The Top 25: As Chosen by You

Yes, I changed it to the Top 25. There were just too many choices and I couldn’t help myself.

I know it was hard to narrow it down to three, but I hope you guys had fun with this. Maybe one day we can get even more people to vote and we’ll do an Ink Drinkers Best Books of All Time… Make it even harder.

I tried to be fair and include everyone. Some people picked books I just couldn’t find, or were way too expensive because… I don’t know. Zurich reasons. So I had to pick easily accessible ones.

All the books that got more than 1 vote made it to the Top 5, in a random order after No.1. All the others were chosen so that almost everyone who voted is included, and then the rest were picked randomly out of a hat (well actually a bowl…)

Hopefully you get inspired for your next read. We can discuss at the next Ink Drinkers book club meetings!

For those of you who voted who aren’t in Ink Drinkers, we hope you join us. We’re super fun. And not biased at all.

So without further ado… Here it is. Our Top 25 picks.

1. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (Bryanna H, Janine W, Yuval O, Tati K) BOOK CLUB PICK FOR DECEMBER/ JANUARY

2. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (Taylor N. & Piero)

3. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (Stella C. & Wout v.P)

4. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig ( Natasha Z. &Manuela Z.)

5. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (Wout v.P & Jess D.)

6. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (Damien D.)

7. Intermezzo by Sally Rooney (Alastair M.)

8. All Systems Red by Martha Wells (Joanna R.) 

9. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Anna G.)

10. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (Chantal F.)

11.  The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad by Simon Parkin (Erica G.)

12.  The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alisa N.) 

13. The Overstory by Richard Powers (Kyle W.)

14.  The Milkman by Anna Burns (Rich F.)

15.  The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver (Katja S.)

16.  The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (Jess D.)

17.  There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak (Tati K.)

18.  Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Chantal F.)

19.  Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel (Alastair M.)

20.  News of the World by Jiles Paulette (Chantal F.)

21.  Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (Bryanna H.)

22.   Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreiche (Janine W.)

23.  Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (Kyle W.) 

24.  Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (Yuval O.)

25.  Atonement by Ian McEwan (Manuela Z.) 

Thanks again to everyone who participated.

Happy Reading,

Bryanna