This week’s topic, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, is the Top Ten Books I Meant to Read in 2018. There’s a whole lot more than 10, but I’ve already written about backlist books I want to read and challenge books I want to read, so I focused here on the literary releases in 2018 I didn’t get to. Most of these books come from the 2018 Women’s Prize and Man Booker Longlists, but a few were late 2018 releases so maybe they will show up on 2019 award lists. A lot of them were also on other bloggers’ Best of 2018 lists.
From the 2018 Man Booker Prize Longlist:
- Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
- The Overstory by Richard Powers
- Snap by Belinda Bauer
- Normal People by Sally Rooney
- Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
- Milkman by Anna Burns
From the 2018 Women’s Prize Longlist:
- The Idiot by Elif Batuman
- See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt
- When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamy
National Book Award winner:
- The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
Other 2018 releases:
- The Library Book by Susan Orlean
- The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
- Melmoth by Sarah Perry
A few of these I own already, and most are on my hold list at the library. Which of these have you read, and which ones do you recommend?