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Jason's Favorite Reads from 2018
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A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles
Audiobook / Historical Fiction - Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced to house arrest in a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin, where he endures life in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history unfold. By the best-selling author of Rules of Civility.
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Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
by Becky Albertalli
Audiobook / Teen Fiction - When an email falls into the wrong hands, sixteen-year-old, not-so-openly gay Simon is blackmailed into playing wingman for a classmate or risk having his sexual identity revealed and the privacy of the boy he has been emailing compromised.
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The Fifth Season (Broken Earth #1)
by N. K Jemisin
Sci-fi/Fantasy - A first entry in a new trilogy by the award-winning author of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms finds the sole continent of the earth threatened by murder, betrayal, a super-volcano and overlords who use the planet's power as a weapon.
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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
by Gail Honeyman
Audiobook / Fiction - A socially awkward, routine-oriented loner teams up with a bumbling IT guy from her office to assist an elderly accident victim, forging a friendship that saves all three from lives of isolation and secret unhappiness.
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The Republic of Thieves (Gentleman Bastards #3)
by Scott Lynch
Fantasy - A latest installment in the popular series that includes Red Seas Under Red Skies finds con man Locke Lamora's latest scrapes with fellow Gentleman Bastard Jean Tannen giving way to an increasingly audacious resolve to have an incredibly good time while robbing the world blind.
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Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad #3)
by Tana French
Mystery - Planning to run away with his girlfriend to London in the hopes of escaping poverty, Frank concludes he has been dumped when Rosie fails to join him and is astonished when Rosie's suitcase and evidence of foul play are discovered more than 20 years later. By the Edgar Award-winning author of In the Woods.
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A Wizard of Earthsea
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Fantasy - A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard.
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The Empty Grave (Lockwood & Co. #5)
by Jonathan Stroud
Audiobook / Teen Fantasy - With the help of some unexpected, and rather ghostly, allies, Lockwood & Co. must battle their greatest enemy yet, as they move ever closer to the moment when the earth-shattering secret of 'the problem' will finally be revealed.
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Artemis
by Andy Weir
Science Fiction - Augmenting his limited income by smuggling contraband to survive on the moon's wealthy city of Artemis, Jazz agrees to commit what seems to be a perfect, lucrative crime only to find herself embroiled in a conspiracy for control of the city. By the best-selling author of The Martian.
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