2018 was a special year in which we read a lot of great books – and voted on even more. Here is the full list of all the books we voted on last year – with the winners in bold!
JANUARY My Sister’s Bones by Nuala Ellwood Blink by K.L. Slater My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick I Am Watching You by Teresa Driscoll FEBRUARY Moonglow by Michael Chabon Dark Matter by Blake Crouch To The Bright Edge of the World by Bowyn Ivey Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue MARCH Faithful by Alice Hoffman Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent How To Stop Time by Matt Haig APRIL The Dry by Jane Harper Pachinko by Min Jin Lee The Wake Up by Catherine Ryan Hyde Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan MAY The Dry – runner-up in April JUNE A Hope More Powerful Than The Sea by Melissa Fleming This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie JULY It Only Happens In The Movies by Holly Bourne The Leavers by Lisa Ko The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick Hurricane Season by Lauren Denton AUGUST Tin Man by Sarah Winman The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley More Than Words by Mia Sheridan Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward SEPTEMBER Sing, Unburied, Sing – runner-up in August OCTOBER If You Knew Her by Emily Elgar My Lovely Wife in The Psych Ward by Mark Lukach Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine NOVEMBER White Rose, Black Forest by Eoin Dempsey On A Cold Dark Sea by Elizabeth Blackwell The Girls of Ennismore by Patricia Falvey The Beekeeper’s Promise by Fiona Valpy DECEMBER Other People’s Houses by Abbi Waxman The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover The Memory Shop by Ella Griffin