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What have been your favorite books of 2011?

Did a new author make it onto your Kindle? Did you find the next Franzen and can't wait for his next book? Did you love the finale of the del Toro/Hogan Strain trilogy.

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"The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot.

brandie346
5 months ago

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I didn't read anything "new" this year, just books I haven't picked up before. My son turned me onto the Percy Jackson series last year and I finished up the second in Rick Riordan's second series of the Heroes of Olympus - fun read. I also FINALLY finished up the Dark Tower series by King this year. There's a bunch of other stuff I read this year, too, but the DT series permeated most of it.

brotherhalo
5 months ago

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The Temeraire series by Naomi Novik.

http://www.temeraire.org/

The plot is rather awesome, taking the Napoleonic wars, and adding dragons to the mix. Dragons used as great aerial carriers by which crews fight airborne against each other ship to ship. The 2 main characters of this series are Captain William Lawrence, formerly of the HMS Reliant in the Navy, now Captain, and best friend of Temeraire, a rare Oriental Celestial Dragon.

There are 6 books in the series, with a 7th being written now.

Another book/series I've been reading through is by John Ringo, starting with "There will be Dragons." (Free book link listed below)

"In the future there is no want, no war, no disease nor ill-timed death. The world is a paradise—and then, in a moment, it ends. The council that controls the Net falls out and goes to war. Everywhere people who have never known a moment of want or pain are left wondering how to survive."

http://www.webscription.net/p-412-there-will-be-dragons.aspx

waltertangofoxtrot
5 months ago

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I spent a lot of time reading the entire Game of Thrones series this year, and since the newest one actually was released this year I would have to vote for Dance of Dragons as my fav 2011 release.

alpayton
5 months ago

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Life and Death are Wearing Me Out by Mo Yan, currently free to Prime members.

"Ximen Nao, a landowner known for his generosity and kindness to his peasants, is not only stripped of his land and worldly possessions in Mao's Land Reform Movement of 1948, but is cruelly executed, despite his protestations of innocence. He goes to Hell, where Lord Yama, king of the underworld, has Ximen Nao tortured endlessly, trying to make him admit his guilt, to no avail. Finally, in disgust, Lord Yama allows Ximen Nao to return to earth, to his own farm, where he is reborn not as a human but first as a donkey, then an ox, pig, dog, monkey, and finally the big-headed boy Lan Qiansui. Through the earthy and hugely entertaining perspectives of these animals, Ximen Nao narrates fifty years of modern Chinese history, ending on the eve of the new millennium.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/books/review/Spence-t.html?pagewanted=all

dreamyvelvet
5 months ago

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Ghost Stories by Jim Butcher (last one in the Dresden Files series)

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