Best Read of January 2024

What is the best book to begin your new year?

By far, my best read was Hannibal by Philip Freeman. I'm not really a NF fan (for pleasure reading), but this fit the bill for professional and pleasure reading!

I think that A Civil Campaign and The Night of Many Endings were mine.

>3 hailelib: I'll take a BB for that second book!

My first read for the year was Monet The Restless Vision. I thought it was an excellent biography...and since I knew next to nothing about him save the water lily paintings I can say my knowledge of the man saw an almost infinite increase. The second read of the month was Thunder Run. Very fast paced, well written. At the moment I'm working on That Reminds Me of Another Story - a first person account of working on the railroad. So far it is an interesting read.

Not my first read but I am reading My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier . I have had it for years on my shelf. I can hear Richard Burton talking. I know the story but still a very good read.

I know I am late, but my best book for January was The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte. Very few people would believe I have any romantic bone in my body, but this book found it.

For me, it was Lee Berger's Cave of Bones, his account of the discovery and study of Homo naledi in the Rising Star cave system in South Africa.

My best book of January was Salvage the Bones.

>7 scunliffe: I remember reading Tenant in gradual school many years ago and enjoying it.

>9 Jim53: gradual school

I like it!