2018 Books

Happy New Year! Here are the books I read in 2018…

(Quick note: Most link to book blogs; some link to outside articles for Alma, Kveller, The Millions. Books with a star are advance review copies and will not be released until 2019.)

1. Prayers for the Stolen - Jennifer Clement

2. The Moon and the Other - John Kessel

3. Go, Went, Gone - Jenny Erpenbeck

4. The Secret Book of Kings - Yochi Brandes

5. The Immortalists - Chloe Benjamin

6. The Course of Love - Alain de Botton

7. A Thousand Nights - E. K. Johnston

8. War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony - Nelson A. Dennis

9. The Patriots - Sana Krasikov

10. Books & Islands in Ojibwe County: Traveling Through the Land of my Ancestors - Louise Erdrich

11. Messages from a Lost World: Europe on the Brink - Stefan Zweig

12. Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North - Blair Braverman

13. The Everything Box - Richard Kadrey

14. The Golemn and the Jinni - Helene Wecker

15. The Wrong Dead Guy - Richard Kadrey

16. Frankenstein in Baghdad - Ahmed Saadawi

17. Black Moses - Alain Mabanckou

18. Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America’s Favorite Guilty Pleasure - Amy Kaufman

19. The Witches of New York - Ami McKay

20. A Million Heavens - John Brandon

21. Three Daughters of Eve - Elif Shafak

22. Sadness is a White Bird - Moriel Rothman-Zecher

23. The House of Twenty Thousand Books - Sasha Abramsky

24. Still Life with Bombers: Israel in the Age of Terrorism - David Horovitz

25. One Goal: A Coach, A Team, and the Game That Brought a Divided Town Together - Amy Bass

26. The Geek Feminist Revolution - Kameron Hurley

27. Lit - Mary Karr

28. Magpie Murders - Anthony Horowitz

29. House of Names - Colm Tóibín

30. Sweetbitter - Stephanie Danler

31. The Female Persuasion - Meg Wolitzer

32. Kingdom Cons - Yuri Herrera

33. A Darker Shade of Magic - V. E. Schwab

34. A Gathering of Shadows - V. E. Schwab

35. The Last Watchman of Old Cairo - Michael David Lukas

36. Norwich: One Tiny Vermont Town’s Secret to Happiness and Excellence - Karen Crouse

37. Palestine - Joe Sacco

38. Circe - Madeline Miller

39. A Conjuring of Light - V.E. Schwab

40. Everything Is Horrible And Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss - Stephanie Wittels Wachs

41. The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border - Francisco Cantú

42. Truly Devious - Maureen Johnson

43. Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations - Ronen Bergman

44. Disobedience - Naomi Alderman

45. Istanbul Passage - Joseph Kanon

46. Educated: A Memoir - Tara Westover

47. The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller

48. Eligible: A Modern Retelling of Pride & Prejudice - Curtis Sittenfeld

49. Choose Your Own Disaster - Dana Schwartz

50. Warlight - Michael Ondaatje

51. The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After - Clemantine Wamariya

52. Love Interrupted - Reneilwe Malatji

53. The Readymade Thief - Augustus Rose

54. The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende

55. Literary Witches - Taisia Kitaiskaia and Katy Horan

56. The Wedding Date - Jasmine Guillory

57. The Third Hotel - Laura van den Berg

58. Who is Vera Kelly? - Rosalie Knecht

59. A Dangerous Inheritance: a Novel of Tudor Rivals and the Secret of the Tower - Allison Weir

60. Motherhood - Sheila Heti

61. At Risk - Stella Rimington

62. Children of Blood and Bone - Tomi Adeyemi

63. Close Call - Stella Rimington

64. Perfect Cover (The Squad #1) - Jennifer Lynn Barnes

65. I'd Tell You I'd Love You But Then I'd Have To Kill You - Ally Carter

66. Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor - Yossi Klein Halevi

67. Wonderblood - Julia Whicker

68. Confessions of the Fox - Jordy Rosenberg

69. The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath - Leslie Jamison

70. Heist Society - Ally Carter

71. Uncommon Criminals - Ally Carter

72. Perfect Scoundrels - Ally Carter

73. The Friend - Sigrid Nunez

74. The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror - Daniel Mallory Ortberg

75. The Buddha in the Attic - Julie Otsuka

76. The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore - Kim Fu

77. There There - Tommy Orange

78. The Vanishers - Heidi Julvatis

79. The Relic Master - Christopher Buckley

80. The Alice Network - Kate Quinn

81. The Rook - Daniel O’Malley

82. Stilleto - Daniel O’Malley

83. The Proposal - Jasmine Guillory

84. Take The Lead - Alexis Daria

85. Dance With Me - Alexis Daria

86. Magicians Impossible - Brad Abraham

87. The Pisces - Melissa Broder

88. Severance - Ling Ma

89. The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett - Chelsea Sedoti

90. Invitation to a Bonfire - Adrienne Celt

91. Transcription - Kate Atkinson

92. The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World - Sarah Weinman

93. I’m Supposed to Protect You From All This - Nadja Spiegelman

94. The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History - Aida Edamariam

95. Ponti - Sharlene Teo

96. Amberlough - Lara Elena Donnelly

97. The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales From the Wild Side of Wildlife - Lucy Cooke

98. The Secret Diary of Henrik Groen: 83 1/4 Years Old - Henrik Groen

99. Sourdough - Robin Sloan

100. The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern

101. Star of the North - D.B. John

102. My Year or Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh

103. The Power - Naomi Alderman (re-read for book club)

104. Hannah Green and Her Uneasibly Mundane Existence - Michael Marshall Smith

105. The Golden State - Lydia Kiesling  

106. The Guineveres - Sarah Domet

107. The Rule of One - Ashley Saunders & Leslie Saunders

108. Mrs. - Caitlin Macy

109. The Best Bad Things - Katrina Carrasco

110. She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy - Jill Soloway

111. American Spy - Lauren Wilkinson *

112. Those Who Knew - Idra Novey

113. Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life - Jane Sherron De Hart

114. Orphan Monster Spy - Matt Killeen

115. Anne Frank’s Diary: the Graphic Adaptation - Anne Frank (adapted by Ari Folman, illustrations by David Polonsky)

116. Melmoth - Sarah Perry  

117. The Library Book - Susan Orlean

118. Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi (re-read for book club)

119. I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff - Abbi Jacobson

120. Holy Lands - Amanda Sthers *

121. She Would Be King - Wayétu Moore  

122. Everything Under - Daisy Johnson

123. The Word Is Murder - Anthony Horowitz

124. The Rules of Magic - Alice Hoffman

125. I’ll Be Gone In the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer - Michelle McNamara

126. How To Date Men When You Hate Men - Blythe Roberson *

127. My Sister, The Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite

128.  To Keep The Sun Alive - Rabeah Ghaffari *

129. Once Upon a River - Diane Setterfield  

130. Late in the Day - Tessa Hadley *

131. Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel - Matti Friedman *

132.  The Far Field - Madhuri Vijay *

133. The Dreamers - Karen Thompson Walker *

134. Something Like Breathing - Angela Readman *  

135. The Last Equation of Isaac Severy: A Novel in Clues - Nova Jacobs  

136. The Witch Elm - Tana French

137. Murder at the Mill - M.B. Shaw

138. The Invisible Library - Genevieve Cogman

139. Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret - Craig Brown

140. The English Teacher - Yiftach Reicher Atir

141. The Labyrinth of the Spirits - Carlos Ruiz Zafón

142. The Masked City - Genevieve Cogman

143. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton 

144. The Hole - Hye-Young Pyun  

145. The Book of Essie - Meghan Maclean Weir

146. The Incendiaries - R. O. Kwon