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Goodreads Staffers' Top Three Books of the Year
As we wrap up our 2018 Reading Challenge, we decided to ask our Goodreads coworkers a simple yet tough question: What were the top three books you read this year?
Oh, the angst we caused among our well-read colleagues as they whittled down their lists to just their top few books! But hopefully our picks will inspire additions to your Want to Read Shelf.
You'll notice that our reading habits run the gamut. But if you look carefully, you can see some office favorites emerge, including multiple picks of the true-crime page-turner I'll Be Gone in the Dark; Naomi Novik's fantasy retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale, Spinning Silver; and Angie Thomas' bestselling young adult debut, The Hate U Give.
Now it's your turn! What are your top three books of the year? Share them with us in the comments!
Oh, the angst we caused among our well-read colleagues as they whittled down their lists to just their top few books! But hopefully our picks will inspire additions to your Want to Read Shelf.
You'll notice that our reading habits run the gamut. But if you look carefully, you can see some office favorites emerge, including multiple picks of the true-crime page-turner I'll Be Gone in the Dark; Naomi Novik's fantasy retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale, Spinning Silver; and Angie Thomas' bestselling young adult debut, The Hate U Give.
Now it's your turn! What are your top three books of the year? Share them with us in the comments!
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What are your three favorite books you read in 2018? Share them with us in the comments!
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Check out more recent articles:
Catch Up Now: These Big Series All Have Books Coming Out in 2019
Celebrate Your 2018 Year in Books!
The Sci-Fi & Fantasy Trends of 2018
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Gauri
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Dec 17, 2018 04:03PM
I always love these recommendation posts - I find a lot of interesting books I otherwise would never have found. I appreciate posts that cover books that aren't necessarily popular or well known and are across a wide variety of genres and tastes.
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The Girl in the TowerWrath of Empire
A Gentleman in Moscow
The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain, The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris and The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni.
A Gentleman in Moscow/Amor TowlesManhattan Beach/Jennifer Egan
Educated/Tara Westover
The Astonishing Color of After, When Breath Becomes Air and The Prince and the Dressmaker
In no particular order: 
Educated 
Beneath a Scarlet Sky 
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
A Little Life/YanagiharaThe Stone Sky/Jemisin
Little Fires Everywhere/Ng
Fiction:The Cruel Prince
Salt to the Sea
Rebecca
Non Fiction:
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
Poppy Wars, City of Brass and Children of Blood and Bone
The Simple Wild by K.A. Tucker, All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover and Gaslight by Dannika Dark(Honorable mention to Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang and Midnight Valentine by J.T. Geissinger)
The Nightingale, Eleanor Oliphant is Perfectly Fine, A Man Called Ove
Children of time , Educated, Hyperion....and several others that I really enjoyed
Kimberley wrote: "A Tree Grows in BrooklynThe Hate U Give
The Elegance of the Hedgehog"
Why aren't more people reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn? Wow, what a masterpiece. Seems like we should read this in high school rather than stumbling upon it in our 40s.
Us Against You - Fredrick BackmanThe Bronze Horseman - Paullina Simons
Red Notice - Bill Browder
That's tough and I'm not done reading yet for the year so it could change, but in no particular order I'd sayGrey Sister
The Prey of Gods
Age of War
House Girl/Tara ConklinHow to Be Both/Ali Smith
Newcomers/Helen Thorpe
my top 3 favorite books are:1) The Burning Maze
2) The Ship of the Dead
3) Vicious
very hard to choose!
Eleanor Oliphant is Perfectly Fine by Gail Homeyman, Us Against You by Fredrik Backman, A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult
This is fun! Get some authors to post their top 3! Here are mine:
Little Comfort by Edwin Hill
Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleaton
A Place For Us by Mirza
I picked the three that made me laugh with so very much delight.
The Grand Sophy audiobook with the old British guy narrating...
Parsnips, Buttered audiobook with Joe narrating
and a graphic novel that has teaching moments served up with guffawing humor
I’m really surprised at how underrated ‘The Sun Does Shine’ is 🙁
Circe by Madeline MillerLess by Andrew Sean Greer
A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne
I gave 5 * to 4 books this year (so far and probably total because I'm mean).Big Bang (Simon Singh)
The Martian
13 Reasons Why
The Mountain Between Us.
The top 3 would probably be the first 3 because they have stayed with me more and were more of a surprise in how much I liked them.
Tai Pan by James Clavell, Three Things About Elsie by Joanna Cannon and Wink Poppy Midnight by April Genevieve Tucholke
Deb wrote: "How does one become a Goodread's Expert. I think that's my dream job."Same, Deb. Same.
The StandEducated
The Dream Daughter
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
(I cheated and did 4 - sorry.)
I didn't get to read a whole lot of books this year, but out of what I read my favorite books were:
I hope that I will be so brave as the doctor in When Breath Becomes Air.Nitya wrote: "The Astonishing Color of After, When Breath Becomes Air and The Prince and the Dressmaker"
The Sun Does ShineWhere the Crawdads Sing
The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko
1) Conquering the Desert of Death : Across the Taklamakan by Charles Blackmore2) When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
3) The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
After some deliberation:THE CLOCKMAKER'S DAUGHTER
SPINNING SILVER
MANHATTAN BEACH
Incredibly challenging to narrow down over a 100 reads this year to 3; however, I managed barely -:)1) The Space Between Us - Thrity Umrigar - lyrical prose
2) Soul Centered Astrology - Alan Oken - luminous resource
3) Midlife is not a Crisis - Virginia Bell - pertinent & wise
1. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng2. The Orphan's Tale by Pam Jenoff
3. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Under Locke by Mariana ZapataJack the Giant Killer by Charles DeLint
That Guy by Kim Jones
Obviously I loved more than 3 this year, but here are 3 I chose...The Kite Runner
Little Fires Everywhere
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
A LITTLE LIFEA GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW
THE SHEPHERDS HUT
The Lilac GirlsThe Red Sparrow
Beneath the Scarlet Sky
Just something about this genre' that fascinates me.
Liz wrote: "The Lilac GirlsThe Red Sparrow
Beneath the Scarlet Sky
Just something about this genre' that fascinates me."
You really like books with colors in their title :)
Gauri wrote: "I always love these recommendation posts - I find a lot of interesting books I otherwise would never have found. I appreciate posts that cover books that aren't necessarily popular or well known an..."Same. And they aren't always the latest books either, so you can find out about older books.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa MoshfeghEverything is horrible and wonderful: A tragic death memoir of genius, heroin, love and loss -- Stephanie Wittels Wachs
My sister the serial killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite
Stalin, vol 1, paradoxes of power, Stephen KotkinThe Dawn Watch, Maya Jasanoff
The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars, Daniel Beer
A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne.The new Tiger Woods biography. Even if you do not like golf this is a fascinating read.
The Late Show by Michael Connelly. Readable as ever.
