Around the start of the year I usually post each of our bookseller's top ten favorite books from the previous year. Unfortunately, due to a series of unforeseen events it just didn't happen this year. Oh, I solicited their lists and I had a lovely time reading through them. The actual posting of said lists...not so much. But I didn't want to leave you, or them, completely empty handed, so I compiled all the lists and came up with a top 20 list of our favorite books across all three stores. This list of our 21 favorite books (there were a lot of ties) aren't in any particular order. Given the smallness of our staff and our diverse reading tastes, it's difficult to have any real runaway breakout favorites. The 21 titles below represent books that several of us read and loved this year. I hope you'll scroll through the list, and then come by your nearest Third Place Books to ask your favorite bookseller for the rest of their 2018 top ten list.
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
Ocean of Minutes by Thea Lim
Circe by Madeline Miller
Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson
I Might Regret This by Abbi Jacobson
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Rising Out of Hatred by Eli Saslow
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novak
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantu
Everything Under by Daisy Johnson
Moonstruck Vol 1 by Grace Ellis
The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
There, There by Tommy Orange
So Lucky by Nicola Griffith
I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
