Reading Books in 2018
This is a running list of books that I have read so far this year. They are sort of in chronological order except when they were written by an author previously listed.
This list doesn’t include periodicals, anthologies or short story collections. I would like to say I read collections in the same way that I would eat delicious chocolates, savouring each bite but the reality is I neither eat chocolate nor read in that fashion.
Jordan Peterson 12 Rules for Life
Ann Patchett This is the Story of a Happy Marriage, Commonwealth
Elizabeth Strout Anything is Possible, My name is Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge
Wayde Compton The Outer Harbour
Lisa Genova Inside the O’Briens
Jen Sook Fung Lee The Conjoined
John Green Turtles All the Way Down
David Chariandy Brother
Kate Chopin The Awakening
Shirley Hazzard The Transit of Venus
Deborah Levy Swimming Home, Hot Milk
Emily St John Mandel Station Eleven
Iris Murdoch The Sea, the Sea, The Good Apprentice
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie One Half of a Yellow Sun
Elizabeth Berg Safe Home
Hannah Kent The Good People
Michael Crummy The Wreckage
Mary Beard SPQR
Ian Pears The Instance of the Finger Post
Haruki Murakami The Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Madeleine Millar Circe
Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain
Alison Pick Strangers with the Same Dream
John Le Carre Our Kind of Traitor
Miriam Toews Women Speaking
Richard Wagamese Starlight
Patrick DeWitt Under Majordomo Minor
Amber Dawn Sodom Road Exit
Stephen King The Shawshank Redemption
James Baldwin Go Tell it on the Mountain
Joe Moran First You Write a Sentence
Geraldine Brooks People of the Book
Rachel Kushner The Mars Room
Anna Burns Milkman