Our favorite reads of 2018! Did any of these make your list?
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Stephen
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After Emily: Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America’s Greatest Poet, by Julie Dobrow (WW Norton)
Review in The Washington Post
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The Tangled Tree A Radical New History of Life, by David Quammen (Simon & Schuster)
New York Times Review
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Faith, by Jimmy Carter (Simon & Schuster)
New York Times Review
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, by Robert M. Sapolsky (Penguin Books)
Review in The Guardian
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- So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall.” – Roald Dahl
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Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 2–1956-1963 , edited by Peter K. Steinberg & Karen V. Kukil (Harper Collins)
New York Times Review
Sarah
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- Around the World in 80 Trees, by Jonathan Drori, illustrated by Lucille Clerc (Laurence King)
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Circe, by Madeline Miller (Little, Brown & Company)
LA Times Review
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The Death of Mrs. Westaway, by Ruth Ware (Gallery/Scout Press)
Review in The Washington Post
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- “Reading brings us unknown friends” – Honoré de Balzac
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- Aquicorn Cove, by Katie O’Neill (Oni Press)
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- Muse of Nightmares, by Laini Taylor (Little, Brown Young Readers)
Cary
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Evening in Paradise: More Stories, by Lucia Berlin, HC (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Review in The Sewanee Review
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- In Search of Lost Books – by Giorgio Van Straten (Paperback) A Little Gem of a Collection
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Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process, by John McPhee, paperback (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
New York Times Review
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These Truths: A History of the United States, by Jill Lepore, Hardcover (WW Norton)
New York Times Review
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- Imaginary Lives by Marcel Schowb (paperback, Wakefield) The Essence of Art…the World of Ideas
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The Hard Stuff: Dope, Crime, the MC5, and My Life of Impossibilities, by Wayne Kramer, HC (Da Capo Press)
Rolling Stone Review
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Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey, by Mark Dery Hardcover, (Little, Brown & Company)
Lambda Literary Review
Ryan
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century, by Yuval Noah Harari (Harper Collins)
New York Times Review
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- The Collected Letters of Alan Watts, edited by Joan & Anne Watts (New World Library)
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The War on Normal People: The Truth About America’s Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future, by Andrew Yang (Hachette Books)
New York Times Review
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- “If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” –Stephen King
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A People’s History of Civilization, by John Zerzan (Feral House)
Anarchist News Review
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- Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence, by Vicki Robin (Penguin Books)
Tara
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Those Who Knew, by Idra Novey (Viking)
New York Times Review
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The Friend, by Sigrid Nunez (Riverhead Books)
Review in LA Review of Books
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feeld, by Jos Charles (Milkweed Editions)
Review in Kenyon Review
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- The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos, by Dionne Brand (Duke University Press)
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- “A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.” – Charles Baudelaire
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Heavy: An American Memoir, by Kiese Laymon (Scribner)
LA Times Review
Evan
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How to Write An Autobiographical Novel, by Alexander Chee (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
New York Times Review
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The Collected Stories of Diane Williams (Soho Press)
Review in The New Republic
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Sabrina, by Nick Drnaso (Drawn & Quarterly)
Review in LA Review of Books
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- “Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.” – Joyce Carol Oates
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Everyday People: The Color of Life–A Short Story Anthology, edited by Jennifer Baker (Atria Books)
Review in Ploughshares
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- Severance, by Ling Ma (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Tony
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- “It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” – Oscar Wilde
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War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence, by Ronan Farrow (WW Norton)
New York Times Review
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- Unbury Carol, by Josh Malerman (Del Rey)
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The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, by John Meacham (Random House)
New York Times Review
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- Frankenstein: The 1818 Text, by Mary Shelley (Penguin Classics)
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1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List, by James Mustich (Workman Publishing)
Review in The Washington Post
Lauren
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- Kingdom of the Blazing Phoenix, by Julie C. Dao (Penguin Teen)
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- The Serpent’s Secret, by Sayantani DasGupta (Scholastic)
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- Girl With the Dragon Heart, by Stephanie Burgis (Bloomsbury)
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- Dread Nation, by Justina Ireland (Baltzer + Bray)
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Spinning Silver, by Naomi Novik (Del Rey)
New York Times Review
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- “Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them.” – Lloyd Alexander