Books Read in 2018

Everything I read in 2018, with links to either a review, mini reviews, or a month-in-review in which I wrote about the book. 

January:

1. Saving Tarboo Creek - Scott Freeman and Susan Leopold Freeman
2. Forty Autumns - Nina Willner
3. The Bones of Grace - Tahmima Anam
4. Braving the Wilderness - Brené Brown
5. The Dry - Jane Harper
6. Milk and Honey - Rupi Kaur
7. If This Isn't Nice, What Is? - Kurt Vonnegut
8. A Nest for Celeste - Henry Cole
9. Another Quest for Celeste - Henry Cole
10. Bagel in Love - Natasha Wing and Helen Dardik
11. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
12. The Wife Between Us - Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
13. The Radium Girls - Kate Moore
14. Nature's Lullaby Fills the Night - Dee Leone and Bali Engel
15. A Couch for Llama - Leah Gilbert
16. Artemis - Andy Weir
17. Force of Nature - Jane Harper

February:

18. Down and Across - Arvin Ahmadi
19. Al Franken, Giant of the Senate - Al Franken
20. The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas
21. Being Mortal - Atul Gawande
22. Only Killers and Thieves - Paul Howarth
23. I Am the Boss of this Chair - Carolyn Crimi and Marisa Morea
24. The Statue and the Fury - Jim Dees
25. Our Native Bees - Paige Embry

March:

26. The Brontë Sisters - Catherine Reef
27. Black Fortunes - Shomari Wills
28. Nothing Left to Burn - Heather Ezell
29. The Broken Girls - Simone St. James
30. Orphan Monster Spy - Matt Killeen
31. The Saboteur - Paul Nix
32. The Woman Next Door - Yewande Omotoso
33. Supergifted - Gordon Korman
34. Good Behavior - Blake Crouch
35. Bus! Stop! - James Yang
36. Up in the Leaves - Shira Boss and Jamey Christoph
37. Gloria's Voice - Aura Lewis

April:

38. Princesses Behaving Badly - Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
39. The Not-So-Boring Letters of Private Nobody - Matthew Landis
40. Look for Her - Emily Winslow
41. Rocket Men - Robert Kurson
42. If You Come Softly - Jacqueline Woodson
43. Sleep Train - Jonathan London and Lauren Eldridge
44. But the Bear Came Back - Tammi Sauer and Dan Taylor
45. Albie Newton - Josh Funk and Ester Garay
46. How to Forget a Duke - Vivienne Lorret
47. Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders
48. Isosceles' Day - Kevin Meehan
49. Tin Man - Sarah Winman
50. Warren the 13th and The Whispering Woods - Tania del Rio and Will Staehle
51. The Reckless Rescue (The Explorers #2) - Adrienne Kress
52. Daddies Do - Lezlie Evans and Elisa Ferro
53. Boots on the Ground - Elizabeth Partridge

May:

54. Mad Boy - Nick Arvin
55. The Endless Beach - Jenny Colgan
56. Obscura - Joe Hart
57. Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng
58. Out of Left Field - Ellen Klages
59. Letters to my Palestinian Neighbor - Yossi Klein Halevi
60. The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik - David Arnold
61. The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (and Their Muses) - Terri-Lynne DeFino

June:

62. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Edith Grossman
63. Hollywood Beach Beauties - David Wills
64. Goodbye, Sweet Girl - Kelly Sundberg
65. Nadya Skylung and the Cloudship Rescue - Jeff Seymour
66. As You Wish - Cary Elwes and Joe Layden
67. Siracusa - Delia Ephron
68. Abridged Classics - John Atkinson
69. Wed Wabbit - Lissa Evans

July:

70. The Lost Family - Jenna Blum
71. Between You and Me - Susan Wiggs
72. Who Was George Washington Carver? - Jim Gigliotti
73. Bring Me Back - B. A. Paris
74. Who Was Genghis Khan? - Nico Medina
75. All Are Welcome - Alexandra Penfold and Suzanne Kaufman
76. Born a Crime - Trevor Noah*
77. The Space Between Us - Thrity Umrigar*
78. Nightbooks - J. A. White
79. The Secrets Between Us - Thrity Umrigar
80. The War that Saved My Life - Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

August:

81. Under a Dark Sky - Lori Rader-Day
82. Allie All Along - Sarah Lynne Reul
83. No Frogs in School - A. La Faye and E. Ceulemans
84. If You Go to a March - M. Freeman and V. Kim
85. How to Feed Your Parents - R. Miller and H. Aly
86. Never Satisfied: The Story of the Stonecutter - D. Horowitz
87. Unpunished Murder - Lawrence Goldstone
88. How to Be a T. Rex - Ryan North and Mike Lowery
89. Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees - Sarah F. Wakefield
90. I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906 - Lauren Tarshis
91. The Muse - Jessie Burton
92. The Day You Begin - Jacqueline Woodson
93. Harbor Me - Jacqueline Woodson
94. From the Corner of the Oval - Beck Dorey-Stein
95. Saving Winslow - Sharon Creech
96. Death of the Snake Catcher - Ak Welsapar
97. Homespun - Ed. by Lorilee Craker

September

98. Mission Defrostable (Lady Pancake and Sir French Toast #3) - J. Funk and B. Kearney
99. Business Pig - Andrea Zuill
100. Look at Me!: Wild Animal Show-Offs - Jim Arnosky
101. I Know You Know - Gilly Macmillan
102. Never Too Young - Aileen Weintraub and Laura Horton
103. When Elephants Fly - Nancy Richardson Fischer
104. Mac B., Kid Spy: Mac Undercover - Mac Barnett, illus. by Mike Lowery
105. The Birds of Opulence - Crystal Wilkinson
106. Hot Winter Nights - Jill Shalvis
107. The Sadness of Beautiful Things° - Simon Van Booy
108. Sons and Soldiers - Bruce Henderson

October

109. A Brown Man in Russia - Vijay Menon
110. The Kennedy Debutante - Kerri Maher
111. Sam Wu is Not Afraid of Ghosts - Katie and Kevin Tsang
112. News of Our Loved Ones - Abigail DeWitt
113. The Last Ballad - Wiley Cash
114. The Sadness of Beautiful Things* - Simon Van Booy
115. News of the World*^- Paulette Jiles
116. Hey, Kiddo - Jarrett J. Krosoczka
117. Seven Days of Us - Francesca Hornak
118. The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa, translated by Philip Gabriel
119. To Kill a Mockingbird: A Graphic Novel - Harper Lee and Fred Fordham (adaptor/illustrator)
120. Polar Bear Island - Lindsay Bonilla and Cinta Villalobos
121. Monstrous Devices - Damien Love

November

122. Marilla of Green Gables - Sarah McCoy
123. The Truth Pixie - Matt Haig
124. The Third Level - Jack Finney
125. Cupidity - Patricia Wood
126. Unsheltered - Barbara Kingsolver

December

127. Owls Are Good at Keeping Secrets - Sara O'Leary and Jacob Grant
128. A Duke Changes Everything - Christy Carlyle
129. Their Finest Hour and a Half - Lissa Evans
130. Down in Mississippi - Johnette Downing and Katherine Zecca
131. The Huntress - Kate Quinn


* reread
° e-book
^ mentioned but not reviewed


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