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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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Beverly wrote: "Before They Were Yours, Whisling Past the Graveyard, When the Crawdads Sing."Who wrote Whisling Past The Graveyard?
The Graveyard is written by Neil Gaiman, very good!
So many great books to read this year! :)• Where the Crawdads Sing
• Educated
• The Great Alone
I've read 100 books this year and it's hard to pick three but:Bear Town
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine
and basically anthing by Louise Penny!!!
Steph wrote: "Beverly wrote: "Before They Were Yours, Whisling Past the Graveyard, When the Crawdads Sing."Who wrote Whisling Past The Graveyard?"
Whistling Past the Graveyard ws written by Susan Crandall, it's very good!
Little Fires EverywhereEducated
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Only 3? Really? I can't choose so I'm giving you 3 fiction and 3 non-fiction...Fiction
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Small Great Things by Jodi Piccoult
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Non-Fiction
The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson
Too Fast to Think: How our 24/7 Hyper-connected Work Culture is Destroying our Creativity by Chris Lewis
Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success by Matthew Syed
Kym wrote: "Only 3? Really? I can't choose so I'm giving you 3 fiction and 3 non-fiction..."Cheater :P
The Library Book, Susan OrleanHeads You Win, Jeffrey Archer
The Clockmaker's Daughter, Kate Morton
The Female Persuasion by Meg WolitzerPachinko by Min Jin Lee
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica KnollEvery Day by David Levithan
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Too many good books to select only three,Great Alone by Kristen Hannah
Just Between Us by Rebecca Drake
Radium Girls BY Kate Moore
Chrysalis by Heather Terrell
Escape Artist by Brad Meltzer
Catching Christmas by Terri Blackstock
We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
Annette Dashofy Series Zoe Chambers
Come West and See: Stories by Maxim Loskutoff; Dark Sacred Night by Michael Connelly; (tie) Emily Dickinson as a Second Language by Greg Mattingly, and The Library Book by Susan Orlean.
Kings Of The Wyld - Duology - Nicholas EamesThe Others - Series - Anne Bishop
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
How's that for eclectic?
My top 3:News of the World
The Book Thief
The Alice Network
Which left me with no space to name a couple of marvelous books of poetry ....
1. Educated2. Normal People
3. Tipping the Velvet
4. The Lesser Bohemians
5. Interpreter of Maladies
6. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
7. The Power
8. Killers of the Flower Moon
Char wrote: "A Gentleman in Moscow, Wher’d You Go Bernadette, Children of Blood and Bone"A Gentleman in Moscow was by far my favorite book I read this year, and in my top 10 of all time! After reading reviews with almost all giving it 5 stars, I'm surprised more people didn't include it in their top 3!!?
)Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine Gail Honeyman.Small Great Things. Jodi Picault
Standard Deviation. Katherine Heiney
Jasmine wrote: "Kym wrote: "Only 3? Really? I can't choose so I'm giving you 3 fiction and 3 non-fiction..."Cheater :P"
haha ;-)
Paula wrote: "Char wrote: "A Gentleman in Moscow, Wher’d You Go Bernadette, Children of Blood and Bone"A Gentleman in Moscow was by far my favorite book I read this year, and in my top 10 of all time! After re..."
A Gentleman in Moscow has been recommended to me recently so it's on my TBR list for 2019!
Ooh this ones going to be hard but... I think I know whicn are my top 3!1. Mocking Bird by Kathryn Erskine
2. Warriors Night Whispers by Erin Hunter
3. Summer and Bird by Katherine Catmull
Phew! That was hard! :)
A Gentleman in Moscow was a other great favourite of mine too.
Anne Ward wrote: "A Gentleman in Moscow was a other great favourite of mine too." ooh that's a good one! Now I might have to alter my list!
this is a difficult decision, but I've chosen:Songs of Love and War by Santa Montefiore
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
Educated, The Great Alone, and Every note Played
The garden of evening mists by Tan Tuan Eng!
Sonata: A Memoir of Pain and the PianoHiding the Past
The Secret History of Mac Gaming
The Art of Hearing HeartbeatsThe Secrets Between Us
The Great Alone
So this is what I narrowed it down to: (in reading order)1. The Goldfinch
2. The Girl in the Tower
3. The Nightingale
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
Great reading year for me!
Three best books I read this year:Loitering by Charles D'Ambrosio
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Of Two Minds by Tanya Luhrmann
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie SocietyThe Chilbury Ladies Choir
Together
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, Born a Crime by Trevor Noah, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Left Hand of Darkness Close to shore: the terrifying shark attacks of 1916
Bad Blood
The Great AloneThe Hate U Give
An American Marriage
Practical MagicThe Rules of Magic
Little Fires Everywhere
Everything I Never Told You
There are many more, tho...
Forgot Pachinko.Couldn't limit it to 3. Sorry;)
The Wild Robot, Flowers for Algernon and The Travelling Cat Chronicles
Jasmine wrote: "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..."Absolutely! I love that so many are books that were written a pretty long time ago, e.g., A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I read it first in HS, and several times over the many years since.
"Lou Reed: A Life", Anthony DeCurtis; "Grant", Ron Chernow; "The Neon Rain", Dave Robicheaux
Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng
The Other Mrs Walker - Mary Paulson-Ellis