Dec. 31st, 2018

angelicmobster8: photo by Cheryl Davis, two stacked vintage books with a teacup on a saucer, a rose design. two pinkish roses, lace, baby's breath, pearls and tulle finish the scene (Teacup)
 Notable Mentions
Endless Love by Scott Spencer, omg, omg, this fucking book
The Last Vampire 2 & 3 by Christopher Pike
Slice of Cherry by Dia Reeves
Fireworks by Angela Carter
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
The Changeling by Victor LaValle
A Halloween Happening by Adrienne Rich
The Witch Elm by Tana French 
Laid Waste and Black is the Color by Julia Gfrörer
Sheets by Brenna Thummler
Moonstruck by Grace Ellis & Co
The Night Wanderer by Drew Hayden Taylor
Uzumaki by Junjo Ito, omg
Men Women and Chainsaws by Carol J Clover
The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas, Jennifer Graham
Alice Isn't Dead by Joseph Fink
In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes
There's Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Anne of Windy Poplars by LM Montgomery
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
Winterson by S. Jae-Jones
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne DuMaurier
Attachments by Rainbow Rowel
Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

Best of 2018 - was hard to do because I read so many good books this year
The Marvels by Brian Selznick
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Sandman: Overture by Neil Gaiman & Co
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
Paradise by Toni Morrison
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1 by Emil Ferris
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer by Jennifer Lynch
The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America by T. Christian Miller,  Ken Armstrong
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Willow by Wayland Drew
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
The Witch Elm by Tana French 
The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas, Jennifer Graham
In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
The Changeling by Victor LaValle

Worst or put me through a lot in 2018
Storm Entertainment comics about Prince and Bowie
Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice
Read a lot of books that were bad, but still enjoyable, won't list them
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - ending and coda disappointed me
Swamplandia! and Endless Love - weren't bad, but put me through a lot, lol
Variable Star by Robert A. Heinlein,  Spider Robinson - disappointing ending
 

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