A Complete List of Everything I Read in 2018

Last year, I decided to set my very first (adult) reading challenge to myself: 18 books for 2018. I set the goal through Goodreads and I needed to read a book and a half a month to reach my goal. I honestly had no idea if this was an overambitious or totally achievable goal or not since I hadn’t been really keeping tracks of how many books I was reading annually until then.

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I read many popular books, as well as several that had been in my “To Read” stack for God knows how long. Without further ado, here’s a complete list of the 19 books I read in 2018:

  1. White Teeth by Zadie Smith

  2. Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead by Cecile Richards

  3. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

  4. Moonglow by Michael Chabon

  5. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

  6. What is the What by Dave Eggers

  7. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

  8. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

  9. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

  10. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance

  11. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  12. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

  13. Becoming by Michelle Obama

  14. The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

  15. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

  16. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

  17. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling

  18. The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

  19. Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

So many great books!

This list includes two that have made it into my all time favorites list: All the Light We Cannot See and The Glass Castle. Side note: I’ve since seen The Glass Castle’s film adaptation starring Brie Larson and Woody Harrelson and I LOVED it, probably as much as I loved the book and that’s pretty rare to find. I would highly recommend both (book first, of course)!

I’ve also heard rumors that All The Light We Cannot See is being turned into a Netflix limited series. Fingers crossed they do it justice!

Pachinko , The Paris Wife, and Becoming also all earned high marks from me that year. I was so excited to reach and exceed the goal I had set for myself. I came up with the idea that each year moving forward, I would add one book, starting with 19 books for 2019.

I plan to do a recap of all of my 2019 reads just like this, so stay tuned!

Happy Reading,