list. Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel is the one I am most excited about reading.
Can’t wait to read This Is How You Lose Her!
I’ve not read any of your top ten, but would love to start with Gone Girl!
I am very excited to read Where’d You Go, Bernadette?
I’ve read The Light Between Oceans and highly recommend it. Heart-wrenching.
Of those I’ve already read, I loved “Gone Girl” the most. Of the ones I haven’t read, I would most like to read “Wild”. I’ve been hearing so much about that one!
I haven’t had a chance to read any of these yet, but I am a hopeless collector of books, so I would love to own and read every one of these. I’d be most excited to read Cheryl Strayed’s Wild since Nick Hornby is adapting it for film. I could also finally catch up with all the people who have read and loved Gone Girl.
Gone Girl….I would love to win. Pick me…pick me!!!
I would start With Round House or Gone Girl.
Really, really want to read Where’d You Go Bernadette? I looks very good!
The only book I’ve read is Gone Girl, which I flew through on an airplane trip and couldn’t recommend more highly.
I’ve just borrowed Where’d You Go Bernadette? From the library as an audiobook and I’m loving it! So funny, and the narrator is fantastic!
Many thanks for the entry!
I loved Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk with its descriptions of clueless Texans, its commentary on war and the political scene in America, and the conclusion that Billy comes to about the price we pay for war.
The Light Between Oceans will be what I read first!
Excited to read Gone Girl; I loved The Round House!
I’ve only read Where’d you go Bernadette and enjoyed it! Can’t wait to read some of these others…hope I win!
I really enjoyed The Lifeboat, but I’m most looking forward to reading This Is How You Lose Her. If it’s half as good as The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, I’m in for such a treat!
The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan
Gone Girl is my favorite, by far!
I would be most excited to read The Lifeboat! Thanks for the great contest.
I’d LOVE to win (read) Bring Up the Bodies!!! Although the story of the Tudors (Henry and Anne) have been done a lot it is still an interesting topic to read from a variety of authors. (I’ve read Gone Girl and saying it’s amazing is an understatement!!!!!)
Gone Girl is on my list of books to read, but I’ll wait now, until I win it! Wish me luck!
I would love to read Bring up the Bodies. Sounds great~!
I heart Junot Diaz!
I would love to read The Light Between Oceans from this list. Thanks.
My favorite book on this list so far is Wild by Cheryl Strayed. I was fascinated by her brutally honest writing style. As a Minnesotan who frequents author-owned bookstore, Birchbark Books, I am most excited to read Louise Erdrich’s Round House which won a National Book Award. How fun it is to have two books with Minnesota connections on the list!
The Round House by Louise Erdrich.
Because when I first saw the cover and read the synopsis, I was like “mehhhh.” But then it won the National Book Award so now I have to read it and see if my cover instincts are trustworthy.
I have read a few of the top ten and enjoyed them, and I’ve got most of the others on my TBR list. I especially enjoyed Wild, and will share it with my daughter when I win it!
This would be a great prize win, as I have not read any of the titles. The book I would open first is Where’d You Go, Bernadette.
This is How You Lose Her by Diaz!
wild and light between oceans.
I’ve read three of these books, I think I have to say Gone Girl was the most amazing, although The Light Between The Oceans was great! I think the others included here are just as great and I’d love to win and read them all!
I would devour Wild first. I love stories about people and nature engaging in raw, life-changing ways.
This is How you Lose Her by the great Junot Diaz is the only one I have read. I would like to read The Round House by Louise Erdrich.
I would like to read Erdach’s Round House if I win
Gone Girl was favorite to read. Really want to read Wild!!
GONE GIRL is the only one of these I’ve read. The Louise Erdrich is on my to-be-read list though. Good luck, everybody!
I would love to read “Wild”. I love reading books about personal challenges.
I’m ashamed that I haven’t read at least one of these but I’ve been finishing up my own manuscript and haven’t done any reading but non-fiction research. Looking forward most to reading “The Round House.”
Loved Gone Girl – looking forward to reading The Round House.
I would love to read Wild. I enjoy reading books about personal challenges.
I haven’t read any of these yet. Would really like to read The Round House. Thanks for the opportunity to win these great books.
I listened to the audio version of Wild when hiking. I want to read 8 of the others.
I’m looking forward to reading ‘Lifeboat’ by Charlotte Rogan. I have heard good things about this debut novel.
I have only read Gone Girl from the list above and loved it! I am most excited about Wild because it has been on my to read list for a while.
I can’t wait to read Louise Edrich’s “The Round House.” Ann Patchett gave it a great review in her blog.
loved Bring up the Bodies!!
Waiting for The Light Between Oceans to be under the Christmas tree, but would love to win it and read it before then!
The only one on the list that I’ve read is Gone Girl. Looking forward to reading Wild and This is How You Lose Her. Would love to win copies to share with my book club!
I read and loved Gone Girl, but I’ve heard such great things about everything else in that pile!
I have not read any of these books but they all look excellent, especially Gone Girl. I would be so excited to win and try some new authors which is one of my favourite things!!
I really enjoyed Gone Girl by Flynn ****
Gone Girl was amazing!
I’m currently reading Gone Girl and have trouble putting it down. If the other titles on the list are nearly are a smidgen as good, it’ll be a treat. I’d look to take a peek at them!
This is a wonderful selection! So many of these titles are on my “To Read” list already and I’ve added a few more. I am most looking forward to reading THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS.
I’m very excited to read The Light Between Oceans!!! Looks brilliant!!
I’ve got my fingers, toes, hair and eyes crossed in hopes of winning this contest! If I’m chosen, I’d be most excited to read Junot Diaz’s, “This Is How You Lose Her.”
Gone Girl was great, can’t wait to try The Lifeboat!
I have heard so many good reviews from friends about Gone Girl, I’m looking forward to reading it, plus many others on the list!
Wow–what a great giveaway! I read Wild, but am excited about all the others on the list I haven’t read, especially, Where’d You Go, Bernadette.
Gone Girl!!!!!
Loved Where’d You Go Bernadette and look forward to reading it again.
Loved Wild, made me what to put on hiking boots and drive to California.
I haven’t read any of the top 10, but can’t wait to read “gone girl”.
I’ve been hearing so much about Gone Girl I would love to read that. I think my second “first” choice would be The Round House.
“This is How You Lose Her” is the best book I’ve read lately. I’m excited to read “Wild” as it’s gotten so many great reviews, but I’d gladly read all ten of them, even the Diaz books again!!!!
Have read Gone Girl. Would LOVE to read This Is How You Lose Her, if I were to win.
Quick everyone to “The Lifeboat”
As an avid library user, I have read most of the books. “A light between Oceans” was the most thought provoking. I have not cried at the end of a book in a long time, this one did me in.
I *loved* Wild, and I’m really excited to read Where’d You Go, Bernadette. And I know the decision is totally random, but I really want to win to cheer me up. We were going to visit my inlaws for Christmas this year, and just got the word that my vacation time request has been turned down because so many other people asked for the 26th & 27th off, too. (And I bet they gave it to people who ALWAYS take those days off, when I haven’t requested time off at Christmas in YEARS.)
/rant over.
I’m looking forward to to reading Louise Erdrich’s new book. I started late with her writing, but have loved all of her novels and short stories.
If lucky enough to be selected as a winner, I am most excited about reading “Gone Girl.” The plot sounds so intriguing and I’m betting I would have a hard time putting it down for even a minute.
“Gone Girl” and “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” would compete for the top of my reading list. Guess I’d have to flip a coin.
Read Wild and it was very good. Looking forward to reading The Space Between Oceans and The Lifeboat.
If I won this contest, my friends would say, “you go girl!” I’d take all 10 of these great new books and be a gone girl, nestled away in some comfortable life boat (pondering the light between the oceans) or round house (praying we may be forgiven), and wondering if Cheryl really strayed or merely took a long halftime walk. Hopefully all would be calmly rocking in the boat—not a place where they bring up the bodies—and although my name is Anna, not Bernadette, I would be gone so long that people would ask, “where’d you go Bernadette?” and then they’d understand that, by gifting her 10 good books—that would be (at least for a while) how you lose her—and how to make her happy!
I cannot wait to read Gone Girl!
I have not heard of a few of those titles O_o (tho if they’re on your top-ten, I do need to check them out), but of the ones I have heard of, I’m most looking forward to Gone Girl, Bring Up the Bodies and Lifeboat.
Thanks so much for the opportunity to learn about new (to me) books and authors and for this remarkably awesome giveaway.
~Lynne
The Round House. I have always been fascinated by anything Native American.
This is an awesome giveaway! Thanks so much! I’m most excited about reading Gone Girl. I’ve heard it’s a real page-turner.
Looking forward to reading WILD and GONE GIRL. Would love to have these books in my collection. Thanks for the chance to win.
I’d love to read Junot, you know, and for that one Díaz, I promise to read all diez!
Billy Lynn’s Long Half-Time Walk was my favourite book of the year. The blurbs can’t do it justice, which is why I think it’s been such a low-key book.
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel is my favorite on the list. I enjoy history. The perspective of Thomas Cromwell was very interesting. I had not read any other books that were from his perspective.
As a wanna-be long distance hiker I was immediately drawn to Wild by Cheryl Strand. I was with HER as she realized her pack was way to big for her but she tried it anyway; when she ended the first day, first week, first month, and when she met up with the “bad boys.” I loved her honesty, her openness about her feelings, and her willingness to go with the flow. It’s MY best book of the year!!!
I have been dying to read Wild since it came out–and to get my hands on my own copy of Gone Girl after borrowing it from a friend.
I’d love to read Wild, I’ve heard so many good things about it and seen it on almost every best of list. I have Billy Linn and thought that was a great new voice for a young generation
I absolutely loved Gone Girl, but I’m still waiting to read the Light Between Oceans and the Round House.
I haven’t read any of these top ten books yet, but I’m most looking toward to reading Gone Girl. Love a good mystery to keep me up late at night reading!
From my blog: I read a lot of books. I don’t necessarily read more than other people who also read a lot of books, and I don’t mention this to aggrandise myself as some holier-than-thou intellectual, I’m just saying. As a child for example, whenever I was scared or nervous, on my first day of primary school for example, or the first time I bunked off a class, it was hiding in the library or in the bushes with a book that got me through it. I would read difficult books to show off how good I was at reading, I read under the table in primary school, I was reading under the table at secondary school and I was still reading under the bar when I worked as a barman as a 21 year old. When I was travelling in India I ended up throwing half of my clothes and my sleeping bag away so I could fit more books into my rucksack. I also finished a B.A. in English Literature last year, and recently started travelling on trains quite a lot.
My point is that in all this highly intensive bookery, particularly the last few years where I’ve had to read quickly, critically and constantly, it’s easy to take literature for granted and forget how it used to feel; when you couldn’t put a book down, when a great book would just have a vice-like grip on your head that you didn’t even bother to think about, you just yielded to it and forgot whatever else you were supposed to be doing. The Red Dwarf novels did it to me when I was 12, Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love did it to me when I was 15, Donna Tartt’s The Secret History did it to me when I was 17 and Alex Garland’s The Beach did it when I was 19, there haven’t been too many since then.
I read Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao a few weeks ago and reviewed it well, it was a powerful and distinctive work. Now though, I am glad that I read that book chiefly because it laid the groundwork for This is How You Lose Her, a sixteen-year-gestated collection of stories, which I loved, unequivocally, inexplicably, and with the kind of hypnotised fervour that I wasn’t sure jaded old book-blogging me was still capable of. I raved to my girlfriend about it, I whizzed thoughtlessly through three hour train journey’s. I read it on my Kindle, standing up in a very hot bath until the moment when I absolutely had to put it down in order to soap myself.
I look upon all those books I listed, Enduring Love, The Beach, and The Secret History, the older shelf-brothers of this book, as faintly embarrassing, to differing degrees. They had their moment in the sun, they had those times that I, in all my over-eager and capricious enthusiasm, worshipped them. But now I can see how raggedy and faintly contrived they are, and how their characters are sometimes wildly unrealistic and their plots more than a little dubious. And the same sort of thing will almost certainly happen to This is How You Lose Her. I will look back through it and wonder how this seemed the most passionate and alive book I’d read in years, how I read things on a page and felt things in my chest and throat and head the way I feel things when they actually happen to me. Maybe it’s just the time in my life that this book speaks to, maybe I won’t really need it in a few years the way that I needed those other books and I no longer do. I don’t really know, but books like this are why I read at all.
From the list, my favorite would have to be “Gone Girl,” which is also the only one I’ve read.
I am so excited about this giveaway. I would love to read Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple. It sounds like such an interesting book.
I read and loved Gone Girl. I also read and liked the Lifeboat. Excited to read This is how you lose her!
The only Top 10 ones I’ve read are Gone Girl, Light Between Oceans, Wile and Billy Lynn, my favorite of those would probably be Gone Girl. Been waiting oh-s0-not-patiently to get Where’d You Go Bernadette and The Round House from my library:)
I just finished Louise Erdrich’s *The Round House* … What most moved me about the story was the fortitude amongst the characters … the reverent waiting they engaged in to allow healing and justice to emerge in their right time … the subtle circularity in the community — everyone had a role to play, even if sometimes seemingly ambiguous. “All justice comes in its time” … The humour was often deadpan, and hilarious … The boys’ adventures, and their solid friendship, reminded me of the four hobbits in *Lord of the Rings* …
Would love to read them all. Our book Club’s first book for the new year is Gone Girl, can’t wait to read it. Thank you for the opportunity..
I have already read Gone Girl (what a shocker!) and I am really looking forward to Bernadette and Wild!!!
Where’d You Go Bernadette is my favorite of the ones I’ve read — but since I read a library copy, I’d be thrilled to win this giveaway so I’d have my own copy to enjoy. I’d be most excited to read The Light Between Oceans and Wild, but really would love them all! Thank you.
I really enjoyed reading, Wild, and I am looking forward to reading The Light Between the Oceans:)
‘Bringing Up The Dead’ was another great read by Mantell. I look forward to more of the saga of Thomas Cromwell. I have already pre-ordered a trade paper copy of ‘The Round House,’ and am looking forward to reading that. Of the other titles, though I’m intrigued by ‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,’ simply because of the title, ‘Gone Girl’ sounds like my one must-read.
Loved ‘Where’d You Go, Bernadette’ I live in Washington and Maria Semple was dead on about Seattle!
I’d love to read Wild, by Cheryl Strayed.
I totally enjoyed reading Wild. The next on my list is The Round House..
I zipped through Gone Girl – could not put it down! I’m currently reading Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, so I’m anxious to get to Bring Up the Bodies! Also looking forward to reading The Round House soon.
Top book of the ten I would like to read: Round House! Enjoyed, This is How You Lose Her.
It would probably be easier to list the one I am least interested in reading, but Bringing Up the Bodies is the one I will be reading first.
~L
I cannot wait to read This Is How You Lose Her. I so loved his other works that I am dying to get my hands on his latest.
I haven’t read any of those books. I am most interested in “Gone Girl’.
I’ve read “Gone Girl”, “The Light Between Oceans” and “Where’d You Go Bernadette” and they were all amazing. I’m looking forward to “The Round House” and “The Lifeboat.” And I’d really like to give the Hilary Mantle series another try – had trouble with it the first time around.
Can’t wait to read the lifeboat. All the titles are great
Haven’t read all of them but really liked the Hilary Mantel and Gone Girl. Round House is on my Nook but haven’t gotten to it yet. I believe my favorite is Billy Lynn’s Long Half-Time Walk. I thought the author did a fantastic job of presenting a different and very honest view of how we treat returning veterans and how they are used by the military.
I want to read “The Round House” and “The Light Between Oceans” first if possible and then move on to the rest! Reading is a passion of mine and I enjoy it immensely.
I wanted to read “gone Girl” as all my friends tell me it is fantastic, and usually when I hear of a must-read, I jump on the bandwagon. Then, I went over your list again ….. and when I looked at your list of books, I think I’d like to read “Wild” – which sounds like an adventure with pearls of wisdom thrown in. So, I’d pick Wild. (the light between oceans sounds interesting, too …. actually, the whole group seem to be excellent picks!)
I am looking forward to reading Wild. I have heard so much about it and so many people have recommended it to me. But the best recommendation came from a man at a coffee shop I was visiting! I thought it must be good if even a man thought it was a great book! I am the “selector” of the books that we read for a book club. I am hoping that this will be one that we can read together.
I would be so excited if I won! I am really looking forward to reading “Wild”.
I want to read “Wild” by Cheryl Strayed, intact, I have asked my husband to get it for me as my holiday present this year and if I win, I’ll absolutely read all the 10 books!
Would love to read “The Lifeboat.”
Gone Girl is the one I am most looking forward to reading.
I have been trying for months to get “The Light Between Oceans” from my library, but all copies are always checked out. It’s time to get on the wait list, or win a copy!
I have been saving Gone Girl as a Christmas present to me, to be read over the week of the holiday. I would certainly love to read any of the top ten during that time but that seems to be a special book for me to read.
I am super excited to read Gone Girl!
I’m really looking forward to Gone Girl!
I love “The Light Between Oceans”. As a bookseller, I try to recommend it as much as possible!
I am most excited to read “Bring Up the Bodies”by Hilary Mantel. I am re-reading Wolf Hall right now, just so my memory is refreshed before I start the second volume. I’ve been saving it for the end of the year and will start it this week. Great contest!
I’ve only read Gone Girl, which was great, and I’m dying to read The Light Between Oceans!
I haven’t read most of the Top 10, but I did LOVE Gone Girl. I’m looking forward to reading Wild and This is How You Lose Her.
My favorite book was Wild. I’m currently on a long waiting list for Gone Girl from our local library.
Would like to read, Gone Girl. Sounds like a great mystery! Thank you for the contest.
“This is how you lose her”
I’d love to read Charlotte Rogan’s The Lifeboat.
This is how you lose her
I have already read up on Girl Gone by Gillian Flynn and am on the list to check it out but it may be a while! I so hope to win these books so I don’t have to wait too long!!
I enjoyed reading “Gone Girl,” and I would like to read Hilary Mantel’s “Bring Up the bodies.”
I am most excited for Junot Diaz’s “This is how you lose her”. I have read two of his novels and i know that this one will be just as great. He is easily one of my favorite authors! Anybody see him at Facing Race?
In the Top 10 list my favorite is WILD by Cheryl Strayed. I would like to read BRING UP THE BODIES by Hilary Mantel.
I really enjoyed reading Gone Girl and can’t wait to read the others in your Top 10. I probably most looking forward to The Round House.
I’ve heard of about half of the Top 10 Books but don’t know which I would want to read FIRST. I would just let Serrendipity rule, stick my hand out and whichever one it touched. She always seems to know what’s best for me at the time!
I can’t wait to read all of them! I am most anxious to read the Round House.
I would love to read Where’d You Go Bernadette, The Round House, The Light Between Oceans and Bringing Up the Bodies.
I enjoyed The Lifeboat, and I would read Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk or The Light Between Oceans next if I won!
ANY, they are all on my list of books to read!
My favorite book is LIGHT BETWEEN THE OCEAN.
I would love to read Hilary Mantel’s book as I really enjoy historical fiction. Also, Where Did You Go, Bernadette? My name after all!
I am dying to read Where’d You Go, Bernadette–everyone has given it such rave reviews!
I really enjoyed Gone Girl this year!
There is nothing like a good book…. but 10! Wow! I’m excited to try them all.
Wow, what a generous giveaway!
My favorite of the list is Bring Up The Bodies. here is my review of it:
http://wordsandpeace.com/2012/06/13/2012-27-review-bring-up-the-bodies/
And I would love to read your #10!
thanks again
Emma
ehc16e at yahoo dot com
Excited to read This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
I would read The Lifeboat first because the premise of being stranded at sea in a lifeboat is one of my greatest fears.
Are you sure this has better odds than the lottery? LOL
I can say that I’ve read Gone Girl and hated it. Sorry
I would really love to win The Round House.
WOW! I would adore this set of great books for our reading this winter1 Where’d you go Bernadette? was just recommended to me at a meeting today so it would be first, but I want to read all of them…. savoring the delightful pleasure that wonderful literature offers!
I am very excited about “bringing up the bodies” by Hillary Mantel. Having read Wolf Hall, I am a huge admirer of her writing style and the life of Thomas Cromwell. This will be another winner!
BRING UP THE BODIES. WHO COULD RESIST THAT TITLE!
I have read only a few on this list but most are on my list of “to read soon.” I loved Where Did you Go Bernadette. Such a great read. Winning this treasure of books would make my holiday oh so merry and bright and would also keep me reading into the wee wee hours of the night!
Hilary Mantel’s bring Up the Bodies gets my vote as favorite, but This is How You Lose Her is the one I’m most looking forward to reading next.
Where’d You Go Bernadette? This novel was like nothing I’ve read. Antarctica? Penguins? I laughed and laughed. What more could I ask for, this book had it all.
This is How You Lose Her is the one I’m most excited to read. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is one of my all time favorite books and I would love to hear from Yunior again!
Looking forward to reading Where’d You Go, Bernadette.
Gone Girl was the best of the list! Loved the book and loved meeting the author at the Southern Festival of Books!
I’m anxious to read Bring up the Bodies. Great idea for a giveaway. It got me to enter.
I am looking forward to reading The Round House in particular – Louise Erdrich has never written a thing I haven’t liked, plus I live in a round house!
Wild by Cheryl Strayed. Cannot wait to read that!
The only book on the list that I’ve read is Gone Girl, which I enjoyed very much! In fact, I have suggested it to several of my friends and my book club is reading it in March. The book that I am most looking forward to reading is The Light Between Oceans. My mom read it recently and said it one of her favorites of 2012.
Crossing my fingers for good luck!
Loved The Round House!
I loved The Round House!
I L O V E D, “Where’d You Go Bernadette?”. When I finished, I immediately went right back to the beginning and started it all over again.
I will be delighted to read, “Round House” next.
My curiosity is piqued, Charlotte Rogan.
Loved The Light Between Oceans (but hard to finish through my tears!). Where’d You Go, Bernadette is at the top of my list of must-reads.
My absolute favorite was The Light Between Oceans.
Most excited about: Gone Girl – loved her first two novels!
I would like to read all the books (except Lifeboat which I have already read), but the ones I am most excited about are The Light Between Oceans, Gone Girl and Wild. I was on a wait list for Gone Girl at the library I work for and was one of over 1000 people waiting for it. Amazing! And I own Wolf Hall so would love to own Bring Up the Bodies to go with it.
I’ve read The Light Between Oceans which was awesome, by the way. Still on my list for future reading is Wild and Gone Girl. Heck, the entire list sounds like a great group of literature!
I can’t wait to read The Lightt Between Oceans. I work at a library but the wait list is so long. It might be a while…
Loved The Light Between Oceans…now starting Gone Girl!
I have somehow managed not to read ANY of these, but ALL of them are on my to be read list. Great contest!!
Gone Girl is on my Christmas list but all of them are on my to-read list!
I think I have every one of these on my “to read” list, but the one I am most excited about is “Gone Girl”. I have been stubbornly trying to get it from the local library, and it is on hold forever!!
I am looking forward to the new Junot Diaz book. I loved Oscar Wao and I hope Diaz has a long, fruitful career.
I loved Gone Girl which I read this past summer and Wild is a book group selection for 2013!
I enjoyed both Gone Girl and The Lifeboat and would love to win This Is How You Lose Her.
I am most excited about The Light Between Oceans! I saw it when I was in Australia this summer, but I didn’t want to make my suitcase heavier so I thought I’d get a copy when I got back to the States, but I haven’t as of yet. I just look at it longingly in bookstores.
I’ve read, ‘The Lifeboat” and “Gone Girl”. “Gone Girl” made me go find and read Ms. Flynn’s previous 2 books immediately. If the others are as good as these 2, the winner will be rolling in word heaven!
I am excited to read Bring Up the Bodies and Gone Girl
I really, really want to read “Gone Girl”. Have heard it’s good.
All these books seem interesting. But, which book would I read first? Mantel’s Bring Up The Bodies has an intriguing title. I would read this book first.
This how you lose her
My favorite book is Gone Girl. Of course it’s the only one I’ve read so far!
I’m on the library list for Gone Girl. I can’t wait to read it, but it’s going to be some time if I don’t win…There are several hundred people ahead of me on the list!
If all of these wonderful books, I’ve only read Gone Girl and The Lifeboat. The Light Between the Oceans would be the first that I’d read and then The Round House. I’d be most excited to win This Is How You Lose Her and Wild because I loved signed editions.
Any of these would be great but I’d like to read Wild by Cherly Strayed,thanks for all the great contest you have…
Excited for Gone Girl!!
Gone Girl rocked. I couldn’t put it down.
I have only read Gone Girl from the ten listed and it was amazing. These books would look fantastic on the new bookshelves my husband is building me for Christmas!
Gone Girl is the only one I’ve read….great book. Thanks!
“This Is How You Lose Her” And have read “Wild” and loved it.
I’m most excited to read Gone Girl!
Would love to read them all! I heard Gone Girl is so good. Bring up the Bodies , the Light between Oceans and The Round House are all on my list too!
I am very anxious to read Wild by Cheryl Strayed! I have heard so many good reviews from others who have already read it.
I loved “Where’d You Go, Bernadette.” I think it’s the best book I’ve read all year. I most excited to crack open A.M. Homes’ latest, but I think this collection would make a nice, little lending library for my bookclub.
I’m almost exclusively a fiction reader, but when my bookclub did “Wild” by Cheryl Strayed, I was one of the “love it” readers. If you get a chance, grab a copy.
Loved, loved, loved Gone Girl. Have started Wild and am liking it a lot. And am eager to read Bring Up the Bodies since Wolfe Hall was super
Most interested in reading Gone Girl. Thanks for this contest!
Most excited to read Wild!
Just recently finished The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and would love to read the new Diaz book This Is How You Leave Her
I loved The Light Between Oceans. It was thought-provoking and touching while doing a fantastic job of capturing time, place, and situation.
I’m looking forward to reading “Where’d You Go, Bernadette?”
I have read Gone Girl and would love to read Bring Up The Bodies.
Loved The Light Between Oceans and can’t wait to read May we be forgiven!
So far my favorite of those is WILD and I would like more to be my favorites! I have actually entered MANY of your contests and never won so pick me!!
Loved Wild. Would read Bringing Up The Bodies
I’m ready to read “Gone Girl” if I can get it back from my daughter!
Loved “Wild”! but really want to read “This is how you lose her”
I am ready to read Bring Up the Bodies. I loved Wolf Hall.
The value of literature is that the reader must supply the visual narrative.
You are the producer and director of the story. Perhaps that is why different readers have such different experiences of a book.
Mantel inspires the creation of rich mental images. She could be a wonderful screen writer (if they allowed her to describe the scenes.)
I have heard from several friends and websites that Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn is a “Must Read” and I would love to read in celebration of the Best of 2012!
It would have to be Gone Girl!
I’d love to read Wild and Gone Girl though they all sound like great books to read. I read a lot and I actually win a lot of books! Mostly ARCs but still, I love it when a package comes and I know it’s a book.
I have been looking forward to reading Gone Girl since my friend told me about the book. Now I’m more excited than ever, that I could possible win all these books! I love to read!
Every since my friend told me about Gone Girl I have really wanted to read the book. Now I’m more excited that I could possible win the book!! I love to read & always have a book with me!!!
I listened to “Bring Up the Body” and really enjoyed it. I am eager to read “The Round House”
“Gone Girl” was my favorite from this list.
Junot Diaz is one of my favorite authors, and “This Is How You Lose Her” — which I’ve already read — is my favorite work by him. I’m also excited to read “The Lifeboat.” Really, all of the remaining 11 books are on my Kindle wish list!
Gone Girl!! I’ve been waiting to read it for a while now!
The Light Between the Oceans is the book I’m most looking forward to reading.
I would love to read all of them. Gone Girl looks good!
The one I am most looking forward to reading is “Gone Girl” mostly because some of the people in my book club have been very excited about it.
I’m looking forward to reading Bringing Up the Bodies. I like trying the Man Booker Prize winners, plus I’ve read other books by her and liked them.
Would love to read all of these…
I’m most excited to read the book by Junot Diaz. He’s been on my list to read forever, and I need to do it ASAP. What a great list of books. I’ll add all of them to my queue. It’d be a terrific present if I won.
I loved ‘Wild’ by Cheryl Strayed, which is the only book of the ten listed that I have read. I can’t wait to read ‘Gone Girl’! I love books more than chocolate!
Gone Girl has received such word of mouth advertising that I’m interested in reading it.
Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
I have not read any of these books but have been interested in reading several. Top of my list would be Gone Girl and The Light Between the Oceans. There is always not enough time to to keep up with all the wonderful books that are published.
I am torn between Wild and The Light Between Oceans. I really loved both and kept me totally hooked until the end.
I really enjoyed Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk.
Gone girl was one of my favorites this year!
Although I loved Gone Girl, Billy Lynn’s Long Half Time Walk, and The Round House, I am anticipating reading Where’d You Go, Bernadette. The way she has written this book seems like an interesting way to read a story. A few others are on my “To read” list too and be welcome additions to my book shelves.
Gone Girl – great book!
If I win, I’ll read “Lifeboat” first! Merry Christmas!
I want to read Hillary Mantle’s book.
Bring Up the Bodies sounds intriguing.
Just finished reading Gone Girl. It was a real page turner and definitely one of the best books of 2012.
I am so excited to read “The Round House.” I love Ms. Erdrich work and so happy that she won the National Book Award for this piece. I would love to have my own personal copy to join others in my library.
Thank you.
Loved Gone Girl except for the ending which made it all the more interesting.
Loved Gone Girl!
I’ve read Gone Girl–it’s a thriller!
I Want to read Gone Girl, have heard a lot about it.
Enjoyed Gone Girl, not crazy about Wild.
“The Lifeboat” is on my To Read list.
This Is How To Lose Her – Junot Diaz
I want to read LIFEBOAT first!
I have not read any of them yet, but totally want to read Wild.
I would love to read The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman. I too am drawn to the enigma of lighthouses and the sometimes vagueness of right and wrong.
LOVED The Lifeboat, and Gone Girl, looking forward to Where’d you go, Bernadette. All those books are on my list!
Favorite: “Uninvited Guests”
I can’t wait to read Wild…because I would never have had the courage to do what she did.
‘Bringing Up the Bodies’ is on my immense ‘To Be Read’ list.
I want to read THE LIFEBOAT!
I just read Gone Girl- great book !
I hope I win I will share with my friends!
I’m most excited to read Wild…since I was supposed to read it for my book club last month and totally didn’t.
It’s probably going to be Gone girl. Thanks for the chance.
Carol L
I have read Wild and really enjoyed it. Have told others they would love it. I have heard that Gone Girl is a great read. Next on my list.
I have not read any of these books! I am excited to read “Gone Girl”, my reader friends are saying it’s the best.
Loved Light Between Oceans. Want to read Night Circus again. Have just started Gone Girl.
Always excited to read books in general, but the Junot Diaz book really interests me.
I read ‘Wild’ and found it very inspiring. We are campers and love the way nature can heal your spirit and give you peace.
I loved Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple.
I’m looking forward to reading Gone Girl. The reviews and other comments have made me interested in that book.
Bring Up the Bodies is a wonderful follow-up to Wolf Hall!
I loved Gone Girl! WOW, what a roller-coaster ride it was. I am most excited though and looking forward to reading “Where’d You Go, Bernadette?”
I want to read “The Lifeboat,” and “Gone Girl.” I’ve already read several others on the list.
The book I want to read is Gone Girl.
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Gone Girl – my mom read it and loved it and I can’t wait to read it
I would love to read them all! I have had Gone Girl on my list for months, and hope to read it soon! Keeping my fingers crossed!
Bring Up the Bodies would be my first choice. Wolf Hall, its prequel, was wonderful.
It seems impossible that with all the books I have read this year that I haven’t read one of the giveaways!!! I would most love to read Gone Girl. It has been on my wish list for awhile now but just haven’t gotten to it. I hope I win. Thank you
I read and liked Girl Gone -
Would love to have the chance to read the entire list of books at my leisure. I’d start with Where’d You Go, Bernadette if I win. Fingers crossed. Thanks.
The Light Between the Oceans is one of my top 3 books for my year of reading. What a wonderful book! I have recommended this book to everyone and it was our Book Club pick for October. We had a great discussion. I can’t wait for Stedman’s next book.
I read Gone Girl in one sitting. What an engaging book!
I chair a very large book club with meetings totaling 60-70 people. Yes, it works and we just celebrated our 10th anniversary. Gone Girl is our Feb. selection and Light Between the Oceans is the Aug. book.
Gone Girl was a fun read as Ms Flynn’s anniversary couple manipulated me, as the reader, as much as they manipulated one another. As a bookseller, I have handed this book to many customers.
All of the books are on my to-be-read-someday-soon list–except for “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,” which I read and loved. So, yeah, that’s my favorite of the bunch.
Can’t wait to read Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman. Always interesting to read a debut novel as you never know what to expect.
I am looking forward to reading Louise Erdrich’s book “The Round House”.
Haven’t read a one of them, but Wild is the one I’d most anticipate reading.
I have Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple, Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel, and The Light Between the Oceans by M.L. Stedman are on my to-read list. Winning these titles and more would be a great Christmas present!
I am STILL on the waiting list at the library for Gone Girl and Round House- would love to give up my spot!
My favorite was The Lifeboat, with Gone Girl in a very close second.
Wild – although 4 others on the list that I want to read!!! Liked Wild and have recommended to others!!
Would love to win this!! Have been wanting to read Gone Girl since it came out!!! Fingers are crossed!!!!
I can’t wait to read Louise Erdrich’s The Round House.
Wild by Cheryl Strayed. Because I love journeys of discovery.
Loved Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, and could have happily read more about Billy’s post-game activities – great characterizations, vivid story – should I be so lucky as to win, I have quite a few friends with whom I would like to share a copy.
Hands down, my favorite book from the above selection was Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl. Ms. Flynn gets better with each novel she writes, and Gone Girl was riveting suspense at its finest, with surprises that actually surprised!
I would first read Wild.
I wanna win! and I want free time to actually relax and read leisurely! I’ve been wanting to read WILD ever since I read the reveiw on Bookpage. Maybe in the new year…
Choosing just one is hard because I really enjoyed Wild, but I’ll say This is How You Lose Her is what I’m most looking forward to. Diaz is an amazing writer and I’ve heard so many great things about his latest.
What an awesome giveaway! If I win the first book I will read id The Round House by Erdrich. I am dying to read that one.
I would be most excited about reading Gone Girl! However there are several close behind!:)
Gone Girl is on my list to buy and read. Love to read and winning would be great. Will be leaving to go cross country in a motor home. How fun to have all these books to read!
Gone Girl was terrific.
I’ve read Gone Girl and loved it! I am most excited about Wild and The Round House.. oh, and don’t forget This is How You Lose Her. So many !
“The Round House” was stirring because of Louise Erdrich’s wonderful writing and her plot which focuses on the injustices done to Native Americans over the years. In this case it is the problem of tribal, federal and state courts to bring a brutal rapist to justice. I loved that it told the story from the viewpoint of the boy whose mother was the victim. A great book!
The Light Between Oceans
A baby washes ashore in a dinghy on the coast of a lighthouse island in southwestern Australia. The ramifications of this singular event are exceptionally told in this heart wrenching debut novel. The writing style to be poetic at times, thoughtful at all times. I found each and every character to be sympathetic and found myself siding with each and every one at different points during the story. During the last third of the book, the novel was a page turner as I was anxious to see how things would be resolved, and the author managed to include a few more twists when I thought there surely couldn’t be any more. I wholeheartedly recommend it!
I’d love to read all the books but mostly Junot Diaz’ This is How You Lose Her. I’ve been waiting for request at my library, I read Drown and thought it was wonderful.
Would love to read Wild and Round House!!!!
I absolutely LOVED The Light Between Oceans. It was fantastic writing and I can’t believe this is the author’s first!
I am so anxious to read GONE GIRL. It is so widely praised.
The only book of the top 10 I’ve read is “Wild” and it was absolutely awesome! The one I am most looking forward to reading is “The Light Between Oceans.”
BRAIN ON FIRE by SUSANNAH CAHALAN
Brain on Fire by Susannah CAHALAN is my top choice for the year. Haven’t read it yet, but the description of the contents sends shivers down my spine. My oh my, if the shoe fits …
I’m interested to compare Cheryl Strayed’s “Wild” with Pittsfield, Massachusetts’s own “Lucky Irish Lad” Kevin O’Hara’s “Last of the Donkey Pilgrims”.
Would love to read Wild. Hope I win!
i am excited about reading GONE GIRL………….
Gone Girl was a page turner! Enjoyed the twists and final resolution in this novel!
Bring Up The Bodies is on my list of must reads, totally enjoyed Wolf Hall; that era of British history fascinates me!
I loved “Gone Girl” by Gillian Flynn.. So many twists and turns in the story, I didn’t know what would happen next.. Really kept me interested and couldn’t wait to finish..
Have only read Round House – excellent. Gone Girl and Light Between Oceans are on my ‘to read’ list…
Would love to have these to share with my daughters…we all read constantly…
From this list, I’d say Gone Girl was my favorite read so far this year.
I a most excited to read “May We Be Forgiven”, my favorite book reviewer on NPR gave it a fabulous endorsement. I’m also very excited to read “This is How You Lose Her”. I have many Dominican friends and I love their culture.
I’m excited to read “Where’d You Go Bernadette?”, but would love them all!!
I’d like to read The Lifeboat. Thanks for the great giveaway!
Gone Girl was fabulous. Would love to read the others on the list that I haven’t gotten to yet!
I would love to read Gone Girl and love to read most anything. If I won I woud read these books then donate them to my local library.
I can’t wait to read Wild.
I am half way through May We Be Forgiven, so funny and a wonderful observation on modern USA. If the other 11 books are as good I should enjoy a very good read indeed.
I would really love to win them all, they are great books.
Seriously? To win anything at all, let alone the top books of the year??? Fabulous!!! Gone Girl is it!
I loved Light between the Oceans and also Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. Gone Girl is next on my list.
Bring Up the Bodies is one of the best books I’ve ever read; wonderful characterization and writing style. I haven’t read most of the books on the list and would be excited to read them all.
I loved Gone Girl and have recommended it to many friends. This Is How You Lose Her is on my Nook and I have purchased The Round House for a friend for Christmas. The list is impressive and I look forward to reading the ones I have missed.
I read Wild and loved it!
Love Hilary Mantel’s work. She has such a great way of making historical fiction come alive and relevant.
I really enjoyed Wild by Cheryl Strayd. Would love to read more of the books on your list!
I’m waaay behind in my reading list, but The Lifeboat is at the top of that list!
I have heard so many good things about Gone Girl that I am looking forward to reading that.
Loved ‘The Lifeboat!” Would enjoy reading the others on the list.
I’d love to read “Gone Girl” because the opinions of my friends are so opposite one of another. Some think its great and others just hate it. I’d love to read it and find out for myself.
There are many good books on the list but I would pick Bring Up the Bodies.
I loved The Light Between Oceans.
I would like to read Gone Girl!!! My favorite books, that I have read this year, are the Hunger Games series
I vote for Gone Girl
My book club read Gone Girl and loved it. The reviews for This is How You Lose Her have been great – I would enjoy reading it.
I love to read and would be ecstatic to get a crack at your Top Ten of 2012. I heard an amazing interview with Junot Diaz about his book This Is How You Lose Her, and would love to read it. They all look great!
I loved Gone Girl! It kept me guessing all the way through. I’d most like to read Wild if I win.
I haven’t yet read any of them – but (if I don’t win) I’ll have to find my own copy of “The Lifeboat”.
All of the books on your Top Ten List sound interesting, but I would love to read Gone Girl first.
I’m most excited to read The Round House by Louise Erdrich because that’s the award winner.
This is How you Lose Her was my favorite book in the top 10.
I think they all look intriguing, but I would be most interested in either “Gone Girl” or “Bring Up the Bodies.”
Where’d You Go Bernadette?
I have only read three of the Top 10 (Bring up the Bodies, Gone Girl and Wild). All great reads. I would love to read all of the books on the list, but especially This is How You Lose Her and The Light Between Oceans. Keeping my fingers crossed that I get the books!
I have read Wild and loved it. The other nine are on my must read list!
Sadly, I haven’t read any of the top 10 — but have 3 on my bookshelf — Wild, Bring up the Bodies and Gone Girl. I think I’m most excited about Bring up the Bodies — I LOVED Wolf Hall. I’m just a slow reader that it takes me awhile to get to any of my TBR books!
I am looking forward to reading Wild–and the other 9!
I would love to win the whole set. I’d have to give Gone Girl away because I’ve read it and thought it was wonderful. I’ve been telling all of my friends about it.
I had a hard time choosing which book I’d like to read. They all sound good. I think I might choose ‘Bring Up The Bodies’. Thanks for the wonderful giveaway.
Loved Billy Lynne’s Long Halftime Walk. Want to read Gone Girl. Fingers crossed!
Looks like great variety of books! The one that really caught my eye is
“Where’d You Go, Bernadette? Thank you for the chance to win!
I just finished This Is How You Lose Her last night. Diaz really pulls you in and every story has just enough humor to balance the darker sides of the book. Can’t wait to read Round House and The Light Between Oceans!
I would love to read Louise Edrich’s The Round House. I have read some of her other works and think she is always interesting. The Light Between The Oceans is also on my long list of books that I want to read. Thanks for your offer.
I am most excited to read Louise Erdrich’s book The Round House. I work at a library and just saw this one on the new shelf. I love both her children’s books and her adult books. The Plague of Doves is one of my favorites.
I read Wild for 2 book clubs — people either liked it or hated it. I was in the like camp. Most looking forward to reading Gone Girl over my Christmas Break.
As a fan of historic fiction I am excited about reading ‘bring up the bodies’ by Hillary Mentel.
Great contest! Currently reading Gone Girl and cannot put it down. Most of the other books on your list are on my “to read” list and would be excited to win! Thanks.
I can’t wait to read May We Be Forgiven by A. M. Homes, because I’ve loved everything I’ve read by her.
Where’d You Go, Bernadette is my favorite so far, followed closely by Gone Girl.
Bring Up The Bodies was my favorite book from your list. I love the Tutor period. This was fun and informative and would make a great movie.
The Round House – wonderful book.
I’m just finishing Round House, really outstanding. I’m looking forward to reading Light Between the Oceans.
Sharon
I really enjoyed Light Between Oceans. Another book that I loved which is not on your list is * The Unlikely Pilgramage of Harold Fry Rachel Joyce.
I am looking forward to reading Wild.
This is indeed a wonderful contest! I would be so thrilled to win the collection and to share with others. Wild might be the first book I read.
I’d be wild about Wild!
“Light Between Oceans” was one of the best books that I read this year.
I have read The Round House, The Light Between Oceans and Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. The three books were amazing but Billy Lynn blew me away.
I really want to read “gone girl” by Gillian flynn
Wild and Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Really enjoyed Gone Girl. Looking forward to reading The Light Between the Oceans.
My favorite book out of this group is Gone Girl. Loved it!
Hoping to read all ten. I think I’ll start with Gone Girl.
Great contest. Books are a fantastic prize!
I loved Gone Girl and can’t wait to read Round House. All the others are on my wish list. Great picks!
I enjoyed the twists and turns in the plot of Gone Girl.
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn was amazing!
Although I am looking forward to reading all of the books on the list, the newest book by Junot Diaz is the one I will pick up first. Diaz is an amazing writer with a unique voice.
Would love to read Gone Girl. They all look great.
I absolutely loved Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn!! I have recommended that book to pretty much everyone I know. I have also read her other books and they are equally awesome! I have been wanting to read The Light Between Oceans all year! I would absolutely love to win this.
Gone Girl was the twistiest, most mind-messing treat I have read in a long time. I am always eager to read her books.
I can’t wait to read ‘The Light Between Oceans’
So much to choose from….I’d like to start with “Bring up Bodies”
I loved Gone Girl, but Wild was my favorite so far – I’ve been dreaming for years about hiking the Pacific Coast Trail, and Cheryl’s experience made it (almost too) real for me!
I’m excited to read The Light Between the Oceans and Where’d You Go Bernadette? Gone Girl and Wild are also on my reading list.
Read Gone Girl, have Wild,will read next- would like to read Where’d You Go, Bernadette?
Gone Girl was ranked in my top 10 books that I have read this year. Just as I thought I had it figured out, I was wrong. I would love to have this book added to my collection.
Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl is my favorite, hands-down. She’s a brilliant writer.
Although all of the books look amazing I am most excited about “Wild” by Cheryl Strayed.
I am excited to read all of the books but mostly “Wild.” What a journey~
So interested in reading The Light Between the Oceans by M.L. Stedman – love books set in other countries.
I would love to read ALL those books, but the one I’m most excited to read is WILD by Cheryl Stayed. Her hiking story is of great interest to me as I am currently working on a project to create a documentary about another long distance hiker — Emma Gatewood who was the first woman to solo thru-hike the Appalachian Trail. (see http://edenvalleyenterprises.org/progdesc/gatewood/gtwdinf.htm ) I’m now, of course, collecting all sorts of long distance hiking information for general information and possible follow-up stories.
I have read Light between oceans and enjoyed every page of it. I would very much like to read all of the other books. I will share the books I receive with other readers.
I am most excited about Bringing up the Bodies
I loved Gone Girl, but would love to read the other 2012 books you’ve selected, especially Wild!
Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple and Wild by Cheryl Strayed
I am in the midst of reading Gone Girl and can’t put it down. Went to bed way too late last night because of it!
I have read Gone Girl and loved it, most of these are on my to read list, but I am really looking forward to Wild.
Gone Girl was one of the best of the top 10!
“Wild” by Cheryl Strayed. It’s the inspirational story of someone that perservered, made it through to the end, and became a better person.
What a wonderful contest. Many on the list are on my “to read” list.
LOVED The Light Between the Oceans!
I would love to win teh Top Ten Books…I would read Gone Girl and This is How You Lose Her first!
What a great collection.Loved Gone Girl, but am waiting for the Erdrich book as I enjoy her writing. I have cleared a space on my bookshelf so I know I have a great chance of winning all these treasures.
Thank you,
Maris
I really want to read Gone Girl, but I think think Louise Erdrich’s The Round House looks equally appealing.
I would like to read Wild by Cheryl Strayed.
I’m most excited to read Wild and my favorite book of 2012 was Gone Girl.
Nick Ziino:
I’m looking forward to reading Louise Erdrich’s “The Round House”.It sounds like a great story.
I loved Wild – I gave it five stars. It’s the best book I have read in a long time. Second to that was The Light Between Oceans, and I also loved Where’d You Go, Bernadette. Gone Girl was really good too. I’m really looking forward to reading The Round House.
Here nothing but great things . Can’t wait to read it
I think Billy Linn’s Long Halftime Walk would really be appropriate for me right now as my Georgia Bulldogs lost the SEC title and a shot at the National Championship to Alabama.
All Georgia fans are taking a Long Walk this week!!!
Great selection of books by the way.
allen hott
Having just devoured Oscar Wao and Drown, I’ve just started chewing How you Lose Her by Junot Díaz. Sounds yummy so far! If the other books on this Top 10 are just as tasty, I’d love to have a feast on these preciosidades!
Can’t wait to read “Round House” by Louise Erdrich, one of my most respected reading friends LOVED IT! On the other hand “Wild” by Cheryl Strayed was highly recommended as an inspiring book by the writer in my group – the Seacoast Literary Ladies. Personally I adore Junot Diaz, think I have a crush on him, his writing is refreshing, raw and full of energy! PLEASE I WANT TO WIN ALL THESE BOOKS!
Really looking. Foward to Gone Girl.
Loved Light Between the Oceans. Looking forward to reading Gone Girl.
The Light Between Oceans was a transcendent read, one that continues to haunt me still.I have passed it on to three other people who loved it as much as I did. The stock in Kleenex must have soared. If any of the other books on the list are half as good, this collection is worth its weight in gold.
The Round House by Louise Erdrich is stellar!
I loved BRING UP THE BODIES, BILLY LYNN’S LONG HALFTIME WALK, and GONE GIRL – haven’t read the others and would love the opportunity ! Thanks !
Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl was a fantastic read. Now I am looking forward to Ben Fountain’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. I’ve heard strong word-of-mouth reviews about it!
I loved Gone Girl, and would love to read the rest of the books on this list.
Great list. I’m anxious to read The Light between the Oceans. It is already on my personal list of books to be read along with several of the others.
I look forward to reading the newest Louis Erdrich. I always enjoy her books and come away from them with new insights.
I loved Wild, and am looking forward to reading Gone Girl. Thanks for the opportunity to win!
I haven’t read any of these, but have two ready to go on audio. I’m interested in “Gone Girl”, it seems to have the record for the longest hold list ever at our library.
I’m getting ready to read Gone Girl right now and am very interested in Wild and The Round House.
Gone Girl is the one I would be most excited about reading. I have heard alot about it, and it would be a great one.
Thanks for the contest!
I have put “Bring Up the Bodies” on my 2012 reading list. I love historically-based books. Truth is stranger than fiction!
Ohhh winning books is better than the lottery…(mostly)
I have read and LOVED Gone Girl and The Light Between Oceans (wish a friend would read this so I could discuss this one)…have many of these on my numerous to read lists but if I picked one it would be…The Lifeboat…and The Round House and Wild…that is one in book world right…thanks for the chance!
I am most excited about reading Bring up the Bodies! I have heard great things about this book and look forward to diving in.
At least half of these 10 books
are on my “to do” list. I want to read
them all!! Just read “The Unfinished
Work of Elizabeth D” and Running the
Rift.” And my birthday is Friday, too!!!
Gone Girl was one of my favorites! I can’t wait to read The Round House by Louise Erdrich.
Light Between Oceans was so great, also Gone Girl. I would love to win. Thanks for the giveaway!
This is How you Lose Her.
The only book I’ve read on the list is “Where’d You Go, Bernadette?”–thoroughly enjoyed it. Really wanting to read “Wild,” and “This is How You Lose Her.” Also, the Mantel book (after I read the first one!)
My number one to-read from the list is “May We Be Forgiven”. I have been wanting to get my hands on it since I first read the description! However, this is a great line up of books & I’d be happy to have, read & share them all. Thanks!
I can’t wait to read The Round House. Used to love Erdrich and kind of got away from her writing. I’ve heard so many good things about this book!
I’m looking forward to reading The Lifeboat most.
I haven’t read any of these yet. I’m looking forward to Gone Girl, for which I am on the waiting list at the Omaha Public Library.
I would be sooo happy to win these books!!
I am anxious to read “Wild”
I have already Read “gone girl” but would share as a Christmas gift with my book club friends!!!
Junot Diaz!!! This is How You Lose Her!
Gone Girl is the only one on the list I’ve read so far,love to read the rest!
Loved Gone Girl, can’t wait to read both Wild and Bringing Up the Bodies!
I loved Wild, Gone Girl, Where’s do go, Bernadette and This is how you love her. I will read the remainder of the list when they are available at the public library or when I win the contest. Great stories this year by some interesting authors!
I want to read Wild. I heard it is similar to the book, Almost Somewhere which was written by a friend of mine and I would love to compare. Gone Girl is also on my list.
This is difficult as so many were excellent. I am going to give my support to GONE GIRL. She is a local author and her books just keep getting better and better.
I would love to add these books to my collection. I want to read Gone Girl first, have been hearing from everyone what a good book it is, but haven’t gotten to it yet.
I would love to win and be able to read all these great books!! Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn is one I’m really looking forward to reading. I don’t buy hard cover books, a bit to pricy for me, so I was waiting for the paperbacks to come out.
These books are all new to me except got Gone Girl. I have been waiting ages for it to be available at my local library so I can read it. Am happy to find some new authors to try.
Martha Lee
So many great books out every year I am never able to pick just one favorite. Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior would be up there among the top 10.
Read “The Light Between Oceans” a month ago and still think about it. This is a great collection of books and most are in my “To Read” pile! Would love to read and share them all!
Gone Girl…craziest psychological thriller I’ve read. Where’d you Go Bernadette is on my to read list.
i want/need to read all these but A.M. Holmes and Junot Diaz are two of my favorite authors and i’d start there!
All of these authors are unfamiliar to me except for Gillian Flynn. I have been waiting for Gone Girl to be available at my local library so I can read it. Am glad to find some new authors to try. Thank you.
Martha Lee
“Wild” is at the top of my to-read list, followed closely by “The Round House.”
I loved The Light Between Oceans, and recommended it to several friends.
Loved Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, Gone Girl, and the Lifeboat. I want to read The Round House but am going to wait until after the holidays because Erdrich’s books are so light and uplifting (lol). Also, I am looking forward to Bringing Up the Bodies
Looking forward to reading The Lifeboat. I’ve read and heard great things about it.
My favorite from the top 10 is “Where’d you go Bernadette”. It’s entertaining, touching & absurd. I’m looking forward to reading “The Round House”.
Loved Bringing Up the Bodies. Very excited about getting to read any of the Top Ten! Wheeeeeee!
I am currently enjoying This Is How I Lose Her, and enjoyed Gone Girl this summer.
Most looking forward to reading The Round House
To choose only one to be excited about out of the top ten is difficult. I’m excited to read them all! However, if I must choose one, I am really looking forward to reading Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan.
I can’t wait to read Hilary Mantel’s ‘Bring up the Bodies’. And since Round House won best book award, it’s a must-read!
I love to read and Strayed by Cheryl Strayed sounds like a good book to curl up with. All the books sound wonderful. Hope to win.
I have read wonderful reviews about Gone Girl. I would love to read it.
I was astounded by Hilary Mantel’s first book on Cromwell, and am looking forward to “Bring Up The Bodies”
I’m really looking forward to reading “Wild” – I’ve always wanted to hike like that….
“Gone Girl” was terrific!
I really enjoyed reading “Wild” by Cheryl Strayed. As the mother of a boy scout and girl scout, I participated in several “small” backpacking adventures. I admired Cheryl’s strength in completing this grand trip.
I need some new books to supplement my “at home” pile. Only reading for work (library) can become tedious.
I am most interested in reading Wild!!
I read “Gone Girl” a few months ago and immediately suggested it to several friends. There are some others on your list I am anxious to read and will do so as soon as Santa brings those gift cards. Question: Does Hilary Mantle use pronouns in “Bringing Up The Bodies?” I started “Wolf Hall” a few times but the lack of pronouns just stymied me.
Gone Girl and This is How You Lose Her are at the top of my list
I would love to read Gone Girl-I’ve heard great things about this book.
I am looking forward to reading May we be Forgiven and Gone Girl.
I read Gone Girl and actually found it rather creepy. I would like to read something a little more positive, maybe This is How You Lose Her, or Wild. I am very excited to win all of them, what a selection!
Loved “Bring Up the Bodies” and “Gone Girl.”
I am looking forward to reading “Round House” and “Light between Oceans.”
Gone Girl was fantastic. Subsequently read the rest of Flynn’s books which were also excellent. Thanks for the great suggestions this year!
I’m really excited about reading This is How You Lose Her, but to be honest all of these books are on my wishlist! Sad but true.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Gone Girl
Wild was inspiring and extremely well written. LOVED it.
I am extremely anxious to read “May We Be Forgiven”! I love A.M. Homes. I have read “Gone Girl” and enjoyed it immensely. I love to read ANYTHING and would be overjoyed to win these books!
My mom and I share the books we love and we both would definitely love to read “Gone Girl” and “The Light Bewtween the Oceans.” I read “Wild” – from the library – and would like my own copy to read again and again before I go hiking.
Going into the hospital 12/06 for 2nd knee replacement. Would love to have 10 new books to read during recuperation! Have read “Gone Girl” (a loan from my daughter) and LOVED it! We live out in the sticks and can’t get new books for a year from our regional library!
Merry Christmas, everyone!!
I found Gone Girl fascinating in how it was constructd.
I read WILD on my Kindle Fire, and loved it. I would love to have it in my permanent collection so I can loan it to others.
Gone Girl was absolutely amazing! Kept me guessing until the end!!!
May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Holmes – very dark, funny and moving!
I’m in a Book Club and several had read “Gone Girl” and are raving about it so I would really love to read it. At our local library it’s always unavailable because it’s so popular. Having my own copy would be a real treat.
Any contest involving books and I’m there at least trying! And to try for the Top 10 books is awesome!
I just finished reading “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” and LOVED it! Such a fun and creative read. It draws you in and you’re rooting for Bee and Bernadette. I would love to own it along with the other books!
I would really like to read Wild.
This is How You Lose Her was absolutely mesmerizing. Gone Girl is my next pick.
I VOTE FOR THE ROUND HOUSE BY LOUISE ERDRICH. I HAVE ALWAYS ENJOYED HER BOOKS,AND LOOK FORWARD TO READING HER LATEST, NAMED ABOVE .THANK YOU
Gone Girl was absolutely gripping, one I would vote in my top 10 for 2012. Wild makes the list as well. I would most like to read Where’d You Go, Bernadette because in our stressful everyday lives, I love to gravitate toward humor in a story. As the author wrote for Arrested Development and Mad About You, her humor will be most welcome.
I loved Bernadette! So quirky & funny:)
Favorite book so far – May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes. Dark, funny, moving. Looking forward to reading Junot Diaz’s latest….
I was absolutely gobsmacked by “Gone Girl,” reading it in two days
and, to date, have loaned it to seven friends! The book I most want to
read in Louise Erdrich’s “Round House.” I have been a huge fan
of her writing since “Last Report of Miracles at Little No Horse.”
Bring it!! ‘This Is How You Lose Her’ is so-o-o-o desired.
Since, The Light Between the Oceans by M.L. Stedman is the only one on the list I have read so far I have to pick it. I loved the imagery and character development in this book. A quick read and the ending was a total suprise.
My favorite book on the list is Wild. I’m most excited about reading The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan
I’m dying to read “Gone Girl”, and even more so after reading the comments others have posted!
Would like to read Billy Lynns Long Halftime Walk again
I would start with The Lifeboat…so many books, so little time…I want to read them all!
GONE GIRL
Heard so much about Gone Girl, can’t wait to read.
This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel…because at the Southern Festival of Books this year, author Margot Livesay said it was the best book she’d read this year and was just raving about it!
Gone Girl! Please let me win! (!)
The Round House and The Light Between Oceans. I started reading the Round House while waiting for a student in the library one day. I was so drawn into the story.
I am with the person who said she wanted to read all of them. As much as I read, I haven’t read any of these as yet, but particularly interested in Gone Girl.
It’s hard to choose from such an incredible list, but I always enjoy Louise Erdrich’s books, so that will be my next read.
Gone Girl absolutely my favorite of the top 2012 that I have read. Go girl for Gone Girl!
The Light Between Oceans was my favorite book by far this year–a gorgeously written, heartbreaking read!
I love all of Gillian Flynn’s books and in Gone Girl, she’s at the top of her game!
Favorite book: Round House by Louise Erdrich
I am really looking forward to reading Gone Girl and This is How You Lose Her. I am just finishing up my backlog of books I hadn’t read yet and this would be a great time to stock up on some more great reads!
Favorite book : Round House by Louise Erdrich
They all sound really interesting..but I think I would pick Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up the Bodies to read first!
I would want to read them all, but I guess my first choice would be “Wild” by Cheryl Strayed. I have read about this book in Bookpage.
Bring Up the Bodies was magnificent! Hilary Mantel has turned my understanding of the Reformation period upside down!
I am working CRAZY hours and have not had time to read any of them, but hopefully my schedule will slow down after I win them all and I will have time to relax and read them!!!!!
Enjoy your website. You have “steered” me to many great books.
Many thanks,
Judy
The Lifeboat looks interesting…
Gone Girl is making the rounds with my friends and I may never see its return! LOL! I loved it and just had to share, so I could allow that copy to continue to wander and use the one in this contest to adorn my bookshelf. (Just hopefully planning ahead.)
The one I am most looking forward to reading from this very desirable lineup is The Light Between Oceans, which has been on my reading wish list for the past couple months. Oh, how I love the excitement of Book Page contests!!!
I would like to read Louise Erdrich’s The Round House the most, being most familiar with her work. Junot Diaz, Cheryl Strayed, Gillian Flynn, M. L. Stedman and Hilary Mantel intrigue me.
Would love to read “Wild” as I enjoy backpacking and really enjoyed Bryson’s “Walk in the Woods.”
I have only read “The Light between the Oceans,” but look forward to the others!! I am on the wait list at our wonderful Library for “Gone Girl” and “Wild”. Phyllis from Michigan
I am enthusiastic about all of these books. I attended Book Expo America this summer, where there were previews of “The Light Between the Oceans” and “This Is How You Leave Her,” so I have a special interest in those. I also know that “Gone Girl” has had amazing reviews and is supposed to be very suspenseful!
I am both fascinated by and terrified of deep bodies of water. Probably this is why I am drawn to heroic, if perilous stories and oceanic, and why I’d like to read The Lifeboat.
Thank you for offering this contest.
My daughter just finished reading “Gone Girl”,,,,and I am next!
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Wild by Cheryl Strayed. But I would love to read them all!
Would love to read all but am really interested in Gone Girl.
Haven’t read any yet from the top 10, but am really looking forward to reading Wild and The Lifeboat.
Can’t wait to read them all!
I am reading Gone Girl now and really like it. I really enjoy your lists of best books. It gives me new authors to try. Thanks.
I read the Bernadette book, and loved it, and can’t wait to read Mantel’s Bring up the Bodies after hearing her on NPR!
I have read ‘Gone Girl’ and can see why they want to make a movie of it. It was very intense, exciting, disturbing and unpredictable. Definately a book of suspense!
I’m most excited to read _The Light Between Oceans_ – I’ve heard a lot about it! (_Gone Girl_ was full of surprises).
The Light Between Oceans….definitely the best book I have read in a long time. Couldn’t put it down. Loved the description of living on a deserted island and the workings of a lighthouse. The deception and love between the couple and the child…very well written. I felt like I was on the island with them. The ending suprised me. I thought Isabel would eventually meet her grown daughter, but then it seemed right that she didn’t because of her extreme dependency on that relationship. I was surprised she was able to stay with her husband after she lost the daughter. A sequel would be wonderful, giving information about the daughter’s life with her biological mother and what happened to the lighthouse after Tom left it. Loved the writing, loved this book.
Gone Girl is the one I’m waiting for. I have had it on order at the library for some time but there must be a lot of other folks anxious to read it too.
Gone Girl is first on my list but all the others sound good too.
I would like to read all of them but since I have to choose one, I choose The Light Between the Oceans.
I really enjoyed “The Wild” but I have to go with “Gone Girl”. Great, twisted storyline!
My favorite book from the list is Gone Girl-loved the plot twists and turns in addition to the depth of the chatacter development.
The only one I read was Gone Girl, so that would have to be my favorite. And I’m excited to read The Lifeboat!
Gone Girl is my favorite this year.
I’d really like to read the new Hilary Mantel book, as I thought Wolf Hall was an excellent read and take on Cromwell.
Out of those ten books, I think I am most interested in reading Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn.
Of the top 10, Light between the Oceans is my favorite.
I have read Light between the Oceans and can’t wait to read the rest of the list…….all of them.
Really enjoyed Wild by Cheryl Strayed.
Loved Wild. Taught me so much about believing in one’s self, perseverance and bravery.
I love all the books I’ve read of Louise Erdrich, so the one I am looking forward to the most is Round House.
Gone Girl.
Definitely Gone Girl, but they all look awesome!!
I’m excited to read “The Light Between the Oceans” by M.L. Stedman. I love the premise, I love the cover of the book.
It’s been a while now but I still remember the sadness of not being able to have a baby. I can relate to the woman in this story. Thank you.
Oh, my goodness….so many great books all in a row. This pic makes me smile. I eagerly anticipate reading The Round House by Louise Erdrich…hopefully my very own copy courtesy of you. Thanks!
If it’s a book, I want to read it…but “May We Be Forgotten” appeals to me in particular – I know nothing about it, but the title gets my attention.
Gone Girl would be my favorite, but I would love to win them all since there are a few there that I haven’t read yet.
I’ve read Gone Girl and Where’d You Go Bernadette. Both were incredible reads. Most of the other books are on my wish list.
I’m most excited about reading Gone Girl, but I’m looking at all of these recommendations as possible selections for our book club to read in the coming year.
The Light Between Oceans is one of the best novels I have read in many years. There are some parallels with the motion pictures Captain January as done with Baby Peggy (a 1924 silent) and later (1936) Shirley Temple. Looking forward to reading Gone Girl. I already have Gillian Flynn’s other novels on my bookshelf.
I am going to choose The Lifeboat. I was very intrigued by this book and enjoyed reading it.
Wild
It has to be Bring Up the Bodies. After Wolf Hall, I thought the author could not top herself, but now, listening to friends who’ve read this one, apparently she has.
I’m anxious to read “Gone Girl” — am on the wait list for library copy. Love to read, but in a small home, I generally borrow rather than buy. Just don’t have room for everything I want to read, and unless its an exceptional book, I generally don’t re-read books. Love “Book Page”, gives me lots of inspiration for seeking out new titles.
I am most excited about reading This is How you Lose Her. I heard a radio interview by the author and was intrigued.
I’m most excited to read Gone Girl. I’ve read so many good things about it!
My favourite book is Gone Girl and I can’t wait to read The Light Between Oceans.
Gone Girl is the book on my list of books to read but would enjoy reading all 10 if I were the winner.
I am just savoring the moment that I can read Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. It is out of the library so much that I can’t get my hands on it.
I’m most excited about reading Wild. My children have done primitive camping and hiking which I’m not able to do. One of them talked about hiking the Appalachian trail. This would give me insight into their experiences.
I cannot wait to read Gone Girl – I’ve heard it is great!
Of the top 10 Gone Girl.
I really enjoyed Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and am looking forward to Bring Up the Bodies. Her engrossing narrative completely overturned my view of Cromwell and Moore and added real depth to my understanding of that period in English history.
I loved ‘Where’d you go Bernadette’! It was so funny and yet asked some good questions about parenting and creativity. I am looking forward to reading ‘Light Between the Oceans’!
Thanks!
CR
I’m thrilled at the chance of reading “This is how you lose her”, if I am lucky to win. In reality, all of the titles seem like a great treat. Thank you for this wonderful opportunity.
my fave book from this list was the light between oceans
I haven’t had the pleasure of reading any of these books yet, but have read plenty of reviews and commentary. They all sound wonderful, but I look forward most to reading Wild. Cheryl Strayed’s journey sounds remarkable and inspiring.
Would love to read Gone Girl!
Definitely Light between the Oceans!!
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz has been on my list since it came out!
I’m most excited to win and read This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
I loved Wild by Cheryl Strayed! I read it before Oprah added it to her book club.
I would love to read WILD. I have it on reserve at my
library, but i am number 16! A bit of a wait.
GONE GIRL is my favorite among BookPage’s Top 10, because it’s the only one I’ve gotten around to reading so far
. But I have WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE on audiobook already, and I’m pretty sure it’s going to be my next “read by ear.”
Would love to read them all, but I think I’d be most excited to read Gone Girl, as I’ve heard it’s VERY good. I never win these kinds of things, but my fingers are crossed…
Good luck to everyone!
I would love to read all of these books and hopefully I’ll win so I can. The one I’ve heard the most about is “This Is How You Lose Her” by Junot Diaz, so I would probably read that one first. I’m hoping they come in large print.
Gone Girl was a very different and interesting book. No wonder it’s been in the top ten for several weeks!
Loved Gone Girl and have the Round House on my stack to read. Happy Holidays!
Read Gone Girl last month and still can’t believe all the twisted angles that were revealed…very entertaining reading. The Lifeboat will be next after I win the contest! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
I love the selections from Bookpage, and rarely am I disappointed. I read Gone Girl and The Light Between Oceans based on BP recommendations. Both great. Would love to read all top 50, so to win the top 10 would be awesome!!!! Since I didn’t win Powerball, maybe I’ll win these.
I think Bring Up the Bodies was my favorite book of the whole year. Currently reading Where’d You Go, Bernadette?
I can’t wait to read Bringing Up the Bodies!! Nanette Ryan
I love Junot Diaz, and devoured This is How You Lose Her in one sitting. I can’t wait to read more books on this list!
GONE GIRL. Several of my friends have told me about this book and said I MUST, MUST read it. I was going to wait until I went to FL to do so but…sure would love to win this group of books. There are several in the 10 that I have on my list to read but haven’t done so yet.
The only one I’ve read is “The Light Between Oceans” and I loved it! I am looking forward to reading “wild” and “Gone Girl” the most of the rest.
My favorite, so far, was “Gone Girl”. Can’t wait to win (!!) and read the ones I’ve not yet read.
Loved Gone Girl (CRAZY! We read it for our book club and had a rousing discussion…) but have had Wild on my to-read list for a while now… Looking forward to getting to it over the holidays.
I can’t wait to read Gone Girl. I loved Light Between Oceans.
I am eagerly waiting to read _Wild_ by Cheryl Strayed, so that would be my top pick right now. And am also looking forward to reading _Gone Girl_ as well as a couple others.
I have started hiking again after reading WILD, enjoyed her story.
I can’t wait to read The Gone Girl. I loved Light Between Oceans.
I’ve been saving This is How You Lose her as a treat over winter break. It would be wonderful to own a copy.
My favorite book would have to be Wild. I read that puppy in one day. Could not put it down and the sad thing was I was at work!! Had to find many hiding places to go catch a read here and there, but man oh man, was that book exciting!! I would absolutely love to win all this books as I am an official book-aholic. Seriously–I think I need meetings!!
I really enjoyed “Wild.” The prospect of walking the entire Appalachian Trail has appealed to me for a long time but there is just no way I could do it now. I wish I had done it before I got married and had kids. Therefore, any books on walking it (or even the PCT like Strayed did) help me to experience it vicariously.
Loved “The Lifeboat” and am looking forward to reading others on the list.
The Round House, I like Louise.
The only title in your list that I’ve read so far is Gone Girl. I’m anxious to read The Light Between Oceans. (Our public library system bought thirteen copies and there are 114 people on the waiting list.) Winning all ten titles would be absolutely thrilling!!!
I was fascinated by Jillian Flynn’s Gone Girl – how does one’s mind work like that?? And I’ve had my eye on Lifeboat for a long while. It’s my turn to win!!
I’ve heard excellent things about “Wild” by Cheryl Strayed, although most of those books are on my to read list. Imagine getting first editions to read!
Loved Gone Girl, reading Round House now and looking forward to Wild.
I cannot wait to read “Wild.” I’ve heard such good things about it!
I’m dying to read, This is How you Lose Her.
As a former resident of the Pacific NW, I want to read “Where’d You Go, Bernadette”.
I have been looking forward to reading ‘Bring Up the Bodies’. I read ‘Wolf Hall’ in 2010 and absolutely loved it. I don’t re-read very many books, but this one I have put on my to re-read list! Time and the fact that it is a huge book is all that has kept me from reading ‘Bring Up the Bodies’ already.
I am wanting to read “The Round House” – so would love to win.
I would be most excited to read ‘Wild.” I’ve been trying to get my book club to read it but it is always turned down. I know it has to be a great book.
I love a great mystery and especially one that comes with a bang-up surprise you didnt see coming. Your mind reels and thinks of every outcome but the one that exists in this book!
GONE GIRL by Gillian Flynn. She’s not your every day conventional writer of women characters and that’s what makes her book so intriguing. Along with an ending that we may not thought of, she delivers! I am happy to hear that Reese Witherspoon will play this role. I can see her being the one to execute it wonderfully.
I believe Gillian Flynn was here in Arizona when she got that call that her book went to the Best Seller List.
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I would like to read Life Boat by Charlotte Rogan
A great list – I would be most excited to read The Light Between Oceans and The Round House.
My favorite from the list is Light Between Oceans. It is a beautifully written, seemingly simple book that is much more than that. It gets the reader to thinking about honesty, family, love, and consequences for actions.
I am looking forward to reading all of the books on the list, especially Gone Girl
I am really looking forward to reading The Round House by Louise Erdrich. Loved all her other books
Have not yet read Wild but it is on my list. I like many others always say “I never win anything” but maybe this time I will get lucky!
I am looking forward to reading Lifeboat..sounds like a great read!
WOULD LOVE TO READ THEM ALL BUT THE ROUND HOUSE WOULD BE FIRST.
Hilary Martel’s Bring Up the Bodies is hands down the best book of the year. I reread Wolf Hall to remind myself of all the characters and admired and enjoyed it just as much the second time.
Can’t wait to read “Gone Girl”. Was waiting for it to come out in paperback but if I win…yoohoo!!!! I hear Reese Witherspoon is producing the movie.
Great list! I would love to read or re-read any of these choices! I’m reading Gone Girl right now and really enjoying it.
I am really looking forward to This is How you Lose Her by Junot Diaz. I like his writing style and the unique impression he has made on the literary field. This book has been on my “must reads” before its publish date. I hope I win!!!
I loved Gone Girl, the best yet of Gillian Flynn’s books (I’ve read them all). Intricate plotting, well-developed characters, each with a unique voice — totally un-put-downable.
I would like to read Gone Girl.
I read a good review of “Bring Up the Bodies.” I’d like to read that one.
I’m currently reading Gone Girl and its good, very good. I’m looking forward to reading Wild. I would read all of these books if I won the contest.
I loved Gone Girl. I am looking forward to reading (actually plan to listen to the audio version) Bring Up The Bodies. I enjoyed Wolf Hall so much!
I’m a librarian, so all of these are on my TBR list. I especially would like to have a copy of Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up the Bodies. I’m a big Tudor fan.
ALL THE BOOKS LOOK GOOD. I WOULD READ THEM ALL. ALWAYS LOOKING FOR NEW AUTHORS. HEARD ALOT OF GOOD
THINGS ABOUT GONE GIRL, I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO READ
THAT.
I am looking forward to reading “Gone Girl” but the rest sound great! I love to read and our group is always looking for the best, most interesting, and entertaining books to discuss at our next gathering
I haven’t read any of them–too busy with grad school–and it’s very hard to pick just one I’d be most excited about reading, since at least three are immediately intriguing. However, if you insist…it’s Wild. (Followed closely, very closely, by “Gone Girl” and “The Round House.”
One of the best books I’ve read is Gone Girl.
Where’d You Go Bernadette was my favorite from this list, though Bring Up the Bodies was a VERY close second.
“Gone Girl” would be my first choice. There are a dozen in my book circle. If one wins, we all win because we share books with each other. I’ll keep my fingers crossed! Good luck to all. May the most avid reader win!
6. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
I’d like to read The LifeBoat — it is on my wishlist – and I’m hoping I’ll get it for Christmas – but maybe I should hope I win this contest first!
Gone Girl was the best. I even read the last few pages twice because I wanted to capture every nuance.
I keep hearing really good things about Where’d You Go, Bernadette – I really want to read it.
I would love to win this sweepstakes, especially for “The Light Between the Oceans” as I have heard such wonderful comments about it from readers I know.
Well, after reading a few comments I want to read them all! Intrigued by Bring Up The Bodies, though after hearing the author interviewed. Good luck everyone! (especially me;)
I loved “Walk” – reminded me of a lot of things that has occured in my life, but I would also love to read Gone Girl!
I meant Wild! I’m suffering from the flu, so sorry!
I’m torn between being excited to read Gone Girl and Where’d You Go Bernadette. I love mysteries and thrillers, but I also look forward to some light, humorous reading. Actually, I’d really love to read both!
Wild! Had a lot of personal tragedy this year and would love to find some encouragement from her writing!
The only one I’ve read is the Lifeboat. I would not have ranked it as one of the best books I’ve read his year. I’d be so happy to receive any one of these books. Randomly pick me..pick me.
Sadly, I must admit, that I have not read any of the top ten but will check all of them out because of your list. The one that I would have to start first is: “Where’d you go Bernadette” . I mean, how great of a title is that ? I love it !
I would be most excited to read “The Light Between the Oceans.”
Found Gone Girl to be a thrilling read! Would love to crack open more of the top 10! Fingers crossed.
Great list – I’d be most excited to read The Light Between Oceans and The Round House. Thanks!
Where’d you go, Bernadette
I haven’t read any, but am very anxious to read Junot Diaz’ latest. I’ll share with my avid reader friends too!
Read “The Round House” and LOVED it (love Louise Erdrich); also “Gone Girl.” Crazy!
I’ve heard so much about Cheryl Strayed’s book and how she walked the Pacific Trail to mend a broken heart that I think she and I have a lot in common, and when time permits I plan to read her book. I’m also very interested in The Round House and Hilary Mantel’s books, and I am a huge fan of anything Barbara Kingsolver writes.
It’s a hard choice between “Bring Up The Bodies” and “The Round House”, but my favorite of all the listed books I’ve read (three) was “Bring Up The Bodies”. I’m anxiously awaiting Mantel’s last book of the trilogy.
“Gone Girl” was a very good read. The suspense keeps you turning the pages.
What an amazing selection! It is ever so hard to pick a favorite, or which one I most want to read as soon as I win. I guess Gone Girl since I have heard so much about it. Thanks for the chance to enter, and a wonderful web site. Mary
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn!
Have been waiting at my local library for months to read Gone Girl, maybe if I win I could finally read it!! Lifeboat or Light Between the Oceans would work as well
I suffered during Lifeboat and empathized with first the husband, then the wife, then no one during Gone Girl. I’m ready to take on Wild. Sure hope to get the chance.
I loved Bernadette and her snark! I’d be most excited to read This is How You Lose Her!! Thanks for the contest! I love reading Book Pages!
I’m really torn between Gone Girl and Bing Up the Bodies. Both have been so well-reviewed this year (both by the pros and by my friends!), and they’re both at the top of my “to read” list. (Actually, both are sitting on my Kindle and waiting for me to finish my current books so I can get started.
Would LOVE to read all of the books!!! There’s a reason that they are on the top 10. Can’t wait, hope I win… and of course I am one of those mentioned that never do.
I’ve had This is How You Lose Her on hold at my library for what seems like forever. I’d love to own a copy of any of these books, though.
Although I’d love to read all the books, the first one I’d delve into would be Gone Girl!
It’s a toss up between Gone Girl and Where’d You Go, Bernadette for the two books I am most looking forward to reading.
I would be pretty gone if I didn’t win a chance to read “Gone Girl”!
Have read Gone Girl. Would like to read Round House by Louise Erdrich.
I did read The Light Between the Oceans-terrific.
Laura
I really would like to read Wild by Cheryl Strayed
I am looking forward to Hilary Mantel’s second Cromwell novel, “Bring Up the Bodies,” especially after her recent NPR interview about filling in the gaps in our understanding of well-known historical events.
I would love to read each and every one of these books. I am an avid reader and am now retired with a lot of time to pursue my passion…reading!
I would be most excited to read “Bring Up the Bodies”. As long as I can remember (and I’m 77 now) , I’ve been fascinated by the Henry VIII and Elizabeth I era. As a young teen, I read every book in the Jacksonville Public Library pertaining to that period in history. The librarians even let me search in the usually forbidden stacks for obscure volumes. My teen obsession evolved into a passion for reading all genre of books, but always reading. It might be time to revisit the interests of my youth.
My favorite book on this list was Bringing Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel, and I would love to read the rest on this list.
The Light Between Oceans.