Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

This thread is to mark your completion of the December challenge for the prompt: "a book published in 2018." You can join in with the group read of Circe or pick a different book to satisfy this challenge.

Please include the following:

Title:
Author:
Do you often read newly published books?
Would you recommend?

No other posts in this thread please.

Title: Still Me
Author: Jojo Moyes

Do you often read newly published books?
I do. I have a list of authors I love and I read their latest books as soon as possible. And since joining this Challenge group, I find out about the newest shiny thing and get sucked in.

Would you recommend?
I would recommend for those who have read the first two books in the series. I am not a romance reader generally, but I loved Me Before You so much. I wasn't as big a fan of After You, but I enjoyed this latest book as it satisfactorily wrapped up the storylines.

I am planning to read Circe and participate in the monthly discussion.

Title: The Girl in the Tower
Author: Katherine Arden
Do you often read newly published books? pretty often, especially those in series I'm following.
Would you recommend? Absolutely. This was part 2 of a trilogy and was a great continuation of the story. I've got part 3 (an ARC) waiting for me to read for 2019 challenge!

Title: Everless
Author: Sara Holland
Do you often read newly published books? I frequently read them for the youth reading committee I am on, so most of the new books I read range from picture books to YA. I often find new books for adults while researching for the committee books and love the shiny new ones.
Would you recommend? I enjoyed this book and am anxiously awaiting Evermore, the next book in the series. I would absolutely recommend this book.

Title: The Woman in the Window
Author: A.J. Finn
Do you often read newly published books? Yes, I always get distracted by new books and want to read them.
Would you recommend? Yes. It was a good psychological thriller. I am often disappointed by those, but I always want to read them because I think I will love them.

Title: Record of a Spaceborn Few
Author: Becky Chambers
Do you often read newly published books? Not usually, but this is the third book in a series I love so I pre-ordered it.
Would you recommend? Absolutely! This series is incredible.

Title: Circe

Author: Madeline Miller

Do you often read newly published books? Not often. The buzz would have to be pretty loud and it would have to seem like something that I would really want to read for it to be moved up my reading list that much in the short time that it had been out. Or, it would have to be one of our group reads.

Would you recommend? I suppose, if I knew you liked that sort of book. Not really my cup of tea. Seemed to drag on forever in several places, but the good was more than the bad.

Title: Circe
Author: Madeline Miller
Do you often read newly published books? I would say it is about half and half. I have been quite excited about some new books and jump into them, but on the other side of the coin I have a long list of books that to read that have been around for quite some time.
Would you recommend? Emphatically, yes! This was one of the BEST books that I have read this year. I am so glad that I read it. My criteria that makes it one of the best books I've read this year is the fact that I did not want to put it down, reading into the wee hours of the morning.