Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Staff Favorites of 2018: Adult Fiction

As the year comes to a close, library staff members and volunteers reflect on the best books they've read in 2018. A complete list of titles in all genres from Staff Favorites of 2018 is available in the library's online catalog.

Here are our favorites from the Adult Fiction section:

  • A Beautiful Blue Death by Charles Finch
    Recommended by Amy Whitten
  • A Duke in Shining Armor by Loretta Lynda Chase
    Recommended by Meredith Causey
  • A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult
    Recommended by Trina Schlecht
  • A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi
    Recommended by Alexis Brown
  • An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
    Recommended by Amy Weiler
  • An Earl Like You by Caroline Linden
    Recommended by Meredith Causey
  • And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
  • Any Groom Will Do by Charis Michaels
    Recommended by Meredith Causey
  • Bad Bachelor by Stefanie London
    Recommended by Meredith Causey
  • Believe Me by J.P. Delaney
    Recommended by Amy Weiler
  • Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
    Recommended by Alicia Cavitt
  • Catcher in the Rye by J.D.  Salinger
    Recommended by Jeanne McMahan
  • Census by Jesse Ball
    Recommended by Alicia Cavitt
  • Central Park: A Contemporary Retelling of Mansfield Park by Deborah White Smith
    Recommended by Lorraine Lane
  • Circe by Madeline Miller
    Recommended by Trina Schlecht and Kim Tomblin
  • Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
    Recommended by Stephen Kight
  • Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
    Recommended by Meredith Causey
  • Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos
    Recommended by Stephen Kight 
  • Death of a Dishonorable Gentleman by Tessa Arlen
    Recommended by Amy Whitten
  • Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
    Recommended by Alicia Cavitt
  • Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal
    Recommended by Meredith Causey
  • Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
    Recommended by Kayla Bolton
  • Force of Nature by Jane Harper
    Recommended by Alicia Cavitt
  • Good Luck with That by Kristan Higgins
    Recommended by Meredith Causey
  • Good Me, Bad Me by Ali Land
    Recommended by Meredith Causey
  • Hello Sunshine by Laura Dave
    Recommended by Alicia Cavitt
  • Heroes of the Frontier by Dave Eggers
    Recommended by Alicia Cavitt
  • If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
    Recommended by Stephen Kight
  • In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
    Recommended by Trina Schlecht
  • Intercepted by Alexa Martin
    Recommended by Meredith Causey
  • Josh & Hazel's Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren
    Recommended by Meredith Causey
  • Keep Her Safe by Sophie Hannah
    Recommended by Alicia Cavitt
  • Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
    Recommended by Alicia Cavitt
  • Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
    Recommended by Alexis Brown
  • Lethal White by Robert Galbraith
    Recommended by Meredith Causey
  • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
    Recommended by Jeanne McMahan
  • Magic Triumphs by Ilona Andrews
    Recommended by Meredith Causey
  • Mirror, Shoulder, Signal by Dorthe Nors
    Recommended by Stephen Kight
  • Moonlight Over Manhattan by Sarah Morgan
    Recommended by Meredith Causey
  • My Dear Hamilton by Stephanie Dray
    Recommended by Trina Schlecht
  • My Ex-Life by Stephen McCauley
    Recommended by Stephen Kight
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Recommended by Stephen Kight
  • One Indian Girl by Chetan Bhagat
    Recommended by Meredith Causey
  • Only Child by Rhiannon Navin
    Recommended by Amy Weiler
  • Only Killers and Thieves by Paul Howarth
  • Our House by Louise Candlish
    Recommended by Amy Weiler
  • Runaway Heiress by Syrie James
    Recommended by Meredith Causey
  • Rust and Stardust by T. Greenwood
    Recommended by Amy Weiler
  • The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
    Recommended by Amy Weiler
  • The Abbot's Tale by Conn Iggulden
  • The Adults by Caroline Hulse
    Recommended by Amy Weiler
  • The Adventure Zone: Here There be Gerblins by Clint and Griffin McElroy
  • The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
    Recommended by Jeanne McMahan
  • The Craftsman by S.J. Bolton
    Recommended by Beth Moore
  • The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware
    Recommended by Amy Weiler
  • The Dry by Jane Harper
    Recommended by Alicia Cavitt
  • The Endless Beach by Jenny Colgan
    Recommended by Meredith Causey
  • The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni
    Recommended by Beth Moore
  • The Fall of Gondolin by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
    Recommended by Brittany Kirk
  • The Grave's a Fine and Private Place by Alan C. Bradley
    Recommended by Amy Whitten
  • The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
    Recommended by Andrea DelValle
  • The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen Flynn
    Recommended by Meredith Causey
  • The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
    Recommended by Meredith Causey
  • The Last Mrs. Parris by Liv Constantine
    Recommended by Alicia Cavitt
  • The Long-Lost Home by Maryrose Wood
    Recommended by Meredith Causey
  • The Martian by Andy Weir
    Recommended by Trina Schlecht
  • The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis
    Recommended by Mary White
  • The Myth of Perpetual Summer by Susan Crandall
    Recommended by Beth Moore
  • The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
    Recommended by Brittany Kirk
  • The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
    Recommended by Amy Whitten
  • The Outsider by Stephen King
    Recommended by Alicia Cavitt and Beth Moore
  • The Second Mrs. Hockaday by Susan Rivers
    Recommended by Alicia Cavitt
  • The Shadows We Hide by Allen Eskins
    Recommended by Beth Moore
  • The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
    Recommended by Stephen Kight
  • The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
    Recommended by Julie Boyd
  • The Trespasser (Dublin Murder Squard #6) by Tana French
    Recommended by Andrea DelValle
  • The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
    Recommended by Amy Whitten
  • The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks
    Recommended by Amy Weiler
  • The Witch Elm by Tana French
    Recommended by Trina Schlecht
  • The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
    Recommended by Jeanne McMahan
  • There There by Tommy Orange
    Recommended by Stephen Kight
  • This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
    Recommended by Alicia Cavitt 
  • Thrawn: Alliances by Timothy Zahn
    Recommended by Katherine Eitel
  • Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
    Recommended by Kayla Bolton
  • Universal Harvester by John Darnielle
    Recommended by Alicia Cavitt
  • Us Against You by Fredrik Backman
    Recommended by Meredith Causey
  • Vox by Christina Dalcher
    Recommended by Trina Schlecht
  • Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin
    Recommended by Alicia Cavitt 


To view a complete list of titles in all genres from Staff Favorites of 2018, visit the library's online catalog.