Sunday Book Club: My Favorite Books of 2018

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At 150 books, I think this may be the most books I’ve ever read in one year. I wasn’t sure how exactly I wanted to put together this post, but then I saw how Grace styled her post and I LOVED it! I decided that that format (dividing up books by genre) might be a little easier to ingest, so I decided to do something similar.

But, I made a few changes.

First, I included a top overall list of my Favorite Books of 2018. These were the books/series that were my absolute favorite to read. Second, I didn’t include ALL of the books I read this past year. I didn’t want to waste either of our time, so I left off all of the books I just felt meh about. To be included in this post, I had to really like it. Not just feel meh about it. Third, within each genre, I didn’t really rank them. If it’s on this list, I enjoyed it, so I didn’t really feel the need to rank them. Finally, I didn’t include the descriptions because I’ve already described most of them in posts already.

Okay, I think that’s it, so enjoy and let me know what your favorites in 2018 were!

My Favorite Books of 2018

• Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
• The Gates of Evangeline by Hester Young
• The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis
• Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal
• Beartown by Fredrik Backman
• Us Against You (Beartown #2) by Fredrik Backman
• The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
• We’re Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors
• Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi
• The Glittering Court Series by Richelle Mead
• Circe by Madeline Miller
• The Power by Naomi Alderman
• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
• This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel

Mysteries and Thrillers

• The Shimmering Road by Hester Young
• You by Caroline Kepnes
• The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine
• The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager
• Lethal White by Robert Galbraith
• Still Lives by Maria Hummel
• Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
• Sadie by Courtney Summers
• A Simple Favor by Darcey Bell
• The President Is Missing by Bill Clinton
• Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney
• The Broken Girls by Simone St. James

Young Adult

• Puddin’ by Julie Murphy
• Far from the Tree by Robin Benway
• The Kissing Booth by Beth Reekles
• From Twinkle, with Love by Sandhya Menon
• Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
• The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton
• One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
• The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand
• The Ends of the World by Maggie Hall
• The Towering Sky by Katharine McGee
• The Dazzling Heights by Katharine McGee
• Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl
• The Last Summer of the Garrett Girls by Jessica Spotswood
• The Cheerleaders by Kara Thomas
• The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir
• Save the Date by Morgan Matson

Romance

• The Paper Princess Series by Erin Watt
• The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory
• Fallen Heir by Erin Watt
• Matchmaking for Beginners by Maddie Dawson
• The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
• The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
• Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe by Melissa de la Cruz

Memoir

• My Squirrel Days by Ellie Kemper
• Educated by Tara Westover
• Unbelievable by Katy Tur

Fiction

• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
• Less by Andrew Sean Greer
• You Think It, I’ll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld
• When Life Gives You Lululemons by Lauren Weisberger
• Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks
• Ghosted by Rosie Walsh
• Marriage Vacation by Pauline Turner Brooks
• The Identicals by Elin Hilderbrand
• The Elizas by Sara Shepard
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• Vox by Christina Dalcher

Historical Fiction

• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• My Name Is Victoria by Lucy Worsley
• The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman

Non-Fiction

• I Had a Nice Time And Other Lies… by The Betches
• Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud by Anne Helen Petersen