2018 Books

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Here are all the books I read and reviewed in 2018:

★★★☆☆ The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner (The Queen’s Thief #1)
★★☆☆☆ The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan #2)
★★★★☆ Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
★★☆☆☆ Doctor Who: How to Be a Time Lord by Craig Donaghy
★★★★★ Golden Son by Pierce Brown (Red Rising #2)
★★★★☆ Planet of the Apes: Tales from the Forbidden Zone edited by Rich Handley and Jim Beard
★★★☆☆ Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake by Frank W. Abagnale with Stan Redding
★★★☆☆ Shadow Scale by Rachel Hartman (Seraphina #2)
★★★★☆ The Widow’s House by Carol Goodman
★★★★☆ Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo (Grisha #3)
★★★★☆ Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao (Rise of the Empress #1)
★★☆☆☆ Origin by Dan Brown (Robert Langdon #5)
★★★☆☆ All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
★★☆☆☆ Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History by Katy Tur
★★★☆☆ First Test by Tamora Pierce (Protector of the Small #1)
★★★★☆ Morning Star by Pierce Brown (Red Rising #3)
★★★★☆ Defy the Stars by Claudia Gray (Constellation #1)
★★★☆☆ Doctor Who: A History of Humankind by Justin Richards
★★★☆☆ Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold (Vorkosigan Saga #2)
★★☆☆☆ Harpist in the Wind by Patricia A. McKillip (Riddle-Master #3)
★★★★★ Wizard and Glass by Stephen King (The Dark Tower #4)
★★☆☆☆ Sir Thursday by Garth Nix (The Keys to the Kingdom #4)
★★★☆☆ The Little Sisters of Eluria by Stephen King
★★★☆☆ Lola by Melissa Scrivner Love
★★★☆☆ The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction by Neil Gaiman
★★★☆☆ Gwendy’s Button Box by Stephen King and Richard T. Chizmar
★★★★☆ Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo
★☆☆☆☆ Warp by Lev Grossman
★★★★☆ Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
★★★☆☆ Dreams of Gods & Monsters by Laini Taylor (Daughter of Smoke & Bone #3)
★★★★☆ Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View edited by Elizabeth Schaefer
★★☆☆☆ Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man’s Fundamentals for Delicious Living by Nick Offerman
★★★☆☆ A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal by Jen Waite
★★★☆☆ The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
★☆☆☆☆ Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
★★☆☆☆ Mind of My Mind by Octavia E. Butler (Patternist #2)
★★★☆☆ Star Wars: The Princess, the Scoundrel, and the Farm Boy by Alexandra Bracken
★★★☆☆ Assassin’s Quest by Robin Hobb (Farseer #3)
★★★☆☆ Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
★★★☆☆ The Warrior’s Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold (Vorkosigan Saga #3)
★★★☆☆ Final Girls by Riley Sager
★★☆☆☆ The Mysterious Mr. Quin by Agatha Christie
★★★★☆ The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
★★★★☆ Star Wars: Leia, Princess of Alderaan by Claudia Gray
★★★☆☆ How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
★★★★☆ Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
★★★☆☆ Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb (Liveship Traders #1)
★★☆☆☆ Calling on Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede (Enchanted Forest Chronicles #3)
★☆☆☆☆ Out of Orange by Cleary Wolters
★★★☆☆ Page by Tamora Pierce (Protector of the Small #2)
★★★★★ Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
★★★☆☆ Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff
★★★☆☆ A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas (Lady Sherlock #1)
★★★☆☆ Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson (The Stormlight Archive #3)
★★★★☆ Jamrach’s Menagerie by Carol Birch
★★★☆☆ The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King (The Dark Tower #4.5)
★★★☆☆ Enrique’s Journey: The Story of a Boy’s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother by Sonia Nazario
★★★☆☆ Mad Ship by Robin Hobb (Liveship Traders #2)
★★★★☆ Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
★★★★☆ We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson
★★☆☆☆ Batman: Nightwalker by Marie Lu
★★★★☆ The Dry by Jane Harper (Aaron Falk #1)
★★★☆☆ Frogkisser! by Garth Nix
★★☆☆☆ The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken (The Darkest Minds #1)
★★★☆☆ A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan (The Memoirs of Lady Trent #1)
★☆☆☆☆ Star Wars: So You Want to Be a Jedi? by Adam Gidwitz
★★★☆☆ The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King (The Dark Tower #4.5)
★★★★☆ The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
★★★☆☆ Squire by Tamora Pierce (Protector of the Small #3)
★★★☆☆ All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
★★★☆☆ These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner (Starbound #1)
★★★☆☆ Agents of Light and Darkness by Simon R. Green (Nightside #2)
★★★☆☆ We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
★★★☆☆ Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
★★☆☆☆ The Fireman by Joe Hill
★★★★☆ So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo
★★☆☆☆ Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
★★☆☆☆ Fortunate Son by Walter Mosley
★★★☆☆ Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan (Takeshi Kovacs #1)
★★★★★ I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
★★☆☆☆ The Lying Game by Ruth Ware
★★★★☆ Doctor Who: Bad Therapy by Matthew Jones (Virgin New Adventures #57)
★★★★☆ Ship of Destiny by Robin Hobb (Liveship Traders #3)
★★☆☆☆ Universal Harvester by John Darnielle
★★★☆☆ The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
★★★☆☆ Talking to Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede (Enchanted Forest Chronicles #4)
★★★☆☆ Star Wars: Beware the Power of the Dark Side! by Tom Angleberger
★★★★☆ This Shattered World by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner (Starbound #2)
★★☆☆☆ Authority by Jeff VanderMeer (Southern Reach #2)
★★★★☆ Warcross by Marie Lu (Warcross #1)
★★★☆☆ Lady Knight by Tamora Pierce (Protector of the Small #4)
★★★★★ The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers #1)
★★★☆☆ A Conspiracy in Belgravia by Sherry Thomas (Lady Sherlock #2)
★★★☆☆ Blindness by José Saramago
★★★★☆ Native Son by Richard Wright
★★☆☆☆ Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King
★★★☆☆ Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
★★★★★ Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman
★★★★☆ We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
★★☆☆☆ The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner (The Queen’s Thief #2)
★★★★☆ An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
★★★★★ Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King (The Dark Tower #5)
★★☆☆☆ A Light That Never Goes Out: The Enduring Saga of the Smiths by Tony Fletcher
★★★★☆ A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership by James Comey
★★☆☆☆ Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
★★★☆☆ The Door into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein
★★★★☆ Night of Cake & Puppets by Laini Taylor
★★★★☆ The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore
★★★☆☆ Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
★★★★☆ Star Wars: Lords of the Sith by Paul S. Kemp
★★☆☆☆ Their Fractured Light by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner (Starbound #3)
★★★★★ Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
★★★★☆ One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps by Andrea Pitzer
★★★☆☆ Renegades by Marissa Meyer (Renegades #1)
★★☆☆☆ The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
★★★☆☆ The Planet Thieves by Dan Krokos (The Planet Thieves #1)
★★★★★ A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers #2)
★★★☆☆ Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor (Binti #2)
★★★☆☆ Nazi Terror: The Gestapo, Jews, and Ordinary Germans by Eric A. Johnson
★★★★☆ Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
★★★☆☆ Skullduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy (Skullduggery Pleasant #1)
★★★☆☆ Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman
★★★☆☆ Blackout by Mira Grant (Newsflesh #3)
★★☆☆☆ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
★★★☆☆ Star Wars: Rebel Rising by Beth Revis
★★★☆☆ Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
★★★★☆ One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul
★★★★☆ O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
★★☆☆☆ The Hellfire Club by Jake Tapper
★★★☆☆ The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
★★★☆☆ Ethan of Athos by Lois McMaster Bujold (Vorkosigan Saga #6)
★★★★☆ Iron Gold by Pierce Brown (Red Rising #4)
★★★★☆ Self-Portrait with Boy by Rachel Lyon
★★★★☆ The Clockwork Dynasty by Daniel H. Wilson
★★☆☆☆ Broken Angels by Richard K. Morgan (Takeshi Kovacs #2)
★★★★☆ Solace of the Road by Siobhan Dowd
★★★★☆ Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
★★☆☆☆ Star Wars: Catalyst by James Luceno
★★★★☆ Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao
★★★★☆ The Power by Naomi Alderman
★★★☆☆ The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae
★★★☆☆ Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
★★★★★ Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
★★★☆☆ Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark
★★★☆☆ Playing with Fire by Derek Landy (Skulduggery Pleasant #2)
★★★☆☆ Song of Susannah by Stephen King (The Dark Tower #6)
★★★☆☆ Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France by Caroline Moorehead
★★★☆☆ Force of Nature by Jane Harper (Aaron Falk #2)
★★★★★ The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch (Gentleman Bastard #1)
★★★★☆ The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America’s Enemies by Jason Fagone
★★★☆☆ Star Wars: Canto Bight by Saladin Ahmed, Rae Carson, Mira Grant, and John Jackson Miller
★★★★☆ Everless by Sara Holland (Everless #1)
★★★★☆ Florida by Lauren Groff
★★★☆☆ The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold (Vorkosigan Saga #4)
★★★★☆ Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
★★★★★ The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
★★★★☆ The Dark Tower by Stephen King (The Dark Tower #7)
★★★★☆ Binti: The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor (Binti #3)
★★★☆☆ The Black Stars by Dan Krokos (The Planet Thieves #2)
★★★★☆ The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hainish Cycle #2)
★★★★☆ My Father, the Pornographer by Chris Offutt
★★★★☆ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter #1)
★★★☆☆ The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz (Hawthorne #1)
★★★☆☆ 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill
★★★☆☆ An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn
★★★☆☆ The Cruel Prince by Holly Black (The Folk of the Air #1)
★★★☆☆ Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story That Changed the Course of World War II by Ben Macintyre
★★★★☆ The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty (The Daevabad Trilogy #1)
★★★★☆ Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
★★★☆☆ Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston
★★★★☆ Trickster’s Choice by Tamora Pierce (Daughter of the Lioness #1)
★★★☆☆ The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (Thursday Next #1)
★★★★☆ The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander (The Chronicles of Prydain #1)
★★★★★ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter #2)
★★☆☆☆ The Faceless Ones by Derek Landy (Skulduggery Pleasant #3)
★★★☆☆ The Big Book of Swashbuckling Adventure: Classic Tales of Dashing Heroes, Dastardly Villains, and Daring Escapes edited by Lawrence Ellsworth
★★★★☆ Alex & Eliza by Melissa de la Cruz (Alex & Eliza #1)
★★★★☆ The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton with Lara Love Hardin
★★★★☆ Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward
★★★★☆ Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch (Gentleman Bastard #2)
★★★☆☆ The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
★★★☆☆ Nation by Terry Pratchett
★★★★☆ A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership by James Comey
★★★☆☆ Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey (The Expanse #1)
★★★★★ The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
★★★★☆ Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
★★★★☆ Arcadia by Iain Pears
★★★☆☆ The Tail of Emily Windsnap by Liz Kessler (Emily Windsnap #1)
★★★★☆ All Systems Red by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries #1)
★★★☆☆ Theonite: Planet Adyn by M. L. Wang (Theonite #1)
★★★☆☆ The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir
★★★☆☆ Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds by Brandon Sanderson (Legion #1-3)
★★★★★ Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor (Strange the Dreamer #1)
★★★★☆ Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
★★★★★ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter #3)
★★★★★ The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson (The Masquerade #1)
★★★★☆ There There by Tommy Orange
★★★★☆ The Outsider by Stephen King
★★★☆☆ Trickster’s Queen by Tamora Pierce (Daughter of the Lioness #2)
★★★★☆ Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
★★★★☆ The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander (The Chronicles of Prydain #2)
★★☆☆☆ Doctor Who: Lungbarrow by Marc Platt (Virgin New Adventures #60)
★★★★☆ The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R. King (Mary Russell #1)
★★★☆☆ An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
★★★★☆ Beartown by Fredrik Backman (Beartown #1)
★★★☆☆ Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan (Crazy Rich Asians #1)
★★☆☆☆ The President Is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson
★★★★☆ Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed
★★★★☆ Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor (Strange the Dreamer #2)
★★★★★ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter #4)
★★☆☆☆ Wildcard by Marie Lu (Warcross #2)
★★☆☆☆ Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde (Thursday Next #2)
★★★☆☆ Lethal White by Robert Galbraith (Cormoran Strike #4)
★★★☆☆ Caliban’s War by James S. A. Corey (The Expanse #2)
★★★☆☆ The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch (Gentleman Bastard #3)
★★★☆☆ Dread Nation by Justina Ireland (Dread Nation #1)
★★★★☆ The Girl with the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke (The Balloonmakers #1)
★★★★☆ It Devours! by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor (Welcome to Night Vale #2)
★★☆☆☆ Woken Furies by Richard K. Morgan (Takeshi Kovacs #3)
★★★☆☆ Love & War by Melissa de la Cruz (Alex & Eliza #2)
★★★★☆ The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith (The Ripliad #1)
★★★★★ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter #5)
★★☆☆☆ White Sand, Volume 2 by Brandon Sanderson, Rik Hoskin, and Julius Gopez (White Sand #2)
★★★★★ Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
★★★★☆ Someday by David Levithan (Every Day #3)
★★★☆☆ War for the Planet of the Apes: Revelations by Greg Keyes
★★★☆☆ Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
★★★☆☆ The Man Who Killed His Brother by Stephen R. Donaldson (The Man Who #1)
★★★★☆ Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
★★★☆☆ The Castle of Llyr by Lloyd Alexander (The Chronicles of Prydain #3)
★★★★☆ The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White
★★★☆☆ How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids by Jancee Dunn
★★★★☆ Strange Weather by Joe Hill
★★☆☆☆ From Cradle to Stage: Stories from the Mothers Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars by Virginia Hanlon Grohl
★★☆☆☆ Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House by Omarosa Manigault Newman
★★★★☆ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter #6)
★★★★☆ Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
★★★☆☆ The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
★★★☆☆ Ararat by Christopher Golden (Ben Walker #1)
★★★★☆ And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready by Meaghan O’Connell
★★★★☆ The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee (Montague Siblings #1)
★★★☆☆ Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy
★★★☆☆ 41: A Portrait of My Father by George W. Bush
★★★☆☆ How Long ’til Black Future Month? by N. K. Jemisin
★★☆☆☆ Elevation by Stephen King
★★★☆☆ Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
★★★★☆ The Incomplete Book of Running by Peter Sagal
★★★★☆ The Book of Magic edited by Gardner Dozois
★★★★☆ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter #7)
★★★★☆ Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers #3)
★★★★☆ Princess Academy by Shannon Hale (Princess Academy #1)
★★★★☆ The Library Book by Susan Orlean

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