A list of the books I’ve read, along with the month and year in which I finished each one. An asterisk indicates it is a “best of” book: one of the very best I read that year.
2018
Passing, Nella Larsen (on deck)
The Poppy War, R.F Kuang (9/18)
Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn (9/18)
Binti, Nnedi Okorafor (8/18)
The Opposite House, Helen Oyeyemi (8/18)
Excellent Women, Barbara Pym (8/18)
*The Drowning Girl, Caitlin Kiernan (8/18)
*The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin (8/18)
Crosstalk, Connie Willis (8/18)
We Others, Stephen Millhauser (7/18)
*Landmarks, Robert Macfarlane (7/18)
*Pastoralia, George Saunders (7/18)
*Nothing that Meets the Eye, Patricia Highsmith (7/18)
The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin (7/18)
*The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters (7/18)
The Outsider, Stephen King (7/18)
Thus Bad Begins, Javier Marías (7/18)
*Version Control, Dexter Palmer (6/18)
Death in Ecstasy, Ngaio Marsh (6/18)
Signs of Life, Anna Raverat (6/18)
Poor Miss Finch, Wilkie Collins (6/18)
Island of the Mad, Laurie King (6/18)
Horns, Joe Hill (6/18)
So Many Ways to Begin, Jon McGregor (6/18)
Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell (6/18)
*The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (6/18)
Charles Dickens, Michael Slater (6/18)
Jane, Unlimited, Kristin Cashore (6/18)
*Deep Secret, Diana Wynne Jones (6/18)
Strange Weather, Joe Hill (6/18)
*The Street of Crocodiles, Bruno Schulz (5/18)
Blue Horses Rush In, Luci Tapahonso (5/18)
Hopscotch, Julio Cortázar (5/18)
Raven Stratagem, Yoon Ha Lee (5/18)
Syllabus, Lynda Barry (5/18)
Charlotte Sometimes, Penelope Farmer (5/18)
*White Rage, Carol Anderson (5/18)
*Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders (4/18)
*Parable of the Talents, Octavia Butler (4/18)
Barnaby Rudge, Charles Dickens (4/18)
Vanity Dies Hard, Ruth Rendell (4/18)
Fidelity, Wendell Berry (4/18)
Sally Heathcote, Suffragette, Mary M. Talbot and Kate Charlesworth (3/18)
*Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson (3/18)
*The Wolf Border, Sarah Hall (3/18)
The Quickening, Michelle Hoover (2/18)
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (re-read, 2/18)
Borderline, Mishell Baker (2/18)
Disquiet, Julia Leigh (1/18)
A God in Ruins, Kate Atkinson (1/18)
Clouds of Witness, Dorothy Sayers (re-read; 1/18)
*Glory, Vladimir Nabokov (1/18)
*The Duke’s Children, Anthony Trollope (1/18)
*Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado (1/18)
My Wars Are Laid Away in Books, Alfred Habegger (1/18)
The Shape of Water, Andrea Camilleri (1/18)
*Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee (1/18)
The Beautiful Mystery, Louise Penny (abandoned)
The Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain (1/18)
The Housekeeper and the Professor, Yoko Ogawa (1/18)
Saints, Gene Luen Yang (1/18)
Boxers, Gene Luen Yang (1/18)
*The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman, Andrzej Szczypiorski (1/18)
