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Book clubs are a good oportunity to spend time with other persons that could broaden your knowledge and help you to get new ways of looking at things.
Books are simply amazing, they have the power of transport you to everywhere you could imagine, it's just like dreaming with mind and soul.
Comment why you think book clubs are a good idea.

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Welcome to the Watercolor Book Club, a space of meeting and reflection, where you can share your opinion, thoughts on books or whatever you want that could help others to live better through literature.
Each month we choose a literature genre and recomend you a book, at the end of the month we share our thoughts on that book and discuss different aspects of it.

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Recommendation: Best sellers of the world 2019

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Recommendation: Best sellers of the world 2019

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1. "Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens
2. "Becoming" By Michelle Obama
3. "Dog Man: Brawl of the Wild" by Dav Pilkey
4. "Girl, Stop Apologizing" by Rachel Hollis
5. "Diary of An Awesome Friendly Kid" by Jeff Kiney
6. "Girl, Wash Your Face" by Rachel Hollis
7. "Oh, the Places You'll Go!" by Dr. Seuss
8. "Educated: a Memoir" by Tara West over
9. "The Tattoist of Auschwitz" by Heather Morris
10. "The Wonky Donkey" by Craig Smith

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Publishers Weekly released their list of the top-selling books in 2019 so far.

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens topped the list and Michelle Obama's memoir came in close second.

Owens's book has sold over 907,000 copies in 2019 and more than 1.1 million since it's August 2018 release.

Bookworms listen up because Publishers Weekly revealed the top-selling print books in 2019, so far.

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, which was first released in August 2018, has sold 907,000 copies in 2019 and more than 1.1 million since it came out.

The book is about Kya, a girl that has been dubbed "Marsh Girl" because she's survived for years in a marsh on the coast of North Carolina. When the handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals suspect Kya. At the same time, she decides to open herself up to love and befriends two young men from the town. Of course, something unthinkable happens.

In close second was none other than Michelle Obama's memoir . Does that really come as a shock to anyone? It was the bestselling book in 2018 and made it onto Oprah's Book Club in December 2018. This year, 888,611 copies have been sold so far.

The list goes as follows:

1. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens-907,192

2. by Michelle Obama-888,611

3. Dog Man: Brawl of the Wild by Dav Pilkey-524,849

4. Girl, Stop Apologizing by Rachel Hollis-505,809

5. Diary of An Awesome Friendly Kid by Jeff Kinney-493,154

6. Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis-490,019

7. Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss-483,478

8. The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris-365,246

9. Unfreedom of the Press by Mark R. Levin-267,751

10. Howard Stern Comes Again by Howard Stern-265,295

11. You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero-250,048

12. The Mueller Report by the Washington Post-243,007

13. Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss-237,239

14. StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom Rath-235,821

15. It's Not Supposed to To Be This Way by Lysa TerKeurst-232,932

16. The Meltdown by Jeff Kinney-231,149

17. The Woman In the Window by A. J. Finn-230,098

18. The Life-changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo-229,730

Publishing houses Penguin Random House and HarperCollins both had seven books in the top 25 print bestsellers, while Simon & Schuster was next with three books.

If you have not already gotten your hands on these books, it's time to pick one up and get your summer reading on.
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The 20 Bestselling Books of 2019 (so Far) Are Flying Off the Shelves

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Publishers Weekly released their list of the top-selling books in 2019 so far. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens topped the list and Michelle Obama's memoir came in close second. Owens's book has sold over 907,000 copies in 2019 and more than 1.1 million since it's August 2018 release.

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Books we have read: "The Little Prince" by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

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Books we have read: "The Little Prince" by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

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It's a simple but very deep story. It makes you think about common things going back to the childhood in a creative and inocent way. It's a beautiful book which invites you to reflect about the essence of things, persons and life.

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Nicholas Sparks is an American screenwriter and novelist, born on 31st December 1965. As a young kid he moved a lot, but in 1974 his family finally settled in Fair Oaks, California,  where he graduated from Bella Vista High School as a valedictorian. For further studies he went to University of Notre Dame where graduated in 1988.

After writing 2 unpublished novels, he co wrote a novel with Billy Mills Wokini. It sold about fifty thousand copies in the first year of being published. In 1992 he moved to Greenville, that was when he wrote his renowned novel "The Noteboo". After being published in 1996, "The Notebook" made the best seller list of The New York Times instantly.

Currently Nicholas Spark is living with his wife and five children in North Carolina.

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This month we had chosen the book "The Notebook" by Nicholas Sparks.

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* Noah Calhoun - Initial narrator and protagonist.
* Allie Nelson - Young woman who falls in love with Noah .
* Gus - Noah's best friend and neighbor in New Bern.
* Lon Hammond - Allie's fiancé
* Anne Nelson - Allie's mother

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The Notebook begins with the story of Noah Calhoun, a rural Southerner returned home from World War II. Noah, thirty-one, is restoring a plantation home to its former glory, and he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met fourteen years earlier, a girl he loved like no other. Unable to find her, yet unwilling to forget the summer they spent together, Noah is content to live with only memories. . . until she unexpectedly returns to his town to see him once again. Allie Nelson, twenty-nine, is now engaged to another man, but realizes that the original passion she felt for Noah has not dimmed with the passage of time. Still, the obstacles that once ended their previous relationship remain, and the gulf between their worlds is too vast to ignore.

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Books we have read: "La Ciudad de las Bestias" by Isabel Allende

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Books we have read: "La Ciudad de las Bestias" by Isabel Allende

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I really enjoyed this book because I felt like I was in the adventure. Isabel Allende describes the Amazonas beautifully and I loved the indigenous characters, like Nadia.

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1) I usually dont cry, but this book brought tears to my eyes. Nicholas Sparks made this novel hard to put down.  –Alison Kelly

2) It was such a memorable book, from the plot, ending, characters. It was just so beautiful to see a real life fairy tale unwind. For every chapter you read, you get more and more interested in the book and Nicholas Sparks does an amazing job of adding that tiny bit of drama, yet not making it too dramatic. You can feel the emotions and I frankly have yet to find an actual book that can communicate feelings as vividly as Nicholas Sparks had. The themes of happiness, sadness, love, and faith really do come to show with the fate of these characters.  –Jessica Sang

3) I was very excited to read this book after I saw the movie. Unfortunately, I found it much less interesting than the movie. I enjoyed the way the author describes the love that Allie and Noah had, but I would really recommend that you watch the movie afterwards so that the disappointment isn't as great.      -Karen Yingling

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Books we have read: "Twilight" saga by Stephenie Meyer

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Books we have read: "Twilight" saga by Stephenie Meyer

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Omg! My favourite.
This love story is so captivating, how you get inside the story is incredible. The author is a genious, how she describes all the detailed scenes, the interesting characters and how they change throught the pages.

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Recommendation: Best sellers of chile 2019

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Recommendation: Best sellers of chile 2019

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1. "Weona Tu Podi" by Carmen Castillo
2. "Horóscopo Chino 2020 Año del Ratón de Metal" by Angeles Lasso
3. "Notre Dame" by Ken Follett
4. "Los Compas Escapan de la Prisión" by Mikecrack
5. "Magallanes" by Laurence Bergreen
6. "De la Tierra al Alma" by Patricia May
7. "Ajuste de Cuentas" by John Grisham
8. "El Costo del Silencio" by Javier Rebolledo
9. "Tiempos Recios" by Mario Vargas Llosa
10. "El Diario de Eliseo" by JJ Benitez

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La cadena de librerías más importante del país.

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This month we had chosen the book "Divergent" by Veronica Roth.

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Books we have read: "Bake" by Edward Gee

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Books we have read: "Bake" by Edward Gee

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When i read this, I wished I could cook forever. While watching all the ingredients, the beautiful pictures and where were they from I felt like I was traveling all over the world, tasting a piece of culture in each country that was written.

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Set in a futuristic dystopia where society is divided into five factions that each represent a different virtue, teenagers have to decide if they want to stay in their faction or switch to another - for the rest of their lives. Tris Prior makes a choice that surprises everyone. Then Tris and her fellow faction-members have to live through a highly competitive initiation process to live out the choice they have made. They must undergo extreme physical and intense psychological tests, that transform them all. But Tris has a secret that she is Divergent, which means she doesn't fit into any one group. If anyone knew, it would mean a certain death. As she discovers a growing conflict that threatens to unravel her seemingly peaceful society, this secret might help her save the people she loves... or it might destroy her.

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Veronica Roth was born in Chicago on August 19th 1988. In her youth she felt familiar with literature, so she liked to write and read in her spare time. After finishing her academic studies, her family became aware of the talent for writing she had and encouraged her to enroll in the prestigious Northwestern University to study "Creative Writing" where she graduated from the degree. Since then, she was inspired to write her first book.

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* Beatrice (Tris) Prior - Sixteen year old protagonist, in dauntless faction.
* Four (Tobias) - Trainer of the dauntless  faction.
* Jeanine Matthews - The person with the highest IQ in erudite and the faction's leader.
* Eric - Dauntless leader
* Al - Tris's friend
* Peter - Tris's main enemy in dauntless.
* Christina - Tris's best friend in dauntless.

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Books we have read: "Siddhartha" by Herman Hesse

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Books we have read: "Siddhartha" by Herman Hesse

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What a complete book, a experience of a traveler discovering himself throught meditation. It tought me that you  have to be persistent to reach your goals.

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1) I did not like it. The main idea is fine, but it ends up boring. I was very excited when I started reading it, something different was waiting for me.  -Cyssie

2)Great book, I totally did not know this saga and the truth is that it has surprised me a lot. With a different story and characters that fall in love. Simply addictive.  -Carla

3) Reading goes by very quickly. It is entertaining even if I can't connect with any character ... Some things are missing but I guess it is complemented in the other two books of the saga. In general, it is a good book. I highly recommended.  -Isco

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Recommendation: Books that could change your life

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Once upon a time, I fell in love with reading. I went to Hogwarts with Ms Rowling and I laughed so damn hard with Ms Kinsella. Mr Sparks made me the hopeless romantic that I am now and Mr Paterson made me think so damn hard exhausting every single brain cell I have.

Then I met Mr Coelho. He is no doubt one hell of a wordsmith but my happy-go- lucky soul couldn't fully absorb his words. I guess I wasn't well acquainted with depression and I have yet to launch the search for meaning and purpose. I lacked the depth of an experienced adult. I was a child. For 30 years, I was a child.

30 years later, I wonder why I bought his entire book collection and gave the books away one by one as birthday presents. But I guess fate wanted me to do that.

30 years later, no single author makes my hair stand on its end and no one seemed to soothe my longing soul for the assurance it needs.

30 years later, my journey to self-discovery started.

When I left my job, I couldn't fully explain why. All I knew was I didn't want it anymore. I didn't have enough words to express what I was feeling. It was only when I got addicted to reading again and started hoarding books that I bumped into all the right words to name what I was going through. I was relieved that there are actually people who experienced what I have been going through and that no matter how alone I felt, I was never really alone. Someone has successfully put into a book the blow by blow account of those hard-to-explain phenomena called spiritual awakening.

I thought I wanted to travel. I've always wanted to run as far away, go to where I will not be haunted and start a new life again. I was wrong. Later on I realized that it was actually my thoughts that I have always been terrified of. Wanting so much gave me anxiety I couldn't get rid of. I needed to learn how to calm down. I needed to learn to control my thoughts and make it shift to see the positive side of things.

These books made it easier for me to let go of things I can't control and be excited for the best ones that are yet to come. And now, no matter how broke I will become, I will never scrimp on books.

Here's my top 10 pick.

10. A Thousand New Beginnings

Solo female travel blogger, Kristin Addis, left her stable job as an Investment Banker and a boyfriend behind to travel Southeast Asia. During that one year, she has experienced thousand new beginnings, started new friendships and got to know the world outside. This is actually a collection of her diary and blog entries during the time when she found out that exploring the world alone makes a huge difference.

9. It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be.

At first glance the book looks like a compilation of easy-to-understand motivational statements, ideas and advises. It encourages out-of-the-box thinking to succeed in life, career and business. During those days that I tend to forget what I want in this life, I take a look at this book and I will surely be motivated again.

8. The Alchemist

I remember having this book maybe some eight years ago but I gave it as a gift to my friend when I started reading other Coelho books and got terribly bored by them. I wanted to steal this book from my favorite coffee shop in the Philippines but I somehow felt guilty so I just stole an old magazine instead with the help of a college friend.

Maybe if I had stolen this book and read it earlier, I would have been clear in what I want my life to look like. Regrets. But actually, no. The timing is just right. I wouldn't have understood it then like how I do now. This is for the daydreamers. " And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."

7. Reasons To Stay Alive

When my life lost meaning, I questioned every single second why I'm alive. This book just gave me more reasons to be thankful that I am and helped me stop asking the world why I am still here. My story is not supposed to end yet. Life is indeed beautiful.

6. Mastering Your Mean Girl

That book that reminded me that no matter what, I should make my inner bitch shut up and I shouldn't think twice about flexing my self-love muscle. That I shouldn't do things that aren't aligned with my truth.

5. What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding

I love fiction and chic lit soooooo much. But when I challenged myself to read at least one non-fiction book per week, I fell in love with autobiographies and memoirs. This book is one of those page-turners that made me laugh but knocked me some sense. It is okay not to marry early. It is okay not to do what others are doing. It is never okay to have somebody just to be able to say that we have somebody. It is never okay to settle.

4. What I Know For Sure

I found myself crying while reading this book. Oprah's written words have the power to touch my heart in such a way that it felt like she was beside me and was personally assuring me that it is normal to have ups and downs in this life in a voice that has warmed my the cockles of my heart. This is one of those books that put a stop to my panic attacks.

A book written by a French woman who has been living in Japan for 30 years. She fell in love with the simplicity of Japanese life that she never left and started applying this wellness approach in her daily living. From minimalism to self-care to naming every little changes a person who has left her country and learned a different way of life. This book has the power to influence a lifestyle that invites slow living.

A book that has inspired me to the bits of my bones. She is the perfect example of creating something from scratch and making it billion times bigger through determination and hardwork. She doesn't have a University Degree but she employs those who have MBAs. Her tips, cleverness and no BS approach to life is so on point. Everything about women empowering is in this book.

A book written by a Psychiatrist about his path to becoming himself. He wrote the book at 85 when at 32, I couldn't remember that happened to me two years ago. His openness and vulnerability after all those years of helping his patients gave him more understanding of himself. Though written by a doctor, the book is surprisingly easy to understand, very honest and made me want to understand more about human behavior and more about myself.

Bonus:

That one book that made me fall in love with winter. The book that taught me how to fall in love more with candles, wool socks, fireplace, books and hot chocolate. It's the book whose every page is filled with coziness.

What books changed your life? I'd love to add it to my book list. =)

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10 Books That Dramatically Changed My Life. - This Village Girl

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These books made it easier for me to let go of things I can't control and be excited for the best ones that are yet to come. And now, no matter how broke I will become, I will never scrimp on books.

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Classical Music for Reading - Mozart, Chopin, Debussy, Tchaikovsky...

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1. "Gone With The Wind" by Margaret Mitchell
2. "It Ends With Us" by Colleen Hoover
3. "Me Before You" by Jojo Moyes
4. "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
5. "The Thorn Birds" by Colleen McCullough

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The 20 Greatest Ever Romance Novels, According to Goodreads Reviews

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With the help of Goodreads reviews, we've found the best romance novels of all time based on the top ratings from hundreds of thousands of book lovers.

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Recommendation: Music to listen while reading

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1. "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2. "The Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett
3. "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger
4. "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. "Ender's Game" by Orson scott Card

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Top 10 Fiction genre: new releases and popular books, including Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett, The ...

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We did a survey to students and teachers of our school, here are the answers!

1. Do you like to read? Why?

Most of the people interviewed responded that they like to read for different reasons:  because it is a way of traveling, learning new things, opening the mind and it also entertains.

2. How often do you read? Once a week, three times a week, 2 hours per day, less than that.

Most of the interviewed people read 3 times a week. However, the minority reads only once a week.

3. Which is your favourite literature genre?

Within the favorite genres of the people interviewed we can find: crime and mystery, history and fiction.

4.In what language do you prefer to read?
Half of the people preferred to read in Spanish while the other half preferred to read in English.

5. Do you prefer to read paper books or  e-books?
Most people usually prefer to read paper books rather than e-books.

6. Is reading an habit for you?

For half of respondents reading is a habit in their lives while the other half does not have this habit for some reason.

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Recommendation: Music to listen while reading

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【Relaxing Jazz】Slow Jazz Music For Relax,Sleep,Study,Work - Background Music

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Why is important to recover the intellectual curiosity and motivation for reading?

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Why is important to recover the intellectual curiosity and motivation for reading?

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Because books are an important part of our roots. There we can find hidden pieces of culture, art or different types of stories that could broaden our actual culture. Is very important to turn back to our origins and value all we have learned. Being more curious about reading could improve our knowledge and emotional intelligence, making us more integral citizens.

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This list is generated from 130 "best of" book lists from a variety of great sources. An algorithm is used to create a master list based on how many lists a particular book appears on. Some lists count more than others. I generally trust "best of all time" lists voted by authors and experts over user-generated lists. On the lists that are actually ranked, the book that is 1st counts a lot more than the book that's 100th. If you're interested in the details about how the rankings are generated and which lists are the most important(in my eyes) please check out the list details page.

If you have any comments, suggestions, or corrections please feel free to e-mail me.

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The Top 50 greatest fiction books of all time determined by 130 lists and articles from various critics, authors and experts.