Top-Rated Books

The Silver&Gold Book Club has been publicizing their ratings since February of 2016. Here’s our list of the Top-Rated Books:

  1. February 2017: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah — Our Rating: 4.90
  2. July 2024: Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver — Our Rating: 4.63
  3. January 2017: The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens — Our Rating: 4.60
  4. February 2016: A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman — Our Rating: 4.60
  5. April 2017: The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian — Our Rating: 4.60
  6. May 2025: Harry’s Trees by Jon Cohen — Our Rating: 4.55
  7. August 2018: Under a Dark Summer Sky by Vanessa Lafaye– Our Rating: 4.53
  8. October 2021: Watchers by Dean Koontz — Our Rating: 4.47
  9. February 2026: All the Colors of the Dark —  Our Rating: 4.47
  10. September 2025: One-in-a-million boy by Monica Wood — Our Rating: 4.46
  11. November 2025: Where the Lost Wander by Amy Harmon — Our Rating: 4.41
  12. April 2018: The Secret Wisdom of the Earth by Christopher Scotton — Our Rating: 4.40
  13. June 2020: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway — Our Rating: 4.36
  14. August 2019: The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See — Our Rating: 4.36
  15. April 2025: The Winemaker’s Wife by Kristin Harmel–Our Rating: 4.34
  16. February 2024: America’s First Daughter by Stephanie Dray & Laura Kamoie — Our Rating: 4.34
  17. January 2022: Flight Of The Sparrow by Amy Belding Brown — Our Rating: 4.32
  18. February 2022: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee — Our Rating: 4.31
  19. November 2019: Cemetery Road by Greg Iles — Our Rating: 4.30
  20. March 2021: Burial Rites by Hannah Kent — Our Rating: 4.28
  21. January 2021: Pompeii by Robert Harris — Our Rating: 4.27
  22. January 2025: The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey — Our Rating: 4.25
  23. August 2022: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson — Our Rating: 4.23
  24. June 2025: Tom Lake by Ann Patchett — Our Rating: 4.20
  25. January 2018: All the Winters After by Seré Prince Halverson — Our Rating: 4.20
  26. July 2017: Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger — Our Rating: 4.20
  27. August 2025: People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks — Our Rating: 4.19
  28. April 2021: If the Creek Don’t Rise by Leah Weiss — Our Rating: 4.17
  29. February 2023:  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith — Our Rating:  4.16
  30. March 2025: Follow the River by James Alexander Thom — Our Rating: 4.14
  31. October 2016: Loving Frank by Nancy Horan — Our Rating: 4.10
  32. December 2024: Mercy Snow by Tiffany Baker– Our Rating: 4.10
  33. December 2017: Oil & Marble by Stephanie Storey — Our Rating: 4.10
  34. October 2017: Plainsong by Kent Haruf — Our Rating: 4.10
  35. February 2025: The Measure by Nikki Erlick–Our Rating: 4.08
  36. October 2020: The Island by Victoria Hislop — Our Rating: 4.05
  37. November 2020: The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict — Our Rating: 4.04
  38. November 2023:The Southern Book Clubs Guide to Slaying Vampires  by Grady Hendrix– Our Rating: 4.03
  39. March 2024: The Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent– Our Rating: 4.02
  40. July 2024: The Dollhouse by Fiona Davis — Our Rating: 4.01
  41. March 2026: Shannon by Frank Delaney — Our Rating: 4.00
  42. December 2025: Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg — Our Rating: 4.00
  43. September 2020: All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood — Our Rating: 4.00
  44. November 2024: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride — Our Rating: 4.00
  45.  January 2023:  When Winter Comes by V.A. Shannon — Our Rating:  4.00

Note: We had several numerical ties in this list. The group went to a more detailed rating system in late 2018. (Example: 4.53 instead of 4.5).

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