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It’s time to look back: the tops & flops of my 2018-reading year.

Tops:
Book that I thought about the most
Joyce Carol Oates, Hazards of Time Travel:   / hazards-of-time-travel  

Most entertaining nonfiction book
Tina Brown, The Vanity Fair Diaries:   / the-vanity-fair-diaries  

Best debut
Peng Sheperd, The Book of M:   / the-book-of-m  

Flops
Worst book (not counting the Manbooker Longlist…):
Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body:   / this-mournable-body  

Most overhyped book (again, not counting the Manbooker Longlist):
Lisa Halliday, Asymmetry:   / asymmetry  

Book that irked me the most:
Porchista Khakpour, Sick:   / sick  

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By the way:
I stole the name ‘The Second Shelf’ from the title of Meg Wolitzer’s article in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/boo...

I also wrote some books:
The Decision (2015): http://hauspublishing.com/fiction/the...
or in the German original: Der Brief des Zauberers (2104): http://www.aufbau-verlag.de/index.php...

Dutch non-fiction: De goede advocaat (2017): http://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/boek/D...

as Britta Bolt (together with writer Rodney Bolt), The Posthumus Mysteries:
Lonely Graves (2014)
Lives Lost (2015)
Deadly Secrets (June 2016)
https://www.hodder.co.uk/authors/deta...

and for German readers:
Das Büro der einsamen Toten (2015)
Das Haus der verlorenen Seelen (2016)
Der Tote im fremden Mantel (February 2017)
http://www.hoffmann-und-campe.de/auto...