Episode 203 || Best Books of 2018

We made it! Thanks for everything you've given us, 2018, but we're moving on. Before we do, though, we've compiled our own end-of-year list to share with our listeners. What were your favorite books this year? 

Annie's favorite books of the year:
Hey Ladies! by Caroline Moss and Michelle Markowitz
Waiting for Eden by Elliot Ackerman
+ My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
+ Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro
+ Educated by Tara Westover 
The Female Persuasion by Meg Woltizer
The Ensemble by Aja Gabel
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
There There by Tommy Orange
A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza

Chris's favorite books of the year:
The Afterlives by Thomas Pierce
There There by Tommy Orange
Calypso by David Sedaris
The Oracle Year by Charles Soule
The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey

Chris's unofficial aggregate of the internet's favorite books:
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
There There by Tommy Orange
Educated by Tara Westover
Circe by Madeline Miller
The Incendiares by R. O. Kwon
A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
That Kind of Mother by Rumaan Alam
Florida by Lauren Groff
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
Melmoth by Sarah Perry

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