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The books I read in 2018

2018 Reading List

January

  • The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig
  • Munich by Robert Harris
  • Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
  • The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee

February

  • 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

  • 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

  • Educated by Tara Westover
  • The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell

May

  • It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
  • A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

June

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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
  • Witch Wood by John Buchan

October

  • X-Men: Black - Magneto (2018) #1
  • The Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville
  • The Painter of Signs by RK Narayan
  • Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami (2018)

November

  • Detour de France by Michael Simkins
  • Tombland (The Shardlake series Book 7) by C. J. Sansom

December

  • 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 5: An Alien in New York by Peter Hogan
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