Stef's Favorite Books of 2018!

What a year of incredible books. Every year seems to be better than the last, doesn't it?  I didn't read as many small press books as I wanted to, but I am keeping to my goals of reading mostly women and POC, aka basically the only books worth reading. (Yeah I know, two white men made my list but damn, those books were goooood.) I told myself that in December I would start reading 2019 books but you know I'm just going to desperately try to finish all the books I started and didn't finish this year...it's a stack of about 30 books. Wish me luck.

I tried to narrow my favorites of 2018 down to five of each, but that just wasn't possible. Too much goodness. The next two posts will have my short reviews for each book. 

Fiction:
-Our Homesick Songs by Emma Hooper 
-Florida by Lauren Groff 

-Severance by Ling Ma 
-The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon
-Washington Black by Esi Eduygan
-The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
-She Would be King by Wayetu Moore
-Scribe by Alyson Hagy

Nonfiction:
-Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush
-Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh 
-Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

-90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality by Allison Yarrow
-So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo
-Pale Horse Rider: William Cooper, the Rise of Conspiracy, and the Fall of Trust by Mark Jacobsen
-How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee
-The Library Book by Susan Orlean