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Today we're seeing if our favourite books from 2018 - the year we first discovered one another's existence - are still favourites today.
Books Mentioned:
Fool's Fate by Robin Hobb
The Hoarder by Jess Kidd
The Management Style of the Supreme Beings by Tom Holt
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
And After Many Days by Jowhor Ile
Driven by Dane Cobain
The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith
Dying in Other Words by Maggie Gee
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Emma by Jane Austen
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Love Simon by Becky Albertalli
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
The Terrible by Yrsa Daley Ward
The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Wild Embers by Nikita Gill
The Seven Deaths Of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Flames by Robbie Arnott
Potato by Rebecca Earle
All the Names Given by Raymond Antrobus
Signs, Music by Raymond Antrobus
Cursed Daughter by Oyinkan Braithwaite
The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson
The Book of Birds by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King by JRR Tolkien
Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly
The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex
Thunder on the Right by Mary Stewart
Fruit Fly by Josh Silver
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