What is the best book you've read in the last year?

I’m currently reading poetry books, this is the one I like the most:

I'll second All Systems Red as well as The Sparrow.  Both are good.  I recently read and enjoyed Old Bones by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, and Mycroft and Sherlock by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.  FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven is also decent.   I enjoyed it, but it wasn't awesome.

i think i read "all systems red" by martha wells in the last 12 months.  that's a good one

The Sparrow
by Mary Doria Russell

Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse. Kicks the bejasus out of Catcher in the Rye any day.

A search for Significance (Victor Frankl)

I am read this one last year, amazing:

Two of my very favorites:  

"PERSUASION" by Jane Austen.  I first read it when I was 19.  I've reread it a couple dozen times over the 40 years since then, and I still find new things in it 😏  As anyone who loves to read could tell you, that's the sign of a true classic.

"TO SERVE THEM ALL MY DAYS" by R.F. Delderfield.  Many years ago, this novel was the basis for a Masterpiece Theatre series that I adored, and I read the original book after that.  It's been one of my all-time favorites ever since 🙂

The best book I've read in the last year is.....

The one I wrote.