Literary Gladiators
Joshs Ten Best Books Read in 2018
updated
Panel: Cyndi, Dan, Ari, Josh
Discussion Starter: Ari
Category: Book/Novel
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
Discussion Starter: Ari
Category: Poem
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
You can find Cyndi's playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoZ3V9UVtqzrFdd-VOWAcBBh5mBOeKKvf
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
Discussion Starter: Ari
Category: Book/Novel
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
Discussion Starter: Jesi
Category: Short Story/Short Work
You can find this short story here: themoonlitroad.com/escape-appalachia-tennessee-ghost-story
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
Discussion Starter: Jesi
Category: Book/Novel
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
You can find Cyndi's playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoZ3V9UVtqzrFdd-VOWAcBBh5mBOeKKvf
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
You can find Josh's playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoZ3V9UVtqzqSSs1Vys-1y5oRUzgsB2qQ
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
Discussion Starter: Josh
Category: Play
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
You can find Josh's playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoZ3V9UVtqzqSSs1Vys-1y5oRUzgsB2qQ
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
You can find Josh's playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoZ3V9UVtqzqSSs1Vys-1y5oRUzgsB2qQ
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
You can find Josh's playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoZ3V9UVtqzqSSs1Vys-1y5oRUzgsB2qQ
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
You can find Josh's playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoZ3V9UVtqzqSSs1Vys-1y5oRUzgsB2qQ
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
Discussion Starter: Renny
Category: Poem
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
Discussion Starter: Renny
Category: Play/Musical
You can find this play/musical here: martinhstheatre.com/uploads/2/4/9/3/24934395/the_music_man_libretto.pdf
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
Discussion Starter: Larry
Category: Short Story/Short Work
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
You can find Cyndi's playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoZ3V9UVtqzrFdd-VOWAcBBh5mBOeKKvf
You can learn more about The Book Garden here: bookgardennj.com
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
Books Mentioned from 2024 Mock Newbery List:
What Happened to Rachel Riley by Claire Swinarski
Artemis Sparke and the Sound Seekers Brigade by Kimberly Behre Kenna
When Sea Becomes Sky by Gillian McDunn
A First Time for Everything by Dan Santat
Simon Sort of Says by Erin Bow
Good Different by Meg Eden Kuyatt
Finally Seen by Kelly Yang
Books Mentioned from 2025 Mock Newbery List:
Light and Air by Mindy Nichols Wendell
The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly
Ferris by Kate DiCamillo
Max in the House of Spies by Adam Gidwitz
The Night War by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Louder Than Hunger by John Schu
Heroes by Alan Gratz
You can find the Mock Newbery Lists from Goodreads that Josh referred to here:
2024: goodreads.com/list/show/184943.2024_Mock_Newbery_List
2025: goodreads.com/list/show/197288.2025_Mock_Newbery_List
You can find Josh's playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoZ3V9UVtqzqSSs1Vys-1y5oRUzgsB2qQ
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
Discussion Starter: Larry
Category: Play
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
You can learn more about Kevin Bachar here: kevinbachar.com
You can find and purchase Kevin Bachar's books here: amazon.com/stores/Kevin-Bachar/author/B0CLBPSPFS?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
Discussion Starter: Josh
Category: Play
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
Discussion Starter: Josh
Category: Book/Novel
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
Discussion Starter: Josh
Category: Short Story/Short Work (Fairy Tale)
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
This review contains details that spoil particular details of the story, but not the overall story and how things conclude.
You can find Josh's playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoZ3V9UVtqzqSSs1Vys-1y5oRUzgsB2qQ
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
Books Mentioned:
Science Fantasy: Winter 1971 Issue
Science Fiction Adventure Classics: Spring 1971 Issue
Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine: January 1978, February 1978, April 1978 (All British Edition), June 1978, and March 1987
Asimov Magazine: July 1983, September 1983, October 1983, November 1983, December 1983, and January 1984
Analog Magazine: December 1969, January 1973, and June 1973
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
Crispin by Avi
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
The Serpent Never Sleeps by Scott O'Dell
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Dogsong by Gary Paulsen
The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine
Ryan White: My Own Story by Ryan White and Ann Marie Cunningham
Dances with Wolves by Michael Blake
The Big Book of American Trivia by Stephen Lang
The Utterly, Completely, and Totally Useless Fact-o-pedia by Charlotte Lowe (illustrated by Gary Bennett)
Presidential Wit and Wisdom revised by Charlotte Lee Gross
The New Book of Lists by David Wallechinsky and Amy Wallace
The China Mirage by James Bradley
1929: The Year of the Great Crash by William K. Klingaman
You can learn more about The Book Garden here: bookgardennj.com
You can find Josh's playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoZ3V9UVtqzqSSs1Vys-1y5oRUzgsB2qQ
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
Books Mentioned:
Magic Terror: 7 Tales by Peter Straub
Hayes of the 23rd by T. Harry Williams
Egon Schiele by Reinhard Steiner
Paul Revere's Ride by David Hackett Fischer
The Sorrow of Belgium by Hugo Claus
Insatiable by Gael Greene
The New Provencal Cuisine by Louisa Jones (photography by Allison Harris)
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
The Complete Novels of James Joyce
You can learn more about Second Time Books here: secondtimebooksonline.com
You can find Josh's playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoZ3V9UVtqzqSSs1Vys-1y5oRUzgsB2qQ
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
You can find Josh's playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoZ3V9UVtqzqSSs1Vys-1y5oRUzgsB2qQ
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
You can find Josh's playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoZ3V9UVtqzqSSs1Vys-1y5oRUzgsB2qQ
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
Discussion Starter: Larry
Category: Book/Novel
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
You can find Josh's playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoZ3V9UVtqzqSSs1Vys-1y5oRUzgsB2qQ
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
You can find Josh's playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoZ3V9UVtqzqSSs1Vys-1y5oRUzgsB2qQ
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
You can find Josh's playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoZ3V9UVtqzqSSs1Vys-1y5oRUzgsB2qQ
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
You can find Cyndi's playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoZ3V9UVtqzrFdd-VOWAcBBh5mBOeKKvf
Discussion Starter: Josh
Category: Graphic Text
You can find Tara's linktr.ee here: https://linktr.ee/MissWinchester84
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
Panel: Nick W., Renny, Charlie, Josh
Discussion Starter: Renny
Category: Short Story/Short Work
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
Books Mentioned:
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Dear Mr. Rogers: Letters to Mr. Rogers by Fred Rogers
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
You can learn more about Silent Book Clubs and possibly find a chapter near you here: https://silentbook.club/
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
Books Mentioned:
Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy
The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
The Rainbow by Yasunari Kawabata
Perchance to Dream: Selected Stories by Charles Beaumont
The Best American Short Stories 2023 edited by Min Jin Lee (series editor Heidi Pitlor)
Maeve Fly by C.J. Leede
You can learn more about Asbury Book Cooperative here: asburybookcoop.org
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
You can find Cyndi's playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoZ3V9UVtqzrFdd-VOWAcBBh5mBOeKKvf
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
You can find Josh's playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoZ3V9UVtqzqSSs1Vys-1y5oRUzgsB2qQ
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
You can find Josh's playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoZ3V9UVtqzqSSs1Vys-1y5oRUzgsB2qQ
You can find Renny's playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoZ3V9UVtqzq_QlvOyg3gqlscG25BMWHN
You can find Mild's channel, The Mild Rumpus, here: youtube.com/@UCS-b4M2gIKdVhrbWJ69xzNA
You can find Almas' channel, Almas, here: youtube.com/@UCmYcQDLWfSPeJTPYrKdLBqA
You can find Cyndi's playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoZ3V9UVtqzrFdd-VOWAcBBh5mBOeKKvf
You can find Mark's channel, Richardson Reads, here: youtube.com/@UC_OmRveMugIyYw0PrwG2xvA
You can find Cyndi's playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoZ3V9UVtqzrFdd-VOWAcBBh5mBOeKKvf
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
Books Mentioned:
The Sky Phantom (#53)
The Strange Message in the Parchment (#54)
You can find Ari at his channel, Oopdoop44, here: youtube.com/@UCgrpDCZutsVj029eSS7uYVg
You can find Ari's playlist for this channel here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoZ3V9UVtqzraq9WXVmkp3pqlcGve2aIe
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
You can find Ari's channel, Oopdoop44, here: youtube.com/@UCgrpDCZutsVj029eSS7uYVg
You can find Ari's playlist for this channel here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoZ3V9UVtqzraq9WXVmkp3pqlcGve2aIe
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators
Cheese: The Rattlesnake
From: Bagliani's Market in Hammonton
You can learn more about Bagliani's Market here: baglianis.com
You can learn more about this cheese and Deer Creek Cheese here: deercreekcheese.com/our-cheeses/the-rattlesnake
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/literary_gladiators