Top Ten Tuesday: Best Books I Read in 2018
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Top Ten Tuesday has been one of my favorite memes ever since I started blogging, so huge thanks to Jana for taking over the hosting duties!
This week’s TTT topic is Best Books I Read in 2018. This was a tough list to put together, as you’ll see by the fact that I’ve given you my Top 13 because I couldn’t narrow to just 10 favorites. The way I picked my favorites was to start on Goodreads and see how many books I had given 5 star (or 4.5 rounded up to 5) reviews to. I had quite a few more than 10, so then I narrowed from there by selecting the books that resonated the most with me. Those were the ones I’m still thinking about even if it has been months since I read them and they’re also the ones that I tend to recommend most to fellow readers. Also, not all of these were published in 2018. At least two of these were backlist reads that I loved.
Anyway, here’s my list. Happy New Year, everyone! Here’s to a great reading year for us all in 2019!
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Best Books I Read in 2018
(in no particular order)
THE WINTER OF THE WITCH by Katherine Arden
MUSE OF NIGHTMARES by Laini Taylor
THE GREAT ALONE by Kristin Hannah
THE CRUEL PRINCE by Holly Black
LETTERS TO THE LOST by Brigid Kemmerer
THE DREAM DAUGHTER by Diane Chamberlain
CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE by Tomi Adeyemi
INTO THE BLACK NOWHERE by Meg Gardiner
ONCE UPON A RIVER by Diane Setterfield
GIRL MADE OF STARS by Ashley Herring Blake
THE LAST TIME I LIED by Riley Sager
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Vicious also made my list of my favourite 2018 books. It’s so dark and wicked that I couldn’t put it down.
Wishes of a happy new year, Suzanne.
Tânia @MyLovelySecret
Happy New Year to you as well!
I really want to read The Dream Daughter – I remember your review, and it made me want to read it even more!
I really want to read more of her books after loving that one.
The Cruel Prince and The Dream Daughter made my list too. I also loved The Last Time I Lied. A bunch others are on my TBR.
I hope you love those when you get to them!
AWESOME LIST! I see a few of my faves on this and quite a few that are still on my TBR! Happy 2019!
Happy 2019 to you too!
Children of Blood and Bone and Vicious were both on my list this week too!
They were both such great reads.
Excellent list! I am sad I couldn’t get to Sadie or Muse of Nightmares. Hopefully I can remedy that this year😁
I hope you enjoy them both when you get to them!
Happy New Year! Great list! I haven’t read any of these but I need to read Holly Black. Thanks for the recommendations.
Happy New Year to you too!
Letters to the Lost was so, so good. Its follow-up made my best of list this year. I adore Kristin Hannah and plan on starting The Great Alone soon. She never disappoints.
I really need to read more of Kristin Hannah’s books. I’ve read 3 so far and loved all of them.
Great list! Of the titles mentioned, I have only read The Last Time I Lied (& loved it), however have a few others on my wishlist. Great to see some backlist titles here also.
Happy reading in 2019!
Thanks! Happy reading to you too!
Your blog, you can do 13 if you want 😉 I’ve heard great things about a lot of these, but I’ve only read one myself. I’m glad you were able to find so many books that resonated with you so much!
Thanks, me too. I felt like I had a really great reading year. Not many low rated books or DNFs at all.
I haven’t read any of these but I REALLY need to read The Cruel Prince. It’s on my kindle just waiting… Now I’m waiting until book 2 releases, then I’ll dive in, lol.
I hope you enjoy them both! 🙂
I couldn’t possibly narrow down my list to 10 – I’ve gone to 15, which is why I haven’t posted my choice today:)). Yes – I have also got The Great Alone on my Outstanding List, too. And I have Children of Blood and Bone on my TBR pile, ready to read this January – I’m looking forward to it.
The Great Alone really was outstanding. Hannah has me wanting to backtrack and read some of her older books now. I’m also curious to see what you think of Children of Blood and Bone. Happy New Year!
This is a great list! Muse and The Cruel Prince made my top 10 this year too. Plus, there are several other books on this list I want to read. Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to you as well!
I love almost everything about Letters to the Lost and it gave me an amazing character like Rev.
Rev really is one of my all-time favorite characters. He’s just precious.
Happy New YEar Suzanne! Sadie and CBB are on more than a couple of lists for this one, but you’ve reminded me too that Meg Gardiner’s book was so good too. Kept meaning to read more of her this year.
Happy New Year to you too!
You definitely read awesome books Suzanne! I’m dying to get to ALL of them, BUT “Into the Black Nowhere” just because I had never heard of it. I will have to check it out!
It’s the second book in the UNSUB series so I recommend reading UNSUB first just to get a feel for the characters, etc.
The Cruel Prince, letters to the Lost and Sadie were on my list too!
Such great reads. 🙂
I loved Vicious. The Great Alone is pretty good, too. I’m on the world’s longest waitlist for The Cruel Prince. The waitlist for Sadie is pretty long, too. I’ll get to read them someday. Happy 2019!
I hope you enjoy Sadie and The Cruel Prince once you finally get to read them.
Great choices! I have so many of them on my TBR: The Great Alone, Children of Blood and Bone and Muse of Nightmares are the ones I want to read asap!
I hope you enjoy them when you read them!
The Cruel Prince and Vicious were on my list too! happy new year!
Happy New Year to you too!
SO MANY GOOD BOOKS, I don’t even know where to begin without just repeating every title you listed basically?! So, I am just waving a pom-pom (I don’t actually own a pom pom) and nodding my head in agreement.
LOL! Sounds like we have similar tastes in books. 🙂
This is my ultimate wish list. I haven’t read any of these, but I want to. I really really really want to.
If you do read any of them, I hope you enjoy them!