Best NON-YA 2018

My husband teased me that I cannot boast about the number of books I read (122 this year) because they are just YA so they should count for less. However, I do read non YA books. Not many, so here are the best this year:

1.  Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
Along with the rest of the trilogy: China Rich Girlfriend and Rich People Problems. Maybe I devoured this because I'm Asian. It is probably not as funny in Asia, but add the dreamy cast of the movie and this was a really good month spent reading these three.

2.  Shadow of the Wind

It is a place-based (Barcelona), time-based mystery but it is so much more. What makes a good book and what YA does not always do is to trust that the reader is willing to embrace complexity and intrigue and a slower pace that immerses the reader further and further into the book.

This is not a god book to hashtag and it is difficult to summarize. In other words, read it more than once.