While we’re waiting to see if I can shake my reading slump, I thought why not chat about some of the books I never read in 2018 and definitely should have! This is a list of 2018 releases that were highly acclaimed and that I seriously considered reading in 2018, but never got around to it in the end.
Educated by Tara Westover
If by now you haven’t heard of Educated by Tara Westover, where have you been? Everyone and their mother had read this book and raved about it. This is a memoir about Tara’s experience growing up without formal education and her drive to educate herself. It’s been called raw, powerful, difficult to read but impossible to put down. I was never going to pick this book up initially in 2018. However, towards the end of 2018 I was sold by the Reading Women Podcast to give this one a go. It’s 2019 now, and I still haven’t read this one, but I do have the audiobook on hold at my library. We're currently looking at a 21 week wait on this one, I don’t know yet whether I should just pick up the physical copy. We’ll see, I was really wanting to read the audiobook for this one.
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
This is another one highly praised about on the Reading Women Podcast (it’s one of my favorites, can’t you tell?) but I heard about this book very early on in 2018 and I don’t remember where. What I do remember is that I picked this book up from the library last summer and I had planned on reading it and never did. Her Body and Other Parties is a debut collection of short stories about the female body. I love a good short story collection, I love reading from new Latinx authors and I’m kind of upset that I didn’t read this when I did.
I’ll be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
I’ll be Gone in the Dark, is a book I would have never thought I’d want to pick up. It’s a genre I never ever read. This is a true-crime novel about the Golden State Killer it is written from a collection of Michelle’s notes and journal entries. Right off the bat I have no idea what I’m getting myself into. I don’t know anything about the Golden State Killer. All I know is that at some point in 2018 I wanted to read this book. Since then I’ve heard a lot of mixed reviews on this book because of the way it was written.
Sing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward
This book has been calling to me from every shelf in every bookstore and library I visited in 2018 and I still never picked it up. I’m ashamed I never read this one in 2018 but it sounded like it’d be too much at the time. This book isn’t for the faint hearted. Sing Unburied Sing follows a family’s road trip to pick up their father who has just been released from prison, that’s as much as I’m going to say. There’s no reason not to pick this up in 2019, it’s gotten a lot of praise over the past year and I haven’t heard a single bad review for it!
That does it for this week's post!
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