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January 1, 2019Book Reviews

2018 Books in Review

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.

  1. Orson Scott Card
    1. Rebekah (Women of Genesis) (Book 2)
    2. Tales of Alvin Maker * Book 5 – Heartfire
    3. Hart’s Hope
    4. Songmaster
    5. Stone Tables 
  2. The Raven Boys – by Maggie Stiefvater – Crappiest book of 2018 (just getting started)
  3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
  4. Jeffrey Archer
    1. As the crow flies
    2. The Fourth Estate
    3. First Among Equals
    4. A Prisoner of Birth
    5. A Matter of Honour (1986)
    6. Prison Diary (2003)
    7. Honor Among Thieves
  5. Flowers
    1. Petals in the Wind * Book 2
    2. If there be thorns * Book 3
    3. Seeds of Yesterday * Book 4
  6. Stephen King
    1. Eyes of the Dragon
    2. The Dark Half
    3. Umney’s Last Case (1993)
    4. Riding the bullet
    5. Different Seasons
    6. UR – Short Story
    7. Dark Visions 
    8. The Colorado Kid
    9. Sisters of Eluria
    10. Bachman Books (Stephen King) * Blaze * Short Story
    11. Willa
    12. Joyland 
    13. The Gingerbread Girl
    14. Stationary Bike Short Story
    15.  “N” Short Story about how Stonehenge and OCD can be connected
    16. The things they left behind Short Story
    17. Stephen King & Owen King * Sleeping Beauties
    18. Just after sunset
    19. Redstone (Crossroads Book 4)
    20. The cat from hell
    21. Dreamcatcher
    22. The Wind Through The Keyhole 
    23. Salem’s Lot 
    24. From a Buick 8
    25. Desperation
    26. Storm of the Century
    27. The Talisman 
    28. Stephen King
    29. Cell
    30. Mile 81
    31. The Dark Tower – The Wolves of Calla
  7. Running Girl (The Garvie Smith Mysteries #1) by Simon Mason
  8. At Night We Walk in Circles: A Novel by Daniel Alarcón
  9. Patrik Rothfuss
    1. The Name of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
  10. Bentley Little
    1. The Walking
    2. Houses
    3. The Revelation
    4. The Summoning
    5. Guests
    6. The Ignored
  11. Evernight (Book 1) Claudia Grey
  12. Saskia’s Journey (2004) A novel by Theresa Breslin
  13. The Waste Land
    1. Burial of the Dead (I)
    2. A Game of Chess (II)
    3. The Fire Sermon (III)
    4. Death by Water (IV)
    5. What the Thunder Said (V)
  14. Anansi Boys – Neil Gaiman
  15. Trigger Warning * Neil Gaiman
  16. Delia’s Crossing
    1. Delia’s Crossing – V.C. Andrews (Book 1)
    2. Delia’s Heart * V.C. Andrews (Book 2)
  17. Gabriel Garcia Marquez : The Early Years by Ilan Stavans
  18. Margaret Atwood
    1. Wilderness Tips
    2. Robber Bride
    3. Surfacing
    4. Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein
    5. Lady Oracle
  19. I, Robot * Isaac Asimov (1950)
  20. Rolling in the Deep * (Mira Grant)
  21. Someday, Somewhere * Eileen Ramsay
  22. Kings Rising * C.S. Pacat
  23. Haruki Murakami
    1. South of the Border, West of the Sun
    2. Sputnik Sweetheart (Supūtoniku no Koibito) 
  24. The Hidden People by Alison Littlewood
  25. Ready Player One! Ernest Cline
  26. Black Dog Summer * Miranda Sherry
  27. The Strain (Book 1) – by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan
  28. The Devil Crept In * Ania Ahlborn
  29. Battle Royale – Koushun Takami
  30. The Annihilation Score * Charles Stross
  31. Follow you home * Mark Edwards
  32. The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
  33. James Patterson * Mistress
  34. Alis * Naomi Rich
  35. The Woman Before Me * Ruth Dugdall –
  36. John Dies at the End * David Wong
  37. The Time Machine * H.G. Wells
  38. Something Ends, Something begins * Witcher Saga
  39. Dean Koontz
    1. Saint Odd * Odd Thomas
    2. The Taking
  40. Time To Say Goodbye * S.D. Robertson
  41. Snow Crash * Neal Stephenson
  42. The Lovely Bones * Alice Sebold –
  43. Mockingjay * Suzanne Collins * Hunger Games Book 3
  44. Dexter by Design * Jeff Lindsay (Book 4)
  45. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks * Rebecca Skloot
  46. Kate Saunders – The Secrets of Wishtide
  47. Pierce Brown
    1. Red Rising
    2. Golden Son
    3. Morning Star
    4. Iron Gold
  48. Kim Stanley Robinson * Red Mars (Red Mars Trilogy Book 1)
  49. Anita Shreve
    1. The Last Time They Met
    2. Testimony
  50. Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand * By Leonard Peikoff
  51. The Soul Mirror by Carol Berg
  52. A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro
  53. Oprah * A (Crap) Biography By Kitty Kalley
  54. Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
  55. When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man – Jerry Weintraub
  56. The Devil’s Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers – Vicky Ward
  57. Veronica Roth
    1. Divergent 
    2. Insurgent 
  58. David Mitchell * Slade House
  59. Pieces of Light * Adam Thorpe
  60. Not Safe After Dark: And Other Stories (Inspector Banks)
  61. Atlas Shrugged * Ayn Rand
  62. Lie In Wait – Eric Rickstad
  63. Black Mass by Dick Lehr, Gerard O’Neill
  64. Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet by Darynda Jones
  65. The Woman in the Woods (John Connolly)
  66. Shirley Jackson
    1. The Haunting Of Hill House
    2. “The Lottery” (1948) 
    3. We Have Always Lived in the Castle
    4. The Summer People
  67. Leave Me Novel by Gayle Forman *
  68. Karin Slaughter * The Good Daughter
  69. Flesh and Spirit – Lighthouse Duet * Carol Berg
  70. I’d Rather Be Reading – Anne Bogel
  71. Dead Harvest (Inspector Ray Wilson Thriller Book 1) by Andrew Leatham
  72. Little Girl Gone by Alexandra Burt
  73. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck – Mark Manson
  74. The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard – Robert E. Howard
  75. Educated – Tara Westover
  76. Prospero’s Children by Jan Siegel
  77. Spoken from the Heart – Laura Bush
  78. Born a Crime – Trevor Noah
  79. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari
  80. Sleeping Giants (Themis Files #1) by Sylvain Neuvel
  81. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
  82. Anne Tyler – Noah’s Compass
  83. Bare Almond Trees by D.H. Lawrence
  84. THE VIRTUE OF SELFISHNESS * Ayn Rand (1964)
  85. The Ask – Sam Lipsyte
  86. Shades of Treason – Sandy Williams
  87. Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are So You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be – Rachel Hollis
  88. The Regional Office Is Under Attack!: A Novel – Manuel Gonzales
  89. Fire & Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire) by George R. R. Martin
  90. 01 – The Witcher Saga – The Last Wish
  91. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin Sci-Fi
  92. Heaven, Texas – Susan Elizabeth Phillips – Worst book of the year award

Best Books of the Year:

  1. Atlas Shrugged * Ayn Rand
  2. The Name of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
  3. The Devil Crept In * Ania Ahlborn
  4. Battle Royale – Koushun Takami
  5. The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
  6. The Woman Before Me * Ruth Dugdall
  7. David Mitchell * Slade House
  8. Hart’s Hope * Orson Scott Card
  9. Karin Slaughter * The Good Daughter
  10. Sleeping Giants (Themis Files #1) by Sylvain Neuvel

Top 5 Sci-Fi Books

  1. I, Robot * Isaac Asimov (1950)
  2. Ready Player One! Ernest Cline
  3. Kim Stanley Robinson * Red Mars (Red Mars Trilogy Book 1)
  4. Snow Crash * Neal Stephenson
  5. Sleeping Giants (Themis Files #1) by Sylvain Neuvel

 

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