Books Read in 2018

These are all the books I read this year that I actually remembered to write down, in alphabetical order:

Kaveh Akbar – Calling a Wolf a Wolf

Susan Albers - 50 Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food
Randy Alcorn – The Treasure Principle: Unlocking the Secret of Joyful Giving 
Charlie Jane Anders - All the Birds in the Sky

Alison and Steven Anderson – How to Make Maple Syrup

Bradford Angier - How to Eat in the Woods

Katherine Applegate – The One and Only Ivan 

Kelly Barnhill - The Witch’s Boy

Peter S Beagle and Jacob Weisman, eds. – The New Voices of Fantasy

Melody Beattie – Codependent No More

Martha Beck - The Four Day Win

Joshua Bennett – The Sobbing School

Susan Rose Blauner – How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying To Kill Me: One Person’s Guide to Suicide Prevention

Vera Brosgol – Be Prepared

Brené Brown – The Gifts of Imperfection

Mike and Nancy Bubel – Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits and Vegetables

Emilie Buchwald, Pamela R. Fletcher, Martha Roth, eds. - Transforming a Rape Culture

Jessie Burton – The Miniaturist

David L. Carlson – The Hunting Accident: A True Story of Crime and Poetry

Emily Carroll – Through the Woods

Christophe Chabouté - Tout Seul

Nidhi Chanani – Pashmina

Chen Chen – When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

Ernest Cline - Ready Player One

Gennifer Choldenko - Al Capone Does My Shirts 

Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, eds. - Troll’s-Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales

Tian Dayton – The ACOA Trauma Syndrome

Rita Dove – Collected Poems: 1974-2004

Martin Duberman - Stonewall

W. E. B. DuBois - Black Reconstruction in America

Edward Eager - Seven Day Magic

Christopher Edge – Twelve Minutes to Midnight

Bret Easton Ellis – American Psycho

Grace Ellis – Moonstruck

William Evans - I Still Can’t Do My Daughter’s Hair

Tony Faber - Stradivari’s Genius

Tee Franklin – Bingo Love

Jaclyn Friedman & Jessica Valenti - Yes Means Yes!

Neil Gaiman - Smoke and Mirrors
Elizabeth Gilbert – Big Magic

Meredith Gould – The Catholic Home by Meredith Gould

Dave Goulson - A Buzz in the Meadow: The Natural History of a French Farm

John Howard Griffin – Black Like Me

Raven Grimassi - Italian Witchcraft 

Tim Herd – Maple Sugar: From Sap to Syrup

Faith Erin Hicks – Zombies Calling

Faith Erin Hicks - Friends with Boys

Nalo Hopkinson - Brown Girl in the Ring
Nalo Hopkinson - The Chaos
Nalo Hopkinson - Falling in Love with Hominids
Nalo Hopkinson - The Midnight Robber
Nalo Hopkinson - The New Moon's Arms
Nalo Hopkinson - The Salt Roads
Nalo Hopkinson - Sister Mine
Nalo Hopkinson - Skin Folk

Angela Jackson – It Seems Like a Mighty Long Time

Tove Jansson - The Woman Who Borrowed Memories
N.K. Jemisin - The Broken Earth Trilogy 

Patrice Kindl – Keeping The Castle

Matt Kindt - Dept. H.
Bessel van der Kolk - The Body Keeps Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Rupi Kuar – Milk and Honey

Shari Lapena - The Couple Next Door

David Lebovitz – The Sweet Life in Paris

David Lehman and Star Black, eds. – The KGB Bar Book of Poems

Jeff Lemire – Sweet Tooth

Jonathan Lethem – Men and Cartoons

Benny Lewis – Language Hacking: Italian

Ada Limón – Bright Dead Things

Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda – Monstress Volume 1&2

Amanda Lovelace – The Witch Doesn’t Burn in This One

Amanda Lovelace - The Princess Saves Herself in This One

Maja Lunde – The History of Bees

Jonathan Maberry – Fall of Night 

Jonathan Maberry - Dead of Night

Carleen Madigan – The Backyard Homestead

Emitithal Mahmoud – Sister’s Entrance

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi – Kintu

Annie Martin - The Magical World of Moss Gardening

Shane McCrae – The Animal Too Big to Kill

Larry Mellichamp and Paula Gross – Bizarre Botanicals

China Miéville - Railsea
Gabriela Mistral - Madwomen: The "Locas Mujeres" Poems of Gabriela Mistral

Fábio Moon and Gabrial Bá – Daytripper

Monique W. Morris – Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-First Century

Eileen Myles – I Must be Living Twice

Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith – 30 Days of Night

Kathleen O’Dell - The Aviary

Nnedi Okorafor - Akata Warrior
Nnedi Okorafor – Akata Witch
Nnedi Okorafor - Binti
Nnedi Okorafor - Binti 2: Home
Nnedi Okorafor - Binti: The Night Masquerade

Nnedi Okorafor – Lagoon

Nnedi Okorafor - The Shadow Speaker

Nnedi Okorafor - Who Fears Death

Nnedi Okorafor - Zahrah the Windseeker

Mallory Ortberg – The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror

Morgan Parker - There Are More Beautiful Things than Beyonce

Ben Passmore – Your Black Friend and Other Strangers

Luke Pearson – Hildafolk Comic Series

Martin Pistorius – Ghost Boy

Robert Polito – Hollywood & God

Katha Pollitt – The Mind-Body Problem

Nicole Sealey – Ordinary Beasts

Zenaida Sengo - Air Plants: The Curious World of Tillandsias

Brenda Shaughnessy - Human Dark with Sugar

Neal Shusterman – Scythe

Neal Shusterman - Thunderhead

R. H. Sin – She Felt Like Feeling Nothing

William Sloane - The Rim of Morning: Two Tails of Cosmic Horror
Danez Smith - Don't Call Us Dead
Jeff Smith - Bone: The Complete Comic Epic in One Volume
Zadie Smith - Swing Time
Noelle Stevenson – Nimona
Noelle Stevenson - Lumberjanes Series

Jomny Sun – Everyone’s a Aliebn When ur a Aliebn Too

Erik Axl Sund - Les Corps de Verre
Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki – This One Summer

Raina Telgemeier – Ghosts

Lysa TerKeurst – Uninvited: Living Loved When You Feel Less Than, Left Out, and Lonely

Paul Tobin and Juan Ferreyra – Colder Omnibus

Peter J. Tomasi - House of Penance

Brian K. Vaughan – Saga Volumes 1 & 2

Robert Venditti – Surrogates Volumes 1 & 2

Ocean Vuong – Night Sky With Exit Wounds

Jen Wang – The Prince and the Dressmaker

Chris Ware – Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth

Tish Harrison Warren – Liturgy of the Ordinary

Kirsten Weiss – Déjà Moo

Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib – The Crown Ain’t Worth Much

Kai Ashante Wilson – Sorcerer of the Wildeeps

Kai Ashante Wilson - A Taste of Honey

Janet G Woititz – The Complete ACOA Sourcebook

Kevin Lowell Young - Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels

Charles Yu - How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

Ellen Zachos – Backyard Foraging

Markus Zusak - The Book Thief