Pleasant Surprises: Books That Exceeded Our Expectations

Descrizione
Our List of the Month this August is devoted to those pleasant surprises that come into our reading lives—books that exceeded our expectations, and ending up providing far more enjoyment than we thought they would. Each participant may vote on ten titles.
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Tutta la luce che non vediamo
di Anthony Doerr
18,681 utenti
882 recensioni
½ 4.3
Classifica globale 4
13 Members
3togetready, terran, deldevries, RBeffa, bogopea, nagasravika.bodapati, kara.shamy, pacificquest, HH_Library, somca, conhauf, rvd0359, dandalf
2
The Girl with All the Gifts
di M. R. Carey
5,319 utenti
401 recensioni
4
Classifica globale 7
13 Members
timspalding, anglemark, erinclark, magneticvoyager, PitcherBooks, nagasravika.bodapati, kara.shamy, HeatherMoss, CKHarwood, Vegas_Fiber_Arts, saraLucilleIngram, pacificquest, moc2902
Spiegazioni
anglemark: I don't like zombie stories. Color me surprised at how good this book was!
3
Vita di Pi
di Yann Martel
43,578 utenti
1,013 recensioni
3.9
Classifica globale 18
7 Members
knerd.knitter, kleo, dougb56586, Localhostess, kara.shamy, nyowh, dandalf
4
Circe
di Madeline Miller
12,414 utenti
479 recensioni
½ 4.3
Classifica globale 21
6 Members
CarltonC, vwinsloe, kara.shamy, nyowh, Algernon11, dandalf
Spiegazioni
CarltonC: Wowed by the imaginative rewriting of the epic from a different perspective and in such readable prose.
5
La ragazza in blu
di Susan Vreeland
3,152 utenti
93 recensioni
½ 3.6
Classifica globale 14
8 Members
RBeffa, Porua, elkiedee, Smits, kara.shamy, Vegas_Fiber_Arts, Xotomix, RMiller30
Spiegazioni
Porua: I rarely read books I know nothing of, from authors I know nothing of. Both were true for this book and yet I not only read and enjoyed it, I actually bought a print copy of it.
6
La tredicesima storia
di Diane Setterfield
17,191 utenti
910 recensioni
4
Classifica globale 17
8 Members
erinclark, CDVicarage, noveltea, kara.shamy, rmarcin, pacificquest, RMiller30, dandalf
7
Flavia de Luce e il delitto nel campo dei cetrioli
di Alan Bradley
7,751 utenti
654 recensioni
3.8
Classifica globale 25
6 Members
raidergirl3, terran, LDVoorberg, PitcherBooks, kara.shamy, Boand,EMS_24
Spiegazioni
LDVoorberg: You must listen to the audiobook: the narrator makes the series amazing.
Boand: Another recommendation of a whodunnit led me to the first of this quirky series and sealed it as one of my all time favourites. What’s not to love about a pesky teenage girl who beats the grownups at their own games, negotiates troublesome sisters and adores her father while they all mourn her mother and saves Britain from evil masterminds.
8
The Signature of All Things
di Elizabeth Gilbert
3,473 utenti
196 recensioni
3.9
Classifica globale 51
3 Members
perennialreader, bogopea, kara.shamy
Spiegazioni
perennialreader: I did not like Eat, Pray, Love but someone recommended this one and I actually like it.
9
Convenience Store Woman
di Sayaka Murata
3,014 utenti
195 recensioni
3.8
Classifica globale 34
4 Members
kleo, amanda4242, noveltea, kara.shamy
10
Lincoln in the Bardo
di George Saunders
5,781 utenti
334 recensioni
3.9
Classifica globale 41
4 Members
Localhostess, kara.shamy, BornAnalog, steller0707
Spiegazioni
BornAnalog: One of the few books that everyone talked up to me, and then it actually delivered. And then some.