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December 30, 2018
Over the last few years I’ve been trying to create a list of all the books I’ve ever read to record my reading history. When my daughter recently asked me to choose between music and books, I ultimately had to give up books first because they are such an important part of my breathing space.
These are the 52 (generating a very satisfying average) books I read in 2018.
January 2018
The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig
Munich by Robert Harris
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
January-February 2018
The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
February 2018
Fictitious Dishes by Dinah Fried
Marvel 1602: 10th Anniversary Edition by Neil Gaiman (2013)
The Lighthouse by Paco Roca
Playing to The Gallery by Grayson Perry
The Killing of SS Oberhruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich by Callum MacDonald
Holga by Michael Kenna
The Optician of Lampedusa by Emma Jane Kirby
March 2018
Autism: A Very Short Introduction by Uta Frith (2008)
Public Library and other stories by Ali Smith
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Shelley
A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen by David Hockney and Martin Gayford (2016)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (1963)
Triggers by Marshall Goldsmith
April 2018
Educated by Tara Westover
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell
May 2018
It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
June 2018
October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Miéville
Selected Stories by Brian McCabe (2003)
Koya Bound: Eight Days on The Kumano Kodo by Craig Mod & Dan Rubin
July 2018
Grey Wolf by Mike Dunn
Mindfulness: A practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world by Mark Williams
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (1963)
Epictetus: Discourses and Selected Writings
The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
August 2018
Lincoln in The Bardo by George Saunders
Fatty Batter: How cricket saved my life by Michael Simkins
La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One by Philip Pullman
Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 by Robert Kurson
Lullaby by Leïla Slimani
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and The Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning
The Hand by George Simenon
September 2018
Hag-seed by Margaret Atwood
How to be Brilliant by Nicholas Bate
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (2010)
Be Bold by Nicholas Bate
Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s design process during the golden age of Steve Jobs by Ken Kocienda
September-October 2018
Witch Wood by John Buchan
October 2018
X-Men: Black - Magneto (2018) #1
The Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville
The Painter of Signs by RK Narayan
October-November 2018
Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami (2018)
November 2018
Detour de France by Michael Simkins
Tombland (The Shardlake series Book 7) by C. J. Sansom
December 2018
Far Afield by Susanna Kaysen
Nemo: The Roses of Berlin by Alan Moore & Kevin O’Neill
An Improbable Friendship by Anthony David
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
The Landscape by Don McCullin
Apollo by Matt Fitch
Resident Alien Volume 6 (An Alien in New York) by Peter Hogan
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