Here are all the books I’ve read this year. This year, to make things interesting, I’ve signed up for a few challenges; these are Beat the Backlist, A to Z Reading and Monthly Motifs and you can find out more about the challenges here. I will also continue to make my way through my Read the World Challenge this year and once again I’ve set my goal to read 50 books and to review at least half of what I read. You can find out more about what I’m reading on my Twitter or Goodreads.

Without further ado, here’s what I’m reading in 2018! Any titles with asterisks are rereads and if it has a link that goes to my review.

January:
– Artemis – Andy Weir
– City of Clowns – Daniel Alarcón and Sheila Alvarado
– So Long a Letter – Mariama Bâ
– Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish – Richard Flanagan
– A Certain Woman – Hala El Badry
– Flame in the Mist – Renée Ahdieh

February:
– And the Mountains Echoed – Khaled Hosseini
– Crazy Rich Asians – Kevin Kwan
– Zorro – Isabel Allende
– Heidi – Johanna Spyri

March:
– All Day at the Movies – Fiona Kidman
– The Knife of Never Letting Go – Patrick Ness
– Reading the Ceiling – Dayo Forster
– Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage – Haruki Murakami
– The Hotel Tito – Ivana Bodrožić
– Animal Farm – George Orwell
– The Life and Loves of a He Devil – Graham Norton

April:
– The Devils’ Dance – Hamid Ismailov
– Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman – E.W. Hornung
– The Ask and the Answer – Patrick Ness
– The Nowhere Girls – Amy Reed
– Boy: Tales of Childhood – Roald Dahl
– Monsters of Men – Patrick Ness

May:
– Othello – William Shakespeare
– Queens of Geek – Jen Wilde
– One Day I will Write About This Place – Binyavanga Wainaina
– Goldfinger – Ian Fleming
– Love, Hate and Other Filters – Samira Ahmed

June:
– Bleak House – Charles Dickens
– I’m Travelling Alone – Samuel Bjork
– The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
– The City of Brass – S.A. Chakraborty
– Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash – Eka Kurniawan
– Who Runs the World? – Virginia Bergin
– A Thousand Perfect Notes – C.G. Drews
– Nyxia – Scott Reintgen
– Kartography – Kamila Shamsie
– I Stop Somewhere – T.E. Carter
– Light Years – Kass Morgan

July:
– DeNiro’s Game – Rawi Hage
– Smaller and Smaller Circles – F.H. Batacan
– The Last Gift – Abdulrazak Gurnah
– Summer Is My Favorite Season: A Memoir of Childhood and War in Kosovo – Ilir Berisha
– Never Stop Walking: A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World – Christina Rickardsson

August:
– The Princess Diarist – Carrie Fisher
– Fish Soup – Margarita García Robayo
– The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
– Thirty Days – Annelies Verbeke
– Negative Space – Luljeta Lleshanaku

September:
– La Bastarda – Trifonia Melibea Obono
– Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
– I Capture the the Castle – Dodie Smith
– One Would Think The Deep – Claire Zorn
– Everything I Never Told You – Celeste Ng
– The Murders in the Rue Morgue – Edgar Allan Poe
– Tales of Suspense: Hawkeye & the Winter Soldier – Matthew Rosenburg, Travel Foreman, Rachelle Rosenburg

October:
– Be a Sloth – Sarah Ford and Anita Mangan
– Jessica Jones Volume 1: Uncaged! – Brian Michael Bendis, Michael Gaydos and Matt Hollingsworth
– Fables: Cubs in Toyland – Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha and Gene Ha
– The Power – Naomi Alderman
– Lala – Jacek Dehnel
– The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
– The Sad Part Was – Prabda Yoon
– 1984 – George Orwell
– Then She Was Gone – Lisa Jewell

November:
– The Nimrod Flip-Out – Etgar Keret
– Dune – Frank Herbert
– Multitudes – Lucy Caldwell

December:
– The Garden of Evening Mists – Tan Twan Eng

Currently reading:
– The Bone Clocks – David Mitchell
– The Fox Was Ever the Hunter – Herta Muller

Books Read: 69/52
Books Reviewed: 52/26

Book titles in italics are just suggestions for now as to what I might read for the challenge – it’s not set it stone.
The A to Z Reading Challenge is to read a book beginning with each letter of the alphabet during the year.
A – Artemis – Andy Weir
B – Boy: Tales of Childhood – Roald Dahl
C – City of Clowns – Daniel Alarcón and Sheila Alvarado
D – The Devils’ Dance – Hamid Ismailov
E – Everything I Never Told You – Celeste Ng
F – Flame in the Mist – Renée Ahdieh
G – Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish – Richard Flanagan
H – The Hotel Tito – Ivana Bodrožić
I – I’m Travelling Alone – Samuel Bjork
J – Jessica Jones Volume 1: Uncaged! – Brian Michael Bendis, Michael Gaydos and Matt Hollingsworth
K – Kartography – Kamila Shamsie
L – Love, Hate and Other Filters – Samira Ahmed
M – The Murders in the Rue Morgue – Edgar Allan Poe
N – The Nowhere Girls – Amy Reed
O – Othello – William Shakespeare
P – The Power – Naomi Alderman
Q – Queens of Geek – Jen Wilde
R – Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman – E.W. Hornung
S – Smaller and Smaller Circles – F.H. Batacan
T – The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
U – Uprooted – Naomi Novak
V – Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash – Eka Kurniawan
W – Who Runs the World? – Virginia Bergin
X – ???
Y – The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Z – Zorro – Isabel Allende

Book titles in italics are just suggestions for now as to what I might read for the challenge – it’s not set it stone.
The Monthly Motif Challenge is to read a book that fits a set theme each month of 2018.

JANUARY – Diversify Your Reading
Read a book with a character (or written by an author) of a race, religion, or sexual orientation other than your own.
So Long a Letter – Mariama Bâ

FEBRUARY – One Word
Read a book with a one-word title.
Zorro – Isabel Allende

MARCH – Travel the World
Read a book set in a different country than your own, written by an author from another country than your own, or a book in which the characters travel.
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage – Haruki Murakami

APRIL – Read Locally
Read a book set in, or a main character from, your country, state, town, village
Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman – E.W. Hornung

MAY – Book to Screen
Read a book that’s been made into a movie or a TV show.
Goldfinger – Ian Fleming

JUNE – Crack the Case
Mysteries, True Crime, Who Dunnit’s.
I’m Travelling Alone – Samuel Bjork

JULY – Vacation Reads
Read a book you think is a perfect vacation read and tell us why.
A Thousand Perfect Notes – C.G. Drews

AUGUST – Award Winners
Read a book that has won a literary award, or a book written by an author who has been recognized in the bookish community.
Negative Space – Luljeta Lleshanaku

SEPTEMBER – Don’t Turn Out The Light
Cozy mystery ghost stories, paranormal creeptastic, horror novels.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue – Edgar Allan Poe

OCTOBER – New or Old
Choose a new release from 2018 or a book known as a classic.
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell

NOVEMBER – Family
Books where family dynamics play a big role in the story
Dune – Frank Herbert

DECEMBER – Wrapping It Up
Winter or holiday themed books or books with snow, ice, etc in the title or books set in winter OR read a book with a theme from any of the months in this challenge
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