reading list: 2018

January 2018: (11)

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen by Kate Fagan
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
Waking Gods by Sylvain Neuvel
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder (unfinished)
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
The Troop by Nick Cutter
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
The Deep by Nick Cutter
Machine Learning by Hugh Howey
Hemlock Grove by Brian McGreevy
Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey

February 2018: (4)

American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse
The City & the City by China Miéville
Priestdaddy: A Memoir by Patricia Lockwood
You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life by Jen Sincero

March 2018: (6)

The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty
The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley
The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State by Nadia Murad
The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
So Sad Today: Personal Essays by Melissa Broder
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi

April 2018: (4)

May 2018: (6)

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach
The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch
Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clementine Wamariya
The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein
The Outsider by Stephen King

June 2018: (14)

How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Guide to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett
City of Miracles by Robert Jackson Bennett
City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett
Caliban’s War by James S. A. Corey
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
Abbadon’s Gate by James S. A. Corey
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
Dear Cyborgs by Eugene Lim
Disappearance at Devil’s Rock by Paul Tremblay
The Hunger by Alma Katsu

July 2018: (19)

Infomocracy by Malka Older
Cibola Burn by James S. A. Corey
Nemesis Games by James S. A. Corey
Babylon’s Ashes by James S. A. Corey
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble
Persepolis Rising by James S. A. Corey
Ten Restaurants That Changed America by Paul Freedman
Beartown by Frederick Backman
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (reread)
Carrie by Stephen King
Postgrad: Five Women and Their First Year Out of College by Caroline Kitchener (reread)
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.: Essays by Samantha Irby
Only Human by Sylvain Neuvel
Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
Sourdough by Robin Sloan
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower I) by Stephen King
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (unfinished)

August 2018: (11)

Armistice by Lara Elena Donnelly
The Clarity by Keith Thomas (audiobook)
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer
The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks by Max Brooks and Ibraim Roberson (graphic novel)
Us Against You by Frederick Backman
The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir by Vivian Gornick
Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
Reporter: A Memoir by Seymour M. Hersh

September 2018: (11)

Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Claire L. Evans
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
The Woman in the Woods by John Connolly
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Severance by Ling Ma
Clariel by Garth Nix
Goldenhand by Garth Nix
Uprooted by Naomi Novik
Invisible Planets: an Anthology of Contemporary Chinese SF in Translation (translated by Ken Liu)
84K by Claire North
In Real Life by Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang (graphic novel)

October 2018: (13)

Null States by Malka Older
Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms by Hannah Fry
State Tectonics by Malka Older
Little Heaven by Nick Cutter
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
Ararat by Christopher Golden
Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution by Ben Fountain (unfinished)
Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley by Cary McClelland
Private Citizens by Tony Tulathimutte
The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe: How to Know What’s Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake by Steven Novella and Bob Novella
Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear by Kim Brooks
The Witch Elm by Tana French
Small Fry: A Memoir by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

November 2018: (7)

The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling by Philip Pullman
Heartland: Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas

December 2018:

The Mission Chinese Food Cookbook by Danny Bowen and Chris Ying
Alone Time: Four Seasons, Four Cities, and the Pleasure of Solitude by Stephanie Rosenbloom
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self by Alice Miller
The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of them Now by Meg Jay
Family Trust by Kathy Wang
Alice Isn’t Dead by Joseph Fink
Hell House by Richard Matheson

Total count: 113