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The Best of 2018
 Top 50 Books

List in no particular order 

Where the Crawdads Sing

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Educated, A Memoir

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The Great Alone
Best Books of 2017
The Wife Between Us
The Banker's Wife
I Know You Know
The Other Wife
A Noise Downstairs
Look for Me
Pieces of Her
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Dreams of Falling
High Tide Club
Best Beach Ever (Ten Beach Road)
Walking the Bones
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The Dream Daughter
An American Marriage
Rush
Night Of Miracles
The Forgotten Ones
After Nightfall
The Waiting Room
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Somebody's Daughter
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A Thousand Doors
Three Days Missing
For Better and Worse
Don't Belive It
The First Family
A Blood Thing

All 2018 5 Star Ratings 

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A Spark of Light
The Reckoning
Tear Me Apart
The Shadows We Hide
Dark Sacred Night
The LateComers
The Secret to Southern Charm
The Way of Beauty
Sold On A Monday
Beach House Reunion
The Recipe Box
Somebody's Daughter
Ransom's Law
Then She Was Gone
Sometimes I Lie
Something In the Water
Whiskey in a Teacup
I Was Anastasia
HEAVEN ADJACENT
The Library Book
To Obama With Love Joy Anger and Hop
Becoming
Watching You
The God's of Howell Mountain
Hurricane Season
You Were Always Mine
The Glass Ocean
Just Between Us
The Light Keeper's Daughter
Every Note Played
The Right To Life
Matchmaking for Beginners
As Bright As Heaven
I've Been Thinking
First the Thunder
Rapid Falls
River Bodies
For Better and Worse
Night of Miracles
The Dream Daughter
Becoming Mrs. Lewis
Healing the Soul of a Woman
When the Lights Go Out
Malice
I Know You Know
Pieces of Her
Rush
After Nightfall
Rust and Stardust
The Waiting Room
Trust Me
The Masterpiece
Not Her Daughter
Jane Doe
Where the Crawdads Sing
Saving Beck
The Bankers Wife
A Noise Downstairs
Her Pretty Face
She Was the Quiet One
The Summer Wives
Dreams of Falling
The Other Wife
Jar of Hearts
Three Days Missing
Before and Again
The Possible World
By Invitation Only
Best Beach Ever
The High Tide Club
Somebody's Daughter
Digging In
The Key
Send Down the Rain
Don't Believe It
A Blood Thing
The Forgotten Ones
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
The First Family
Silent Victim
This Is Me
An American Marriage
Everything Happens For A Reason
Educated
Look For Me
Sunburn
The Great Alone
Here We Lie
The Woman in the Window
The Wife Between Us
This is Cuba
The Real Lolita
The Promise Between Us
Walking the Bones
Only the Rain
The Unkind Hours
Hellbent
The Hush
All We Ever Wanted
Poison
A Well Behaved Woman
Not Our Kind

Author's Corner 

Karin Slaughter

 

*Featured Authors on #BestBookList for
FIVE
📚Consecutive
Years*

 

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Karin Slaughter
Mary Kubica

Mary Kubica
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❄  Top Books

     By Year  ❄

 2018 

 2017

 2016

 2015

 2014 

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Four Years #TopAuthorList

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T. Greenwood 

2015, 2016, 2017, 2018

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Kimberly Belle 

2014, 2015, 2016, 2018

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Diane Chamberlain 

2014, 2015, 2017, 2018

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Charles Martin 

2014, 2015, 2016, 2018

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Michael Robotham 

2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 

 

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Heather Gudenkauf

2016, 2017, 2018

 

Karen White 

2016, 2017, 2018

 

Jennifer Hillier 

2014, 2015, 2018

 

Jodi Picoult

2014, 2016, 2018

 

Paula Treick DeBoard

2014, 2016, 2018 

 

Kristy Woodson Harvey
2016, 2017, 2018 

 

 

Linwood Barclay 

2015, 2017, 2018

 

Michael Connelly 

2015, 2016, 2017

 

Greg Iles 

2014, 2015, 2017 

 

Daniel & Michael Palmer 

2015, 2016, 2018

 

Paul Cleave

2014, 2015, 2017

 

 

 

 

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Kristin Hannah
2017, 2018

Sylvie Fox
2014, 2015 

Camille Di Maio
2016, 2017

Lisa Gardner
2017, 2018  

B.A. Paris
2016, 2017

Louise Jensen
2016, 2017 

Elizabeth Berg
2017, 2018 

Rochelle B. Weinstein
2016, 2018

Wendy Wax
2016, 2018 

Catherine Ryan Hyde
2014, 2016

Sally Hepworth
2015, 2016

 

Randall Silvis
2017, 2018

Allen Eskens

2014, 2018 

John Grisham

2014, 2016

David Baldacci

2015, 2016

Thomas Mullen

2016, 2017

Dean Koontz

2014, 2015

Charlie Donlea

2016, 2018

James Hankins

2015, 2018

Laura McNeil

2015, 2016

Fiona Barton

2016, 2017

Colleen Hoover

2016, 2018

Wendy Walker

2016, 2017

Susan Crawford

2015, 2016

Leslie Tentler 

2014, 2015 

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FEATURED NON-FICTION🌹  

 

The Real Lolita
Educated
Becoming
It's Not Supposed to Be This Way
Everything Happens For A Reason
Fear: Trump in the White House
Liver Rescue
To Obama: With Love, Joy, Anger, and
Whiskey in a Teacup
Saving Beck
Healing the Soul of a Woman
This is Me
This is Cuba

BEST AUDIOBOOKS OF 2018

Top 12 🏆

 

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Where the Crawdads Sing

Master Storytellers 
Annual Recap List
"Best Author
Corner"

The Great Alone

Narrated by Cassandra Campbell 

Narrated by Julia Whelan 

The Dream Daughter

Narrated by Susan Bennett 

Master Storytellers 
Annual Recap List
"Best Author
Corner"

Sunburn

Narrated by Susan Bennett 

Educated a Memoir

Narrated by Julia Whelan 

Master Storytellers 
Annual Recap List
"Best Author
Corner"

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Narrated by Julia Whelan  

Jane Doe

Narrated by Nicol Zanzarella

Master Storytellers 
Annual Recap List
"Best Author
Corner"

The Woman in the Window

Narrated by Ann Marie Lee

No Exit

Narrated by Sarah Naughton

(The Book Version to be included in my

Top Books of 2019) 

Then She Was Gone

Narrated by

Helen Duff 

Best Friends Forever

Narrated by

Sarah Naughton 

For Better and Worse by Margot Hunt

Narrated by

Cassandra Campbell 

🔉A special thank you to all these 🙌

Fabulous "Standout" Audible Narrators 

Cassandra Campbell
Julia Whelan
Susan Bennett
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Helen Duff
Ann Marie Lee

Happy Holidays 

For all you "like-minded book geeks" in LOVE with their LIST(s)!  

Judith D Collins

📢 2018 Recap 📚

 

Top 2018 Books by
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Author Elevator

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2018-2019

Author Q&As

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👉 Sneak Peek at 2019 🥂

 

 

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