It’s that time of year, again-the time when we reflect on our year of reading (mostly murder) and make a favorites list (so much murder). I have given up all pretense of creating a Top Ten List and have abandoned descriptions (follow the links for book details), which has helped ease some of my anxiety around this task. If you like mysteries, suspense, and thrillers there are quite a few here!
YA Fiction
- A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
- The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson
- The Lovely and the Lost by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
- The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried by Shaun David Hutchinson
- Love From A to Z by S.K. Ali
- With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
Adult Fiction
- In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire
- Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
- Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe by Heather Webber
- The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth
- The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
- Recursion by Blake Crouch
- No Exit by Taylor Adams
- Two Girls Down by Louisa Luna
Nonfiction
- White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
- Stay Sexy and Don’t Get Murdered by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
- Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan
- Toil and Trouble by Augusten Burroughs
- Crisis in the Red Zone by Richard Preston
- The Killer Across the Table by John Douglas
Middle Grade
- Garvey’s Choice by Nikki Grimes
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix
- New Kid by Jerry Craft
- Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson
Happy Reading!
~Megan
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