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Lillie
We Should All Be Feminists | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Only had 2 5🌟 books for 2018. Lots of good/great/lovely books but these 2 were the standouts.

Listened to #WeShouldAllBeFeminists on audio and I loved it just as much, if not more, than I did in 2015 (gave the paperback 5🌟 as well). Gave a copy of it to several people in my life.

#DestinyDisrupted was so interesting! To read about history through the non-Western perspective was eye opening. Highly recommend it.

#DecadeofBooks

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Lillie
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Anyone who knows me knows that I am not a cook but I do enjoy reading about food usually through a travel memoir. Was surprised in 2017 to find Eight Flavors a 5🌟 read. Who knew the history of food could be so interesting?

Other 5🌟 for the year: One of Us is Lying, Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore & All Our Wrong Tomorrows.
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*I'm thinking of buying all my 5🌟reads for my home library. Anyone else do that?

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Lillie
We Should All Be Feminists | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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My #DecadeofBooks posts continue with 2015. Only 3 5 stars books. Looking back only one of them really continues to be a 5 star today. I'd probably give Big Little Lies a solid 4.5 star and Greyhound a 3.5-4 stars.

We Should All Be Feminists is outstanding. 48 pages of solid gold. Ended up buying several copies and gifting them to friends and family.

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Lillie
The Golem and the Jinni | Helene Wecker
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Pickpick

So many good books in 2014! Loved books across genres with myths, reincarnation, classic, historical, science fiction, memoir of one of my favorite movies ever, and a lovely contemporary. But I have to confess I don't remember Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. I almost feel like I should reread it. Why did I love it?
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Itchyfeetreader Loved the tagged book! 4y
Lillie @Itchyfeetreader wasn‘t it fantastic!? I‘m so excited yet petrified (that it won‘t be as good) for the author‘s follow up. 4y
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Lillie
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Have been doing my #DecadeofBooks for the past week or so. These are my 2013 5 stars. I highly recommend all 5 books but I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is definitely the top of the list. If you haven't read it, take the time to do so. Ms. Angelou is one of the best writers I've read. She has 7 memoirs about different parts of her life. Beautiful writing & so engaging.

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Lillie
The Rook: A Novel | Daniel O'Malley
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A look back at my 5🌟 in 2012 #DecadeofBooks

I loved every single one of these books! Each so unique and wonderful or adventurous or funny or sweet or a deep dive. I highly recommend each and every single one.

thegirlwiththelibrarybag Love The Rook! 4y
ralexist The Rook is the best! 4y
Lillie @thegirlwiththelibrarybag @ralexist I couldn‘t put it down! Read it so long ago but I still remember details. 4y
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Lillie
84, Charing Cross Road | Helene Hanff
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My look back on a #DecadeofBooks with a focus on 2011 today. Only had 2 - 5🌟 reads, which I'm really surprised about because I did read 114 books. Had 40 - 4🌟 & 46 - 3🌟 books. So not a bad year of reading.

84, Charing Cross Road is such a charming read! I can't recommend it highly enough.

The Sister Brothers is a quirky, bizarre and funny western. Never in a million years did I think I'd enjoy a western about hired killer brothers.

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LeslieO
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My favorite nonfiction of the decade! #2010s #decadeofbooks

Reviewsbylola Helter Skelter is one of my all time faves! 4y
LeslieO @Reviewsbylola Me, too. The first time I read it I was in 8th grade! 4y
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LeslieO
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I keep a record of the books I read each month and pick a favorite at the end of the year. Here are my fiction favorites of the decade. #2010s #decadeofbooks

LeahBergen I‘ve noticed Station Eleven on so many lists. I should probably read it! 😆 4y
LeslieO @LeahBergen it‘s so good! 4y
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nitalibrarian
Going Nowhere Fast | Kati Wilde
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2017 was another year I could not narrow my favorite books down to 5. #decadeofbooks

CarolynM I love those KJ Charles and Sarina Bowen/Elle Kennedy books 4y
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