Top Ten Books I Think You Should Read In The Next Year

Hi book readers!

I've just finished the book that i'll review next but I thought that i'd share with you the top ten books  that I think are well worth a read and I will post on each of them in due course.

1. War and Peace- Leo Tolstoy 
Bit of an epic book but an excellent social commentary of the effects of the Napoleonic wars.

2. The Da Vinci Code- Dan Brown
This one needs no introduction really - a mystery surrounding the holy grail and the descendants of Christ.

3.Cold Mountain- Charles Fraser
An excellent book full of imagery set in the American civil war

4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest- Ken Kesey
Jack Nicholson immortalised this character on screen but the book and its depictions of mental health and reactions towards it are even more compelling in print.

5. Nineteen Minutes- Jodi Picoult.
How can nineteen minutes change your life? As the characters in this book find out everything can change.

6.The Book Thief-Markus Zusak
A NewYork Times bestseller and now a movie adaptation- narrated by death and set in Nazi Gemany, it follows a young girl and her relationships with the people around her.

7. the magicians apprentice-trudi canavan
A fantasy novel which won the Aurealis Award in 2009 for the best fantasy novel.


8. I Claudius-Robert Graves
Written in an autobiographical form it follows Claudius from his succession as emperor to his death.


9. Birdsong- Sebastian Faulks

A fantastic book set in the first world war and tells the story of Stephen and his abrupt arrival in war torn France.
10.Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie
Set during India's transition from British rule to independence it is told from the point of view of Saleem and the story takes place in line with real historical events.


and let me leave you with this quote 

“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”

-Oliver Sacks

Happy Reading!