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2018
My Year in Books
56,546
pages read
199
books read
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This is my journey in books for 2018!


Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
Shortest Book
96
pages
The End by Karl Ove Knausgård
Longest Book
1,160
pages

Average book length in 2018
284
pages

Educated by Tara Westover
Most Shelved
3,216,512
people also shelved
The Last Word by Louis Kronenberger
Least Shelved
10
people also shelved

Gretchen’s average rating for 2018
5.0
it was amazing
5.0

The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.51 average

Up Country by Alden R. Carter

Gretchen’s first review of the year

This was a re-read, I love this book. For one thing, it's the story of being an Upholder child in a chaotic household. ...more

GRETCHEN’S 2018 BOOKS
Johnson on Savage by Samuel Johnson
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson
On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
The Emotional Life of Your Brain by Richard J. Davidson
Monkeys with Typewriters by Scarlett Thomas
Dreaming the Beatles by Rob Sheffield
Past the Size of Dreaming by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
The Devil's Cloth  by Michel Pastoureau; Translat...
Fall of Light by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
ROY G. BIV by Jude Stewart
A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin
Essays in Idleness by Donald Keene
The Art of Description by Mark Doty
The White Mountains by John Christopher
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin
Archer's Goon by Diana Wynne Jones
Vern Yip's Design Wise by Vern Yip
We Are All Made of Molecules by Susin Nielsen
The Scent of Desire by Rachel Herz
Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
Vacationland by John Hodgman
Believing in Magic by Stuart A. Vyse
Flush by Virginia Woolf
Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor
On Color by David Scott Kastan
Organizing from the Inside Out by Julie Morgenstern
Sweet Dreams by Michael Frayn
The Birds of the Air by Alice Thomas Ellis
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
Clutter Busting by Brooks Palmer
The Scarecrows by Robert Westall
Unclaimed Treasures by Patricia MacLachlan
My (Part-Time) Paris Life by Lisa Anselmo
The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks
The Machine-Gunners by Robert Westall
Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
A Landing on the Sun by Michael Frayn
Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
The 27th Kingdom by Alice Thomas Ellis
It's Too Late Now by A.A. Milne
The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
The Enchanted Places by Christopher Milne
I Can't Complain by Elinor Lipman
Dolly on Dolly by Dolly Parton
The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
The Castle of Llyr by Lloyd Alexander
Gone Dollywood by Graham Hoppe
Lives in Writing by DavidLodge
Taran Wanderer by Lloyd Alexander
Why We Hurt by Frank T. Vertosick Jr.
Chemistry by Weike Wang
Driven to Distraction at Work by Edward M. Hallowell
Dolly by Dolly Parton
Home by Nnedi Okorafor
The Journal of Best Practices by David    Finch
300 Arguments by Sarah Manguso
Kids Like Us by Hilary Reyl
The High King by Lloyd Alexander
Dawn of the New Everything by Jaron Lanier
The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor
Pain by Patrick Wall
The Joy of the Snow by Elizabeth Goudge
The Designer's Dictionary of Color by Sean Adams
Mistress Pat by L.M. Montgomery
Ring of Swords by Eleanor Arnason
The Bird in the Tree by Elizabeth Goudge
Parker Pyne Investigates by Agatha Christie
Jackson's Dilemma by Iris Murdoch
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
Pilgrim's Inn by Elizabeth Goudge
Like Brothers by Mark Duplass
Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin
Transit by Rachel Cusk
Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
Up Country by Alden R. Carter
A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines by Janna Levin
The Last Word by Louis Kronenberger
My Story by Jo Malone
Joyful by Ingrid Fetell Lee
Colorama by Cruschiform
One Hundred Names for Love by Diane Ackerman
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
it was amazing
The Pedant in the Kitchen by Julian Barnes
The Heart of the Family by Elizabeth Goudge
Educated by Tara Westover
it was amazing
So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y’all Don’t Even Know by Retta
Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor
Joy Enough by Sarah McColl
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
Line Color Form by Jesse Day

The Hot Young Widows Club by Nora McInerny Purmort

Gretchen’s last review of the year

A fascinating consideration of the question: how do you survive grief? It inspired me to listen to McInerny's podcast, "Terrible, Thanks for Asking." ...more
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