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What was everyone’s favorite book in 2018?

What was everyone’s favorite book in 2018?

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Jennifer

Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens

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SheilaQuestion author

@Jennifer – that’s one of my New Years resolutions is to read this book! ?

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Jennifer

@Sheila I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

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Veranda

I just finished Where The Crawdads Sing…it was fabulous. It even had a WOW I did not see that coming on the very last page!

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Karin

Either Need to Know by Karen Cleveland or Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell

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Aidan

I loved Pure Land by Annette McGivney

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Kimberly

An American Marriage

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Karin

please tell me this comment doesn’t spoil the book

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Stella

I apologize. I just deleted it. I’ve wanted to talk about An American Marriage since I finished it and was hoping this was the place to do that.

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Karin

thank you

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Amy

Where the Crawdads Sing

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Cathy

@Amy ditto

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Brenda

The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

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Karen

Tied between Beneath a Scarlet Sky and Where the Crawdads Sing

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Jennifer

Eleanor oliphant is completely fine

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Inger

Beneath a Scarlet Sky

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Shannon

The Dutch Wife

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Stephanie

The Great Alone

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Christi

The Storyteller’s Secret

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Amy

The Nightingale by Hannah

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Nadia

Did it have to be published in 2018? My favourite read was The Secret Keeper.

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Stephanie

Norwegian by night!!!!

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Kris

@Stephanie sounds good, just ordered it.

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Adrien

@Stephanie American by Day is really good.

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Stephanie

@Adrien I got that one for Christmas!!! When I bought the book I thought it was about Norwegian people/ history but their wasn’t a description on http://amazon.com/ so I just bought it!! I was so happy!! I’m in love with Derek B. Miller I now own all of his books!! But I’m running out of books to read…. ? any suggestions that will pull me in like he does?

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Adrien

Funny. Hmm, maybe I Let You Go by Clare MacKintosh.

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Jen

Tie between you and pretty girls

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Courtney

Where the Crawdads Sing!

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Courtney

The Great Alone was also fantastic!

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Kris

The one I particularly remember is American Gods.

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Meghan

Where the Crawdads Sing and The Great Alone

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Jackie

I agree with Meghan.

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Sinead

The Great Alone

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Shelley

Educated

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Allison

The Nightingale. Still have to read The Great Alone.

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Adrien

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

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Brenda

One Good Mama Bone

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Leanne

Where the Crawdads Sing and The Room on Rue Amelie

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Gayle

Where The Crawdads sing

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Becky

The great alone

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Adrienne

Big, Little Lies and The Outsider (I never can choose just one?)

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Carolee

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

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Linda

The great alone

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Janna

Three way tie – Girls on the Line by Aimee Runyan, A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner, or The Sewing Machine by Natalie Fergie

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Linda

Beartown and Us Against You.

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Robyn

Kingdom of the Blind, Eleanor Oliphant, Becoming

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Katie

My Dear Hamilton. I started & dropped a lot of stinkers this year.

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Veranda

Loved it too!

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AnaLisa

Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers

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Anita

A Newfoundlander in Canada by Alan Doyle. Much Humour in his stories. I’m Canadian who has travelled to many of the places he references, but anyone could enjoy his stories. 5/5 stars.

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Kathy

The Great Alone

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Jillian

Haunting Danille (series)

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Fran

The woman in the window

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SheilaQuestion author

@Fran – I liked that one too!

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Brenda

@Sheila not ne

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Sharon

Tied with Before we were yours and the great alone

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Penny

Where the Crawdads Sing

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Linda

Little Orphan Giral

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Denise

A Gentleman in Moscow. Hands down

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Linda

Little Orphan Girl

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Lu

Educated or Butterfly

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Louisa

When We Were Yours

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Urška

The nightingale❤️

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Kay

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Elise

Crawdads, hands down.

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Alf

November 9, The Alchemist, Memoirs of a Geisha

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Gee

The last mrs parish and in the blood

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Adelle

The Great Alone

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Brenda

The Nightingale

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Lynne

Born A Crime

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Becky

Where the Crawdads Sing

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Mari

The Serpent and the Pearl by @Kate

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Piepie

@Mari I’m rereading this now ?

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Mari

@Piepie it’s wonderful, and there is a sequel!

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Piepie

Yes I’m going to reread that too! Have you seen the Showtime series, The Borgias, with Jeremy Irons as Pope Alexander? I’ve seen it twice!!

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Annette

The Gentleman in Moscow

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Deanna

This Is The Way It Always Is

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Barbara

As bright as heaven by Susan Meissner

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Deb

@Barbara I still think about that one

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Barbara

5 stars

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Mary

Last Thing She Ever Did

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Susan

The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne

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Amy

@Susan I loved that one too!

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Tanya

Only Child

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Stephani

My Dear Hamilton

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Patrice

The Secret

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Deb

Exit West

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Hermosas

The Great Alone

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Donna

Educated

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Kathy

It’s a tie – Where the Crawdads Sing and The Great Alone.

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Piepie

Dumplin’, by Julie Murphy, was definitely a top read for me

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Sydney

Scythe ane the chalkman

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Rebecca

The Great Alone

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Brandy

Circe

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Hollye

The Alice Network

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Jane

Thanks for inceasing my TBR pile! LOL

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Jacque

Stephen King’s, The Outsider.

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Jacque

I am saving this post. So many good books I haven’t read and I read at least one a week.

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Susan

The Humans by Matt Haig

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Monica

Too many to pick just one!

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Christine

Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan really moved me, the writing is beautiful and the story was very good!

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Viktoria

Circe by Madeline Miller

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Kris

The Alice Network

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Sheila

The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis

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Fran

It was a re-read – Bel Canto.

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Amy

I love that book so much! It inspired me to read all of her books. Wonderful!

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Sheila

I have read all of her of books too and can’t wait for the next one.

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Linor

Definitely El Diablo by M. Robinson

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Cherryl

My Dear Hamilton!

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Kay

A Man Called Ove

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Wendy

@Kay loved it

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Nazanin

@Kay I liked the beartown better than the man called Ove.

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Kay

@Nazanin I haven’t read that one yet but it’s on my list!

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Wendy

The 7 deaths of evelyn hardcastle

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Debbie

The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

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Hafsah

DEFINITELY A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Housseini. I mean, it didn’t get published in this year, but I read it some time ago.

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Jill

Where the Crawdads Sing!

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Janet

You Think It, I’ll Say It: Stories
By Curtis Sittenfeld

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Clare

This Naked Mind by Annie Grace, it’s changed my life for the better.

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Debra

The girl with 7 names.

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Barbara

Do I have to pick just one? Then it is Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield.

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Christine

The Wife Between Us

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Lisa

Lj Shen sinners of saints series..

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Jody

The Hate U Give mostly because I teach high school students, so I think it’s timely and relevant for today. I hope I can teach it at some point!

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Karen

The Beach House

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Jennifer

Salvage the bones

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Ashley

Valley of the Moon by Melanie Gideon

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Nazanin

The great alone

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