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Every Year - 2018

2010:
2011: Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes by Denise Grover Swank
2012:
2013:
2014: The Universe Doesn't Give a Flying F*** About You by Johnny B. Truant
2015: A Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell
2016: The Power by Naomi Alderman
2017: Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
2018:

Read my seventh and eighth books for the challenge - What's So Funny (by Tim Conway) and Bossypants (by Tina Fey)
1993: The Virgin Suicides
2008: Unforeseen
2010: Room
2011: Bossypants
2013: What's So Funny?: My Hilarious Life
2014: Fever
2015: A Darker Shade of Magic
2016: Truly Madly Guilty

And since its 2018, I'll end here.
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2018:

Read my ninth book for the challenge - Shutter Island
1993: The Virgin Suicides
2003: Shutter Island
2008: Unforeseen
2010: Room
2011: Bossypants
2013: What's So Funny?: My Hilarious Life
2014: Fever
2015: A Darker Shade of Magic
2016: Truly Madly Guilty

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✔2005: Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together

My original challenge was for 1970-1986. Having finished that, I'm going to go for the gusto and add 1987-2018.

Read my 10th book for the challenge - Brownies and Betrayal
1993: The Virgin Suicides
2003: Shutter Island
2008: Unforeseen
2010: Room
2011: Bossypants
2012: Brownies and Betrayal
2013: What's So Funny?: My Hilarious Life
2014: Fever
2015: A Darker Shade of Magic
2016: Truly Madly Guilty

Read my 11th book for the challenge - Bellamy and the Brute
1993: The Virgin Suicides
2003: Shutter Island
2008: Unforeseen
2010: Room
2011: Bossypants
2012: Brownies and Betrayal
2013: What's So Funny?: My Hilarious Life
2014: Fever
2015: A Darker Shade of Magic
2016: Truly Madly Guilty
2017: Bellamy and the Brute

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2003: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
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2006: Diary Of An Oxygen Thief by Anonymous
2007: The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit by Seth Grodin
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2009:
2010:
2011: Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol
2012: Drama by Raina Telgemeier
2013: Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom by Ken Ilgunas
2014: Positive: A Memoir by Paige Rawl
2015: Trashed by Derf Backderf
2016: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
2017: Difficult Women by Roxane Gay
2018:

New progress: 15/21
1998:
1999:
2000: The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket
2001: The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket
2002: The Carnivorous Carnival by Lemony Snicket
2003: The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
2004:
2005: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
2006: The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
2007: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
2008:
2009: The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
2010: Solar by Ian McEwan
2011:
2012: Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
2013: Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas
2014: Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas
2015: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
2016: The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
2017: Caraval by Stephanie Garber
2018:

1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1998 - Tipping the Velvet
1999
2000
2001
2002 - When the Emperor Was Divine
2003 - Bare Bones
2004 - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2005 - Case Histories
2006 - Kristy's Great Idea
2007 - Call Me by Your Name
2008 - Claudia and Mean Janine
2009 - Eating Animals
2010 - Faithful Place
2011 - Dead Reckoning
2012 - As The Crow Flies
2013 - Leaving Everything Most Loved
2014 - Wait for Signs: Twelve Longmire Stories
2015 - The Spaceship Next Door
2016 - A Study in Scarlet Women
2017 - The Half-Drowned King
2018 - Varina

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1986
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1993
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1995
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1998
1999 - The Gruffalo
2000 - The Elements of Style
2001
2002 - The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
2003
2004
2005
2006 - The Driver's Seat
2007
2008
2009 - The Collected Stories
2010 - Rip the Page!: Adventures in Creative Writing
2011 - The Night Circus
2012 - Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories
2013 - Americanah
2014 - The Strange Library
2015
2016
2017 - Little Fires Everywhere
2018 - Norse Mythology

I'll go in for 10 please.
2008: Pandemonium
2009: The Arabs: A History?
2010:
2011:
2012: A Creator's Guide to Transmedia Storytelling: How to Captivate and Engage Audiences Across Multiple Platforms or Industry Talk or The Drowning Girl
2013: Senlin Ascends
2015: Wylding Hall
2016: The Obelisk Gate
2017: All Systems Red
2018: The Prince and the Dressmaker
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Goal: 15 of 50
1937 - Think and Grow Rich by Napolean Hill (8/14) (audio)
1955 - The Quiet American by Graham Greene (7/31) (audio)
1968 - The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino (7/11) (audio)
1972 - Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian (5/26)
1983 - The Color of Magic (1/18)
1985 - Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez (11/2) (audio)
1992 - Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon (3/27)
1996 - Lyndon Johnson's War by Michael H. Hunt (6/30)
1999 - Voyager by Diana Gabaldon (6/8)
2000 -
2001 -
2002 -
2003 - Madame Secretary: A Memoir by Madeleine Albright (7/6)
2004 -
2005 -
2006 - Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn (11/16)
2007 -
2008 - The Iliad by Roy Thomas (6/17)
2009 -
2010 -
2011 - Start Something That Matters by Blake Mycoskie (6/1) (audio)
2012 - Ike's Bluff (4/8)
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (5/4)
The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau (nf)
The Fish That Ate The Whale by Rich Cohen (6/13) (audio)
2013 -
2014 - Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (7/20) (audio)
2015 -
2016 - Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly (7/24)
2017 - Quiet Until the Thaw by Alexandra Fuller (6/17) (audio)
- Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (8/18)
- Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times by Kenneth Whyte (9/25) (audio)
2018 -

2005 Love
2012 A Short History of England
2013 The Periodic Table: A Field Guide to the Elements
2015 Goblin Market
2017 Artemis
2018 The Wicked Deep

2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005 -- The Book Thief
2006 -- The Thirteenth Tale
2007 -- Death of a Murderer
2008
2009 -- The Little Stranger
2010
2011
2012
2013 -- Doctor Sleep
2014 -- The Girl With All the Gifts
2015
2016 -- The Wonder
2017
2018

2017 -- Lincoln in the Bardo (Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... )
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