I did the thing! Here are my favorite books that I read during this year (only some actually came out in 2018). I also threw my favorite movies in at the end, because I do what I want and because they are all adapted from books or comics.
Some of my favorite reads were audiobooks, but my top audiobooks below are ones that had great book-content AND great narration/production. I only have two poetry picks because I don’t read much poetry; I’m going to try to read more in 2019.
Thank you to Snazel, Gingernifty, Em M, and Kemendraugh for some extremely excellent book recommendations this year, several of which show up below.
Audiobooks
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (multi-cast)
The Queen’s Thief (series) by Megan Whalen Turner (narrated by Steve West)
In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan (narrated by Matthew Lloyd Davies)
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater (narrated by Steve West)
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison (narrated by Kyle McCarley)
Poetry
How We Became Human by Joy Harjo
The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson
Nonfiction
The Book on the Bookshelf by Henry Petroski
The Power of Vulnerability by Brene Brown
The Portland Black Panthers by Judson L. Jeffries and Lucas N. N. Burke
Dressing the Galaxy by Trisha Biggar
Bitchfest edited by Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler
Fiction: Series
And I Darken (trilogy) by Kiersten White
Tensorate (series) by J.Y. Yang
The Books of the Raksura (series) by Martha Wells
Murderbot (series) by Martha Wells
Fiction: Stand-alone
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
Razor’s Edge by Martha Wells
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia McKillip
Thrawn: Alliances by Timothy Zahn
Witchmark by C.L. Polk
Fiction: Kids
Hamster Princess (series) by Ursula Vernon
Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi
Comics
Ms. Marvel (ongoing) by G. Willow Wilson
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (ongoing) by Ryan North
Lumberjanes (ongoing) by Shannon Watters and Kat Leyh
The Backstagers (ongoing) by James Tynion IV
Library Wars by Hiro Arikawa and Kiiro Yumi
Movies
Black Panther
Annihilation
Crazy Rich Asians
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
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