Books I Read In 2018
*re-read
- Waking The Dead, John Eldredge
- You’re Only Old Once! Dr. Suess
- The Boy Who Loved Math, Deborah Heiligman
- Flowers For Algernon, Daniel Keyes
- Into The Wild, Jon Krakauer
- *Black, Ted Dekker
- *Red, Ted Dekker
- *White, Ted Dekker
- The Avante-Garde Life, Jamie Bowlby-Whiting
- *Green, Ted Dekker
- The Gracekeepers, Kirsty Logan
- *Outlaw, Ted Dekker
- The Family Fang, Kevin Wilson
- How To Grow Up, Michelle Tea
- Looking For Alaska, John Green
- *Love Does, Bob Goff
- Stupid Perfect World, Scott Westerfield
- The Infinite Tides, Christian Kiefer
- Girl In The Woods, Aspen Matis
- I’ll Tell You In Person, Chloe Caldwell
- All My Friends Are Superheroes, Andrew Kaufman
- I Can Barely Take Care Of Myself, Jen Kirkman
- Breakfast Of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
- All The Dirty Parts, Daniel Handler
- Yes Please, Amy Poehler
- Men Explain Things To Me, Rebecca Solnit
- Shrill, Lindy West
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- King Dork, Frank Portman
- The Castle Corona, Sharon Creech
- The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
- The Color Purple, Alice Walker
- Out of the Silent Planet, C.S. Lewis
- I Know What I’m Doing, Jen Kirkman
- You Are A Badass, Jen Sincero
- Binge, Tyler Oakley
- Big Mushy Happy Lump, Sarah Andersen
- Caca Dolce, Chelsea Martin
- The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Lorax, Dr. Suess
- The Post-Office Girl, Stefan Zweig
- Horton Hears a Who! Dr. Suess
- Peace, Love & Wi-Fi, Jim Borgman & Jerry Scott
- A Whole Life, Robert Seethaler
- Bad Feminist, Roxanne Gay
- The Straight Girl’s Guide To Sleeping With Chicks, Jen Sincero
- You Can Heal Your Life, Louise L. Hay
- The Actor’s Life, Jenna Fischer
- The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For, Alison Bechdel
- The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
- Don’t Sleep With Your Drummer, Jen Sincero
- Egghead, Bo Burnham
- H Is For Hawk, Helen MacDonald
- The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Water For Elephants, Sara Gruen
- Am I There Yet? Mari Andrew
- The Transition, Luke Kennard
- How To Stop Time, Matt Haig
- Fun Home, Alison Bechdel
- The Essential Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson
- Going Into Town, Roz Chast
- *The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson
- The Lonely City, Olivia Laing
- Orange Is The New Black, Piper Kerman
- The Boy In The Striped Pajamas, John Boyne
- Little Moments of Love, Catana Chetwynd
- I Will Teach You To Be Rich, Ramit Sethi
- The Glass Sentence, S.E. Grove
- The Golden Specific, S.E. Grove
- The Crimson Skew, S.E. Grove
- *The Total Money Makeover, Dave Ramsey
- Speak: A Graphic Novel, Laurie Halse Anderson
- *Edith Pattou, East
- Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
- John Green, Turtles All The Way Down
- Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
- Juno Dawson, This Book Is Gay
- *The Pawn (The Bowers Files: Book 1), Steven James
- Steal Like An Artist, Austin Kleon
- *Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone, J.K. Rowling
- Newsprints, Ru Xu (Blue, a girl who disguises herself as a boy so she can work as a newsie, begins apprenticing under an inventor named Jack. She befriends a strange boy named Crow who turns out to be a war machine created by Jack. Blue tries to rescue Crow from his fate but Jack catches them and disables Crow—and the official news story is covered up with a fake, causing Blue to leave the Bugle because she wants truth in her life.)
- The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah
- Marriage of Unconvinience, Chelsea M. Cameron
- Herding Cats, Sarah Andersen
- Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
- Hooked, Catherine Greenman
- Spinster, Kate Bolick
- Mary B, Katherine J. Chen
- The Girl From Everywhere, Heidi Heilig
- Ramona Blue, Julie Murphy
- To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, Jenny Han
- The Little Book of Witchcraft, Anna Martin/Andrews McMeel Publishing
- Milk and Honey, Rupi Kaur
- The Sleeper and The Spindle, Neil Gaiman
- *The House On Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
- The Sun and Her Flowers, Rupi Kaur
- Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O’Dell
- Pieces and Players, Blue Balliett
- Chillax, Jerry Scott
- Annie On My Mind, Nancy Garden
- Sold, Patricia McCormick
- To Shake The Sleeping Self, Jedidiah Jenkins
- The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue, Mackenzi Lee
- The Ship Beyond Time, Heidi Heilig
- Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher
- On Writing—Stephen King
- Passing For Human, Liana Finck
- The 49th Mystic, Ted Dekker
- *The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondō (Begin first by discarding anything that doesn’t spark joy, and only after can one move on to organizing, which can be done without purchasing any new storage devices. Handle each item with your hands and your feelings, and if there is any hesitancy about whether or not to keep something, discard it, because the hesitancy is evidence of either holding onto the past or fear of the future. A truly tidy space can show a person what they really want in life, because the possessions we choose to own are mirrors to the decisions we make in life.)
- Otto the Owl Who Loved Poetry, Vern Kousky (An owl named Otto loves poetry and he recites his favorite poems aloud. The other owls make fun of him for being so different, so Otto runs away and starts composing his own poetry to the moon, who he declares is his best friend. The other woodland creatures appreciate Otto’s poems and begin writing their own as well, and the rest of the owls eventually accept both Otto and poetry.)
- Carrie, Stephen King (Carrie White is completely outcast
- Goodnight Darth Vader, Jeffrey Brown. (
- Rise of the Mystics, Ted Dekker (Rachelle has lost all of her memories on earth and her father is dead, whereas she still remembers who she is in Other Earth.
- Not Quite What I Was Planning, Larry Smith (Six word stories inspired by the one Ernest Hemingway wrote: for sale: baby shoes, never worn.