Sunday, June 3, 2018

Reading List 2018 updated

Presenting, the reading list for 2018.  A work in progress. . .

I'm attempting the Book Riot Read Harder Challenge, so it should be a fun ride.


  1. A Bollywood Affair, by Sonali Dev
  2. knitting book (find picture)
  3. model railroad book
  4. Aunty Lee's Delights
  5. Maigret - Pietr the Latvian (1/10/18)
  6. Street Magic - Tamora Pierce (1/21/18)
  7. The Dark is Rising (1/30/18)
  8. Ranma 1/2, books 1 & 2 (1/31/18)
  9.  Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World, by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone (2/2/18)
  10.  Pegasus in Flight, by Anne McCaffrey (2/3/18)
  11. The Sword of Summer, by Rick Riordan - Magnus Chase series #1 (2/3/18)
  12. Slightly Chipped, by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone
  13. My Family and Other Animals, by Gerald Durrell (2/5/18)
  14. Firefly: Those Left Behind (graphic novel) (2/6/18)
  15. Firefly: Better Days graphic novel #2
  16. Tempests & Slaughter, by Tamora Pierce (2/9/18)
  17. The Man Who Loved Books Too Much (2/14/18)
  18. Hail to the Chin, by Bruce Campbell (2/19)
  19. The Revolution was Televised, by Alan Sepinwall (2/21/18)
  20. Squire, by Tamora Pierce
  21. Page, by Tamora Pierce
  22. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, by Alexander McCall Smith (e-book) 
  23. Excuse Me, but I was Next. . . : how to handle the top 100 manners dilemmas, by Peggy Post
  24. Who Knew? 10,001 Easy Solutions to Everyday Problems (lots of bogus ideas)
  25. Crazy like a Fox, by Rita Mae Brown 
  26. The War that Saved My Life
  27. Tears of the Giraffe, by Alexander McCall Smith (3/9/18)
  28. Slayers & Vampires: the Complete Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Buffy & Angel, by Edward Gross (3/9/18)
  29. Ghosts, by Raina Telgemeier (3/10/18) 
  30. Murder on the Orient Express (3/13/18) 
  31. New Minimalism (3/15/18)
  32.  The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning (3/15/18)
  33. The War I Finally Won
  34. The Darling Dahlias and the Unlucky Clover, by Susan Wittig Albert (3/21/18) 
  35. Life Below Stairs: true lives of Edwardian Servants (3/25/18)
  36. Confessions of a Shopaholic
  37.  
  38. Queen Anne's Lace, by Susan Wittig Albert (4/5/18)
  39. Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover (4/9/18)
  40. Warmly Inscribed: the New England forger and Other Book Tales, by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone (4/9/18) 
  41.  
  42. The Life I've Picked, by John McEuen (4/10/18)
  43. Best Food Writing 2011 (4/23/18)
  44. Death of a Gossip, by M. C. Beaton (4/15/18)
  45. The Missing Kennedy, by Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff (5/3/18)
  46. Soviet Daughter, a Graphic Revolution - by Julia Alekseyeva (5/3/18)
  47. Chicken with Plums, by Marjane Satrapi (5/3/18)
  48. Embroideries, by Marjane Satrapi (5/8/18)
  49. Emperor Mage, by Tamora Pierce (5/8/18) 
  50. What do You Care What Other People Think, by Richard Feynman (5/14/18)
  51. I am Not a Number, by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer (5/15/18)
  52. Arctic Adventure, by Dana Meachem Rau (5/15/18)
  53. Great, by Glen Gretzky and Lauri HOlomis (5/15/18)
  54.  Chu's Day, by Neil Gaiman (5/15/18)
  55. Blueberry Girl, by Neil Gaiman (5/15/18)
  56. The Day the Crayons Came Home (5/15/18)
  57. The Princess Diarist, by Carrie Fisher (5/19/18)
  58. Death Need Not Be Fatal, by Malachy McCourt (5/23/18)
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  60. Hannah's Mill, by Rhoda Wooldridge (5/26/18)
  61. Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America (5/2x/18)
  62. News of the World (5/29/18)
  63. The Invitation-Only Zone (5/29/18) - about North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens.  Interesting, but I wish there were more details and follow-up.
  64.  The Help (6/2/18)
  65.  
  66. Indian Horse, by Richard Wagamese (6/4/18) Heard about on the CBC Q podcast
  67. Death of a Cad, by M.C. Beaton  (6/5/18) 
  68. Jason Priestly: A Memoir (6/6/18) - Interesting, fluffy, he doesn't seem to be the airhead I expected. 
  69. Ready Player One (6/9/18)
  70. Death of an Outsider (6/9/18)
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