My Year in Reading — 2018

The books I read + loved in 2018.

Note: Books listed are not stack-ranked within their categories.

Top five!

• Pachinko…Min Jin Lee
• Motherhood…Sheila Heti
• Heart Berries…Terese Marie Mailhot
• The Idiot…Elif Batuman
• Tonight I’m Someone Else…Chelsea Hodson

Loved these ones IMMENSELY also

• 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write…Sarah Ruhl
• The Book of Mutter…Kate Zambreno
• Jell-O girls…Allie Rowbottom
• Things Are What You Make of Them…Adam J. Kurtz
• Heavy…Kiese Laymon
• Chasing Old Haunts…Jessie Knoles
• The Sarah Book…Scott McClanahan
• In Their Faces A Landmark…McSweeney’s
• Her Body and Other Stories…Carmen Maria Machado
• madness…sam sax
• Sister Love: The Letters Of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989
• Heroines…Kate Zambreno
• My Body is a Book of Rules…Elissa Washuta
• Gilead…Marilynne Robinson
• Meanwhile in San Francisco…Wendy Macnaughton
• Whiskey & Ribbons…Leesa Cross-Smith
• Open Me…Lisa Locascio
• Outline…Rachel Cusk
• When Women Were Birds…Terry Tempest Williams
• The Self Unstable…Elisa Gabbert
• The Power…Naomi Alderman
• The Pisces…Melissa Broder
• Don’t Call Us Dead…Danez Smith
• Sick: A Memoir….Porochista Khakpour
• Ritual in Blue…Caroline Kessler
• How to Write An Autobiographical Novel…Alexander Chee
• The Days of Abandonment…Elena Ferrante
• The Vegetarian…Han Kang
• The Selfishness of Others…Kristin Dombek

Learned something(s) important from these regarding craft or content

• The Most Good You Can Do…Peter Singer
• The Body Keeps the Score…Bessel van der Kolk
• The Seas…Samantha Hunt
• How to Sit…Tyrese Coleman
• Real Artists Have Day Jobs…Sarah Benincasa
• Your Art Will Save Your Life…Beth Pickens
• Reality Hunger…David Shields
• I Was Supposed to Protect You From All This…Nadja Spiegelman
• Happiness: A Memoir…Heather Harpham
• No One Tells You This…Glynnis MacNicol
• The Tao of Psychology: Synchronicity and the Self…Jean Shinoda Bolen
• The Verbally Abusive Relationship…Patricia Evans
• Monsterhuman…Kjersti Skomsvold
• In the Blink of an Eye…Walter Murch
• Maps Are Lines We Draw…Allison Coffelt
• This Will Be My Undoing…Morgan Jerkins
• Anatomy of the Spirit…Caroline Myss
• When Breath Becomes Air…Paul Kalanithi
• Animals Eat Each Other…Elle Nash
• The Seven Stages of Money Maturity…George Kinder

Would read again if I could go back in time and re-decide

• Imagine Wanting Only This…Kristen Radtke
• Plainwater…Anne Carson
• [insert boy]…Danez Smith
• Homesick for Another World…Ottessa Moshfegh
• Rosalie lightning…Tom Hart
• Green Girl…Kate Zambreno
• A Manual for Cleaning Women…Lucia Berlin

Reread some favorites from the past & they’re still good

• The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up…Marie Kondo
• An Interrupted Life…Etty Hillesum
• The Amber Spyglass…Phillip Pullman
• On Becoming an Alchemist…Catherine MacCoun