Books I Read in 2018

I meant to post this at the end of 2018 but it got away from me and languished in my drafts. Good thing I check that place so regularly.

In any case, 2018 was a good year. Full of ups and downs and unexpected trials, growth, change. But two healthy babies and food on the table.

But here are the books I read this year:

1. Alan Bennett – The Uncommon Reader
2. Katherin Addison – The Goblin Emperor
3. Meg Wolitzer – The Interestings
4. Jessica Lahey – The Gift of Failure
5. Elizabeth Gilbert – Big Magic
6. George R.R. Martin – A Storm of Swords
7. Barbara Kinsolver – The Lacuna
8. Bret Easton Ellis – American Psycho
9. Stephen King – On Writing
10. Jonathan Franzen – The Corrections
11. Ann Patchett – Commonweatlh
12. Richard Russo – That Old Cape Magic
13. Katherena Vermette – The Break
14. David Mitchell – Cloud Atlas
15. Kurt Vonnegut – Player Piano
16. Ann Lamott – Bird by Bird
17. Margaret Atwood – The Heart Goes Last
18. Anthony Doeer – All the Light We Cannot See
19. Celeste Ng – Everything I Never Told You
20. Neil deGrasse Tyson – Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
21. John Irving – A Widow for One Year
22. Donna Tartt – The Secret History
23. Zinzi Clemmons – What We Lose
24. Elizabeth Strout – Abide with Me
25. Hazel Gaynor – A Memory of Violets
26. Thomas King – The Inconvenient Indian
27. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Americanah
28. Alan Jacobs – The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
29. (edited by Dan Wakefield) Kurt Vonnegut: Letters
30. Elizabeth Strout – Amy and Isabelle
31. Nathan Hill – The Nix
32. Joshua Becker – The More of Less
33. Hanya Yanagihara – A Little Life
34. Maya Angelou – Mom & Me & Mom
35. R.J. Palacio – Wonder
36. Maggie Nelson – The Argonauts
37. Robert James Waller – The Bridges of Madison County
38. Malcolm Gladwell – Outliers
39. Michael Redhill – Bellevue Square
40. Thrity Umrigar – Everybody’s Son
41. Nelson Mandela – Long Walk to Freedom
42. Laura Hillenbrand – Seabiscuit
43. Jodi Picoult – Salem Falls
44. Jhumpa Lahiri – The Clothing of Books
45. Charles Frazier – Cold Mountain
46. Jason Rekulak  – The Impossible Fortress
47. Ernest Cline – Ready Player One
48. Pamela Paul – My Life with Bob
49. Isabel Allende – The Japanese Lover
50. Georgia Hunter – We Were the Lucky Ones
51. Anne Tyler – Vinegar Girl
52. George Saunders – Lincoln in the Bardo
53. Andy Weir – The Martian
54. Isabel Allende – Island Beneath the Sea
55. Books for Living – Will Schwalbe

I aimed to read a book a week. I sort of made it, as some of these books were audio books. Does that count? I’m counting them, but if you don’t, that’s okay too.