2018 was a great year for reading and here is a list of all the books read in the 1 year period. 124 books (not counting Stephen King’s as I’ve only reviewed them but I’ve officially read them years ago). Newcomer Bentley Little surprised me with his take on horror with The Walking and the Netflix show “The Haunting Of Hill House” introduced me to agoraphobic writer Shirley Jackson.
Biggest read accomplishment of the year is Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged”, a beast of a book which in audio format took 3 months of commuting to finish off. Biggest disappointment is as ever, V.C. Andrews.
- Orson Scott Card
- The Raven Boys – by Maggie Stiefvater – Crappiest book of 2018 (just getting started)
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
- Jeffrey Archer
- Flowers
- Stephen King
- Eyes of the Dragon
- The Dark Half
- Umney’s Last Case (1993)
- Riding the bullet
- Different Seasons
- UR – Short Story
- Dark Visions
- The Colorado Kid
- Sisters of Eluria
- Bachman Books (Stephen King) * Blaze * Short Story
- Willa
- Joyland
- The Gingerbread Girl
- Stationary Bike Short Story
- “N” Short Story about how Stonehenge and OCD can be connected
- The things they left behind Short Story
- Stephen King & Owen King * Sleeping Beauties
- Just after sunset
- Redstone (Crossroads Book 4)
- The cat from hell
- Dreamcatcher
- The Wind Through The Keyhole
- Salem’s Lot
- From a Buick 8
- Desperation
- Storm of the Century
- The Talisman
- Stephen King
- Cell
- Mile 81
- The Dark Tower – The Wolves of Calla
- Running Girl (The Garvie Smith Mysteries #1) by Simon Mason
- At Night We Walk in Circles: A Novel by Daniel Alarcón
- Patrik Rothfuss
- Bentley Little
- Evernight (Book 1) Claudia Grey
- Saskia’s Journey (2004) A novel by Theresa Breslin
- The Waste Land
- Anansi Boys – Neil Gaiman
- Trigger Warning * Neil Gaiman
- Delia’s Crossing
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez : The Early Years by Ilan Stavans
- Margaret Atwood
- I, Robot * Isaac Asimov (1950)
- Rolling in the Deep * (Mira Grant)
- Someday, Somewhere * Eileen Ramsay
- Kings Rising * C.S. Pacat
- Haruki Murakami
- The Hidden People by Alison Littlewood
- Ready Player One! Ernest Cline
- Black Dog Summer * Miranda Sherry
- The Strain (Book 1) – by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan
- The Devil Crept In * Ania Ahlborn
- Battle Royale – Koushun Takami
- The Annihilation Score * Charles Stross
- Follow you home * Mark Edwards
- The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
- James Patterson * Mistress
- Alis * Naomi Rich
- The Woman Before Me * Ruth Dugdall –
- John Dies at the End * David Wong
- The Time Machine * H.G. Wells
- Something Ends, Something begins * Witcher Saga
- Dean Koontz
- Time To Say Goodbye * S.D. Robertson
- Snow Crash * Neal Stephenson
- The Lovely Bones * Alice Sebold –
- Mockingjay * Suzanne Collins * Hunger Games Book 3
- Dexter by Design * Jeff Lindsay (Book 4)
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks * Rebecca Skloot
- Kate Saunders – The Secrets of Wishtide
- Pierce Brown
- Kim Stanley Robinson * Red Mars (Red Mars Trilogy Book 1)
- Anita Shreve
- Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand * By Leonard Peikoff
- The Soul Mirror by Carol Berg
- A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro
- Oprah * A (Crap) Biography By Kitty Kalley
- Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
- When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man – Jerry Weintraub
- The Devil’s Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers – Vicky Ward
- Veronica Roth
- David Mitchell * Slade House
- Pieces of Light * Adam Thorpe
- Not Safe After Dark: And Other Stories (Inspector Banks)
- Atlas Shrugged * Ayn Rand
- Lie In Wait – Eric Rickstad
- Black Mass by Dick Lehr, Gerard O’Neill
- Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet by Darynda Jones
- The Woman in the Woods (John Connolly)
- Shirley Jackson
- Leave Me Novel by Gayle Forman *
- Karin Slaughter * The Good Daughter
- Flesh and Spirit – Lighthouse Duet * Carol Berg
- I’d Rather Be Reading – Anne Bogel
- Dead Harvest (Inspector Ray Wilson Thriller Book 1) by Andrew Leatham
- Little Girl Gone by Alexandra Burt
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck – Mark Manson
- The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard – Robert E. Howard
- Educated – Tara Westover
- Prospero’s Children by Jan Siegel
- Spoken from the Heart – Laura Bush
- Born a Crime – Trevor Noah
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari
- Sleeping Giants (Themis Files #1) by Sylvain Neuvel
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
- Anne Tyler – Noah’s Compass
- Bare Almond Trees by D.H. Lawrence
- THE VIRTUE OF SELFISHNESS * Ayn Rand (1964)
- The Ask – Sam Lipsyte
- Shades of Treason – Sandy Williams
- Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are So You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be – Rachel Hollis
- The Regional Office Is Under Attack!: A Novel – Manuel Gonzales
- Fire & Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire) by George R. R. Martin
- 01 – The Witcher Saga – The Last Wish
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin Sci-Fi
- Heaven, Texas – Susan Elizabeth Phillips – Worst book of the year award
Best Books of the Year:
- Atlas Shrugged * Ayn Rand
- The Name of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
- The Devil Crept In * Ania Ahlborn
- Battle Royale – Koushun Takami
- The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
- The Woman Before Me * Ruth Dugdall
- David Mitchell * Slade House
- Hart’s Hope * Orson Scott Card
- Karin Slaughter * The Good Daughter
- Sleeping Giants (Themis Files #1) by Sylvain Neuvel
Top 5 Sci-Fi Books
- I, Robot * Isaac Asimov (1950)
- Ready Player One! Ernest Cline
- Kim Stanley Robinson * Red Mars (Red Mars Trilogy Book 1)
- Snow Crash * Neal Stephenson
- Sleeping Giants (Themis Files #1) by Sylvain Neuvel
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