2018 in Books.
~Every link leads to an entry with basic information about the book, my favourite quotes and my review.
~The image I use is the edition I read.
♥♥♥ = Personal favourites I recommend.
NON-FICTION:
♥♥♥ Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is Not by Florence Nightingale. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Nein. A Manifesto by Eric Jarosinski. (9/10)
♥♥♥ Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident by Donnie Eichar. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo-and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up by Richard Lloyd Parry. (8/10)
FICTION:
NOVELS:
♥♥♥ Room by Emma Donoghue. (8/10)
♥ The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks. (6.5/10)
♥ Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Marrying of Chani Kaufman by Eve Harris. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. (8.5/10)
♥ A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. (7/10)♧
♥♥♥ Goodbye, Mr Chips by James Hilton. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Northern Lights (The Golden Compass) by Philip Pullman. (8/10)♧
♥♥♥ We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Lieutenant Hornblower by C.S. Forester. (8.5/10)♧
♥♥♥ Dracula by Bram Stoker. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Letters from Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Bear by Marian Engel. (8.5/10)
♥ Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. (7.5/10)♧
♥ Prince of Thieves by Chuck Hogan. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates. (8/10)
♥♥♥ The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Евгений Онегин (Eugene Onegin) ( PART 1--- PART 2), А.С. Пушкин (by Alexander Pushkin). (10/10)
♥♥♥ The Ritual by Adam Nevill. (7.5/10)
♥ A Million Ways to Die in the West by Seth MacFarlane. (6.5/10)
♥ 1922 by Stephen King. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Lullaby (The Perfect Nanny) by Leila Slimani. (8.5/10)
♥ The Humans by Matt Haig. (7/10)
♥♥♥ The Dinner by Herman Koch. (8/10)
♥ Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. (5.5/10)♧
♥♥♥ Red Dragon by Thomas Harris. (7.5/10)♧
♥♥♥ A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond. (8.5/10)♧
♥ Skipping Christmas by John Grisham. (4/10)
♥♥♥ The Story of a Nutcracker by Alexandre Dumas. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. (7.5/10)
Series and Sequeled Works:
♥♥♥ Mad About Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans. (9/10):☁
♡♡♡ Madeline and the Gypsies. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Madeline in London. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Madeline's Christmas. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Cirque de Freak: A Living Nightmare by Darren Shan. (7.5/10)
♥ The Vampire's Assistant by Darren Shan. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Divine Comedy: Inferno by Dante Alighieri. (8.5/10)
♥ The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri. (8.5/10)
♧ --> Part of a series, but the only book from it read this year.
☁ --> Not all books in the series listed, as some have been read in previous years, or are still to be finished.
SHORT STORIES:
♥♥♥ Gothic Tales by Elizabeth Gaskell. (8/10):☁
♡♡♡ Lois the Witch. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Crooked Branch. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Curious, if True. (8/10)
♡ The Grey Woman. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Selected Tales and Sketches ( PART 1--- PART 2) by Nathaniel Hawthorne. (8/10):☁
♡ Passages from a Relinquished Work. (7.5/10)
♡ Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Haunted Mind. (9.5/10)
♡♡♡ Alice Doane's Appeal. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Gray Champion. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Young Goodman Brown. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Wakefield. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Notch of the White Mountains. (8.5/10)
♡ The Ambitious Guest. (8/10)
♡ The May-Pole of Merry Mount. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Minister's Black Veil. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Sunday at Home. (8/10)
♡ The Man of Adamant. (7.5/10)
♡ Endicott and the Red Cross. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Night Sketches. (8.5/10)
♡ Legends of the Province-House. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Hall of Fantasy. (9/10)
♡♡♡ The Birth-mark. (8/10)
♡ Egotism; or, the Bosom-Serpent. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Christmas Banquet. (8/10)
♡ The Celestial Rail-road. (7.5/10)
♡ Earth's Holocaust. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Artist of the Beautiful. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Rappaccini's Daughter. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Ethan Brand. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Book of Ballads by Charles Vess with Various. (8/10)
♡ The False Knight Upon the Road by Nail Gaiman and Charles Vess. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ King Henry by Jane Yolen and Charles Vess. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Thomas the Rhymer by Sharyn McCrumb and Charles Vess. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Barbara Allen by Midori Snyder and Charles Vess. (8.5/10)
♡ The Three Lovers by Lee Smith and Charles Vess. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Tam-Lin by Elaine Lee and Charles Vess. (8.5/10)
♡ The Daemon Lover by Delia Sharman and Charles Vess. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Twa Corbies by Charles de Lint and Charles Vess. (8/10)
♡ Sovay by Charles de Lint and Charles Vess. (6.5/10)
♡ The Galtee Farmer by Jeff Smith and Charles Vess. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Alison Gross by Charles Vess. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Black Fox by Emma Bull and Charles Vess. (8/10)
♡ The Great Selchie of Sule Skerry by Jane Yolen and Charles Vess. (7/10)
♥♥♥ Dark Water by Koji Suzuki. (8/10):
♡♡♡ Floating Water. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Solitary Isle. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Hold. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Dream Cruise. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Adrift. (8/10)
♡ Watercloros. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Forest under the Sea. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ M Is for Magic by Neil Gaiman. (8/10):
♡♡♡ The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Troll Bridge. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Don't Ask Jack. (8.5/10)
♡ How to Sell the Ponti Bridge. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ October in the Chair. (8.5/10)
♡ Chivalry. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Price. (8.5/10)
♡ How to Talk to Girls at Parties. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Sunbird. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Witch's Headstone. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Instructions. (9/10)
♥♥♥ Sin City: Booze, Broads, & Bullets by Frank Miller. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Just Another Saturday Night. (8/10)
♡ Fat Man and Little Boy. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Customer is Always Right. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Silent Night. (9/10)
♡♡♡ And Behind Door Number Three? (8/10)
♡ Blue Eyes. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Rats. (8/10)
♡ Daddy's Little Girl. (7.5/10)
♡ Wrong Turn. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Wrong Track. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Babe Wore Red. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Volume 1 by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. (8.5/10)☼
♡♡♡ Allan and the Sundered Veil. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Acts of Worship by Yukio Mishima. (7.5/10):
♡ Fountains in the Rain. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Raisin Bread. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Sword. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Sun and Sunset. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Cigarette. (8/10)
♡ Martyrdom. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Acts of Worship. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Weiser Book of Horror and the Occult ( PART 1--- PART 2) by Various, compiled by Lon Milo DuQuette. (8/10):
♡♡♡ The Haunted and the Haunters (or, the House and the Brain) by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Casting the Runes by M.R. James. (8/10)
♡ Luella Miller by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. (8/10)
♡♡♡ An Inhabitant of Carcosa by Ambrose Bierce.(8.5/10)
♡♡♡ No. 252 Rue M. le Prince by Ralph Adams Cram. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Testament of Magdalen Blair by Aleister Crowley. (9/10)
♡ The Messenger by Robert W. Chambers. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Ring of Thoth by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. (8/10)
♡ A Dream of Red Hands by Bram Stoker. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe. (8/10)
♡ The Alchemist by H.P. Lovecraft. (7.5/10)
♡ Dickon the Devil by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The White People by Arthur Machen. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Sea Lure by Dion Fortune. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs. (8/10):
♡♡♡ The Monkey's Paw. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Lady of the Barge. (8/10)
♡ Bill's Paper Chase. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Well. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Cupboard Love. (8.5/10)
♡ In the Library. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Captain Rogers. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Tiger's Skin. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ A Mixed Proposal. (8/10)
♡♡♡ An Adulteration Act. (8/10)
♡ A Golden Venture. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Three at Table. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Campfire Chillers by Various. (8/10):☼
♡♡♡ The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe. (8/10)
♡ Mrs. Amworth by E.F. Benson. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Phantom Coach by Amelia B. Edwards. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Where Angels Fear by Manley Wade Wellman. (8/10)
♡ What Was It? by Fitz-James O'Brien. (7.5/10)
♡ The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Ghost of Fear by H.G. Wells. (8/10)
♥♥♥ We Can Remember It for You Wholesale and Other Classic Stories by Philip K. Dick (7.5/10):☁
♡ The Cookie Lady. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Beyond the Door. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Prominent Author. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ We Can Remember It for You Wholesale. (8/10)
Series and Sequeled Works:
♥♥♥ Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz (illustrated by Stephen Gammell). (8/10):☼✿
♡ The Big Toe. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Walk. (8/10)
♡♡♡ "What Do You Come For?" (8/10)
♡ Me Tie Dough-ty Walker! (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Thing. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Cold as Clay. (8.5/10)
♡ The White Wolf. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Haunted House. (7.5/10)
♡ The Guests. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Girl Who Stood on a Grave. (8/10)
♡♡♡ A New Horse. (7.5/10)
♡ Alligators. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Room for One More. (8.5/10)
♡ The Wendigo. (7.5/10)
♡ The Dead Man's Brains. (7/10)
♡ "May I Carry Your Basket?" (7.5/10)
♡ The Hook (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The White Satin Evening Gown. (8/10)
♡♡♡ High Beams. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Babysitter. (8/10)
♡ The Viper. (7/10)
♡ The Attic. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Aaron Kelly's Bones. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Wait Till Martin Comes. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Ghost With Bloody Fingers. (7.5/10)
♥ More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz (illustrated by Stephen Gammell). (8/10):
♡♡♡ Something Was Wrong. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Wreck. (8/10)
♡♡♡ One Sunday Morning. (8/10)
♡ Sounds. (7/10)
♡ A Weird Blue Light. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Somebody Fell from Aloft. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Little Black Dog. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Clinkity-Clink. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Bride. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Rings on Her Fingers. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Drum. (8.5/10)
♡ The Window. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Wonderful Sausage. (7.5/10)
♡ The Cat's Paw. (8/10)
♡ The Voice. (7/10)
♡♡♡ "Oh, Susannah!" (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Man in the Middle. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Cat in the Shopping Bag. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Bed by the Window. (8/10)
♡ The Dead Man's Hand. (7/10)
♡♡♡ A Ghost in the Mirror. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Curse. (7.5/10)
♡ The Church. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Bad News. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Cemetery Soup. (7.5/10)
♡ The Brown Suit. (7.5/10)
♡ Thumpity-Thump. (7.5/10)
☁ --> Not all stories in the compendium listed, as some have been read in previous years or are still to be finished.
☼ --> Not only short stories included in the compendium, but only short stories listed here.
✿ --> A series of short story collections, wherein the short stories themselves are primarily independent of each other or stories within other volumes (though sometimes tied together by a general setting or plot device).
PLAYS:
♥♥♥ M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang. (9/10)
♥♥♥ Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill. (8.5/10)
♥ Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet. (7/10)
♥♥♥ Othello by William Shakespeare. (8/10)
POETRY:
♥♥♥ The Homeric Hymns by Various Anonymous (translated by Thelma Sargent) (8/10):☁
♡♡♡ To Hestia. (8/10)
♡♡♡ To Earth, Mother of All. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ To Helios. (8/10)
♡♡♡ To Selene. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ To the Dioscuri. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Beastly Tales From Here to There by Vikram Seth. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Crocodile and the Monkey. (8/10)
♡ The Louse and the Mosquito. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Mouse and the Snake. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Rat and the Ox. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Eagle and the Beetle. (9/10)
♡ The Hare and the Tortoise. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Cat and the Cock. (8/10)
♡ The Goat and the Ram. (7.5/10)
♡ The Frog and the Nightingale. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Elephant and the Tragopan. (9.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Book of Ballads compiled by Charles Vess. (8/10)
♡ The False Knight Upon the Road. (7/10)
♡♡♡ King Henry. (8/10)
♡ Thomas the Rhymer. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Barbara Allen. (8.5/10)
♡ The Three Lovers. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Tam-Lin. (8/10)
♡ The Daemon Lover. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Twa Corbies. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Sovay. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Galtee Farmer. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Alison Gross. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Black Fox. (8/10)
♡ The Great Selchie of Sule Skerry. (7/10)
♥♥♥ Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Naming of Cats. (8/10)
♡ The Old Gambie Cat. (7.5/10)
♡ Growltiger's Last Stand. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Rum Tum Tugger. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Song of the Jellicles. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Old Deuteronomy. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Of the Awefull Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Mr. Mistoffelees. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Macavity: The Mystery Cat. (9/10)
♡ Gus: The Theatre Cat. (7.5/10)
♡ Bustopher Jones: The Cat about Town. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Ad-dressing of Cats. (9/10)
♡ Cat Morgan Introduces Himself. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Евгений Онегин (Eugene Onegin) ( PART 1--- PART 2), А.С. Пушкин (by Alexander Pushkin). (10/10)
♥ The Other Country by Carol Ann Duffy. (7.5/10):
♡♡♡ Originally. (9.5/10)
♡♡♡ In Mrs Tilscher's Class. (8.5/10)
♡ Sit at Peace. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Hometown. (7.5/10)
♡ Translating the English, 1989. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Mrs Skinner, North Street. (8/10)
♡ Too Bad. (6/10)
♡ Weasel Words. (6.5/10)
♡♡♡ Poet for Our Times. (7.5/10)
♡ Job Creation. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Making Money. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Talent Contest. (7.5/10)
♡ Ape. (6.5/10)
♡ The Legend. (7.5/10)
♡ Descendants. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ We Remember Your Childhood Well. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Act of Imagination. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Somewhere Someone's Eyes. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Liar. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Boy. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Eley's Bullet. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Following Francis. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Survivor. (8/10)
♡♡♡ An Afternoon With Rhiannon. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Losers. (8/10)
♡ M-M-Memory. (7/10)
♡ Père Lachaise. (7.5/10)
♡ Funeral. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Dream of a Lost Friend. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Like This. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Who Loves You. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Two Small Poems of Desire. (7.5/10)
♡ Girlfriends. (7/10)
♡ A Shilling for the Sea. (6.5/10)
♡♡♡ Hard to Say. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Kissing Gate. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Words, Wide Night. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Darling Letters. (7.5/10)
♡ Away From Home. (7.5/10)
♡ The Literature Act. (6/10)
♡♡♡ River. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Way My Mothers Speaks. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ In Your Mind. (8/10)
♥♥♥ The Weiser Book of Horror and the Occult, compiled by Lon Milo DuQuette. (8/10):
♡♡♡ At the Home of Poe by Frank Belknap Long, Jr. (8.5/10)
♥ Poems of Gratitude by Various (compiled and edited by Emily Fragos. (/10):☁
♡♡♡ Wild Gratitude by Edward Hirsch. (7.5/10)
Series and Sequeled Works:
♥♥♥ The Divine Comedy: Inferno by Dante Alighieri. (8.5/10)
♥ The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz (illustrated by Stephen Gammell). (8/10):☼
♡♡♡ A Man Who Lived in Leeds (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Old Woman All Skin and Bone (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Hearse Song. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Slithery-Dee. (8/10)
♥♥♥ More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz (illustrated by Stephen Gammell). (8/10):☼
♡♡♡ BA-ROOOM! (8.5/10)
☁ --> Not all poems in the compendium listed, as some have been read in previous years or are still to be finished.
☼ --> Not only poetry included in compendium, but only poetry listed here.
GRAPHIC NOVELS:
♥♥♥ Cat Diary: Yon & Mu by Junji Ito. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. (9.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Book of Ballads by Charles Vess with Various. (8/10)**
♥♥♥ The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Volume 1 by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. (8.5/10)♧
♥♥♥ Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel by Anya Ulinich. (8/10)
Series and Sequeled Works:
♥ Ex Machina: March to War by Brian K. Vaughan, Tony Harris and Chris Sprouse. (7.5/10)☁
♥ Ex Machina: Smoke, Smoke by Brian K. Vaughan, Tony Harris and Tom Feister. (7/10)
♥♥♥ Sin City: The Hard Goodbye by Frank Miller. (8.5/10)
♥ Sin City: A Dame to Kill For by Frank Miller. (8/10)
♥ Sin City: The Big Fat Kill by Frank Miller. (8.5/10)
♥ Sin City: The Yellow Bastardvv by Frank Miller. (8.5/10)
♥ Sin City: Family Values by Frank Miller. (7.5/10)
♥ Sin City: Booze, Broads, & Bullets by Frank Miller. (8/10)**
♧ --> Part of a series, but the only book from it read this year.
☁ --> Not all books/stories in the series listed, as some have been read in previous years, or are still to be finished.
✿ --> A series of short story collections, wherein the short stories themselves are primarily independent of each other or stories within other volumes (though sometimes tied together by a general setting or plot device).
** --> Short stories collection, or has short stories included in the book. Refer to the Short Stories header above for break-down of individual stories.
PREVIOUS YEARS:
2009-2010/ 2010/ 2011/ 2012/ 2013/ 2014/ 2015/ 2016/ 2017
~The image I use is the edition I read.
♥♥♥ = Personal favourites I recommend.
NON-FICTION:
♥♥♥ Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is Not by Florence Nightingale. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Nein. A Manifesto by Eric Jarosinski. (9/10)
♥♥♥ Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident by Donnie Eichar. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo-and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up by Richard Lloyd Parry. (8/10)
FICTION:
NOVELS:
♥♥♥ Room by Emma Donoghue. (8/10)
♥ The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks. (6.5/10)
♥ Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Marrying of Chani Kaufman by Eve Harris. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. (8.5/10)
♥ A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. (7/10)♧
♥♥♥ Goodbye, Mr Chips by James Hilton. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Northern Lights (The Golden Compass) by Philip Pullman. (8/10)♧
♥♥♥ We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Lieutenant Hornblower by C.S. Forester. (8.5/10)♧
♥♥♥ Dracula by Bram Stoker. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Letters from Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Bear by Marian Engel. (8.5/10)
♥ Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. (7.5/10)♧
♥ Prince of Thieves by Chuck Hogan. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates. (8/10)
♥♥♥ The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Евгений Онегин (Eugene Onegin) ( PART 1--- PART 2), А.С. Пушкин (by Alexander Pushkin). (10/10)
♥♥♥ The Ritual by Adam Nevill. (7.5/10)
♥ A Million Ways to Die in the West by Seth MacFarlane. (6.5/10)
♥ 1922 by Stephen King. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Lullaby (The Perfect Nanny) by Leila Slimani. (8.5/10)
♥ The Humans by Matt Haig. (7/10)
♥♥♥ The Dinner by Herman Koch. (8/10)
♥ Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. (5.5/10)♧
♥♥♥ Red Dragon by Thomas Harris. (7.5/10)♧
♥♥♥ A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond. (8.5/10)♧
♥ Skipping Christmas by John Grisham. (4/10)
♥♥♥ The Story of a Nutcracker by Alexandre Dumas. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. (7.5/10)
Series and Sequeled Works:
♥♥♥ Mad About Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans. (9/10):☁
♡♡♡ Madeline and the Gypsies. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Madeline in London. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Madeline's Christmas. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Cirque de Freak: A Living Nightmare by Darren Shan. (7.5/10)
♥ The Vampire's Assistant by Darren Shan. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Divine Comedy: Inferno by Dante Alighieri. (8.5/10)
♥ The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri. (8.5/10)
♧ --> Part of a series, but the only book from it read this year.
☁ --> Not all books in the series listed, as some have been read in previous years, or are still to be finished.
SHORT STORIES:
♥♥♥ Gothic Tales by Elizabeth Gaskell. (8/10):☁
♡♡♡ Lois the Witch. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Crooked Branch. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Curious, if True. (8/10)
♡ The Grey Woman. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Selected Tales and Sketches ( PART 1--- PART 2) by Nathaniel Hawthorne. (8/10):☁
♡ Passages from a Relinquished Work. (7.5/10)
♡ Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Haunted Mind. (9.5/10)
♡♡♡ Alice Doane's Appeal. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Gray Champion. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Young Goodman Brown. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Wakefield. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Notch of the White Mountains. (8.5/10)
♡ The Ambitious Guest. (8/10)
♡ The May-Pole of Merry Mount. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Minister's Black Veil. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Sunday at Home. (8/10)
♡ The Man of Adamant. (7.5/10)
♡ Endicott and the Red Cross. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Night Sketches. (8.5/10)
♡ Legends of the Province-House. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Hall of Fantasy. (9/10)
♡♡♡ The Birth-mark. (8/10)
♡ Egotism; or, the Bosom-Serpent. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Christmas Banquet. (8/10)
♡ The Celestial Rail-road. (7.5/10)
♡ Earth's Holocaust. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Artist of the Beautiful. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Rappaccini's Daughter. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Ethan Brand. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Book of Ballads by Charles Vess with Various. (8/10)
♡ The False Knight Upon the Road by Nail Gaiman and Charles Vess. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ King Henry by Jane Yolen and Charles Vess. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Thomas the Rhymer by Sharyn McCrumb and Charles Vess. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Barbara Allen by Midori Snyder and Charles Vess. (8.5/10)
♡ The Three Lovers by Lee Smith and Charles Vess. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Tam-Lin by Elaine Lee and Charles Vess. (8.5/10)
♡ The Daemon Lover by Delia Sharman and Charles Vess. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Twa Corbies by Charles de Lint and Charles Vess. (8/10)
♡ Sovay by Charles de Lint and Charles Vess. (6.5/10)
♡ The Galtee Farmer by Jeff Smith and Charles Vess. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Alison Gross by Charles Vess. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Black Fox by Emma Bull and Charles Vess. (8/10)
♡ The Great Selchie of Sule Skerry by Jane Yolen and Charles Vess. (7/10)
♥♥♥ Dark Water by Koji Suzuki. (8/10):
♡♡♡ Floating Water. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Solitary Isle. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Hold. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Dream Cruise. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Adrift. (8/10)
♡ Watercloros. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Forest under the Sea. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ M Is for Magic by Neil Gaiman. (8/10):
♡♡♡ The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Troll Bridge. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Don't Ask Jack. (8.5/10)
♡ How to Sell the Ponti Bridge. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ October in the Chair. (8.5/10)
♡ Chivalry. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Price. (8.5/10)
♡ How to Talk to Girls at Parties. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Sunbird. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Witch's Headstone. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Instructions. (9/10)
♥♥♥ Sin City: Booze, Broads, & Bullets by Frank Miller. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Just Another Saturday Night. (8/10)
♡ Fat Man and Little Boy. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Customer is Always Right. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Silent Night. (9/10)
♡♡♡ And Behind Door Number Three? (8/10)
♡ Blue Eyes. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Rats. (8/10)
♡ Daddy's Little Girl. (7.5/10)
♡ Wrong Turn. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Wrong Track. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Babe Wore Red. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Volume 1 by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. (8.5/10)☼
♡♡♡ Allan and the Sundered Veil. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Acts of Worship by Yukio Mishima. (7.5/10):
♡ Fountains in the Rain. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Raisin Bread. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Sword. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Sun and Sunset. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Cigarette. (8/10)
♡ Martyrdom. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Acts of Worship. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Weiser Book of Horror and the Occult ( PART 1--- PART 2) by Various, compiled by Lon Milo DuQuette. (8/10):
♡♡♡ The Haunted and the Haunters (or, the House and the Brain) by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Casting the Runes by M.R. James. (8/10)
♡ Luella Miller by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. (8/10)
♡♡♡ An Inhabitant of Carcosa by Ambrose Bierce.(8.5/10)
♡♡♡ No. 252 Rue M. le Prince by Ralph Adams Cram. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Testament of Magdalen Blair by Aleister Crowley. (9/10)
♡ The Messenger by Robert W. Chambers. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Ring of Thoth by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. (8/10)
♡ A Dream of Red Hands by Bram Stoker. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe. (8/10)
♡ The Alchemist by H.P. Lovecraft. (7.5/10)
♡ Dickon the Devil by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The White People by Arthur Machen. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Sea Lure by Dion Fortune. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs. (8/10):
♡♡♡ The Monkey's Paw. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Lady of the Barge. (8/10)
♡ Bill's Paper Chase. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Well. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Cupboard Love. (8.5/10)
♡ In the Library. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Captain Rogers. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Tiger's Skin. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ A Mixed Proposal. (8/10)
♡♡♡ An Adulteration Act. (8/10)
♡ A Golden Venture. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Three at Table. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Campfire Chillers by Various. (8/10):☼
♡♡♡ The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe. (8/10)
♡ Mrs. Amworth by E.F. Benson. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Phantom Coach by Amelia B. Edwards. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Where Angels Fear by Manley Wade Wellman. (8/10)
♡ What Was It? by Fitz-James O'Brien. (7.5/10)
♡ The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Ghost of Fear by H.G. Wells. (8/10)
♥♥♥ We Can Remember It for You Wholesale and Other Classic Stories by Philip K. Dick (7.5/10):☁
♡ The Cookie Lady. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Beyond the Door. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Prominent Author. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ We Can Remember It for You Wholesale. (8/10)
Series and Sequeled Works:
♥♥♥ Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz (illustrated by Stephen Gammell). (8/10):☼✿
♡ The Big Toe. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Walk. (8/10)
♡♡♡ "What Do You Come For?" (8/10)
♡ Me Tie Dough-ty Walker! (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Thing. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Cold as Clay. (8.5/10)
♡ The White Wolf. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Haunted House. (7.5/10)
♡ The Guests. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Girl Who Stood on a Grave. (8/10)
♡♡♡ A New Horse. (7.5/10)
♡ Alligators. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Room for One More. (8.5/10)
♡ The Wendigo. (7.5/10)
♡ The Dead Man's Brains. (7/10)
♡ "May I Carry Your Basket?" (7.5/10)
♡ The Hook (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The White Satin Evening Gown. (8/10)
♡♡♡ High Beams. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Babysitter. (8/10)
♡ The Viper. (7/10)
♡ The Attic. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Aaron Kelly's Bones. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Wait Till Martin Comes. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Ghost With Bloody Fingers. (7.5/10)
♥ More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz (illustrated by Stephen Gammell). (8/10):
♡♡♡ Something Was Wrong. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Wreck. (8/10)
♡♡♡ One Sunday Morning. (8/10)
♡ Sounds. (7/10)
♡ A Weird Blue Light. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Somebody Fell from Aloft. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Little Black Dog. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Clinkity-Clink. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Bride. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Rings on Her Fingers. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Drum. (8.5/10)
♡ The Window. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Wonderful Sausage. (7.5/10)
♡ The Cat's Paw. (8/10)
♡ The Voice. (7/10)
♡♡♡ "Oh, Susannah!" (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Man in the Middle. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Cat in the Shopping Bag. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Bed by the Window. (8/10)
♡ The Dead Man's Hand. (7/10)
♡♡♡ A Ghost in the Mirror. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Curse. (7.5/10)
♡ The Church. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Bad News. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Cemetery Soup. (7.5/10)
♡ The Brown Suit. (7.5/10)
♡ Thumpity-Thump. (7.5/10)
☁ --> Not all stories in the compendium listed, as some have been read in previous years or are still to be finished.
☼ --> Not only short stories included in the compendium, but only short stories listed here.
✿ --> A series of short story collections, wherein the short stories themselves are primarily independent of each other or stories within other volumes (though sometimes tied together by a general setting or plot device).
PLAYS:
♥♥♥ M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang. (9/10)
♥♥♥ Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill. (8.5/10)
♥ Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet. (7/10)
♥♥♥ Othello by William Shakespeare. (8/10)
POETRY:
♥♥♥ The Homeric Hymns by Various Anonymous (translated by Thelma Sargent) (8/10):☁
♡♡♡ To Hestia. (8/10)
♡♡♡ To Earth, Mother of All. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ To Helios. (8/10)
♡♡♡ To Selene. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ To the Dioscuri. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Beastly Tales From Here to There by Vikram Seth. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Crocodile and the Monkey. (8/10)
♡ The Louse and the Mosquito. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Mouse and the Snake. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Rat and the Ox. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Eagle and the Beetle. (9/10)
♡ The Hare and the Tortoise. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Cat and the Cock. (8/10)
♡ The Goat and the Ram. (7.5/10)
♡ The Frog and the Nightingale. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Elephant and the Tragopan. (9.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Book of Ballads compiled by Charles Vess. (8/10)
♡ The False Knight Upon the Road. (7/10)
♡♡♡ King Henry. (8/10)
♡ Thomas the Rhymer. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Barbara Allen. (8.5/10)
♡ The Three Lovers. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Tam-Lin. (8/10)
♡ The Daemon Lover. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Twa Corbies. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Sovay. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Galtee Farmer. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Alison Gross. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Black Fox. (8/10)
♡ The Great Selchie of Sule Skerry. (7/10)
♥♥♥ Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Naming of Cats. (8/10)
♡ The Old Gambie Cat. (7.5/10)
♡ Growltiger's Last Stand. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Rum Tum Tugger. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Song of the Jellicles. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Old Deuteronomy. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Of the Awefull Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Mr. Mistoffelees. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Macavity: The Mystery Cat. (9/10)
♡ Gus: The Theatre Cat. (7.5/10)
♡ Bustopher Jones: The Cat about Town. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Ad-dressing of Cats. (9/10)
♡ Cat Morgan Introduces Himself. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Евгений Онегин (Eugene Onegin) ( PART 1--- PART 2), А.С. Пушкин (by Alexander Pushkin). (10/10)
♥ The Other Country by Carol Ann Duffy. (7.5/10):
♡♡♡ Originally. (9.5/10)
♡♡♡ In Mrs Tilscher's Class. (8.5/10)
♡ Sit at Peace. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Hometown. (7.5/10)
♡ Translating the English, 1989. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Mrs Skinner, North Street. (8/10)
♡ Too Bad. (6/10)
♡ Weasel Words. (6.5/10)
♡♡♡ Poet for Our Times. (7.5/10)
♡ Job Creation. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Making Money. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Talent Contest. (7.5/10)
♡ Ape. (6.5/10)
♡ The Legend. (7.5/10)
♡ Descendants. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ We Remember Your Childhood Well. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Act of Imagination. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Somewhere Someone's Eyes. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Liar. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Boy. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Eley's Bullet. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Following Francis. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Survivor. (8/10)
♡♡♡ An Afternoon With Rhiannon. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Losers. (8/10)
♡ M-M-Memory. (7/10)
♡ Père Lachaise. (7.5/10)
♡ Funeral. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Dream of a Lost Friend. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Like This. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Who Loves You. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Two Small Poems of Desire. (7.5/10)
♡ Girlfriends. (7/10)
♡ A Shilling for the Sea. (6.5/10)
♡♡♡ Hard to Say. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Kissing Gate. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Words, Wide Night. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Darling Letters. (7.5/10)
♡ Away From Home. (7.5/10)
♡ The Literature Act. (6/10)
♡♡♡ River. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Way My Mothers Speaks. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ In Your Mind. (8/10)
♥♥♥ The Weiser Book of Horror and the Occult, compiled by Lon Milo DuQuette. (8/10):
♡♡♡ At the Home of Poe by Frank Belknap Long, Jr. (8.5/10)
♥ Poems of Gratitude by Various (compiled and edited by Emily Fragos. (/10):☁
♡♡♡ Wild Gratitude by Edward Hirsch. (7.5/10)
Series and Sequeled Works:
♥♥♥ The Divine Comedy: Inferno by Dante Alighieri. (8.5/10)
♥ The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz (illustrated by Stephen Gammell). (8/10):☼
♡♡♡ A Man Who Lived in Leeds (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Old Woman All Skin and Bone (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Hearse Song. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Slithery-Dee. (8/10)
♥♥♥ More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz (illustrated by Stephen Gammell). (8/10):☼
♡♡♡ BA-ROOOM! (8.5/10)
☁ --> Not all poems in the compendium listed, as some have been read in previous years or are still to be finished.
☼ --> Not only poetry included in compendium, but only poetry listed here.
GRAPHIC NOVELS:
♥♥♥ Cat Diary: Yon & Mu by Junji Ito. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. (9.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Book of Ballads by Charles Vess with Various. (8/10)**
♥♥♥ The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Volume 1 by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. (8.5/10)♧
♥♥♥ Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel by Anya Ulinich. (8/10)
Series and Sequeled Works:
♥ Ex Machina: March to War by Brian K. Vaughan, Tony Harris and Chris Sprouse. (7.5/10)☁
♥ Ex Machina: Smoke, Smoke by Brian K. Vaughan, Tony Harris and Tom Feister. (7/10)
♥♥♥ Sin City: The Hard Goodbye by Frank Miller. (8.5/10)
♥ Sin City: A Dame to Kill For by Frank Miller. (8/10)
♥ Sin City: The Big Fat Kill by Frank Miller. (8.5/10)
♥ Sin City: The Yellow Bastardvv by Frank Miller. (8.5/10)
♥ Sin City: Family Values by Frank Miller. (7.5/10)
♥ Sin City: Booze, Broads, & Bullets by Frank Miller. (8/10)**
♧ --> Part of a series, but the only book from it read this year.
☁ --> Not all books/stories in the series listed, as some have been read in previous years, or are still to be finished.
✿ --> A series of short story collections, wherein the short stories themselves are primarily independent of each other or stories within other volumes (though sometimes tied together by a general setting or plot device).
** --> Short stories collection, or has short stories included in the book. Refer to the Short Stories header above for break-down of individual stories.
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