Books Read in 2018

Cumulative Reading List

Here's where I'll be tracking my reading in 2018.

My goal for the year, as usual, is 50 books. In 2017 I just barely made it to 30, so I'm hoping for a much better showing in 2018.

JANUARY

1. Balthus: Cats and Girls. Sabine Rewald (2013; nonfiction/art history; 176 pages)
2. Intruder in the Dark (Chief Inspector Littlejohn #43). George Bellairs (1966; fiction; 196 pages)
3. A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple #5). Agatha Christie (1950; fiction; 298 pages, e-book)
4. Vintage Murder (Roderick Alleyn #5). Ngaio Marsh (1937; fiction; 278 pages, e-book)
5. If Morning Ever Comes. Anne Tyler (1964; fiction; 210 pages, e-book)

FEBRUARY

6. How to Be Human. Paula Cocozza (2017; fiction; 288 pages)
7. My Sister's Bones. Nualla Ellwood (2017; fiction; 385 pages)
8. Miss Zukas and the Library Murders (Miss Zukas #1). Jo Dereske (1994; fiction; 227 pages, e-book)
9. Just Kids. Patti Smith (2010; memoir; 304 pages)

MARCH

10. Coffin, Scarcely Used (Flaxborough Chronicles #1). Colin Watson (1958; fiction; e-book)
11. Holmes Entangled. Gordon McAlpine (2018; fiction; 215 pages; e-book; ARC)
12. Five Children and It. E. Nesbit (1902; children's fiction; 109 pages, e-book)
13. Give the Boys a Great Big Hand (87th Precinct #11). Ed McBain (1960; fiction; 204 pages, e-book)
14. The Rabbit and the Shadow. Mélanie Rutten (2013; US edition 2018; children's fiction/picture book; 51 pages)

APRIL

15. Murder in the Meadow (DI Hillary Greene #7). Faith Martin (first published 2008 as Beside a Narrow Stream; fiction; 239 pages, e-book; NetGalley ARC, 2018)
16. The Cottingley Secret. Hazel Gaynor (2017; fiction; 383 pages; ARC)
17. Time Out of Joint. Philip K. Dick (1959; fiction: sci-fi; 240 pages, Kindle edition)

MAY

18. The Quiet American. Graham Greene (1955; fiction; 232 pages, Kindle edition)
19. Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels. Katherine Anne Porter (1939; fiction; about 150 pages, e-book)
20. At the Mountains of Madness. H.P. Lovecraft (1931; first published 1936; fantasy/sci-fi; about 200 pages, e-book)

JUNE

21. When You Reach Me. Rebecca Stead (2009; fiction; 210 pages, Kindle edition)
22. Golem. David Wisniewski; illus. by author (1996; fiction: children's lit; 32 pages)
23. The Gardener. Sarah Stewart; illus. by David Small (1996; fiction: children's lit; 40 pages)
24. The Adventures of Miss Petitfour. Anne Michaels; illus. by Emma Block (2015/2018; fiction; children's lit; 144 pages)

JULY

25. Tailspin. Sandra Brown (2018; fiction; 300 pages, Kindle edition)
26. The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot #6). Agatha Christie (1928; fiction; 304 pages, Kindle edition)

AUGUST

27. The Dead House. Billy O'Callaghan (2017/2018; fiction; 224 pages, Kindle edition)
28. A Long Time Coming. Aaron Elkins (2018; fiction; 268 pages, Kindle edition)
29. Last Song Sung (Cullen & Cobb #3). David A. Poulsen (2018; fiction; 352 pages, Kindle)

SEPTEMBER

30. Call for the Dead (George Smiley #1). John le Carré (1961; fiction; 171 pages, Kindle)
31. A Morbid Taste for Bones (Brother Cadfael #1). Ellis Peters (1977; fiction; 213 pages, Kindle)

OCTOBER

32. The Night She Died (Inspector Thanet #1). Dorothy Simpson (1980; fiction; 220 pages, Kindle)
33. A Shadow on the Wall. Jonathan Aycliffe (2000; fiction; 200 pages, Kindle)
34. The Man Who Couldn't Miss (Stewart Hoag #10). David Handler (2018; fiction; 272 pages, Kindle)
35. Last Bus to Woodstock (Inspector Morse #1). Colin Dexter (1975; fiction; 324 pages, Kindle)
36. Last Seen Wearing (Inspector Morse #2). Colin Dexter (1976; fiction; 376 pages, Kindle)

NOVEMBER

37. Broomsticks Over Flaxborough (Flaxborough Chronicles #7). Colin Watson (1972; fiction; 192 pages, Kindle)

DECEMBER

38. The Red Book of Primrose House (Potting Shed Mystery #2). Marty Wingate (2014; fiction; 274 pages, Kindle)