200 Books in 2018: The List

Here’s the list of all the books I read in 2018. Not all of these books were published in 2018, though many of them are from the last few years. The majority are from English and American writers – I’m looking to expand my horizons this year. The oldest book on the list is probably George Gissing’s New Grub Street (1891) while the newest came out in the last months of 2018.

I’ll be looking at my favourites – and some of my more bizarre choices – in more detail so if you’ve read a book on the list and would like to discuss it or see an in-depth review from me, just let me know in the Facebook comments.

Literary Fiction

1. Heft – Liz Moore
2. Capital – John Lanchester
3. We Are Called to Rise – Laura McBride
4. The Power- Naomi Alderman
5. The Driver’s Seat- Muriel Spark
6. Reality, Reality- Jackie Kay
7. Love & Fame- Susie Boyt
8. A Far Cry from Kensington- Muriel Spark
9. Mr Stimpson and Mr Gorse- Patrick Hamilton
10. Heather, the Totality- Matthew Weiner
11. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie- Muriel Spark
12. Sugar Money- Jane Harris
13. Not Working- Lisa Owens
14. All That Man Is- David Szalay
15. The Silver Linings Playbook- Matthew Quick
16. The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes- Ruth Hogan
17. King of the Badgers- Philip Hensher
18. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street- Natasha Pulley
19. The Girls- Emma Cline
20. The Hours Before Dawn- Celia Fremlin
21. A Week in December- Sebastian Faulks
22. Stoner- John Williams
23. Pretty Is- Maggie Mitchell
24. Their Eyes Were Watching God- Zora Neale Hurston
25. The Invisible life of Euridice Gusmao- Martha Batalha
26. Home- Amanda Berriman
27. Reservoir 13- Jon McGregor
28. Conversations with Friends- Sally Rooney
29. New Grub Street- George Gissing
30. The Leavers- Lisa Ko
31. The Party- Elizabeth Day
32. Adult Onset- Anne-Marie McDonald
33. Hope- A Tragedy- Shalom Auslander
34. How I Lose You- Kate McNaughton
35. Little Fires Everywhere- Celeste Ng
36. Almost Love- Louise O’Neill
37. Ordinary People- Diana Evans
38. Pages for Her- Sylvia Brownrigg
39. Different Class – Joanne Harris
40. Home Fires- Elizabeth Day
41. The Awkward Age- Francesca Segal
42. How do you Like Me Now? -Holly Bourne
43. One More Chance- Lucy Ayrton
44. The London Train- Tessa Hadley
45. Tin Man- Sarah Winman
46. Clock Dance- Anne Tyler
47. Standard Deviation- Katherine Heiny
48. Less- Andrew Sean Greer
49. The Innocents- Francesca Segal
50. The Goldfinch- Donna Tartt
51. Frida- Barbara Mujica
52. Property- Lionel Shriver
53. A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing- Eimear McBride
54. Lullaby – Leila Slimani
55. My Name is Leon- Kit de Waal
56. The Fair Fight- Anna Freeman
57. Fives and Twenty-fives – Michael Pitre
58. Girls in White Dresses- Jennifer Close
59. Sweet Caress- William Boyd
60. Mr Lynch’s Holiday- Catherine O’Flynn
61. Rules of Seeing- Joe Heap
62. Mr Oliver’s Object of Desire- VG Lee
63. Sweet Home- Wendy Erskine
64. The Patron Saint of Liars- Ann Patchett
65. The Two Hotel Francforts- David Leavitt
66. The Lido- Libby Page
67. Peaches for Monsieur le Cure- Joanne Harris
68. Transcription- Kate Atkinson
69. The Uninvited Guests- Sadie Jones
70. Everything I Never Told You- Celeste Ng
71. The Lessons- Naomi Alderman
72. Lara- Bernardine Evaristo
73. Noonday- Pat Barker
74. The Vacationers- Emma Straub
75. Widow Basquiat- Jennifer Clement
76. Only Child- Rhiannon Navin
77. The Reservoir Tapes- Jon McGregor
78. The Immortalists- Chloe Benjamin
79. All the Good Things- Clare Fisher
80. Birdcage Walk- Helen Dunmore

Mainstream Fiction

1. What the Lady Wants – Hester Browne
2. The Honeymoon Hotel- Hester Browne
3. The Party- Robyn Harding
4. Faking Friends- Jane Fallon
5. The Endless Beach- Jenny Colgan
6. Sweet Pea- CJ Skuse
7. Big Little Lies- Liane Moriarty
8. Surprise Me- Sophie Kinsella
9. The Marriage Pact- Michelle Richmond
10. Relight my Fire- Joanna Bolouri
11. Before We Say Goodbye- Madeleine Reiss
12. Those Other Women- Nicola Moriarty
13. What Fresh Hell- Lucy Vine
14. A Bad Bride’s Tale- Polly Williams
15. Goodbye Ruby Tuesday- Donna Hay
16. Perfect Match- Zoe May
17. Inside the O’Briens- Lisa Genova
18. A Wedding at Christmas- Chrissie Manby
19. The Way Back To Us- Kay Langdale
20. Under Your Skin- Sabine Durrant
21. Don’t Tell The Groom- Anna Bell
22. Keep You Safe- Melissa Hill
23. Friend Request- Laura Marshall
24. The Accident- Dawn Goodwin
25. Small Great Things- Jodi Picoult
26. You Me Everything- Catherine Isaac
27. Trying- Emily Phillips
28. The Rest of Me- Katie Marsh
29. 11.22.63- Stephen King
30. The Queen of Wishful Thinking- Milly Johnson
31. Oh my God, What a Complete Aisling- Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen
32. Once in a Lifetime- Chrissie Manby
33. Why Mummy Swears- Gill Sims
34. Plain Truth- Jodi Picoult
35. The Cows- Dawn O’Porter
36. Brother in the Land- Robert Swindells
37. The Woman he loved Before- Dorothy Koomson
38. Charlotte Street- Danny Wallace
39. The Man I think I Know- Mike Gayle
40. Lost for Words- Stephanie Butland
41. Watching You- Lisa Jewell
42. Bad Twins- Rebecca Chance
43. The Other Us- Fiona Harper
44. The Perfectly Imperfect Woman- Milly Johnson
45. The Wives- Lauren Weisberger
46. When You Were Older- Catherine Ryan Hyde
47. All We Ever Wanted- Emily Giffin
48. If I Stay- Gayle Forman
49. On the Island- Tracey Garvis Graves
50. Living the Dream- Lauren Berry
51. One Day in December- Josie Silver
52. Is This Love?- Tina Reilly
53. My Lurid Past- Lauren Henderson
54. How Hard Can It Be? – Allison Pearson
55. The Importance of Being Aisling- Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen
56. I Invited Her In- Adele Parks
57. The Old You- Louise Voss
58. Kiss Carlo- Adriana Trigiani
59. An Unnatural Vice- KJ Charles
60. The Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp- Sarra Manning
61. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?- Claudia Carroll
62. The Confusion of Karen Carpenter- Jonathan Harvey
63. The Lives we Touch- Eva Woods
64. The Christmas Surprise- Jenny Colgan
65. Girl on the Run- Jane Costello
66. Island Christmas- Jenny Colgan
67. Clean- Juno Dawson
68. To Have and to Hold- Helen Chandler
69. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine- Gail Honeyman
70. Three Wishes- Liane Moriarty

Non-Fiction/Poetry

1. I Was Told There’d Be Cake- Sloane Crosley
2. The Song of Lunch- Christopher Reid
3. The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober- Catherine Gray
4. How You Might Know Me- Sabrina Mahfouz
5. The Sober Diaries- Clare Pooley
6. Philomena- Martin Sixsmith
7. Micromastery- Robert Twigger
8. The Trip to Echo Spring- Olivia Laing
9. Fire on All Sides- James Rhodes
10. Shame- Jasvinder Sanghera
11. An Angel at my Table- Janet Frame
12. What Goes Around- Emily Chappell
13. Cities Are Good For You – Leo Hollis
14. Educated- Tara Westover
15. Bettyville- George Hodgman
16. Dummy- Matt Coyne
17. Anne Frank – the Biography- Melissa Muller
18. Gone- Min Kym
19. Once Upon a Time in the East- Xiaolu Guo
20. Leap In- Alexandra Heminsley
21. The Art of Not Falling Apart- Christina Patterson
22. My Lovely Wife- Mark Lukach
23. Small Pieces- Joanne Limburg
24. Not that Kind of Love- Clare and Greg Wise
25. Public Confessions of a Middle Aged Woman- Sue Townsend
26. Spectacles- Sue Perkins
27. The Year of Living Danishly- Helen Russell
28. Look we have coming to Dover!- Daljit Nagra
29. The Lives of the Muses- Francine Prose
30. Logical Family- Armistead Maupin
31. The Love-Charm of Bombs- Lara Feigel
32. Mindful Drinking – Rosamund Dean
33. Cheer Up Love: Adventures in Depression with the Crab of Hate- Susan Calman
34. Wild- Cheryl Strayed
35. This is the Story of a Happy Marriage- Ann Patchett
36. The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion- Kei Miller
37. Wild Nights- Kim Addonizio
38. Hillbilly Elegy- JD Vance
39. Changing my Mind: Essays- Zadie Smith
40. Am I Ugly?- Michelle Elman
41. Cuckoo in the Nest- Nat Luurtsema
42. Pamper Me to Hell and Back- Hera Lindsay Bird
43. Bad Blood- Lorna Sage
44. The Book of Forgotten Authors- Christopher Fowler
45. Theft by Finding- David Sedaris
46. Lush- Gabrielle Fernie
47. A Moment of Grace- Patrick Dillon
48. Late Fragments- Kate Gross
49. The Lonely City- Olivia Laing
50. Lit: A Memoir- Mary Karr