2018 Best Books
Happy New Year! As many of you know, I prepare this list of books as late as I can to ensure everything I’ve read in 2018 is considered. With that being said, not every book on this list came out in 2018, some were from earlier years and just a few that will release...
The Secret of Clouds by Alyson Richman
The Secret of Clouds by Alyson Richman – 384 pages ARC courtesy of Berkley Publishing Group in exchange for an honest review. Book Blurb: Katya, a rising ballerina, and Sasha, a graduate student, are young and in love when an unexpected tragedy befalls their native...
The Wartime Sisters by Lynda Cohen Loigman
The Wartime Sisters by Lynda Cohen Loigman – 304 pages ARC from St. Martin's Press and Netgalley Book Blurb: Two estranged sisters, raised in Brooklyn and each burdened with her own shocking secret, are reunited at the Springfield Armory in the early days of WWII....
The Space Between by Dete Meserve
The Space Between by Dete Meserve– 300 pagesBook Blurb: After presenting a major scientific breakthrough to a rapt audience across the country, renowned astronomer Sarah Mayfield returns home to a disturbing discovery. Her husband, Ben, a Los Angeles restaurateur, has...
One Day in December by Josie Silver
One Day in December by Josie Silver– 416 pages Book Blurb: Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn't exist anywhere but the movies. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes...
The Home For Unwanted Girls by Joanna Goodman
The Home for Unwanted Girls by Joanna Goodman – 384 pagesBook Blurb: In 1950s Quebec, French and English tolerate each other with precarious civility—much like Maggie Hughes’ parents. Maggie’s English-speaking father has ambitions for his daughter that don’t include...
The Wildlands by Abby Geni
The Wildlands by Abby Geni– 368 pagesBook Blurb: When a Category 5 tornado ravaged Mercy, Oklahoma, no family in the small town lost more than the McClouds. Their home and farm were instantly demolished, and orphaned siblings Darlene, Jane, and Cora made media...
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens –384 pagesBook Blurb: For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya...
Another Side of Paradise by Sally Koslow
Another Side of Paradise by Sally Koslow– 352 pagesBook Blurb: In 1937 Hollywood, gossip columnist Sheilah Graham’s star is on the rise, while literary wonder boy F. Scott Fitzgerald’s career is slowly drowning in booze. But the once-famous author, desperate to make...
The Button Man by Andrew Gross
The Button Man by Andrew Gross - AudioBook Blurb: Morris, Sol, and Harry Rabinowitz grew up poor but happy in a tiny flat on the Lower East Side, until the death of their father thrust them into having to fend for themselves and support their large family. Morris...

