Here is my completed 2018 reading list. I had a reading goal of 60 books this year and I finished 50. I became a new mum in August so it has been a bit harder to get time for reading! So I’m pretty happy with 50 which includes War and Peace.
I really enjoyed the mix and quality of books I read this year, including 6 Hugo Award Winners, 4 Man Booker Winners, and 2 Pulitzer Prize Winners.
Of the 50 books on my 2018 reading list, I rated 23 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ and 23 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ and 4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️. I read 24 on my Kindle, 21 paperbacks and 5 Audible books. All these stats make me want to add some pie charts.. maybe next year.
My 2018 Reading Highlights
- Overall favourite book of 2018: Anna Karenina
- Best science fiction: The Broken Earth Series, and Dune
- Best fantasy: The Golden Compass
- Most unexpected good read: A Gentleman in Moscow
- Darkest book of the year: The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Best essay: A Room of One’s Own
- Greatest accomplishment: War and Peace
- Best dystopian: Fahrenheit 451
- Fave historical fiction: Pachinko and The English Patient
- Fave contemporary fiction: Nutshell
- Best English classic: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Click on the titles to link through to my reviews.
| Title | Author | My rating /5 |
| Dune | Frank Herbert | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| A Gentleman in Moscow | Amor Towles | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Spy Who Came In From The Cold | John Le Carre | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Manhattan Beach | Jennifer Egan | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Stone Sky (#3 Broken Earth) | N.K. Jemisin | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Pachinko | Min Jin Lee | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Obelisk Gate (#2 Broken Earth) | N.K. Jemisin | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Spinning Silver | Naomi Novik | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| An American Marriage | Tayari Jones | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Portrait of a Lady | Henry James | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Fifth Season (#1 Broken Earth) | N.K. Jemisin | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Little Fires Everywhere | Celeste Ng | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Something in the Water | Catherine Steadman | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| American Gods | Neil Gaiman | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The English Patient | Michael Ondaatje | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Golden House | Salman Rushdie | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Sympathizer | Viet Thanh Nguyen | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Nutshell | Ian McEwan | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Amsterdam | Ian McEwan | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Lady of the Rivers | Philippa Gregory | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Hours | Michael Cunningham | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| A Room of One’s Own | Virginia Woolf | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe | Benjamin Alire Saenz | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Lady Chatterley’s Lover | D.H. Lawrence | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Blind Assassin | Margaret Atwood | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Three Daughters of Eve | Elif Shafak | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| My Name is Lucy Barton | Elizabeth Strout | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Death on the Nile | Agatha Christie | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | Agatha Christie | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Mysterious Affair at Styles | Agatha Christie | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| History of the Rain | Niall Williams | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Golden Compass | Philip Pullman | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Reader | Bernhard Schlink | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Marriage Plot | Jeffrey Eugenides | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Autumn | Ali Smith | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Far From the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Innocent | Ian McEwan | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Happiness Project | Gretchen Rubin | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Artemis | Andy Weir | ⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow | Yuval Noah Harari | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
| The Mirror Thief | Martin Seay | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
My rating scale
| ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ | Love, love, love |
| ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ | Really enjoyed the story and the writing |
| ⭐️⭐️⭐️ | Enjoyable, but nothing too memorable |
| ⭐️⭐️ | Wouldn’t recommend |
| ⭐️ | Dull, bad, stopped reading halfway |
