This week’s Top 5 Wednesday topic is the Best Books of the First Half of This Year. So, here’s my list–aside from #1 the others are not in any real ranking order. My reviews are linked.
#10 The Atomic City Girls: A Novel by Janet Beard
#9 The Heirs: A Novel by Susan Reiger
#8 Girls in the Picture: A Novel by Melanie Benjamin
#7 The Ocean Liner by Marius Gabriel
#6 That Kind of Mother: A Novel by Rumaan Alam
# 5 Mademoiselle Chanel by C. W. Gortner
#4 The Seven of Us by Francesca Hornak
#3 The Romanov Sisters by Helen Rappaport
#2 The Music Shop: A Novel by Rachel Joyce
#1 Every Note Played by Lisa Genova
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I am working on reading Every Note Played right now. The rest look very interesting!
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If you read my review you know it held my attention!
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I haven’t read any of these. I find it mildly amusing how many are subtitled “A Novel,” as if that might not be clear. Is this a fish? An umbrella? Oh–it’s a NOVEL! I strongly suspect I would enjoy most if not all of these, so thank you for sharing them!
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Yes, I get tired of the tacked on “a novel…” Glad I’m not a cataloger.
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The Romanov Sisters looks brilliant. I love Russian history. It’s so weird.
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It was my college major! Back in the dark days of the Evil Empire bwahahah
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