Dies anyone else look at your favorites by quarter? Here are my first quarter winners. Will you share yours?
THE SUNFLOWER BOYS by Sam Wachman
THE EIGHTH LIFE by Nino Haralischavili
THE CONJURING OF AMERICA by Lindsey Stewart
FAMILY OF SPIES by Christine Kuehn
HARRIET TUBMAN LIVE IN CONCERT by Bob the Drag Queen
THE LEFT AND THE LUCKY by Willy Vlautin
SAD TIGER by Neige Sinno
Oooh, I love this! Thanks, Anne!
Absolute top of my list:
This is Happiness by Niall Willams
Others I loved:
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Chain Gang All-Stars by
Heart the Lover by Lily King
Partially Devoured by Daniel Kraus
(I suspect The Flower Sisters by Michelle Collins Anderson will make the list for the next quarter, but I just finished that one last night, so that oneās Q2.)
Iāve got several others that I liked a lot but I had to draw the line somewhereā¦ 
Thanks for sharing @kim.kovacs Itās nice to see those backlist books taking the spotlight. Itās too easy to forget the ones that pass us by.
In general, my Jan - Mar ā26 reads were mediocre with quite a few DNFs. However, I did have a handful of favs.
Q1 Favs include:
Fiction:
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans*
The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark
The Young Will Remember by Eve J Chung (ARC)
Non-Fiction:
A Flower Traveled in My Blood by Haley Cohen Gilliland*
The Wives by Simone Gorrindo
Winter: A Story of the Season by Val McDermid
And there were a few more I havenāt mentioned from my favorite series.
@anne_glasgow Family of Spies was a fascinating read.
I enjoyed the Val McDermid one too @Gabi_J
TIME OF THE CHILD by Niall Williams
BECOMING MADAM SECRETARY by Stephanie Dray
MAD HONEY by Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Boylan
MORE OR LESS MADDY by Lisa Genova
THE FAITH CLUB by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, & Priscilla Warner
THE CORRESPONDENT by Virginia Evans
THE ROAD TO TENDER HEARTS by Annie Hartnett
THE LION WOMEN OF TEHRAN by Marjan Kamali
MOTHER MARY COMES TO ME by Arundhati Roy
HALF OF A YELLOW SUN by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Contributed by Marie Webb
Iām glad to see The Young Will Remember show up on your list, @Gabi_J. I thought that was a great book and I hope it gets in the hands of more readers.
Family of Spies is on my wish list. Glad to hear itās a good one.
Thanks for sharing your list @Marie_Webb Iām particularly interested in Mother Mary Comes to Me. Iāve heard so much good about it. I need to add it to my list at some point.
Yes. The book tells a story of the authorās life that I would never have imagined. And the writing is beautiful! Thanks for your response.
I have read and enjoyed five on your list so I am making note of the others! I havenāt read *Half of a Yellow Sunā but really liked the authorās We Should All Be Feminists (I gifted copies to friends and their daughters) and Dear Ijeawele. So, this book will go first on the list. Thanks for sharing.
What a great list Anne. Thanks for posting!
I got off to a slow start this year because of reading a long book, but so far here are my faves:
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny - Kieran Desai
The Bridge on San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder (I picked up this old classic and loved itāsome of the most beautiful sentences ever written.)
Audition - Katie Kitamura
I Medusa - Ayana Gray (I love these re-telling of myths)
Thanks @Roberta_Winchester . Iāll be reading Sonia and Sunny with my book club in a couple of months. Iām happy to see itās made your best-of list. The same book club just last month discussed Audition. It was so fun learning how everyone interpreted it. I much prefer Intimacies by Kitamura which my book club discussed a few years back.
Good to know Anne. Iāll put Intimacies on my TBR list. I thought Audition was so unusual and there was so much to think about. There are quite a few interviews on YouTube with Kitamura and I found them helpful. She also struck me as a most gracious person.
My first quarter besties are:
Heartwood by Amity Gaige , then I read her Sea Wife which has really stuck with me.
Son of Nobody by Yann Martel (which I received thru BB First Impressions TYVM)
Wow you read a lot! The only one of yours Iāve read is Becoming Madam Secretary which all of my book club loved for learning about Frances and all her historic contributions.
Iāve wondered about Son of Nobody, @Connie_K . Glad to hear it was good! Another one for the wish list!
Intimacies is equally intriguing but a little more unpackable, if that makes sense. I did read it three times and like you, listened to numerous interviews to try to find the key to unlocking it. My book clubbers still talk about it.
Thanks for sharing your besties @Connie_K. Iām sort of ambivalent about whether or not to read the new Martel. Itās great to see you enjoyed it.
What We Can Know by Ian McEwan was my fave so far!