This is my final books read in 2018 post. Obviously I didn’t do better about posting reviews, or anything on here. We’ll see if I maintain this page through 2019… maybe I’ll start posting again, maybe I’ll end up stopping completely.
But in the meantime…. For the first year ever I actually finished all the book challenges I set out to do in 2018!!!!!! Yes!
My favorites of the year are bolded!
Read in 2018:
- Daniel Silva. The Heist (Gabriel Allon #14). Harper. 2014. 467 pages.
- +Susan Mallery. You Say It First (Happily Inc. #1). HQN Books. 2017. 384 pages.
- +Sarah Morgan. Moonlight Over Manhattan (From Manhattan with Love #6). HQN Books. 2017. 384 pages.
- +Sarah Morgan. Miracle on 5th Avenue (From Manhattan with Love #3). HQN Books. 2016. 384 pages.
- +Toni Aleo. Taking Shots (Assassins #1). Loveswept. 2013. 345 pages.
- Nick Bruel. A Bad Kitty Christmas (Bad Kitty). Roaring Brook Press. 2011. 40 pages.
- +Julie James. It Happened One Wedding (FBI/US Attorney #5). Jove. 2014. 304 pages.
- *+Emma Cane. Spiced Apple Winter (Fairfield Orchard #2). Avon. 2016. 384 pages.
- `John U. Bacon. Endzone: The Rise, Fall, and Return of Michigan Football. St. Martin's Press. 2015. 464 pages.
- Tana French. In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad #1). Viking. 2007. 429 pages.
- Martin Cruz Smith. Gorky Park (Arkady Renko #1). Ballantine Books. 1982. 433 pages.
- +Lori Wilde. Cowboy, It's Cold Outside (Twilight, Texas #8). Avon. 2017. 400 pages.
- Sarah Morgan. A New York Christmas Fairy Tale (From Manhattan with Love #3.5). Harlequin. 2016.
- +Sarah Morgan. Holiday in the Hamptons (From Manhattan with Love #5). Harper Collins. 2017. 384 pages.
- Debra Dean. The Mirrored World. Harper Collins. 2012. 256 pages.
- +Sarah Morgan. Sleigh Bells in the Snow (O'Neil Brothers #1). Harlequin HQN. 2013. 384 pages.
- +Sarah Morgan. Playing by the Greek's Rules (Puffin Island 0.5). Harlequin. 2015. 192 pages.
- +Sarah Morgan. Maybe This Christmas (O'Neil Brothers #3). Harlequin HQN. 2014. 384 pages.
- +*Julie James. Suddenly One Summer. Jove. 2015. 291 pages.
- +Tawny Weber. Call to Engage (Team Poseidon #2). Harlequin Books. 2017. 384 pages.
- `Amy Kaufman. Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America's Favorite Guilty Pleasure. Dutton. 2018. 320 pages.
- ~Fredrik Backman. Beartown (Björnstad #1). Simon & Schuster. 2017. 432 pages.
- William Shakespeare. Macbeth. Simon & Schuster. 1606. 249 pages.
- `Lynn M. Boughey & Peter Earnest. Harry Potter and the Art of Spying. Wise Ink. 2014. 632 pages.
- +Rhenna Morgan. Rough & Tumble (Men of Haven #1). Carina Press. 2017. 432 pages.
- +Tawny Weber. Call to Redemption (Team Poseidon #3). Hqn. 2017. 384 pages.
- +Rhenna Morgan. Wild & Sweet (Men of Haven #2). Carina Press. 2017. 432 pages.
- +RaeAnne Thayne. Serenity Harbor (Haven Point #6). Hqn. 2017. 377 pages.
- Ernest Cline. Ready Player One. Crown Publishers. 2011. 374 pages.
- `Joe Tennis. Beach to Bluegrass: Places to Brake on Virginia's Longest Road. Overmountain Press. 2007. 157 pages.
- James Luceno. Tarkin (Star Wars Disney Canon Novel). Del Rey. 2014. 288 pages.
- +Jill Shalvis. About That Kiss (Heartbreaker Bay #5). Avon. 2018. 349 pages.
- +Lori Foster. Close Contact (Body Armor #3). Hqn. 2017. 384 pages.
- Lev Grossman. Warp. St. Martin's Press. 1997. 183 pages.
- +Sarah Morgan. Some Kind of Wonderful (Puffin Island #2). Hqn. 2015. 384 pages.
- Sariah Wilson. Royal Date (The Royals of Monterra #1). CreateSpace. 2015. 256 pages.
- +Emily Albright. The Heir and the Spare (The Heir and the Spare #1). Merit Press. 2016. 288 pages.
- +Marina Adair. Summer in Napa (St. Helena Vineyard #2). Montlake Romance. 2013. 317 pages.
- Ann Patchett. Taft. Harpperen. 2003. 246 pages.
- +Kristan Higgins. Now That You Mention It. Graydon House. 2017. 384 pages.
- +Maisey Yates. Smooth-Talking Cowboy (Gold Valley #1). HQN Books. 2018. 329 pages.
- +Maisey Yates. Seduce Me, Cowboy (Copper Ridge: Desire #3). HQN Books. 2017. 216 pages.
- +Jennifer Ryan. True to You (Montana Heat #2). Avon. 2018. 384 pages.
- +Beth Carpenter. The Alaskan Catch (Northern Lights #1). Harlequin Heartwarming. 2017. 368 pages.
- +Teri Wilson. Royally Roma (The Royals #1). Pocket Star. 2017. 251 pages.
- +Sarah Morgan. One Enchanted Moment (Puffin Island #3). Harlequin Special Releases. 2017. 384 pages.
- `Matt Goulding. Pasta, Pane, Vino: Deep Travels Through Italy's Food Culture (Matt Goulding's Deep Travels Through Food Culture). Harper Wave/Anthony Bourdain. 2018. 368 pages.
- Aimee Agresti. Campaign Widows. Graydon House. 2018. 384 pages.
- +Maisey Yates. Untamed Cowboy (Gold Valley #2). HQN Books. 2018. 473 pages.
- +Maisey Yates. Mail Order Cowboy (Gold Valley #1.5). HQN Books. 2018. 93 pages.
- Becky Albertalli. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Creekwood #1). Balzer + Bray. 2015. 303 pages.
- Alan Bennett. The Uncommon Reader. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2007. 120 pages.
- `John U. Bacon. The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism. William Morrow. 2017. 432 pages.
- `Anthony Bourdain. Appetites: A Cookbook. Ecco. 2016. 304 pages.
- +Kristan Higgins. Catch of the Day (Gideon's Cove #1). HQN Books. 2007. 377 pages.
- Laura Childs. Death by Darjeeling (A Tea Shop Mystery #1). Berkley. 2001. 256 pages.
- Barry Eisler. A Clean Kill in Tokyo (John Rain #1). Putnam. 2002. 306 pages.
- `Pamela Druckerman. There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story. Penguin Press. 2018. 288 pages.
- `Helen Humphreys. The Ghost Orchard. HarperCollins. 2017. 256 pages.
- Quinn Loftis. The Viking's Chosen (Clan Hakon #1). Clean Teen Publishing. 2018. 300 pages.
- `~*Kimberly Burge. The Born Frees: Writing with the Girls of Gugulethu. W. W. Norton Company. 2015. 384 pages.
- +Alison Lurie. Foreign Affairs. Random House. 2006. 292 pages.
- +Sarah Morgan. How to Keep a Secret. Hqn. 2018. 432 pages.
- Eoin Colfer. Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl #1). Disney-Hyperion. 2003. 316 pages.
- +Jodi Thomas. Indigo Lake (Ransom Canyon #6). HQN. 2017. 432 pages.
- +Jodi Thomas. Winter's Camp (Ransom Canyon 0.5). HQN. 2015. 50 pages.
- Julia London. Wild Wicked Scot (Highland Grooms #1). Harlequin Books. 2016. 378 pages.
- Julia London. Sinful Scottish Laird (Highland Grooms #2). Harlequin Books. 2017. 304 pages.
- Julia London. Hard-Hearted Highlander (Highland Grooms #3). Harlequin Books. 2017. 304 pages.
- Julia London. Devil in Tartan (Highland Grooms #4). HQN. 2018. 379 pages.
- Martina Boone. Lake of Destiny (Celtic Legends #1). Mayfair Publishing. 2017. 336 pages.
- Julia Quinn. Splendid (The Splendid Trilogy #1). Avon. 2003. 396 pages.
- Louise Penny. Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #1). St. Martin's Paperbacks. 2005. 293 pages.
- Kristan Higgins. Good Luck with That. Berkley Books. 2018. 480 pages.
- `Kelly Cutrone. If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You. HarperOne. 2010. 208 pages.
- +Kristan Higgins. The Best Man (Blue Heron #1). HQN. 2013. 426 pages.
- Douglas E. Richards. Wired (Wired #1). Paragon Press. 2012. 358 pages.
- Kate DiCamillo. The Magician's Elephant. Candlewick Press. 2009. 201 pages.
- *Brad Meltzer. The Inner Circle (Culper Ring #1). Grand Central Publishing. 2011. 449 pages.
- *`Dave Eggers. Zeitoun. McSweeney's. 2008. 342 pages.
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Around the World in 80 Books Reading Challenge.
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What's In a Name Reading Challenge 2018+= counts for
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2018 Nonfiction Reading Challenge Status Check -- # read this year for:
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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die0 -
Time Magazine All-Time 100 Novels0 -
Modern Library Editorial Board Top 100 English novels of the 20th century0 -
Radcliffe Publishing Course 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century0 -
All 339 Books Referenced In the Gilmore Girls