2018 reading in review

And so we come to the end of the year 2018.  Where did it go? Time is going by way too fast!  I read a total of fifty-one books.  Surprisingly to me, out of that total, ten books were non-fiction!

So here are the sixteen books that I read that I found were either rated by me as excellent or very good:

The Second Mrs. Hockaday-Susan Rivers
A Gentleman in Moscow-Amor Towles
The Gravity of Birds-Tracy Guzeman
The Handmaid’s Tale-Margaret Atwood
Beartown-Fredrik Backman
Crossing to Safety-Wallace Stenger
Rules of Magic-Alice Hoffman
The Stars Are Fire-Anita Shreve
a piece of the world-Christina Baker Kline
Dandelion Wine-Ray Bradbury
The Glass Room-Simon Mawer
Yes We (Still) Can-Dan Pfeiffer
I’ve Been Thinking-Maria Shriver
The Third Angel-Alice Hoffman
Benediction-Kent Haruf
An Echo In The Bone-Diana Gabaldon

To try to get to my top/favorite book of the year, I can eliminate some of those to arrive at my top eight books read in 2018:

A Gentleman in Moscow-Amor Towles
The Gravity of Birds-Tracy Guzeman
The Handmaid’s Tale-Margaret Atwood
Beartown-Fredrik Backman
Dandelion Wine-Ray Bradbury
The Glass Room-Simon Mawer
I’ve Been Thinking-Maria Shriver
Benediction-Kent Haruf

Now this is when it really starts getting hard...here are my top five picks:

A Gentleman in Moscow-Amor Towles

The Gravity of Birds-Tracy Guzeman

The Handmaid’s Tale-Margaret Atwood

Beartown-Fredrik Backman

Dandelion Wine-Ray Bradbury

Interestingly, two of these five are older books!

Okay, so now I have it narrowed down to my two most favorite books of the year:

A Gentleman in Moscow-Amor Towles The Handmaid’s Tale-Margaret Atwood

And the winner is: The Handmaid's Tale! I just really loved this book!

I just looked at my 2017 stats. I had read forty-five books last year, so I was able to get more reading in this year! I am going to try to beat reading fifty-one books in 2019. That's my goal for the year!