Best books you read in 2018?

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Best books you read in 2018?

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Anyone want to play? These are the 4 star books of 122 that I read last year.

Behind Closed Doors BA Paris
I Liked My Life Abby Fablaschi
The Woman in the Window AJ Finn
The Immortalists Chloe Benjamin
Best Day Ever Kaira Ronda
Class Mom Laurie Gelman
The Good Daughter Karin Slaughter
All These Beautiful Strangers Elizabeth Klenforth
The Last Time I Lied Riley Sager
The Wife Alafair Burke
Emergency Contact Mary HK Choi
Bad Blood John Carreyrou
Every Other Weekend Zulema Renee Summerfield
Ghosted Rosie Walsh
The Atomic City Girls Janet Beard
Always and Forever Lara Jean Jenny Han
Dry Neal and Jarrod Shusterman
The Masterpiece Fiona Davis
I'll Be There For You Kelsey Miller
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I'll play:

By far the best book of the year: The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne

4 or 5 stars:

The Family Next Door by Sally Hepworth
The Mother's Promise by Sally Hepworth
Then She was Gone by Lisa Jewell
The Secrets she Keeps by Michael Robotham
The War I Finally Won by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (and its prequel, The War that Saved my Life, which I read in 2017. They're middle grade, but I loved them).
The Break by Marian Keyes
The Things That Keep Us Here by Carla Buckley
Almost Perfect by Dianne Blacklock
The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand
The Other Wife by Michael Robotham
The Suspect by Michael Robotham
Evidence of the Affair by Taylor Jenkins Reid
All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin

And a couple of Brazilians that will never be translated into English.
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Sílvia wrote: Wed Jan 09, 2019 5:11 am

By far the best book of the year: The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
Ditto!

4 or 5 stars:

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Break by Marian Keyes
The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
Flawed by Cecelia Ahern
Unbecoming by Rebecca Scherm
How Hard Can it Be by Allison Pearson
The Wife by Allifair Burke
Nobody Cares by Anne T Donahue
The Coincidence Makers by Yoav Blum
The Power by Naomi Alderman
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
This could Hurt by Jillian Medoff
The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman
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Killing Floor by Lee Child
Die Trying by Lee Child
The Martian by Andy Weir
What If? by Randall Munroe
Yoga for Pain Relief by Lee Albert
Dreams of Joy by Lisa See
You by Caroline Kepnes -- aside, has anyone who's also read this, seen the Netflix show? I'm wondering if it's worth watching having already read the book.
Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty
After You by Jojo Moyes
Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
All Stories are Love Stories by Elizabeth Percer
Fitness Junkie by Lucy Sykes
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Spudd - I definitely suggest watching You anyway. I tend not to remember books so that might help me but the whole family is enjoying the series.
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Rather late to this party, but I wanna play anyway. These are my 4s & 5s; the 5s have the * in front.

The Tsar of Love and Techno, by Anthony Marra
We Should All be Feminists, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
*Kindred, by Octavia E. Butler
*Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert M. Pirsig (this was a re-read, and I loved it at least much as the first go-round)
I am Malala, by Malala Yousafzai
Necessary Lies, by Diane Chamberlain
*Born a Crime, by Trevor Noah
The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde
El Deafo, by Cece Bell
*Salvage the Bones, by Jesmyn Ward
*Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity," by Andrew Solomon (even for a non-parent, this was absolutely fascinating)
A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn
The American Nurse, by Carolyn Jones
*The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker," by Katherine J. Cramer
*There There, by Tommy Orange
*We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy," by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything, by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
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Thanks for playing Bugsy!
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