Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 2018

Moshfegh for me.

i recall liking french exit, the movie vers less so

Xp From what I've read the prologue/epilogue were suggestions that involved a complete rewrite? I could be misremembering.

Of the four I’ve read, easily milkman

I wouldn’t have voted for it but I think daisy johnson’s everything under prob deserves to be here

I agree with every good and every bad thing said about Rooney above, and an artist should have a range, right? Incl. of quality, in some cases---that's what keeps people coming back to Nico, Dylan, Young. Normal People certainly has that, and I enjoyed it more than not, so voted for it (also yet another list where I've only read the one).

Would liked to have known more about and from POV of some other characters, especially the leading guy's mother. Still other characters, mostly some of their friends and associates from Trinity on, were p. 1-D, like the bad boyfriend and the ho friend.

Read quite a few of these and like them all. Circe is perhaps more easily read than some others, but also the one that's stuck with me the most, the world is so delicately and longingly described I want to dive into it forever.

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Another three-way! Kind of/and yet not embarrassed to have voted Rooney (that's Rooney for you), but glad to have read y'all's takes on Milkman's affectless clarity and Circe's delicacy x longing, will read them too!

imago's post made Rooney winning a foregone conclusion imo

Not an outright win; I'll be merciful

Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 2019