Top Five Books of 2018

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Description: What are your top five reads for 2018? These books DO NOT need to have been published in 2018. See the annual blog post for staff favorites: [link to come] Join the discussion on Talk [link to come] To add a book to your list, click the "Add work to list" button in the upper-right corner. This will take you to a search box, where you can search by title, author, keyword, etc. Clicking on the title will add the book to your list. You can reorder your list over on the right-hand side, by dragging and dropping titles in the "Your list" section.
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1
The Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson
22,126 members
701 reviews
4
Global Rank 11
8 Members
Minthe, Porua, pamdierickx, DWLDE, Travelgem, chezbob, CMSharkey, davidflem1984
Explanations
Porua: The crimes of H. H. Holmes filled me with a sense of dread and loneliness. Intertwined with this macabre tale is the struggle to bring the spectacular 1893 World's Columbian Exposition to life. That may sound dull, but trust me it isn't!
2
In the Teeth of the Evidence and Other Stories
by Dorothy L. Sayers
1,544 members
29 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 287
Member
Porua
3
Unnatural Death
by Dorothy L. Sayers
3,172 members
84 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 407
Member
Porua
4
They Came to Baghdad
by Agatha Christie
2,733 members
49 reviews
½ 3.6
Global Rank 537
Member
Porua
Explanations
Porua: A cold war era thriller from the queen of crime? I did not have much hope for this one. But it turned out to be surprisingly suspenseful! Victoria Jones is one of the pluckiest Christie heroines I have met.
5
And Then There Were None
by Agatha Christie
21,208 members
535 reviews
4.2
Global Rank 644
Member
Porua
Explanations
Porua: How Christie managed to create such convoluted yet believable plots is beyond me. Unlike other works of Christie, this is not going to be a book I am going to return to again and again. It is one of her finest, and one of her most disquieting too.