bigalbooks | Honourable/Dishonourable Mentions 2018 @bigalbooksforever | Uploaded January 2019 | Updated October 2024, 29 minutes ago.
This list features some books that didn't make my final Top 10 list but were too good not to mention... and then ends with my least favourite reads of the year!

~~Books Mentioned~~

***Fiction - Plot*** 1:00
-Coriolanus - William Shakespeare
-Titus Andronicus - William Shakespeare
-Hagseed - Margaret Atwood
-Passing - Nella Larsen
-As Meat Loves Salt - Maria McCann
-Bone - Jeff Smith

***Fiction - Character*** 6:16
-Henry IV Pt. 1 - William Shakespeare
-Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
-A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
-Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
-Ceremony - Leslie Marmon Silko
-The Odd Women - George Gissing
-Saga - Brian K. Vaughn & Fiona Staples

***Fiction - Setting/Atmosphere*** 12:12
-A Rage in Harlem - Chester Himes
-If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin
-The Doll's Alphabet - Camilla Grudova
-Things We Lost in the Fire - Mariana Enriquez
-Fever Dream - Samanta Schweblin
-Vita Nostra - Marina & Sergey Dyachenko

***Nonfiction*** 15:33
-My Life - Bevenuto Cellini
-Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
-The Incantations of Daniel Johnson - Scott McClanahan & Ricardo Cavolo
-Ex Libris - Anne Fadiman
-They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us - Hanif Abdurraqib
-The Hatred of Poetry - Ben Lerner
-I Am Woman - Lee Maracle
-Daemon Voices - Phillip Pullman
-Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud
-At the Existentialist Cafe - Sarah Bakewell
-As We Have Always Done - Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
-The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir

***Worst Reads of the Year*** 22:00
-The Honey Farm - Harriet Alida Lye
-The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Frank Baum
-Gods Behaving Badly - Marie Phillips
-Shelter in Place - Alexander Maksik
-Seriously... I'm Kidding - Ellen DeGeneres