Compiled by 10 people* who participated in my #25in2018 book challenge—our most loved books from a year of avid reading!
Our Top 5 Picks
A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, Samantha Irby
The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas
A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
Favorites of 2018—Fiction
The Nix, Nathan Hill
Less, Andrew Sean Greer
Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win, Jo Piazza
Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney
The Seven Husband of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid
Wolf Hollow, Lauren Wolk
Sleeping Beauties, Stephen and Owen King
The Power, Naomi Alderman
Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Blue Between Sky and Water, Susan Abulhawa
Bird Box, Josh Malerman
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, Hank Green
All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
Lethal White (fourth book in the Cormoran Strike series), Robert Galbraith (aka JK Rowling)
Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
1Q84, Haruki Murakami
Exit West, Moshin Hamid
Favorites of 2018—Non-fiction
Real Artists Have Day Jobs, Sara Benincasa
Educated, Tara Westover
The Anatomy of Peace; The Outward Mindset; Leadership & Self-Deception, (3 titles) The Arbinger Institute
Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann
Unf*ck Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life, Gary John Bishop
Theft By Finding: Diaries (1977-2002), David Sedaris
What was your favorite read in 2018?
*Check back—we’re still adding to this list!
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