About a team prepping for a mission to mars, and how that impacts them and their families. Manages to feel very personal, while taking aim at the entire society Solomon has built here. The protagonist, Aster, is unlike any other I’ve read. Really great sci-fi that prods at the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade and what a history of oppression does to people, set in space.
Honorable mention to the Rivers of London series which I discovered and then devoured this year.Īn Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon. I cannot even begin to say how much I loved this book. In an alternate history where a meteorite strikes DC in 1952, bringing on the kind of climate change that could make earth uninhabitable, Elma is a mathematician and former WWII pilot who becomes involved in the space program. The Calculating Stars: A Lady Astronaut Novel by Mary Robinette Kowal. This is the queer lady spy novel of my dreams. Incredibly poignant memoir about adoption, family, race, and just being a human. And me, I have been a long time drifting.”Īll You Can Ever Know: A Memoir by Nicole Chung. “The structure of the city is the structure of a dream. I love this book, this flaneuse, this love letter to New York, with its exquisite prose and heartbreaking history of one strong woman. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney. If you want to feel gutted by excellent literature, this is the book for you. Without further ado, here are our staff favorites! » List: Top Five Books of 2018-Add your own! What were your top five for this year? Note: books on this list weren’t necessarily published in 2018-these are the best we’ve read this year, regardless of publication date.
We’re interested in not just the most read books of 2018, but the best of the best. We also like seeing your favorite reads, so we compiled a list that all of LibraryThing can add to. Every year we make a list of the top five books every LT staff member has read this year.