The Baker's Tale was as bad as The Cherry Cola Book Club!

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I kept up listening to audiobooks and reading children's books during Shabbat servies through 2018. I didn't read as many as Sara (as she's constantly reminding me), but I did read more and for the most part, better books this year than I did last year. I try not to read the same author more than once a year, and now that we're in a new year, I definitely want to read another of Tana French and Little House: Martha Years this year - those were both really good, in completely different ways.

Anyway, as I did last year, here are all the books I read this year. The average year published for all of them was 2001.

Excellent
Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson
Tell the Wolves I'm Home, by Carol Rifka Brunt
The Secret Place, by Tana French
The Good House, by Ann Leary

Above Average
Started Early, Took My Dog, by Kate Atkinson
A Time of Angels, by Karen Hesse
The Ghost of the Mary Celeste, by Valerie Martin
Van Gogh: His Life and His Art, by David Sweetman
Wish You Were Here, by Graham Swift
The Age of Miracles, by Karen Thompson Walker
Little House in the Highlands, by Melissa Wiley
The Lost Girls, by Heather Young

Average
Jane, Unlimited, by Kristin Cashore
About the B'nai Bagels, by EL Konigsburg
Journey to America, by Sonia Levitin
Betsy and Joe, by Maud Hart Lovelace
They May Not Mean To, But They Do, by Cathleen Schine
Molly's Surprise, by Valerie Tripp
The Fortuneteller in 5B, by Jane Breskin Zalben

Below Average
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, by Aimee Bender
The Diviner's Tale, by Bradford Morrow
You're the Best, Hannah, by Mindy Warshaw Skolsky
Nantucket Sisters, by Nancy Thayer

Poor
The Baker's Tale, by Thomas Hauser