2018 - Best and Worst Reads of the Year

[Lilisa]

Share your top best and worst reads of 2018!

[Lilisa]

It's always challenging but here goes...

Best Reads:
The Air You Breathe
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
The Map of Salt and Stars
The Poet X
32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line
Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome
The Palace of Illusions
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival

Worst Reads:
10 Days One Guernsey Summer
The Spy
Victoria & Abdul (Movie Tie-In): The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant

[Yrinsyde]

I've not been a frequent poster this year - hope to change that next year!

This year mine are:
Best: Suite Francaise; The Sea The Sea
Worst: Divergent (who knows where it's set - post apocalyptic US?

[Andrea, Slow but steady]

I might have included one or two outside my ATW list, but here goes:

Best
Happiness (England)
Spook Street (England)
Providence (US)
Tin Man (England)
The Seamstress of Ourfa (Turkey)
On the Java Ridge (Indonesia)

Worst
Secret Passages in a Hillside Town (Finland) DNF
Arresting God in Kathmandu (Nepal)
Olmec Obituary (Mexico)

[Val]

Best:
River by Esther Kinsky (author is German, but book is mostly set in London, UK)
The White Book by Han Kang (South Korea)

Worst:
Flood by Stephen Baxter (the setting and the book are all over the place)
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay (Haiti and USA)

[Nadine in California]

Best:
Freshwater (Nigeria, US, a room inside the main character's head).

Worst:
John Woman (US) It's not so much the 'worst' as that it drove me absolutely crazy. I would have DNF'ed it but I read it for a group read, and it led to a marvelous discussion. My review.