Books of 2018

 

2018 was the year I started listening to audiobooks. I’d never tried them and wanted to “hear” what they were all about. Although I still prefer reading books, I found that listening to audiobooks was a fun way to pass the time while I was walking or doing things around the house. I learned, however, not to listen while I was cooking because of a measuring incident while listening to a thriller!

I read some excellent nonfiction this year, including Killers of the Flower Moon, Educated and Let’s Pretend This Never Happened. And I continued to enjoy several of my blogging/writing friends’ books, including The Bone Curse by Carrie Rubin, The Storyteller Speaks by Annika Perry, Second Chance Romance by Jill Weatherholt and Death in a Mudflat by Noelle Granger.

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Alone – Lost Overboard in the Indian Ocean – Brett Archibald – 1/16/18 – 3.5 bookmarks

The Moth Catcher by Ann Cleeves – 1/17/18 – 3 bookmarks

Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple – 1/23/18 – 3 bookmarks

The Perfect Roommate by Minka Kent – 1/29/18 – 3 bookmarks

        

Days Without End by Sebastian Barry – 2/4/18 – 5 bookmarks

Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage – 2/10/18 – 3.5 bookmarks

Tell No One by Harlan Coben – 2/15/18 – 4 bookmarks

We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter – 2/22/18 – 3.5 bookmarks

        

Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty, read by Caroline Lee – 3/5/18 – 4 bookmarks

The Bone Curse by Carrie Rubin – 3/11/18 – 4 bookmarks

Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, Narrated by Christina Delaine – 3/17/18 – 4 bookmarks

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin – 3/22/18 – 3 bookmarks

        

Never Let You Go by Chevy Stevens, narrated by Rachel Fulginiti and Caitlin Davies – 4/2/18 – 3 bookmarks

The Storyteller Speaks: Powerful Stories to Win Your Heart by Annika Perry – 4/8/18 – 4 bookmarks

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng, narrated by Cassandra Campbell – 4/21/18 – 4 bookmarks

The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin – 4/29/19 – 4 bookmarks

         

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann – 5/10/18 – 4 bookmarks

“La Côte Basque” from Answered Prayers by Truman Capote – 5/12/18

Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman – 5/21/18 – 4 bookmarks

Second Chance Romance by Jill Weatherholt – 6/13/18 – 5 bookmarks

         

The Dry by Jane Harper – 6/18/18 – 4 bookmarks

Miller’s Valley by Anna Quindlen – 6/22/18 – 3 bookmarks

Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine – 6/27/18 – 3 bookmarks

David Bowie – A Life by Dylan Jones – 7/10/18 – 4 bookmarks

         

Death in a Mudflat by N. A. Granger – 7/20/18 – 4 bookmarks

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett – 7/25/18 – 5 bookmarks

Hope Never Dies: An Obama Biden Mystery by Andrew Shaffer – 8/4/18 -4 bookmarks

Audiobook: Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter, narrated by Kathleen Early – 8/11/18 – 3 bookmarks

  

Andy Warhol Was a Hoarder by Claudia Kalb – 8/18/18 – 5 bookmarks

The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov – 9/1/18 – 5 bookmarks

The Murder of Mary Russell by Laurie R. King – 9/15/18 – 4 bookmarks

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood – 9/20/18 – 4 bookmarks

         

Educated – A Memoir by Tara Westover – 9/29/18 – 4 bookmarks

Dry by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman – 10/9/18 – 4 bookmarks

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett – 10/15/18 – 5 bookmarks

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn – 10/127/18 – 3 bookmarks

   

Commonwealth by Ann Patchett – 11/4/18 – 5 bookmarks

Exposed by Lisa Scottoline – 11/11/18 – 2 bookmarks

Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson – 11/20/18 – 5 bookmarks

Those Girls by Chevy Stevens – 12/4/18 – 3 bookmarks

    

Blue Monday by Nicci French – 12/9/18 – 5 bookmarks

Audiobook: Have a Nice Day by Billy Crystal and Quinton Peeples – 12/14/18 – 5 bookmarks

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah – 12/21/18 – 4 bookmarks

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