2018 book update.

Around this time last year I touted my renewed interest in reading, rattling off a lengthy list of accomplishments in the process. I even revisited the topic around April, presenting another round of achievements. And then that all but dropped off.

I’m not really sure why I stopped reading so much this year. I have theories. Two of which hold weight: my schedule changed substantially plus my iPad died and an Amazon Fire 7 turned out to be a crap replacement. Because as my neatly organized Google document shows, my decline coincides with both of those things happening. I’m actually being sort of hard on myself. True, I did not read as much this year as last. But, I did manage to read like 42-ish books in total (it’s just that 21 of those were in the first four months of the year and rest from May until December). Oh well! As the saying goes, shit happens.

I ditched the Fire tablet pretty quickly after I got it, relying instead on physical books and occasionally, my phone. Not sure how I’ll proceed next year though I have to say it’s sort of nice turning real pages again. Anyway, here’s the full list of everything I read in 2018 with links to my favorites.

1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling

2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling

3. Coming Clean: A Memoir by Kimberly Rae Miller

4. The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory by John Seabrook

5. Moody Bitches: The Truth About the Drugs You're Taking, The Sleep You're Missing, The Sex You're Not Having, and What's Really Making You Crazy by Julie Holland

6. The Art Forger: A Novel by B.A. Shapiro

7. No Stone Unturned: The True Story of the World's Premier Forensic Investigators by Steve Jackson

8. This Is Where You Belong: Finding Home Wherever You Are by Melody Warnick

9. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two by JK Rowling

10. Big Little Lies by Lianne Moriarty

11. The Rules of Magic: A Novel by Alice Hoffman

12. Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot

13. Brave by Rose McGowan

14. The Group: A Novel by Mary McCarthy

15. Commonwealth: A Novel by Ann Patchett

16. Wildflower by Drew Barrymore

17. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben

18. Flat Broke with Two Goats A Memoir by Jennifer McGaha

19. Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick

20. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara

21. Hotel Silence by Audur Ava Olafsdottir

22. The Jersey Shore Thrill Killer by John E. O’Rourke

23. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

24. Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

25. Dragging Anchor by Keri Marinda Smith

26. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

27. A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline

28. The Summer That Made Us: A Novel by Robyn Carr

29. The Last Supper by Mandy Mikulencak

30. The Last Day of Emily Lindsey by Nic Joseph

31. Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno

32. Boardwalk Summer by Meredith Jaeger

33. To Throw Away Unopened by Viv Albertine

34. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth

35. The Alice Network: A Novel by Kate Quinn

36. The Lost Vintage by Ann Mah

37. Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

38. Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly

39. Educated by Tara Westover

40. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

41. Night Moves by Jessica Hopper

42. Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’ Hollywood by Karina Longworth*

*Still in prog.

I already have another 22 books on my wish list so I guess I better shut up and read. But tell me, what was your favorite for 2018? Of all time?