I put out the call for the best books you read this year, so this episode is a combination of my favorite reads in 2018 and the books you liked best. Not all books are published in 2018 since that's not how most of us read. And thanks to Casey for the episode title idea. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 139: Stocking Stuffer (Best of 2018). Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher NEW! Listen through Spotify Books Discussed: Elizabeth (Episodes 33, 61, 136) The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara Dominic (@Literary.Libations in Instagram) Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoesvksy Jenny’s top reads in Literary fiction Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro (discussed Episode 110) White Tears by Hari Kunzru (discussed Episode 110) Idaho by Emily Ruskovich (discussed Episodes 86, 111, 116) Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively (discussed Episode 127) The Overstory by Richard Powers (discussed Episode 130) Normal People by Sally Rooney (discussed Episode 132) This is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakauwila Casey Stepaniuk (Episodes 107 & 110) The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Jeff Makala The Shakespeare Requirement by Julie Schumacher (mentioned Episode 129) Jenny’s top reads in Canada/Alaska fiction The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey Our Homesick Songs by Emma Hooper (discussed Episode 132) Annie Muktuk and Other Stories by Norma Dunning (discussed Episode 134) Ellie Shatterlings (Shatterlings on Instagram) Brother in Ice by Alicia Kopf Joshua The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning by Magareta Magnussen 10% Happier by Dan Harris. Jenny’s top reads in Canadian/Alaskan non-fiction I Am Hutterite by Mary-Ann Kirkby (discussed Episode 130) Being Caribou by Karsten Hauer (discussed Episode 136) Laurie  (@DrYapYapi in Instagram) The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater Make Your Home Among Strangers by Jennine Capó Crucet Last Night at the Blue Angel by Rebecca Rotert Scott The October Country: Stories by Ray Bradbury Jenny’s top reads in Non-fiction: Memoir The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy Becoming by Michelle Obama Sara (Episode 122) Into The Drowning Deep by Mira Grant The Man Who Spoke Snakish by Andrus Kivirahk Jeff Koeppen (Episodes 93 and 116) Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon (discussed Episode 116) Idaho by Emily Ruskovich (discussed Episodes 86, 111, 116) Educated by Tara Westover Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking Jenny’s top reads in Non-fiction: nature Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams (discussed Episode 112) Rising by Elizabeth Rush (discussed Episode 131) Lauren (Episodes 97, 123, 133, 138) Dune by Frank Herbert Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar Marion (@kammbiamh in Instagram) Children of Earth and Sky by Guy Gavriel Kay The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah Jenny’s top reads in general Non-fiction Storyworthy by Matthew Dicks (discussed Episode 127) Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture edited by Roxane Gay Buttermilk Graffiti by Edward Lee (discussed Episode 119) Ruth (Episodes 33, 67, 134) Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant Steve Richardson A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Jenny’s top reads in Poetry Virgin by Analicia Sotelo (discussed Episode 115) When My Brother was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz (discussed Episode 116) Karen (Episodes 4, 15, 51, 66, 101, 114) Lethal White by Robert Galbraith You Think It, I’ll Say it by Curtis Sittenfeld Casey Hampton (Episode 121) You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes Letters to a Young Poet by Ranier Maria Rilke Jenny’s top rea