Best Books of 2018!

I'm doing my end of year lists a little differently this year! Instead of listing all the books I enjoyed this year, I thought I would list my five favorites in each category, Picture Books, Middle Grade, YA, Adult, and Graphic Novels. (Not including rereads.) Now I want to clarify. These are not the only books I enjoyed this year! I read a lot of books in 2018, and there were a lot of good ones this year! (I'm also going to list the number of books I read in 2018 in this post, too.) But I thought it would be fun to really highlight the ones I enjoyed reading the most. It was hard to narrow down to just five per category, but I'm happy with the books I decided to list! I also have a post coming up where I will be listing my favorite movies, TV shows, and music from 2018! :)

Here we go! :)

# of Middle Grade, YA, and Adult Books Read? 70

# of Graphic Novels Read? 77

# of Picture Books Read?  83

Total # of Books Read? 230

Listed in order of the authors last name. And not all of these books released in 2018, but they were ones I read in 2018. And I tried to not repeat any authors on this list, because I could have listed more than one book per author for some of them, but for variety, am not.

Picture Books:

Classic Lit A to Z by Jennifer Adams, illustrated by Alison Oliver

Santa Bruce by Ryan T. Higgins

Cute as an Axolotl by Jess Keating, illustrated by David DeGrand

Fangsgiving by Ethan Long

Red Sky at Night by Elly MacKay

Middle Grade:

The Frame-Up by Wendy McLeod MacKnight

Case Closed: Mystery in the Mansion by Lauren Magaziner

Flashback by Shannon Messenger

Rules for Thieves by Alexandra Ott

Chasing Helicity by Ginger Zee

YA:

Not If I Save You First by Ally Carter

Fade to Us by Julia Day

From Twinkle, With Love by Sandhya Menon

The Lost Girl of Astor Street by Stephanie Morrill

The Queen's Rising by Rebecaa Ross

Adult:

Blue Moon Promise by Colleen Coble

The Butterfly Conspiracy by Vivian Conroy

Lady of Quality by Georgette Heyer

Alaskan Holiday by Debbie Macomber

The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery

Graphic Novels:

Delilah Dirk and the Pillars of Hercules by Tony Cliff

Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys: The Big Lie by Anthony Del Col, illustrated by Werther Dell'edera

DuckTales: Solving Mysteries and Rewriting History by Disney

Archie Vol. 5 by Mark Waid, illustrated by Audrey Mok

My Little Pony: Legends of Magic Vol. 2 by Jeremy Whitley, illustrated Tony Fleecs

I loved reading all of these books this year! 2018 was a good reading year for me, and hopefully 2019 will be equally filled with good books! What were your favorite books of 2018? :)

Merry Christmas 2018!

Merry Christmas!!!!!!!

I hope everyone has a wonderful day, while remembering why we celebrate Christmas! I also hope you get to spend lots of time with your family, eat lots of good food, and that you get a good gift! :)

Top Ten Things I'm Thankful For

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl blog

The first five things on this list are definitely what I'm most thankful for, and the last five are things that make me happy, and that I am thankful for, too!

Top Ten Things I'm Thankful For

My Family

My Dog

My Home

My Town

My Health Getting Better

Books

Sandwiches

Chocolate

Disney Movies

Christmas Decorations

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope everyone has a happy, safe, and good Thanksgiving! And that you get to eat lots of your favorite food! :)

2019 Books!

I usually do a post in the summer talking about what books I'm looking forward to reading the following year. But this past summer was pretty busy, and I had a lot of health problems, which meant blogging had to be put to the side a little bit. And this post takes awhile to put together, which is why it's one of the things that definitely had to be put to the side at the time. But I really enjoy putting this post together, and listing what books I'm looking forward to the following year! Because if just one person finds just one book they hadn't heard of before from this post, and adds it to their TBR list, that would make me pretty happy! :)

Books are by Middle Grade, YA, and Adult. Listed in order of the authors last name. Books with a * next to them are debuts, that makes it easier to find and support them. If I got a release date, cover, or anything else wrong, I apologize. I try to keeps things accurate, but I do make mistakes. Just let me know, and I'll fix it, if I'm able to. Also! These are not the only books I'm looking forward to reading next year. Just the ones that I remembered to add to this post. And one more thing! All covers are from Goodreads, and all links go to Goodreads.

Here we go! :)

Middle Grade:

Riverbound by Melinda Beatty

Secret in the Stone (Unicorn Quest #2) by Kamilla Benko

Rise of the Dragon Moon by Gabrielle K. Byrne *

Maybe a Mermaid by Josephine Cameron *

The Winterborne Home For Vengeance and Virtue by Ally Carter

Summer of a Thousand Pies by Margaret Dilloway 

The Girls of Firefly Cabin by Cynthia Ellingsen

The Queen's Secret (Rose Legacy #2) by Jessica Day George

Blackberry Farm by Adele Griffin

The Astonishing Maybe by Shaunta Grimes

Untitled (Dolphin Island #1) by Catherine Hapka

Nikki Tesla and the Ferret-Proof Death Ray by Jess Keating

Famous Mistakes (Nancy Drew Diaries #17) by Carolyn Keene

All the Impossible Things by Lindsey Lackey *

Midsummer's Mayhem by Rajani LaRocca *

Over the Moon by Natalie Lloyd

Stolen in the Studio (Case Closed #2) by Lauren Magaziner

The Hunt for the Mad Wolf's Daughter by Diane Magras

Caterpillar Summer by Gillian McDunn *

Untitled (Keeper of the Lost Cities #8) by Shannon Messenger

The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane by Julia Nobel *

The True History of Lyndie B. Hawkins by Gail Shepherd *

Cotton Candy Wishes by Kristina Springer

Who in the World is Carmen Sandiego? by Rebecca Tinker

The Pumpkin War by Cathleen Young *

YA:

The Hummingbird Dagger by Cindy Anstey

Serious Moonlight by Jenn Bennett

Misaligned by Gloria Chao

Dangerous Alliance by Jennieke Cohen *

The Stars We Steal by Alexa Donne

All is Fair by Dee Garretson

Meet Me in Outer Space by Melinda Grace *

You'd Be Mine by Erin Hahn *

Dark of the West by Joanna Hathaway *

The Neptune Cipher by Deborah Hopkinson

The Next to Last Mistake by Amalie Jahn

Technically, You Started It by Lana Wood Johnson *

Hearts Made For Breaking by Jen Klein

I Love You So Mochi by Sarah Kuhn

The Arrival of Someday by Jen Malone

Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus

There's Something About Sweetie by Sandhya Menon

Within These Lines by Stephanie Morrill

Paperback Night by Laura Taylor Namey *

Fake It Till You Break It by Jenn P. Nguyen

Truly Madly Royally by Debbie Rigaud

The Queen's Resistance (Queen's Rising #2) by Rebecca Ross

Crown of Coral and Pearl by Mara Rutherford *

Sherwood by Megan Spooner

That's Not What I Heard by Stephanie Kate Strohm 

Ordinary Girls by Blair Thornburgh

Night Music by Jenn Marie Thorne

Enchantee by Gita Trelease *

Across a Broken Shore by Amy Trueblood

The Pioneer by Bridget Tyler

Small Town Hearts by Lillie Vale *

Fame, Fate, and the First Kiss by Kasie West

Maybe This Time by Kasie West

Rules We're Meant to Break by Natalie Williamson *

The Raven's Tale by Cat Winters

Spectacle by Jodie Lynn Zdrok *

Adult:

The Beautiful Stranger by Camille Di Maio

A Bound Heart by Laura Frantz

Meet Cute by Helena Hunting

A Silken Thread by Kim Vogel Sawyer

Flights of Fancy by Jen Turano

In the Shadow of Croft Towers by Abigail Wilson

More Than Words Can Say by Karen Witemeyer

Do you want to read any of these books? And tell me what you're looking forward to reading in 2019! I'm always looking for new books to add to my TBR list! :)