Books Read in 2018


For the past few years, I've been tracking the books I read. In 2018, I logged 109 volumes in all genres. Down from 126 in 2017, but the good news is, I've been writing more. In fact, I finally finished my novel manuscript and am in the process of shopping it around. Hope my writer friends will keep their fingers crossed that I get an agent and then a publisher! Happy Reading Year, everyone. In 2018, I read the following books:

Ann Cleeves                  The Moth Catcher (CD)
Ann Cleeves                  Thin Air
Robert Galbraith           The Cuckoo’s Calling (CD)
Daisy Styles                   The Code Girls
Daisy Styles                   Secrets of the Bomb Girls
Christina Baldwin         Seven Whispers         
Stanley Evans                 Seaweed Under Water

Faroud Laroui                               The Curious Case of Dassoukine’s Trousers     
Leila Aboulela                              The Kindness of Enemies
Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling)    The Silkworm (CD)
Ruth Montgomery                        The World to Come                                        

Lucilla Andrews                            A Weekend in the Garden
Leila Lalami                                  Secret Son
Sadeq Hedayat                              Sadeq Hadayat, an Anthology (read part)
Alex Berenson                              The Silent Man (CD)
Lucilla Andrews                            One Night in London
Peter Selgin                                   179 Ways to Save a Novel
Helen Simonson                            Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
Jack Knox                                      Hard Knox: Musings from the edge of Canada 

Paul Willett                                    Rendezvous at the Russian Tea Rooms
Anita Brookner                              Hotel du Lac
Jo Nesbo                                        The Son (CD)
Robert Galbraith                            Career of Evil (CD)
Daniel Kalla                                   Rising Sun, Falling Shadow
Lisa See                                          The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane          

Lisa See                                          Dreams of Joy (book 2 of trilogy)
Elizabeth George                            With No One as Witness (CD)
Peter Carey                                     A Long Way from Home
Lucy Ribchester                              The Amber Shadows
Jane Friedman                                 How to Publish Your Book (book & CD)
Xiaolu Guo                                     Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth
Emma Donohue                              Astray (CD)                                                      

Simon Singh                                    The Code Book
Tessa Hadley                                    The Bletchley Girls (CD)
Xiaolu Guo                                       Nine Continents
Anne Marie Drosso                          Cairo Stories
Jacqueline Baker                              The Broken Hours
Jack Knox                                         Opportunity Knox
Margareta Magnussen                      The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning
Douglas Todd                                    The Soul Searchers Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Todd                                    Brave Souls
Katherine Ashenburg                         All the Dirt: the History of Getting Clean
Katherine Ashenburg                         Sofie and Cecilia
Anne Marie Drosso                            In their Father’s House
Xiaolu Guo                                         A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Amanda Quick                                   Till Death do us Part (CD)
Amanda Quick                                   The River Knows
Elinor Florence                                   Wildwood
Alan Bradley                                       A Red Herring without Mustard (CD)                    

Asa Briggs                                             Secret Days: Code Breaking at Bletchley Park
Alan Bradley                                          The Dead in their Vaulted Arches (CD)
Alan Bradley                                          The Grave’s a Fine and Private Place (CD)
Susanna Kearsley                                  Bellewether
Oliver Sacks                                           The Mind’s Eye
Laurel Deedrick-Mayne                         A Wake for Dreamland
Amanda Quick                                       A Perfect Poison
Amanda Quick                                       Otherwise Engaged
Frank and Joan Shaw                            We Remember The Blitz
John Lawton                                          Friends and Traitors
Elizabeth Claire Prophet                        St. Germain’s Prophecy for the Millenium    

Amanda Quick                                       Burning Lamp
Alan Bradley                                          Speaking from Among the Bones (CD)
Alan Bradley                                         I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
Laurel Deedrick-Mayne                         A Wake for the Dreamland
Kamila Shamsie                                     Home Fire
Rachel Lebowitz                                    Hannus
Ahmad Danny Ramadan                       The Clothesline Swing (didn't finish; lost interest)
Simon Winchester                                 Atlantic (CD)
Simon Winchester                                 Pacific (CD)
Ian McEwan                                          First Love Last Rites
Dean Radin                                           Real Magic: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Science, and… 
Marlo Morgan                                       Mutant Message Down Under                     

Dennis Bock                                          The Communist’s Daughter (CD)
Agatha Christie                                      They Came to Baghdad (CD)
Michael Ondaatje                                   Warlight
Benjamin Black                                     The Silver Swan (CD)
Jeffrey Archer                                        Mightier than the Sword (CD)                        
Kate Atkinson                                        Case Histories                             

Dr. Russ Harris                                     The Happiness Trap (partly read ebook)
Agatha Christie                                     The Mystery of the Blue Train
Kagiso Lesogo Molope                         This Book Betrays my Brother
Amanda Quick                                       Garden of Lies (CD)
Alexander McCall Smith                       A Time of Love and Tartan
Alexander McCall Smith                       The Quiet Side of Passion
Keith Ogilvie                                         The Spitfire Luck of Skeets Ogilvie
Jeffrey Archer                                        Best Kept Secret
Jeffrey Archer                                        Be Careful What you Wish for        (CD)
Lloyd C. Douglas                                   Summer of the Red Wolf                                          
                                        
 Jeffrey Archer                              Only Time will Tell (CD)
Susan Crean                                 Finding Mr. Wong
Jeffrey Archer                              Cometh the Hour (CD)
Jeffrey Archer                              This was a Man (CD)
Simon Winchester                        Outposts (CD)
Sisonke Msimang                        Always Another Country
George Saunders                          Lincoln in the Bardo (not finished, bored)
Stuart Hylton                                Their Darkest Hour: the Hidden History of the Home Front
Ian Rankin                                    In a House of Lies                                                       

Tana French                                In the Woods
Tana French                                Faithful Place (CD)                                
Malebo Sephodi                          Miss Behave
Bill Johnson                                A Story is a Promise
Aminatta Forna                           The Memory of Love (not finished, lost interest)
Alexander McCall Smith            Chance Encounters (CD)            
AJ Pearce                                    Dear Mrs. Bird                           
Wanda John-Kehewin                 Seven Sacred Truths
Robert Galbraith                         Lethal White (CD)
Donna Leon                                 The Temptation of Forgiveness (CD)
Anne Lamott                                Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
Tana French                         Broken Harbour (CD)

The lines between separate months. I didn't read in December because I was frantically writing, and then it was Christmas and puzzle season.
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Apologies to Jarvis et al, and thanks for the life lesson