Best Books of 2018

Two posts in one day! I’m trying to start the year out right, and what better way than to recap my favorite books from 2018? As a review from last year I finished 61 books, abandoned 10 (!), and added 57 to my to-read list. Below are my favorite 13 with 2 honorable mentions.

Contemporary Fiction


Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine by Gail Honeyman
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Castle of Water
By Dane Huckelbridge
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The Language of Flowers
by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

*Honorable Mention*
How to Walk Away
by Katherine Center
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Historical Fiction


The Great Alone
by Kristin Hannah
Read my review

Gracelin O’Malley
by Ann Moore

*Honorable Menion*
Lilli De Jong by Janet Brenton
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Fantasy


Circe
by Madeline Miller

Daughter of the Forest
by Juliet Marillier

Middle Grade/ Young Adult


Counting by 7’s
by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Read my review

Nevermoor
by Jessica Townsend
Read my review

Memoir


When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi
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Educated
by Tara Westover
Read my review

Nonfiction


The Four Tendencies
by Gretchen Rubin
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The Power of Habit
by Charles Duhigg