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skygiantsOK, last post I'll make today, I promise, but here's my annual books read post for 2018!
As always, I would hypothetically like to post in the future about everything on this list that I haven't talked about yet, and as always it's probably not going to happen, so if you would like me to talk about anything in particular drop a comment here and I will either prioritize it for a near-future post or expound upon it in a reply.
Books read, 2018:
1. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution, China Miéville
2. After Anatevka, Alexandra Silber
3. The Bedlam Stacks, Natasha Pulley
4. Baccano 1932: Drug and the Dominos, Ryohgo Narita
5. Contact, Carl Sagan
6. The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside the Room, The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made, Greg Sistero and Tom Bissell
7. Daughter of Mystery, Heather Rose Jones
8. The Creation of Anne Boleyn, Susan Bardo
9. Never Trust a Dead Man, Vivian Vande Velde
10. Cruising to Danger, Priscilla Hagon
11. Baccano 2001: The Children of Bottle, Ryohgo Narita
12. Baccano 1933: The Slash: Cloudy to Rainy, Ryohgo Narita
13. The Forbidden Rose, Joanna Bourne
14. The Alice Network, Kate Quinn
15. Ruin of Angels, Max Gladstone
16. A Fashionable Indulgence, KJ Charles
17. Archivist Wasp, Nicole Kornher-Stace
18. The Ruin of a Rake, Cat Sebastian
19. The Cookbook Collector, Allegra Goodman
20. Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions, Amy Stewart
21. The Black Hawk, Joanna Bourne
22. Wanted, A Gentleman, KJ Charles
23. Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World, Laura Spinney
24. Persona, Genevieve Valentine
25. The Gammage Cup, Carol Kendall*
26. Rogue Spy, Joanna Bourne
27. Madam, Will You Talk?, Mary Stewart
28. The Covert Captain: Or, A Marriage of Equals, Jeannelle M. Ferreira
29. The Cinderella Deal, Jennifer Crusie
30. Trust Me on This, Jennifer Crusie
31. Stranger Than Truth, Vera Caspary
32. The Prince Commands: Being Sundry Adventures of Michael Karl, Sometime Crown Prince & Pretender to the Thrown of Morvania, Andre Norton
33. Icon, Genevieve Valentine
34. Savrola, Winston Churchill
35. Beauty Like the Night, Joanna Bourne
36. Velvet Shadows, Andre Norton
37. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle
38. Their Finest, Lissa Evans
39. Touch Not the Cat, Mary Stewart*
40. A Hope Divided, Alissa Cole
41. Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee
42. An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon
43. Jade City, Fonda Lee
44. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, Becky Albertelli
45. Swimmer Among the Stars, Kanishk Tharoor
46. Three Weeks With Lady X, Eloisa James
47. A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca, Andrés Reséndez
48. Musketeer Space, Tansy Rayner Roberts
49. A Man Lay Dead, Ngaio Marsh
50. The Scarlet Pimpernel, Emma Orczy*
51. Words On Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish, Dovid Katz
52. A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. LeGuin*
53. The Elusive Pimpernel, Emma Orczy
54. Ammie, Come Home, Barbara Michaels
55. Enter a Murderer, Ngaio Marsh
56. The Hellfire Heritage, Willo Davis Roberts
57. From A Certain Point of View, ed. Elizabeth Shaefer
58. The Nursing Home Murder, Ngaio Marsh
59. The Raven Stratagem, Yoon Ha Lee
60. Binti, Nnedi Okorafor
61. Binti: Home, Nnedi Okorafor
62. Binti: The Night Masquerade, Nnedi Okorafor
63. Armistice, Lara Elena Donnelly
64. The Winter Prince, Elizabeth Wein*
65. Clone Wars Gambit: Stealth, Karen Miller
66. After the Wedding, Courtney Milan
67. I Will Repay, Baroness Emma Orczy
68. The Murderbot Diaries: Rogue Protocol, Martha Wells
69. A Princess in Theory, Alyssa Cole
70. A Seditious Affair, K.J. Charles
71. Witch, Barbara Michaels
72. Crazy Rich Asians, Kevin Kwan
73. The Edge, Dick Francis
74. Death in Ecstasy, Ngaio Marsh
75. Leah on the Offbeat, Becky Albertelli
76. A Gentleman's Position, K.J. Charles
77. Clone Wars Gambit: Siege, Karen Miller
78. Forget the Sleepless Shores, Sonya Taaffe
79. Eldorado, Baroness Orczy
80. Power and Majesty, Tansy Rayner Roberts
81. Exiled from Camelot, Cherith Baldry
82. Vintage Murder, Ngaio Marsh
83. Briarley, Aster Glenn Gray
84. The Friendly Young Ladies, Mary Renault
85. A Duke By Default, Alyssa Cole
86. Fair Peril, Nancy Springer*
87. That Lass O' Lowrie's, Frances Hodgson Burnett
88. The Poppy War, R.F. Kuang
89. A Coalition of Lions, Elizabeth Wein*
90. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, Lawrence Wright
91. The Sunbird, Elizabeth Wein*
92. The Clockwork Boys, T. Kingfisher
93. The Nun in the Closet, Dorothy Gilman
94. Record of a Spaceborn Few, Becky Chambers
95. The Lion Hunter, Elizabeth Wein*
96. The Empty Kingdom, Elizabeth Wein*
97. The Wonder Engine, T. Kingfisher
98. The Lawrence Browne Affair, Cat Sebastian
99. The Henchmen of Zenda, K.J. Charles
100. Revenant Gun, Yoon Ha Lee
101. The Ivy Tree, Mary Stewart*
102. Packing for Mars, Mary Roach
103. Lud-in-the-Mist, Hope Mirrlees
104. The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters
105. The Queen of Blood, Sarah Beth Durst
106. Artists in Crime, Ngaio Marsh
107. Sing for the Coming of the Longest Night, Iona Datt Sharma and Katherine Fabian
108. Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World, Matthew Goodman
109. Unmasked by the Marquess, Cat Sebastian
110. Someone Is Killing The Great Chefs of Europe, Natasha and Ivan Lyons
111. Bury What We Cannot Take, Kirsten Chen
112. Monstrous Regiment, Terry Pratchett*
113. Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South, Marcie Cohen Ferris
114. Death in a White Tie, Ngaio Marsh
115. Swordheart, T. Kingfisher
116. The Locked Corridor, Marilyn Ross
117. Lord Tony's Wife, Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Comics and graphic novels read, 2017:
1. Klezmer, Tome 2: Bon anniversaire, Scylla, Joann Sfar
2-5(?). Chang Ge Xing, Chapters 1-36, Da Xia
Definitely fewer books than last year, but more of them were new; only twelve rereads, which meant 105 new-to-me books, which is actually significantly more than last year! But of the new-to-me a significant chunk of those were the books I was chugging through on airplanes, including the Scarlet Pimpernel books, and the Ngaio Marsh mysteries, and all the many romance novels on this year's list. I definitely read more romance this year than any previous year, which I don't mind, but would like to have read more of other things as well. And I'm pretty sure only nine nonfiction books, despite all my resolve. More in the coming year!
As always, I would hypothetically like to post in the future about everything on this list that I haven't talked about yet, and as always it's probably not going to happen, so if you would like me to talk about anything in particular drop a comment here and I will either prioritize it for a near-future post or expound upon it in a reply.
Books read, 2018:
1. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution, China Miéville
2. After Anatevka, Alexandra Silber
3. The Bedlam Stacks, Natasha Pulley
4. Baccano 1932: Drug and the Dominos, Ryohgo Narita
5. Contact, Carl Sagan
6. The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside the Room, The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made, Greg Sistero and Tom Bissell
7. Daughter of Mystery, Heather Rose Jones
8. The Creation of Anne Boleyn, Susan Bardo
9. Never Trust a Dead Man, Vivian Vande Velde
10. Cruising to Danger, Priscilla Hagon
11. Baccano 2001: The Children of Bottle, Ryohgo Narita
12. Baccano 1933: The Slash: Cloudy to Rainy, Ryohgo Narita
13. The Forbidden Rose, Joanna Bourne
14. The Alice Network, Kate Quinn
15. Ruin of Angels, Max Gladstone
16. A Fashionable Indulgence, KJ Charles
17. Archivist Wasp, Nicole Kornher-Stace
18. The Ruin of a Rake, Cat Sebastian
19. The Cookbook Collector, Allegra Goodman
20. Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions, Amy Stewart
21. The Black Hawk, Joanna Bourne
22. Wanted, A Gentleman, KJ Charles
23. Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World, Laura Spinney
24. Persona, Genevieve Valentine
25. The Gammage Cup, Carol Kendall*
26. Rogue Spy, Joanna Bourne
27. Madam, Will You Talk?, Mary Stewart
28. The Covert Captain: Or, A Marriage of Equals, Jeannelle M. Ferreira
29. The Cinderella Deal, Jennifer Crusie
30. Trust Me on This, Jennifer Crusie
31. Stranger Than Truth, Vera Caspary
32. The Prince Commands: Being Sundry Adventures of Michael Karl, Sometime Crown Prince & Pretender to the Thrown of Morvania, Andre Norton
33. Icon, Genevieve Valentine
34. Savrola, Winston Churchill
35. Beauty Like the Night, Joanna Bourne
36. Velvet Shadows, Andre Norton
37. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle
38. Their Finest, Lissa Evans
39. Touch Not the Cat, Mary Stewart*
40. A Hope Divided, Alissa Cole
41. Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee
42. An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon
43. Jade City, Fonda Lee
44. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, Becky Albertelli
45. Swimmer Among the Stars, Kanishk Tharoor
46. Three Weeks With Lady X, Eloisa James
47. A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca, Andrés Reséndez
48. Musketeer Space, Tansy Rayner Roberts
49. A Man Lay Dead, Ngaio Marsh
50. The Scarlet Pimpernel, Emma Orczy*
51. Words On Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish, Dovid Katz
52. A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. LeGuin*
53. The Elusive Pimpernel, Emma Orczy
54. Ammie, Come Home, Barbara Michaels
55. Enter a Murderer, Ngaio Marsh
56. The Hellfire Heritage, Willo Davis Roberts
57. From A Certain Point of View, ed. Elizabeth Shaefer
58. The Nursing Home Murder, Ngaio Marsh
59. The Raven Stratagem, Yoon Ha Lee
60. Binti, Nnedi Okorafor
61. Binti: Home, Nnedi Okorafor
62. Binti: The Night Masquerade, Nnedi Okorafor
63. Armistice, Lara Elena Donnelly
64. The Winter Prince, Elizabeth Wein*
65. Clone Wars Gambit: Stealth, Karen Miller
66. After the Wedding, Courtney Milan
67. I Will Repay, Baroness Emma Orczy
68. The Murderbot Diaries: Rogue Protocol, Martha Wells
69. A Princess in Theory, Alyssa Cole
70. A Seditious Affair, K.J. Charles
71. Witch, Barbara Michaels
72. Crazy Rich Asians, Kevin Kwan
73. The Edge, Dick Francis
74. Death in Ecstasy, Ngaio Marsh
75. Leah on the Offbeat, Becky Albertelli
76. A Gentleman's Position, K.J. Charles
77. Clone Wars Gambit: Siege, Karen Miller
78. Forget the Sleepless Shores, Sonya Taaffe
79. Eldorado, Baroness Orczy
80. Power and Majesty, Tansy Rayner Roberts
81. Exiled from Camelot, Cherith Baldry
82. Vintage Murder, Ngaio Marsh
83. Briarley, Aster Glenn Gray
84. The Friendly Young Ladies, Mary Renault
85. A Duke By Default, Alyssa Cole
86. Fair Peril, Nancy Springer*
87. That Lass O' Lowrie's, Frances Hodgson Burnett
88. The Poppy War, R.F. Kuang
89. A Coalition of Lions, Elizabeth Wein*
90. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, Lawrence Wright
91. The Sunbird, Elizabeth Wein*
92. The Clockwork Boys, T. Kingfisher
93. The Nun in the Closet, Dorothy Gilman
94. Record of a Spaceborn Few, Becky Chambers
95. The Lion Hunter, Elizabeth Wein*
96. The Empty Kingdom, Elizabeth Wein*
97. The Wonder Engine, T. Kingfisher
98. The Lawrence Browne Affair, Cat Sebastian
99. The Henchmen of Zenda, K.J. Charles
100. Revenant Gun, Yoon Ha Lee
101. The Ivy Tree, Mary Stewart*
102. Packing for Mars, Mary Roach
103. Lud-in-the-Mist, Hope Mirrlees
104. The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters
105. The Queen of Blood, Sarah Beth Durst
106. Artists in Crime, Ngaio Marsh
107. Sing for the Coming of the Longest Night, Iona Datt Sharma and Katherine Fabian
108. Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World, Matthew Goodman
109. Unmasked by the Marquess, Cat Sebastian
110. Someone Is Killing The Great Chefs of Europe, Natasha and Ivan Lyons
111. Bury What We Cannot Take, Kirsten Chen
112. Monstrous Regiment, Terry Pratchett*
113. Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South, Marcie Cohen Ferris
114. Death in a White Tie, Ngaio Marsh
115. Swordheart, T. Kingfisher
116. The Locked Corridor, Marilyn Ross
117. Lord Tony's Wife, Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Comics and graphic novels read, 2017:
1. Klezmer, Tome 2: Bon anniversaire, Scylla, Joann Sfar
2-5(?). Chang Ge Xing, Chapters 1-36, Da Xia
Definitely fewer books than last year, but more of them were new; only twelve rereads, which meant 105 new-to-me books, which is actually significantly more than last year! But of the new-to-me a significant chunk of those were the books I was chugging through on airplanes, including the Scarlet Pimpernel books, and the Ngaio Marsh mysteries, and all the many romance novels on this year's list. I definitely read more romance this year than any previous year, which I don't mind, but would like to have read more of other things as well. And I'm pretty sure only nine nonfiction books, despite all my resolve. More in the coming year!
