In 2018, I read 323 books.
My favorite read of the year was: Where the Crawdads Sing
My favorite YA read of the year was: Sadie
My favorite middle-grade read of the year was: The Wishtree
My favorite non-fiction read of the year was: The Feather Thief
My favorite SciFi/Fantasy read of the year was: Spinning Silver
Here are my favorites, not in order, by genre:
Fiction:
- The Music Shop
- Call Me by Your Name
- gather the daughters
- An American Marriage
- Animal Farm
- The Great Alone
- Speak No Evil
- girls burn brighter
- The Little Prince
- The Oracle Year
- The Princess Bride
- Only Child
- Us Against You
- That Kind of Mother
- The Cactus
- the tao of pooh
- where the crawdads sing
- Fruit of the Drunken tree
- Meet me at the Museum
- Dear Committee Members
- an absolutely remarkable thing
- Killing Commendatore
- love and other words
- a ladder to the sky
- someone like me
- the housekeeper and the professor
- Harry’s Trees
- The Great Believers
Young Adult+Middle Grade
- To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
- What Girls Are Made Of
- I stop somewhere
- The astonishing color of after
- I have lost my way
- Circle of Shadows
- I’m not missing
- the muse of nightmares
- sadie
- not if I see you first
- The Wishtree
- The Giver
- Mango Shaped Space
SciFi/Mystery
- Force of Nature
- Only Human
- Spinning Silver
Poetry/Memoir
- calypso
- Heart Talk
- taking the arrow out of the heart
Non-fiction:
- Awakening your Ikigai
- How to be Everything
- i am, i am, i am
- Fully Alive
- In conclusion don’t worry about it
- Getting Back to Happy
- Body Positive Power
- be brave, eat cake
- Notes from a Public Typewriter
- David sedaris at carnegie hall
- Dare to Lead
- The Monk of Mokha
- almost everything
- meltdown
- the bullet journal method
- Gmorning, Gnight Little Pep Talks For Me & You
- Happiness
- ram dass audio collection
- The Feather Thief
- art matters
- Joyful
And here’s the full list:
- To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
- An Appeal to the World
- The Music Shop
- P.S. I Still Love You
- Always and Forever, Lara Jean
- The Woman in the Window
- Fire and Fury
- Judgement Detox
- The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women
- The Afterlives
- Molly’s Game
- Green
- Tell Me More
- When Things Fall Apart
- The Wishtree
- The Wife Between Us
- The Giver
- The State of Affairs
- Happiness for Humans
- Grist Mill Road
- This Could Hurt
- Still Life
- Everything is Beautiful
- The Days When Birds Come Back
- Call Me by Your Name
- So you want to talk about race
- Advice not given
- gather the daughters
- the immortalists
- in the midst of winter
- Awakening your Ikigai
- When
- How to be Everything
- The Last Mrs. Parrish
- You
- How to Stop Feeling like Sh*t
- Faster Than Normal
- The Wife
- How to Stop Time
- Do Over
- Force of Nature
- I Found You
- An American Marriage
- Everything Happens for a Reason
- The Dangerous Art of Blending In
- Self-portrait with boy
- Asymmetry
- The Gone World
- The Monk of Mokha
- i am, i am, i am
- Brotopia
- The Friend
- Fully Alive
- Animal Farm
- Surprise Me
- Educated
- The Great Alone
- Mango Shaped Space
- The Sword in the Stone
- Hazel Wood
- The One
- Heart Talk
- In Every Moment we are Still Alive
- Speak No Evil
- never get angry again
- girls burn brighter
- Great at Work
- Laura and Emma
- What Girls Are Made Of
- Girl, wash your face
- Nonviolent Communication
- The Little Prince
- The Beauty That Remains
- Annihilation
- The Flight Attendant
- Big Potential
- I’ll be Your Blue Sky
- Every Note Played
- Census
- The broken girls
- I stop somewhere
- The astonishing color of after
- In conclusion don’t worry about it
- I have lost my way
- Panorama
- The wedding date
- Brass
- The Female Persuasion
- The Last Equation of Isaac Severy
- The Oracle Year
- Circe
- Unbury Carol
- The Princess Bride
- Family and Other Catastrophies
- The Gunners
- sophia of silicon valley
- Tyler Johnson was here
- Only Human
- Not that Bad
- It’s not always depression
- Genuine Fraud
- My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs
- Look Alive Out there
- My Oxford Year
- Everybody Lies
- First we must make the beast beautiful
- Blackfish city
- This Messy Magnificent life
- If you’re in my office, it’s already too late
- The Perfect Mother
- The Girl Who Smiled Beads
- Only Child
- Love and Gelato
- Essentialism
- Warlight
- Akata Witch
- That Kind of Mother
- The Cactus
- Beauty in the Broken Places
- My Ex-Life
- Regrets Only
- The Queen of Hearts
- Pops
- The Ensemble
- Tin Man
- The Electric woman
- For Every One
- How to Walk Away
- Assume the Worst
- calypso
- MeM
- Getting Back to Happy
- The Glitch
- Us Against You
- Body Positive Power
- Every other weekend
- the ever after
- wait what?
- there there
- the word is murder
- The Chalk man
- I’m Just happy to be here
- Am I There Yet?
- on turpentine lane
- the book of essie
- something in the water
- driving by starlight
- the color of bee larkham’s murder
- number one Chinese restaurant
- Leah on the offbeat
- The Sun Does Shine
- Bring Me Back
- All We Ever Wanted
- Amateur Hour
- The Happiness Curve
- And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
- unfuck your brain
- Mr. Right-Swipe
- The Kiss Quotient
- Tell the Machine Goodnight
- The Last Time I Lied
- the clock dance
- Left
- The Summer List
- Can’t Help Myself
- Circle of Shadows
- An Ocean of Minutes
- The Widower’s Notebook
- What we were promised
- Suicide Club
- ghosted
- your second life begins when you realize you only have one
- Dear Mrs. Bird
- everytime you go away
- The spartsholt affair
- Spinning Silver
- A Conjuring of Light
- A gentleman in Moscow
- The three questions
- The Death of Mrs. Westaway
- be brave, eat cake
- on color
- Notes from a Public Typewriter
- Switchers
- America for Beginners
- The Bookshop
- the seven principles for making marriage work
- the convenience store woman
- the incendieries
- Now my heart is full
- from the corner of the oval
- She was the quiet one
- How to build a girl
- Three Things about Elsie
- I’m not missing
- The Last Watchman of Old Cairo
- The shortest Way home
- house of broken angels
- his favorites
- the tao of pooh
- unhinged
- snap
- sweet little lies
- where the crawdads sing
- inappropriation
- nothing good can come from this
- a place for us
- the seven husbands of evelyn hugo
- Note to Self
- Fruit of the Drunken tree
- Vox
- like never and always
- Dead Madam President
- the Happiness Advantage
- Before Happiness
- Meet me at the Museum
- History of Jane doe
- Josh and Hazel’s guide to not dating
- sadie
- Dear Committee Members
- the line that held us
- the dinner list
- fear
- David sedates at carnegie hall
- mermaid and mrs hancock
- an absolutely remarkable thing
- charlotte walsh likes to win
- wildcard
- the muse of nightmares
- Make time
- Fox 8
- An audience of one
- the dream daughter
- whiskey in a teacup
- Dare to Lead
- Killing Commendatore
- not if I see you first
- love and other words
- broken things
- almost everything
- What if it’s us?
- maeve in america
- zero sum game
- atomic habits
- The emmisary
- fight or flight
- meltdown
- taking the arrow out of the heart
- this will only hurt a little
- unsafe thinking
- vengeful
- every breath
- the proposal
- Go Ask Ali
- The Other Woman
- The Disappearances
- Dear Evan Hansen
- Heavy
- one day in December
- a very large expanse of sea
- radically happy
- Brief Answers to the Big questions
- All Your Perfects
- A River of Stars
- the optimist’s guide to letting go
- family trust
- a ladder to the sky
- someone like me
- can you learn to be lucky?
- A Call for Revolution
- The Good Luck Charm
- success through diversity
- the bullet journal method
- Never Split the difference
- Dear Bob and Sue
- Gmorning, Gnight Little Pep Talks For Me & You
- Happiness
- The 7.5 lives of evelyn heardcastle
- Exactly What to Say
- heretics anonymous
- The Surrender Experiment
- the housekeeper and the professor
- ram dass audio collection
- A Heart in a Body in the World
- The Feather Thief
- This is Marketing
- Words on Bathroom Walls
- the challenge culture
- thanks a thousand
- seventeen
- curse of the boyfriend sweater
- the marriage lie
- art matters
- A Return to Love
- The end of the end of the earth
- Trinity
- Down and Across
- choose wonder over worry
- things I wish I knew before my mom died
- severance
- the museum of modern love
- my sister the serial killer
- misadventures of a college girl
- Joyful
- how will you measure your life?
- Congratulations by the way
- Harry’s trees
- My favorite half-night stand
- once upon a river
- Lovingkindness Meditation
- Intercepted
- American like me
- Love and Luck
- Why Smart Kids Worry
- You Are a Badass Every Day
- The Bookshop of Yesterdays
- The Lonesome Body Builder
- The Great Believers
- Love for imperfect things
- Five Feet Apart
- Elevation
- You Think it I’ll Say It
- On the Same Page
For 2019 I plan to use a sheet to track my reading again and I am also tracking my books on goodreads. Here’s to another year of reading! I am planning to purposefully read 100 fewer books next year so I can use that time to take classes. Let’s see if I can be successful 🙂
Thank you very much for the reccomendations and the posts each week. Do you use Good Reads at all? If so may I please be your friend. I find it much easier to read their descriptions and reviews and track which of yours I want to add to my list. https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/25575479-gypsy
Have you ever written about how you manage to read so many books in a week?
Hello 🙂 I have been a member of goodreads for 11 years but never managed to use them consistently. maybe this year I can try? you may of course be my friend 🙂 here’s my page: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/190448-karen
as for how i read so many, hmm i don’t think i have but i can try 🙂 there’s really no magic.
Thank you! You read/listen to a lot of books- I don’t have a job outside of home and therefore have a lot more ‘free’ time than you. I read 128 books this year and that was more than twice what I usually manage- it was an exceptionally good year for reading- I’d like them all to be like that- my ‘to read’ pile is massive there are so many good books in the world. Thank you again.
I just finished Where the Crawdads Sing and it will go on my list as a very favorite book. Just so good. I always enjoy your book summaries…thanks
I am so glad you liked it as much as I did. Thanks to Gypsy I’ve started tracking and reviewing my books on Goodreads, too, in case you’re there. https://goodreads.com/karenika if you are 🙂