January is the perfect time to reflect on what we read last year and to compile a list of our favorite books. Below are the titles that made a big impression on me in 2018. As in years past, there are memoirs filled with resilience, abuse, horror as well as humor and forgiveness, historical fiction, thrillers with unreliable narrators and/or surprising conclusions, books that pulled my heartstrings or were filled with snappy repartee, and first time novelists. There are books of essays and other titles set in a variety of locations including England, Morocco, Italy, Pre-Civil War Virginia, and France. There was humor, comfort, deceit, romance, inequality and heartbreaking situations among the pages of these 18+ books and I hope you will find a few that will stimulate, entertain and enlighten you as well be a focal point for conversation with your friends and book clubs. Enjoy!
We Are All Shipwrecks by Kelly Grey Carlisle
How To Walk Away by Katherine Center
Look Alive Out There by Sloane Crosley
The Woman in the Window by A .J Finn
Chariot on the Mountain by Jack Ford
Pasta, Pane, Vino by Matt Goulding
The Cactus by Sarah Haywood
Winter in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand
Go Ask Fannie by Elisabeth Hyde
Tangerine by Christine Mangan
Crave: a memoir of food and longing by Christine Scherick O’Brien
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Dear Mrs. Bird by A. J. Pearce
South Toward Home by Julia Reed
Little Big Love by Katy Regan
The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle
My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent
How to Make a French Family by Samantha Verant
The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware
My Favorite 18+ Books of 2018