Books of the Year

It's our final post of the year, and, as always, we've asked people to recommend the books they most enjoyed reading this year.  

First up this year is Miss Douglass: 'This year I have been on a mission to read as many books as I can: at the moment I have read 54. The one that surprised me the most, so much so that I am now reading more books by the same author, was Elantris by Brandon Sanderson. 

Usually, I can predict where a book is going, so it is rare that a plot twist surprised me. Elantris had two different plot twists that surprised me.'  

Book of the Week

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Recommended by Allen Li

‘We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly.’ This line from Julian Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending captures the essence of the story, as the narrator’s carefully constructed sense of self begins to crumble. What he once believed to be a stable, ordinary past is overturned by fragments of memory that he has forgotten or purposefully cast aside.