Books Read in 2018

January

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance

February

Susanna Kearsley, The Firebird

March

Therese Bohman, Eventide
Cat Sebastian, The Soldier's Scoundrel

April

Jazz Jennings, Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen
Taisia Kitaiskaia, Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers
Cat Sebastian, The Lawrence Browne Affair
Mary Sharratt, Ecstasy
A.J. Thomas, Pins and Needles

May

Justina Ireland, Dread Nation
Alma Katsu, The Hunger
Nella Larsen, Passing
Sylvain Neuvel, Only Human
Laura Purcell, The Silent Companions
Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

June

Kitty Curran, My Lady's Choosing: An Interactive Romance Novel
Angelle Petta, The Artist and the Soldier
Donia Maher, The Apartment in Bab el-Louk

July

Mishell Baker, Borderline
James M. McPherson, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War
Mitra Rahnema, Centering: Navigating Race, Authenticity, and Power in Ministry
Cat Sebastian, Unmasked by the Marquess
Helen Weinzweig, Basic Black with Pearls

August

Mishell Baker, Imposter Syndrome
Mishell Baker, Phantom Pains

September

Layli Long Soldier, Whereas

October

Victor LaValle, The Changeling
Nell Stevens, The Victorian and the Romantic

November

None

December

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Marguerite Bennett, Insexts, Volume 1
Nancy Bilyeau, The Blue
Dominique Christina, Anarcha Speaks: A History in Poems

Comments

  1. Jenny @ Reading the EndDecember 28, 2018 at 12:33 PM

    Many so-good reads! I haven't even like LOOKED at my 2018 reads with an overview eye, but I want to do that this weekend.

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    1. AudraDecember 29, 2018 at 9:04 PM

      I'm actually going to have my top 10 done before the end of 2019 which feels like an enormous victory. It's the tiny things, right???

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