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.
