Reading For Sanity's Best Books of 2018

Merry Christmas Eve! 

I hope you all have a fantastic holiday.  On that note, RFS is taking a mini-holiday break until January 7th.  Not surprisingly, this is roughly the equivalent of all our kid's winter breaks.  As such, this will be our last post of 2018.  However, I didn't want to let the year go by without doing a recap of all the great books we've read and reviewed in 2018.  

Here's a list of our 

Best Books (5 Stars) and Runners Up (4.5 Stars) of 2018 

It's always interesting to see what books end up here every year, and this year it's quite an eclectic mix.  Each is linked to our review, so be sure to click through if you want to read why we thought these books were fabulous!

Best Books (5 Stars)

Strong is the New Pretty - Kate T. Parker

Out of the Blue - Alison Jay

All Fish Faces - Tam Warner Minton 

The In-Case-of-Emergency Workbook - Vicki Hinze

Educated: A Memoir - Tara Westover

Boxers & Saints - Gene Luen Yang

Things We Haven't Said: Sexual Violence Survivors Speak Out - Edited by Erin Moulton

People - Peter Spier

The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas

The Girl Who Smiled Beads - Clemantine Wamariya

TangleEasy Guided Journal Mandala 

- Quiet Fox Designs & Ben Kwok

RUNNERS UP (4.5 Stars)

Leadership and Self-Deception - The Arbinger Institute

Press Here - Hervé Tullet

Mix It Up! - Hervé Tullet

A Tale Dark & Grimm - Adam Gidwitz

A Taste for Monsters - Matthew J. Kirby

When Elephants Fly - Nancy Richardson Fischer

Trail of Lightning - Rebecca Roanhorse

Red Rising - Pierce Brown

 Moominland Midwinter - Tove Jansson

If you haven't had a chance to take a look at any of 

these great books, now is the perfect time!

Have a happy and safe new year!

Now, bring on 2019!