Our very own top 10 novels

I think we must have the same sagging bookshelves, TB.

Contemporary novels. All of those. I would find it very hard to condense to a top ten but ,off the top of my head, memorable books include:

Kate Atkinson’s a God In Ruins, the companion novel to Life after Life
Carols Shields’ Stone Diaries
Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet
Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life
Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries
E Annie Proulx’s Barkskins
Anthony Doerr's All The Light We Cannot See
Marilynne Robinson's Gilead

plus anything by Margaret Atwood but a special mention for The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam trilogy.

Terribull -
A brilliant list .
You are very well read .
I've loved some of these books ,but have yet to read Kingsolver and Tartt .
I've got two of them lined up ready for my next read .
In the past I've read a lot of French and Russian classics and thoroughly enjoyed all of them.
These days I read more Art and Histiry books .

I nearly included Gone with the Wind I know I loved it, I read it Mid teens ....a long time ago. Also loved The Thorne Birds a decade or so later.

I can’t think of 10, but two of my favourite books that I have read time and again are….

Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell.

Nice Work by David Lodge.