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 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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 The Last Vampire by Christopher Pike
The Disappearing by Lori Roy (Goodreads win)
The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez
Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes
The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager (probably my last Goodreads win, they don't have it much anymore for Canada)
Obasan by Joy Kagawa
Twisted by RL Stine
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell (this fucking book)
Role Models by John Waters
Zelda: An Illustrated Life: The Private World of Zelda Fitzgerald
Boombox by Gabriel Cohen
Addison House by Clare McNally (total trash, was fun)
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
The Cheerleaders series by RL Stine
Redshirts by John Scalzi
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
Saga, Vol I by Brian K. Vaughn & Co
Shadow Run by A AdriAnne Strickland & Michael Miller
The Complete Poe Library
Variable Star by Robert E Heinlein & Spiders Robinson (was good until the last fourish chapters)
Paper Girls, Vol 4 by Brian K. Vaughn & Co
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
The Last Summer (of You and Me) by Ann Brashares. I had problems with it, but it was a compulsive read
Willow (novelization) by Wayland Drew, so good
Reveloutionary Road by Richard Yates
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Interstellar Pig by William Sleater, lol whut?
Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier by Mark Frost
Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Perfume by Caroline B Cooney, was so odd
Binti: The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor
Hoarding Cats by Sarah Andersen
The Wild Wood by Charles De Lint
Bird Box by Josh Malerman
House of Bones by Graham Masterton
angelicmobster8: rafflesia flower, bright orange, large, smells like rotting meat, from southeast asia (Rafflesia)

Sexcastle by Kyle Starks (lol, what)
Reign of the Fallen by Sarah Glenn Marsh
Giant Days - Vol 1 by John Allison
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (was ok, but I hope there are other stories from Bertha's POV)
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (was disappointed)
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Vi by Kim Thuy (Goodreads win)
Meg by Steve Alten *
Mort by Terry Pratchett
Monster by Walter Dean Myers *
Crippen by John Boyne
Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King Jr
Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B Cooney
Lost at Sea by Bryan Lee O'Malley
Street Angel by Jim Rugg
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick
The Waters and the Wild by Fancesca Lia Block
No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol (Goodreads win)
The Complete Memoirs by Peter Cushing
Not That Bad edited by Roxane Gay **
The Forbidden Game trilogy by LJ Smith
I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara **
Our Homesick Songs by Emma Cooper (Goodreads win)
A False Report by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong **
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline (made me cry three times)
Those Who Hunt the Night by Barbara Hambly
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin *
And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson & Co

* - audiobooks
** - These came into my library holds at around the same week, wtf? Read with caution

Wanted to watch more Canadian and queer films, didn't make it :(
Mon Oncle Antoine (1971) Canadian
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993) Canadian
Thor: Ragnarok (2017) !
The Shape of Water (2017) !
Lucky Them (2013) Dir. by Megan Griffiths. Was good until surprise Johnny Depp
After Tiller (2013) Dir. by Lana Wilson & Martha Shane
Love and Other Catastrophes (1996) Dir. by Emma Kate Croghan

Bookish Podcasts
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
  • The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
  • The Marvels by Brian Selznick
  • The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
  • The Glass Forest by Cynthia Swanson (First Reads win)
  • Strangers in Paradise: Pocket Book 2 by Terry Moore
  • River of Teeth by Sarah Galley *
  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
  • Hellboy - Vol. 2
  • Lumberjanes - Vol. 5 & 6
  • Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Vol. 1: The Crucible
  • Big Mushy Happy Lump by Sarah Anderson
  • The Sandman Overture
  • Paper Girls Vol. 3
  • Kindred: Graphic Novel
  • Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde *
  • Paradise by Toni Morrison
  • Breath Eyes Memory by Edwidge Danticat
  • Push by Sapphire
  • Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo *
  • A Good Idea by Cristina Moracho *
  • My Favorite Thing is Monsters - Vol. 1 by Emil Ferris
  • Ms. Marvel - Vol. 1 by G. Willow Wilson
  • My Sweet Audrina by VC Andrews, wow
  • Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith *
  • Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado *
  • The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer by Jennifer Lynch * (but a series of ASMR vids)
  • Texts from Jane Eyre by Mal Ortberg *
  • The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
  • Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine *
  • The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
  • Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block
  • Bingo Love by Tee Franklin & Jenn St-Onge (so friggin cute!)
  • Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor *
  • Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
* - audiobooks

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