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.