2018 Summer Reading List

It’s June, which means it’s time for the annual EDIWTB crowdsourced reading list. Thanks to my readers and Facebook friends for submitting their favorite reads from the last year. I always like this list because there are many books on it that I’d probably not read on my own, and therefore would not include on the blog. You’re getting a much more well-rounded list than I’d come up with myself.

Here’s what the crowd came up with. I’ve put ** next to those that were recommended by more than one person. When it’s a book I’ve read too, I’ve included a link to my EDIWTB review.

**The Nix by Nathan Hill

**Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Red Clocks by Leni Zumas

I Am I Am I Am by Maggie O’Farrell

**Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (reviewed here)

**The Power by Naomi Alderman

**American Fire by Monica Hesse

**The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

News Of The World by Paulette Giles

Hunger by Roxanne Gay

Brotopia by Emily Chang

My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent

Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

Bad Blood: Secrets And Lies In A Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash

Young Jane Young, Gabrielle Zevin

**The Leavers by Lisa Ko (reviewed here)

**The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne

**Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (reviewed here)

**This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel (reviewed here)

Commonwealth by Ann Patchett (reviewed here)

Unabrow by Una LaMarche

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (reviewed here)

You Think It, I’ll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld (reviewed here)

**Saints For All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan

Star Of The North by D. B. John

Mrs. by Caitlyn Macy

Only Child by Rhiannon Navin

Between Me And You by Allison Winn Scotch,

We Were The Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter

**A Gentleman In Moscow by Amor Towles

**Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

Circling The Sun by Paula McClain

March by Geraldine Brooks

The Sleeping Dictionary by Sujata Massey

Time Of The Locust by Morowa Yejide

A Long Way From Verona by Jane Gardam

Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood

The Black Penguin by Andrew Evans

The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce

The Broken Girls by Simone St. James

**Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (reviewed here)

Summit Lake by Charlie Donlea

Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance (reviewed here)

Strings Attached by Joanne Lipman and Melanie Kupchynsky 

The Lost Girls by Heather Young

**The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy

The Wife by Alafair Burke

A Closed And Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

The Genius Plague by David Walton

The Great Quake by Henry Fountain

Vacationland by John Hodgman

Our Short History by Lauren Grodstein (reviewed here)

Vintage Hughes by Langston Hughes

My Last Continent by Midge Raymond

Educated by Tara Westover

Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer (reviewed here)

Silver Girl by Leslie Pietrzyk

White Houses by Amy Bloom

Gateway to the Moon by Mary Morris

Elmet by Fiona Mozley

**The Twelve Lives Of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti

Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo

The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta (reviewed here)

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

I Liked My Life by Abby Fabiaschi (reviewed here)

The Two Family House by Lynda Cohen Loigman (reviewed here)

The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty (reviewed here)

So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson

Circe by Madeline Miller

The Girl With All The Gifts by M.R. Carey

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

Calypso, David Sedaris

The High Season by Judy Blundell

The Paris Seamstress by Natasha Lester

The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis