Top 10 of 2018

2018 has been such a great year for me for books! Probably my best reading year ever. In addition to setting a record for the most books I’ve ever read in a year (not counting the upper/elementary middle school years where I read a book a day), I read the most 5-star books I’ve ever read. Where last year’s Top 10 list had I think three 5-star books, this year there are nine. NINE!

So without any further ado, here are my favorite books of 2018.

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1. The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison

   
   Quirky, refreshing, and slower paced. My kind of fantasy! This is definitely going down as an all-time favorite. I am obsessed!

2. Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

   
   I’m going to go ahead and call it. This is the must-read YA Fantasy of the decade. Utterly brilliant.

3. Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

   
   Gah! Why is everything Rainbow Rowell writes SO PERFECT??? The only problem here is that now I don’t have any more of her books to read…

4. Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

   
   A masterpiece of historical fiction set in my favorite time period, Tudor England. Hands down some of the best historical fiction I’ve ever read.

5. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

   
   Funny, touching, quirky, diverse, and jam-packed full of great speculative ethics. Maybe my favorite Sci-Fi book EVER.

6. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

   
   A brilliant mystery that turn the genre on its head by adding to the mystery of “whodunnit?” the mystery of “who am I?”. Loved loved LOVED this book!

7. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

   
   Probably the most important book I’ve ever read.

8. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

   
   Ready Player One meets Arrival, except better. It’s a story that only Hank Green could write, and I loved it.

9. Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

   
   Naomi Novik does it again! If you love Uprooted, you’ll adore this Rumpelstiltskin-inspired fantasy.

10. Hamilton: the Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter

    
    Not just a coffee table book. Half libretto, half author’s notes, half making-of, half gorgeous photographs. Makes you feel like you were in the room where it happened.