Loved A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline! I'll have to read up on some of your others, which are not familiar to me. I'll also peruse my Goodreads and see what I marked Five Stars!

I second Art of Hearing Heartbeats and Radium Girls

I'll add:

Little Fires Everywhere

Born a Crime

TISHA The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness

Cutting for Stone

Isaac's Storm

City of Thieves

Sister of My Heart

Ordinary Grace

Born a Crime

City of Thieves

When Breath Becomes Air

A Higher Call (for content, not its style)

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Middlesex

A Gentleman in Moscow

Lab Girl

Educated

Marriage of Opposites

Ocean at the End of the Lane

Year of Wonders

The Whole Town is Talking

Art of Hearing Heartbeats

Educated

Under Heaven

City of Thieves

The Snow Child

The Bright Hour

The Round House

The Lions of Al-Rassan

I was thinking about this list in bed last night, thinking I needed to add The Snow Child and The Round House, but I see Leela has them on her list, so no need for me to add them to mine!

Thanks for the suggestions above - they helped to get me started.

The Shipping News

The Goldfinch

Cutting for Stone

Middlesex

A Gentleman in Moscow

Rabbit, Run

Rabbit is Rich

The Clan of the Cavebear

All the Harry Potter books

Less

Olive Kitteridge

The Casual Vacancy

The Interpreter of Maladies

The Nightingale

The Stand

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

A Man Called Ove

Norwegian by Night

Be Frank with Me

Happiness: A Memoir

Christodora

All the Light We Cannot See

and... Ocean at the End of the Lane

The Known World

Lincoln in the Bardo

Tenth of December

Olive Kitteridge

Someone: A Novel

The history book I think every woman should read:

The
Technology of Orgasm: “Hysteria,"” The Vibrator, and Women's Sexual
Satisfaction by Rachel Maines

A Gentleman in Moscow

All the Light We Cannot See

Ordinary Grace

The Unlikely Pilgrimmage of Harold Fry

The All Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion

John LeCarre’s early books

The Great Alone-----Kristin Hannah

The One Man-----Andrew Gross

The Baker's Daughter-----Sarah McCoy

Learning To Swim-----Sara J. Henry

A Killing In the Hills-----Julia Keller

Nothing hard nor literary. Just five good stories.

What a great reference list we now all have! Thanks Salonva for starting this thread!

My picks:

The Widower's Notebook -Jonathan Santlofer

The Color of Water -James McBride

The Art Forger -B.A. Shapiro

The Spark, A Mother's Story of Genius, Nurturing and Autism Kristine Barnett

Magical Journey -Katrina Kenison

First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria -Eve Grown-Waite

A Three Dog Life -Abigail Thomas

My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward -Mark Lukach

The Forgetting Tree -Tatjana Soli

Tell Me More -Kelli Corrigan

These are great--- and there were some I though about adding but I see others already have. I do want to mention that I thought about whether to list Harold Frye with Queenie Hennessey (companion books ) so I am really pleased to see it mentioned by a few. Note- if you loved Harold and have not read Queenie, you must.

I can add The Curious Charm of Arthur Pepper.

Best of this year? Or favorites ever? Here are some of my 5-star picks from the past 12-15 months or so.

The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion

Juliet Naked- Nick Hornby

Me Before You- JoJo Moyes

Only Children- Rafael Yglesias

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine- Gail Honeyman

My Name is Lucy Barton- Elizabeth Strout

And some older ones I've loved for a long time:

She's Come Undone- Wally Lamb

Summer Sisters- Judy Bloom

Good in Bed- Jennifer Weiner

Midwives- Chris Dohjalian

Every Last One- Anna Quindlen

A Perfect Divorce- Avery Korman

American Wife- Curtis Sittenfeld

Home Safe- Elizabeth Berg

The Ten Year Nap- Meg Wolitzer

About a Boy- Nick Hornby

Light a Penny Candle- Maeve Binchy

This is a nice thread. I’m glad others enjoyed some of the same books I enjoyed. Here are some that come to mind of course I’m not listing books like A Tree Grows in Brooklyn or Gone With The Wind!

The Interpreter of Maladies

The Secret History

The Goldfinch

Juliet in August

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

The Whistling Season

Flight Behavior

I’m sure I will come up with more!

Hill Bachelors by William Trevor. One of the best short story writers of all times, imho. ETA, in English of course. Can’t pretend to be able to otherwise rate writers in languages other than the two that I do most of my reading in.

Beagles - I loved Juliet Naked too. Did you see the movie that came out this year? I didn't get a chance to see it.

And I'm going to Mexico tomorrow - Any suggestions for a beach read? I just finished Pachinko, and need a new book

11-22-63, by Stephen King

Blonde, by Joyce Carol Oates

The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion

One True Thing, by Anna Quindlen

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert Pirsig

terezosa I haven't had a chance yet. It is on my Amazon watch list.

The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

terriks, Into the Beautiful North. Timely and a good read.

dedtired, I had to log on this morning just to tell you how much I'm enjoying listening to Juliet in August. I'm listening to the audiobook on Scribd as I finish up the quilt I'm making my son for Christmas, and it's just mesmerizing me! Thank you so much.

Incidentally, here's another plug for Scribd. I somewhat randomly selected (and added to my 'listen to later' list) a bunch of the titles listed here, and they were all on there. For just $8.99, I have access to sooo many books. My one complaint is that the books don't download to Kindle, so I would have to read on my MacBook. So I mainly use it as a source for audiobooks while sewing -but it's still a real bargain.

I only listed what was already not mentioned by others, but if I were to include repeat mentions, I’d add All the Light We Cannot See. And also older (as in 25+ year vintage) books.

Bestyears, I am so glad you are enjoying Juliet in August. I just loved it. I first heard about it here on Reader's Paradise forum.

Seconding The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.

Also would add (but probably only if you have not seen the movie) Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Coming back to add Molokai and to add that I think for me, I am thinking of more recent reads, but truly any that come to mind that were really memorable. I am often trying to find books that I may have missed (an easy example is Anne of Green Gables). Suggest away.