I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to say that this year went by "ohmygod so fast" and that "wasn't it just January?" Nope.
But seriously. Didn't it? Wasn't it?
This year has been one the busiest ever- this was the first year since Sawyer was born that I really felt like I traveled, we did tons of local activities, I had my hands full at work, and I kept up with exercise. And, miraculously, I met my Goodreads challenge goal of reading 71 books.
Before I list my favorite of the year, here are a few fun bookish stats:
- 71 books read
- 18,689 pages (51ish pages/day)
- 48 fiction, 23 nonfiction
- 43 female writers, 28 male writers
- 4 graphic novels
Narrowing my list down to ten, which is unnecessary and a rule I enforce upon myself for some unknown reason, was incredibly difficult this year. I read so many great books, which is not a bad problem to have. So, in no particular order, my favorites of 2018:
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Educated by Tara Westover
There There by Tommy Orange
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti
Calypso by David Sedaris
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenhaj
The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
A few runners up:
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
The Incendiaries by RO Kwon
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala
Let Your Mind Run by Deena Kastor
The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra
What did you read? What did you love? What are you reading next year?
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