We made it! Thanks for everything you've given us, 2018, but we're moving on. Before we do, though, we've compiled our own end-of-year list to share with our listeners. What were your favorite books this year? 

Annie's favorite books of the year:
+ Hey Ladies! by Caroline Moss and Michelle Markowitz
+ Waiting for Eden by Elliot Ackerman
+ My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
+ Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro
+ Educated by Tara Westover 
+ The Female Persuasion by Meg Woltizer
+ The Ensemble by Aja Gabel
+ Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
+ There There by Tommy Orange
+ A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza

Chris's favorite books of the year:
+ The Afterlives by Thomas Pierce
+ There There by Tommy Orange
+ Calypso by David Sedaris
+ The Oracle Year by Charles Soule
+ The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey

Chris's unofficial aggregate of the internet's favorite books:
+ The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
+ There There by Tommy Orange
+ Educated by Tara Westover
+ Circe by Madeline Miller
+ The Incendiares by R. O. Kwon
+ A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
+ That Kind of Mother by Rumaan Alam
+ Florida by Lauren Groff
+ How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
+ Melmoth by Sarah Perry

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