2018
December 27, 2018
2018
Here are all the books I read in 2018:
January 2018
- The Art of Invisibility, by Kevin Mitnick
- Guards! Guards!, by Terry Pratchett
- From Father to Son, by Allen Appel
- A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
- Ordinary Men, by Christopher R. Browning
- Martin Luther, by Eric Metaxas
February 2018
- Wonder, by R. J. Palacio
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, by David Grann
March 2018
- 2001: A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke
- Fuzzy Mud, by Louis Sachar
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, by Ashlee Vance
- Confessions, by St. Augustine - Lenten reading
April 2018
- I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer, by Michelle McNamara - I listened to this while driving alone through Massachusetts at night, which I don't recommend! Less than a week after I finished the book, they caught the Golden State Killer, after decades of looking.
- Click'd, by Tamara Ireland Stone
May 2018
- Seconds, by Bryan Lee O'Malley
June 2018
- Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover - one of the best reads of the year!
- George's Marvelous Medicine, by Roald Dahl - recommended by Daniel
July 2018
- Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton
August 2018
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen Covey
September 2018
- Word By Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, by Kory Stamper
- Gnomon, by Nick Harkaway
- The Coming Storm, by Michael Lewis
- Feeding the Mouth That Bites You, by Kenneth Wilgus, Ph.D.
October 2018
- Big Nate: In a Class By Himself, by Lincoln Peirce
- All the Answers: A Graphic Memoir, by Michael Kupperman
- The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, by Claire North
November 2018
- Leviathan Wakes, by James S. A. Corey
December 2018
- Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat, by Giles Milton
- Ball Lightning, by Cixin Liu
- The Divine Comedy, by Dante
Summary:
30 total books: 12 audio, 18 print; 13 fiction, 17 non-fiction.
I hit a slump over the summer, because Gnomon took forever to get through. Leviathan Wakes and Ball Lightning were both very fun. Educated, Martin Luther, and Feeding the Mouth That Bites You (for practical reasons) were all highlights.