Feed The Bookworm! My 2018 Reading Challenge Results

I am a big reader; regular, eBook, and audiobook. I don’t care how the information gets uploaded into my brain as long as it does. I keep track of my consumption on GoodReads (both the phone app and the website) and have participated in their reading challenge since 2011. My goal for 2018 is 120 books. I ended up reading a grand total of 124 books.

The categories below are a bit broad because of the difficulty categorizing books rather than the easiness of rating movies. I rate them on GoodReads on their 5-star scale with a minor review if interested (everything below has a link). It comes down to: I highly recommend, I recommend, or I do not recommend. I separate out the fiction, non-fiction, and series that I read. Have a look and let me know your thoughts on these. Enjoy!

Books That Are Apart Of A Series I Am Reading (And Love):

• The Hostile Hospital (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #8) – Lemony Snicket
• Dead and Gone (Sookie Stackhouse, #9) – Charlaine Harris
• The Carnivorous Carnival (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #9) – Lemony Snicket
• American Assassin (Mitch Rapp, #1) – Vince Flynn
• Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple #1) – Agatha Christie
• In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1) – Tana French
• The Slippery Slope (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #10) – Lemony Snicket

• The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad #2) – Tana French

• The Grim Grotto (A Series of Unfortunate Events #11) – Lemony Snicket

• Dead in the Family (Sookie Stackhouse #10) – Charlaine Harris

• The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot #1) – Agatha Christie

• The Hanging Tree (Peter Grant #6) – Ben Aaronovitch
• Beartown (Beartown #1) – Fredrik Backman
• The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events #12) – Lemony Snicket
• The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1) – Lemony Snicket
• The Black Echo (Harry Bosch #1) – Michael Connelly
• Dead Reckoning (Sookie Stackhouse #11) – Charlaine Harris
• The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot #2) – Agatha Christie
• The Black Ice (Harry Bosch #2) – Michael Connelly
• Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad #3) – Tana French
• Deadlocked (Sookie Stackhouse #12) – Charlaine Harris
• Girl Waits with Gun (Kopp Sisters #1) – Amy Stewart
• Brief Cases (Dresden Files #15.1) – Jim Butcher
• Us Against You (Beartown #2) – Fredrik Backman
• Mr. Kiss and Tell (Veronica Mars #2) – Rob Thomas
• Still Me (Me Before You #3) – Jojo Moyes
• Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot #3) – Agatha Christie
• The Concrete Blond (Harry Bosch #3) – Michael Connelly
• Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander #2) – Diana Gabaldon
• Broken Harbour (Dublin Murder Squad #4) – Tana French
• Lock In (Lock In #1) – John Scalzi
• Dead Ever After (Sookie Stackhouse #13 – Final book) – Charlaine Harris
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot #4) – Agatha Christie

Fiction Awesome:

• A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles
• And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
• The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. – Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland
• Magpie Murders – Anthony Horowitz
• The Forgetting Time – Sharon Guskin
• A Man Called Ove – Fredrik Backman
• My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry – Fredrik Backman

• Adjustment Day – Chuck Palahniuk

• One Plus One – Jojo Moyes

• The Mountain Between Us – Charles Martin

• And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer – Fredrik Backman

• Closer Than You Know – Brad Parks
• My Oxford Year – Julia Whelan

• Jane Steele -Lyndsay Faye

• Noir – Christopher Moore
• Kane and Abel (Kane and Abel #1) – Jeffrey Archer
• Have a Nice Day – Billy Crystal

Non-Fiction Awesome:

• Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks: A Librarian’s Love Letters and Breakup Notes to the Books in Her Life – Annie Spence

• Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration – Ed Catmull
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking – Susan Cain
• Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life…And Maybe the World – William McRaven
• Performing Under Pressure: The Science of Doing Your Best When It Matters Most –
  Hendrie Weisinger, J.P. Pawliw-Fry
• The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement – Eliyahu Goldratt
• Leaders Eat Last – Simon Sinek
• You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth – Jen Sincero
• A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages – Kristin Chenoweth

• The Geek Feminist Revolution – Kameron Hurley

• We Are Never Meeting In Real Life – Samantha Irby
• Calypso – David Sedaris
• Good Mourning – Elizabeth Meyer
• What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People – Joe Navarro

• The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century – Kirk W. Johnson

• Educated: A Memoir – Tara Westover
• Procrastination: Why You Do It, What To Do About It – Jane B. Burka
• The Library Book – Susan Orlean

Fiction Recommended:

• Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross #1) – James Patterson

• The Girls – Emma Cline
• The Space Between the Stars – Anne Corlett
• ‘Round Midnight – Laura McBride
• Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman

• The Constant Gardener – John le Carré

• Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie [BBC Big Read]

• Dark Lover (Black Dagger Brotherhood #1) – J.R. Ward
• The Man in the Brown Suit (Colonel Race #1) – Agatha Christie
• The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe #1) – Raymond Chandler
• Lord of the Flies – William Golding
• The Deal of a Lifetime – Fredrik Backman
• The Kissing Booth – Beth Reekles
• The Great Alone – Kristin Hannah
• The Death of Mrs. Westaway – Ruth Ware
• Call Me By Your Name – André Aciman
• Holes – Louis Sachar [BBC Big Read]
• Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs #1) – Richard K. Morgan
• The Last Mrs. Parrish – Liv Constantine
• Beautiful You – Chuck Palahniuk
• The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler #1) – Caleb Carr
• Bel Canto – Ann Patchett

Non-Fiction Recommended:

• Grit – Angela Duckworth

• Dust Bowl Girls: The Inspiring Story of the Team That Barnstormed Its Way to Basketball Glory – Lydia Reeder

• The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated – Helaine Olen, Harold Pollack

• David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants – Malcolm Gladwell
• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books – Azar Nafisi
• Presto! How I Made Over 100 Pounds Disappear and Other Magical Tales – Penn Jillette

• Outliers: The Story of Success – Malcolm Gladwell

• So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed – Jon Ronson

• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference – Malcolm Gladwell

• The 7 Habits of Highy Effective People – Stephen Covey
• Leadership from the Inside Out: Becoming a Leader for Life – Kevin Cashman

• Find Your Why: A Practical Guide to Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team – Simon Sinek

• Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between) -Lauren Graham

• How to Read Literature Like a Professor -Thomas C. Foster

• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion – Robert B. Cialdini

• Molly’s Game: From Hollywood’s Elite to Wall Street’s Billionaire Boys Club, My High-Stakes Adventure in the World of Underground Poker – Molly Bloom

• Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved – Kate Bowler

• The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative – Vivian Gornick
• The Creative Curve: How to Develop the Right Idea at the Right Time – Allen Gannett

Fiction NOT Recommended:

• Lincoln in the Bardo – George Saunders
• The Dry (Aaron Falk, #1) – Jane Harper
• The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2) – Dan Brown [BBC Big Read]
• Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks [BBC Big Read]

• The Library at Mount Char – Scott Hawkins

• The Woman in Cabin 10 – Ruth Ware
• Sing, Unburied, Sing – Jesmyn Ward
• The BFG – Roald Dahl

• Good Morning, Midnight – Lily Brooks-Dalton

• All the Ugly and Wonderful Things – Bryn Greenwood

• All the Birds in the Sky – Charlie Jane Anders

Non-Fiction NOT Recommended:

• Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom – Condoleezza Rice

• Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny! – Anthony Robbins

Books Re-read:

• The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern

Past Rankings from old blog:

• 2011
• 2012
• 2013
• 2014
• 2015
• 2016
• 2017

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