Year in Books 2018

It’s December 31, which means it’s time to take stock of what I read this year and pick some favorites.

TOP FIVE (in no particular order):

Annihilation– Jeff Vandermeer

Go ahead and watch the movie, but it’s nothing at all like the book. Annihilation is the first book in the Southern Reach Trilogy, and I think, the strongest, but I recommend reading the whole trilogy. It is a trilogy in the truest sense, where you need all three books’ worth of information in order to sort out what the hell i...