2018 was a good year for reading. I discovered new authors whose work I enjoyed: Aleksandar Hemon, Sarah Meehan Sirk, Simon Armitage, and Rachel Kushner. I continued my affection for authors with whom I had already been acquainted: Don DeLillo, Jenny Erpenbeck, John McGahern, Rachel Cusk, Sarah Selecky, and Lisa Moore. I also wrote short reviews of each book I read this past year and posted them on LibraryThing. I’m already looking forward to another great year of reading ahead.
Stats from my 2018 reading list:
- 40 were borrowed from our public library
- 21 have Canadian authors
- 25 were chosen due to personal recommendations from friends
- 7 are by authors who appear more than once on the 2018 list
- 0 were being reread
- 0 was read aloud by my wife and me
- 18 are non-fiction
- 0 are ebooks
Books read in 2018 (86):
- MacAskill, William. Doing Good Better
- Chast, Raz. Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York
- Bausch, Robert. In The Fall They Come Back: a novel
- Alderman, Naomi. The Power
- Baker, Dani. Santa’s Last Muffin
- Coetzee, J.M. Late Essays: 2006-2017
- Proulx, Joanne. We All Love The Beautiful Girls
- Anglin, Emily. The Third Person: stories
- Mayr, Suzette. Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall
- Alexie, Sherman. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven
- Smith, Ali. Winter: a novel
- Hemon, Aleksandar. The Question of Bruno: stories
- Winters, Michelle. I am a Truck
- Humphreys, Helen. The Evening Chorus
- Kaufman, Andrew. Small Claims
- Flood, Cynthia. What Can You Do
- Barnes, Julian. The Noise of Time
- Chabon, Michael. Summerland
- Sirk, Sarah Meehan. The Dead Husband Project: stories
- Howe, Murray. Nine Lessons I Learned From My Father
- Hardcastle, Kevin (compiler), O’connell, Grace (compiler), Tsabari, Ayelet (compiler). The Journey Prize Stories 29
- Johnson, Denis. The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: stories
- DeLillo, Don. Zero K
- Evans, Danielle. Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self: stories
- Updike, John. The Complete Henry Bech: Bech: A Book, Bech is Back, Bech at Bay, His Oeuvre
- Boast, Will. Daphne: a novel
- Smith, Zadie. Feel Free: essays
- Armitage, Simon. Kid
- Erpenbeck, Jenny. Go, Went, Gone
- Egan, Jennifer. Manhattan Beach
- Link, Kelly. Magic For Beginners: stories
- Groff, Lauren. Fates and Furies: a novel
- McGahern, John. The Collected Stories
- Moore, Kate. The Radium Girls
- Barnes, Julian. The Only Story: a novel
- Tomine, Adrian. Killing and Dying: stories
- Cusk, Rachel. Kudos
- Rovelli, Carlo. The Order of Time
- Miller, Madeline. Circe
- Han Kang. The Vegetarian
- Greer, Andrew Sean. Less
- Johnson, Denis. Nobody Move
- Despentes, Virginie. Vernon Subutex 1
- Hamid, Mohsin. Exit West
- Ginzburg, Natalia. The Little Virtues
- Bernstein, Gabrielle. Judgment Detox
- Moody, Rick. Demonology: stories
- Hill, Nathan. The Nix
- Cather, Willa. The Troll Garden
- Pennac, Daniel. Cabot-Caboche
- Groff, Lauren. Florida
- Erpenbeck, Jenny. The Book of Words
- Somer, Bradley. Fishbowl
- Barclay, Linwood. Broken Promise
- Selecky, Sarah. Radiant Shimmering Light
- Miller, Tom. The Philosopher’s Flight
- Drnaso, Nick. Sabrina
- Kushner, Rachel. The Mars Room
- Yoshimoto, Banana. Moshi Moshi
- Chang, Jade. The Wangs vs. The World
- Nussbaum, Martha C. The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at our Political Crisis
- Honeyman, Gail. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
- Ryan, Donal. From a Low and Quiet Sea
- Armitage, Simon. The Unaccompanied
- Galchen, Rivka. American Innovations: stories
- Ondaatje, Michael. Warlight
- Lemire, Jeff. Roughneck
- DeWitt, Patrick. French Exit
- Moore, Lisa. Something for Everyone: stories
- Edugyan, Esi. Washington Black: a novel
- Tasumi, Yoshihiro. A Drifting Life
- Powers, Richard. The Overstory: a novel
- Wohlleben, Peter. The Hidden Life of Trees
- Berlin, Lucia. A Manual For Cleaning Women: selected stories
- Robinson, Eden. Son of a Trickster
- Bujold, Lois McMaster. The Curse of Chalion
- Rovelli, Carlo. Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
- Rakoff, David. Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: a novel
- Li, Yiyun. Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to Your in Your Life
- Bala, Sharon (compiler), Clare, Kerry (compiler), Peterson, Zoey Leigh (compiler). The Journey Prize Stories 30
- Tatsumi, Yoshihiro. Abandon the Old in Tokyo
- Tatsumi, Yoshihiro. The Push Man and other stories
- Kakutani, Michiko. The Death of Truth: notes on falsehood in the age of Trump
- Johnson, Charles. The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling
- Moore, Lisa. Flannery