Around the OverDrive offices we spend a lot of time talking about books. Our staff librarians are constantly producing exceptional curated lists in Marketplace, our social media channels are teeming with collections for readers to discover, and our Professional Book Nerds podcast dishes out weekly author interviews and book chats loaded with great reads both new and old. Beyond the books that we share for our partners and users to check out, we also spend basically every conversation around the proverbial water coolers breaking down books we’re currently obsessed with.

Given that books are all we ever bring up around our campus, it made sense to ask coworkers what was the best thing they read (or listened to) in 2018. These books vary by publishing date and genre but what they all share is how much we love them. Here is a sampling of the books we loved and the OverDrive team members who loved them.

You can see the full list here.

Ryan – Fra Keeler by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

 

Meredith – One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus

Lauren – Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak

 

Andi – And the Trees Crept In by Dawn Kurtagich 

 

Lauren (Not the same one, obviously) – The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman

 

Erin – The Call by Peadar O’Guilin

 

Jim – NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

 

Christina – You by Caroline Kepnes

 

Lateefah – Educated by Tara Westover

 

Max – Tranny by Laura Jane Grace & Dan Ozzi

 

Lauren (We have a lot of Lauren’s…) – The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

 

Regis – Bright Dead Things by Ada Limon

 

Rachel – My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

 

Adam (that’s me!) – A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza

 

Nick – Modern Lovers by Emma Straub

 

Sydney – Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi

 

Tiffany  – Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

Nikki – The Cruel Prince by Holly Black 

 

Emma – Lethal White by Robert Galbraith 

 

Annie – We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

 

Maria (and SO MANY other people here) – I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara