What are your favorite reads of 2018?

[Christina]

Share your favorite reads of 2018!

[Phyllis | Mocha Drop]

Favorite Fiction Reads
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

Favorite Non-Fiction Book
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
Educated by Tara Westover
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
Becoming by Michelle Obama

Favorite Graphic Novels/Comic Series
Incognegro: Renaissance #1 by Mat Johnson
The Arab of the Future 3: The Circumcision Years: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1985-1987 by Riad Sattouf (I love the entire series)
The Magic Order #1(the entire series) by Mark Millar soon to be a Netflix series

Favorite reads this year, published previously
Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Augustown by Kei Miller
Human Acts by Han Kang

Favorite reads this year, upcoming releases in 2019
House of Stone: A Novel by Nouyo Rosa Tshuma - I read the UK edition, the US edition will be released January 29, 2019
The Night Tiger by Yangze Choo (US release date February 12, 2019)
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James (read an ARC, US release date is February 5, 2019)

Favorite 2018 Book Cover
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

[Christina]

Yasssss!!!! You read GOOD this year! I still need to read Heavy by Kiese Laymon, but I've read your other favs in nonfiction.

I'm adding all of your graphic novel choices to my TBR...I didn't read enough in this category.

Really loved Pachinko....will be adding the others to my TBR.

Haven't even read any of the 2019 books...

The cover of Children of Bone and Blood is STUNNING.

[Maya]

Emancipation of Robert Sadler, The: The Powerful True Story of a Twentieth-Century Plantation Slave

Becoming

[Christina]

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I LOVED Becoming. Definitely one of my favorites, not just of the year, but ever. I'll have to add the others to my TBR list.