Happy New Year, everyone! This past December, librarians took to Twitter to vote for their favorite books of the year using the hashtag #libfaves18. We are thrilled to share the top HarperCollins books selected by librarians for 2018!
To begin, we had three books in the top 10:
I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara: A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer—the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade—from Michelle McNamara, the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case.
The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn: For readers of Gillian Flynn and Tana French, a twisty, powerful, Hitchcockian thriller about an agoraphobic woman who believes she witnessed a crime in a neighboring house. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Amy Adams, Julianne Moore, and Gary Oldman, in theaters October 4th!
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo: Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing, National Book Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her story with blazing words and powerful truth.
Other titles that received hefty doses of librarian love include:
A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole
The Word Is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
Marilla of Green Gables by Sarah McCoy
Wicked and the Wallflower by Sarah MacLean
The Sea Queen by Linnea Hartsuyker
The Book of M by Peng Shepherd
The Secrets Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
Congratulations to all of the authors on the list and thanks to all who participated. To see the full list, head on over to EarlyWord.com.
-Chris