I will separate my favorites for 2018 into a couple posts, fiction and non-fiction.
For non-fiction the stand-out selection I read this year was
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson. I split this between my Kindle and an audio version. This was a book club selection in
March 2010, before my time so I didn't read it then, and was a really fascinating story about something that I hadn't ever heard about before. I actually heard about this through the
No Dumb Questions podcast (episode 16) when they did a special episode for this. I will need to go see the remaining structures next time I am in Chicago.
The runner-up non-fiction book I read this year was also a
March 2010 book club selection, no wonder they had a tie that month, although I didn't realize that until just now.
Stiff by Mary Roach tells the story of how medical cadavers are actually used. No, they are not all cut up by medical students. Funny and irreverent but also very informative. I also read this as an audio book.