30 Day Book Challenge- Day 1 - The Best Book You Read Last Year

The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Easily tops the list as not just my favourite read of last year, but of all time. I discovered Vonnegut in my 3rd year of uni, and amongst reading for various essays and my dissertation, I made my way through every book of his our uni library had to offer. This was one of the very last, and in my eyes, one of his very best works.

The witty, satirical mind of K.V.J. is sharply at work throughout the text, offering powerfully emotional insights into beautifully eccentric characters, whilst managing to warm my heart with his enduring positive outlook. It’s a sci-fi novel that doesn’t read like a sci-fi novel. It engulfed me so completely I once had to stop reading when I found myself crying on my bus ride home. I can’t rave about it enough!

n.b. as the copy I read was uni property, my wonderful boyfriend bought me my own copy for my last birthday :)