Books I Read in 2018

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Hello! It's my once a year blog post! 😊  This year, as I do every year, I make a goal to read 52 books. This year I went above and beyond and read 56 books! I probably could've read more but I took the month of December off to watch Hallmark Christmas movies.
This is the first year in a long time, I didn't have a book that I absolutely loved. I really enjoyed a lot of books, but none of them wowed me. I also read quite a few okay books, and a couple boring books that did nothing for me.

I use the Goodreads star system to rate my books.  5 stars being the best, 1 being the worst.

5 Stars:

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
The Cut Flower Garden by Erin Benzakein
Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Forever by Heather Harpham
What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
Caroline: Little House, Revisited by Sarah Miller
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Educated by Tara Westover
The Sun Does Shine: How I found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton
Inspired: Rachel Held Evans
Clock Dance by Anne Tyler
Vox by Christina Dalcher

 4 Stars:

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Outlander #1 by Diana Gabaldon
Something Borrowed by Emily Griffin
Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston
Orphan Train by Cristina Baker Kline
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandal
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao
There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather by Linda Akeson McGurk
The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
The Family Next Door by Sally Hepworth
Varina by Charles Frazier
West by Carys Davies
The Home for Unwanted Girls by Joanna Goodman
Still Me by JoJo Moyes
The Girl who Smiles Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya
The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

3 Stars:

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery by Ian Morgan Cron
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
Tangerine by Christine Mangan
I'll Be Your Blue Sky by Marisa de los Santos
Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis
The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy
The Husband Hour by Jamie Brenner
You Think It, I'll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle
Ghosted by Rosie Walsh
Marilla of Green Gables by Sarah McCoy
All We Ever Wanted by Emily Griffin
Whiskey in  Tea Cup by Reese Witherspoon
A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult
Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Hector Garcia Puigcerver

2 Stars:

Marriage Vacation by Pauline Turner (If you watch the show, Younger, it's the book from the show.)




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