
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
- Heft – Liz Moore
- Capital – John Lanchester
- We Are Called to Rise – Laura McBride
- The Power- Naomi Alderman
- The Driver’s Seat- Muriel Spark
- Reality, Reality- Jackie Kay
- Love & Fame- Susie Boyt
- A Far Cry from Kensington- Muriel Spark
- Mr Stimpson and Mr Gorse- Patrick Hamilton
- Heather, the Totality- Matthew Weiner
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie- Muriel Spark
- Sugar Money- Jane Harris
- Not Working- Lisa Owens
- All That Man Is- David Szalay
- The Silver Linings Playbook- Matthew Quick
- The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes- Ruth Hogan
- King of the Badgers- Philip Hensher
- The Watchmaker of Filigree Street- Natasha Pulley
- The Girls- Emma Cline
- The Hours Before Dawn- Celia Fremlin
- A Week in December- Sebastian Faulks
- Stoner- John Williams
- Pretty Is- Maggie Mitchell
- Their Eyes Were Watching God- Zora Neale Hurston
- The Invisible life of Euridice Gusmao- Martha Batalha
- Home- Amanda Berriman
- Reservoir 13- Jon McGregor
- Conversations with Friends- Sally Rooney
- New Grub Street- George Gissing
- The Leavers- Lisa Ko
- The Party- Elizabeth Day
- Adult Onset- Anne-Marie McDonald
- Hope- A Tragedy- Shalom Auslander
- How I Lose You- Kate McNaughton
- Little Fires Everywhere- Celeste Ng
- Almost Love- Louise O’Neill
- Ordinary People- Diana Evans
- Pages for Her- Sylvia Brownrigg
- Different Class – Joanne Harris
- Home Fires- Elizabeth Day
- The Awkward Age- Francesca Segal
- How do you Like Me Now? -Holly Bourne
- One More Chance- Lucy Ayrton
- The London Train- Tessa Hadley
- Tin Man- Sarah Winman
- Clock Dance- Anne Tyler
- Standard Deviation- Katherine Heiny
- Less- Andrew Sean Greer
- The Innocents- Francesca Segal
- The Goldfinch- Donna Tartt
- Frida- Barbara Mujica
- Property- Lionel Shriver
- A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing- Eimear McBride
- Lullaby – Leila Slimani
- My Name is Leon- Kit de Waal
- The Fair Fight- Anna Freeman
- Fives and Twenty-fives – Michael Pitre
- Girls in White Dresses- Jennifer Close
- Sweet Caress- William Boyd
- Mr Lynch’s Holiday- Catherine O’Flynn
- Rules of Seeing- Joe Heap
- Mr Oliver’s Object of Desire- VG Lee
- Sweet Home- Wendy Erskine
- The Patron Saint of Liars- Ann Patchett
- The Two Hotel Francforts- David Leavitt
- The Lido- Libby Page
- Peaches for Monsieur le Cure- Joanne Harris
- Transcription- Kate Atkinson
- The Uninvited Guests- Sadie Jones
- Everything I Never Told You- Celeste Ng
- The Lessons- Naomi Alderman
- Lara- Bernardine Evaristo
- Noonday- Pat Barker
- The Vacationers- Emma Straub
- Widow Basquiat- Jennifer Clement
- Only Child- Rhiannon Navin
- The Reservoir Tapes- Jon McGregor
- The Immortalists- Chloe Benjamin
- All the Good Things- Clare Fisher
- Birdcage Walk- Helen Dunmore
Mainstream Fiction
- What the Lady Wants – Hester Browne
- The Honeymoon Hotel- Hester Browne
- The Party- Robyn Harding
- Faking Friends- Jane Fallon
- The Endless Beach- Jenny Colgan
- Sweet Pea- CJ Skuse
- Big Little Lies- Liane Moriarty
- Surprise Me- Sophie Kinsella
- The Marriage Pact- Michelle Richmond
- Relight my Fire- Joanna Bolouri
- Before We Say Goodbye- Madeleine Reiss
- Those Other Women- Nicola Moriarty
- What Fresh Hell- Lucy Vine
- A Bad Bride’s Tale- Polly Williams
- Goodbye Ruby Tuesday- Donna Hay
- Perfect Match- Zoe May
- Inside the O’Briens- Lisa Genova
- A Wedding at Christmas- Chrissie Manby
- The Way Back To Us- Kay Langdale
- Under Your Skin- Sabine Durrant
- Don’t Tell The Groom- Anna Bell
- Keep You Safe- Melissa Hill
- Friend Request- Laura Marshall
- The Accident- Dawn Goodwin
- Small Great Things- Jodi Picoult
- You Me Everything- Catherine Isaac
- Trying- Emily Phillips
- The Rest of Me- Katie Marsh
- 11.22.63- Stephen King
- The Queen of Wishful Thinking- Milly Johnson
- Oh my God, What a Complete Aisling- Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen
- Once in a Lifetime- Chrissie Manby
- Why Mummy Swears- Gill Sims
- Plain Truth- Jodi Picoult
- The Cows- Dawn O’Porter
- Brother in the Land- Robert Swindells
- The Woman he loved Before- Dorothy Koomson
- Charlotte Street- Danny Wallace
- The Man I think I Know- Mike Gayle
- Lost for Words- Stephanie Butland
- Watching You- Lisa Jewell
- Bad Twins- Rebecca Chance
- The Other Us- Fiona Harper
- The Perfectly Imperfect Woman- Milly Johnson
- The Wives- Lauren Weisberger
- When You Were Older- Catherine Ryan Hyde
- All We Ever Wanted- Emily Giffin
- If I Stay- Gayle Forman
- On the Island- Tracey Garvis Graves
- Living the Dream- Lauren Berry
- One Day in December- Josie Silver
- Is This Love?- Tina Reilly
- My Lurid Past- Lauren Henderson
- How Hard Can It Be? – Allison Pearson
- The Importance of Being Aisling- Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen
- I Invited Her In- Adele Parks
- The Old You- Louise Voss
- Kiss Carlo- Adriana Trigiani
- An Unnatural Vice- KJ Charles
- The Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp- Sarra Manning
- Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?- Claudia Carroll
- The Confusion of Karen Carpenter- Jonathan Harvey
- The Lives we Touch- Eva Woods
- The Christmas Surprise- Jenny Colgan
- Girl on the Run- Jane Costello
- Island Christmas- Jenny Colgan
- Clean- Juno Dawson
- To Have and to Hold- Helen Chandler
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine- Gail Honeyman
- Three Wishes- Liane Moriarty
Non-Fiction/Poetry
- I Was Told There’d Be Cake- Sloane Crosley
- The Song of Lunch- Christopher Reid
- The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober- Catherine Gray
- How You Might Know Me- Sabrina Mahfouz
- The Sober Diaries- Clare Pooley
- Philomena- Martin Sixsmith
- Micromastery- Robert Twigger
- The Trip to Echo Spring- Olivia Laing
- Fire on All Sides- James Rhodes
- Shame- Jasvinder Sanghera
- An Angel at my Table- Janet Frame
- What Goes Around- Emily Chappell
- Cities Are Good For You – Leo Hollis
- Educated- Tara Westover
- Bettyville- George Hodgman
- Dummy- Matt Coyne
- Anne Frank – the Biography- Melissa Muller
- Gone- Min Kym
- Once Upon a Time in the East- Xiaolu Guo
- Leap In- Alexandra Heminsley
- The Art of Not Falling Apart- Christina Patterson
- My Lovely Wife- Mark Lukach
- Small Pieces- Joanne Limburg
- Not that Kind of Love- Clare and Greg Wise
- Public Confessions of a Middle Aged Woman- Sue Townsend
- Spectacles- Sue Perkins
- The Year of Living Danishly- Helen Russell
- Look we have coming to Dover!- Daljit Nagra
- The Lives of the Muses- Francine Prose
- Logical Family- Armistead Maupin
- The Love-Charm of Bombs- Lara Feigel
- Mindful Drinking – Rosamund Dean
- Cheer Up Love: Adventures in Depression with the Crab of Hate- Susan Calman
- Wild- Cheryl Strayed
- This is the Story of a Happy Marriage- Ann Patchett
- The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion- Kei Miller
- Wild Nights- Kim Addonizio
- Hillbilly Elegy- JD Vance
- Changing my Mind: Essays- Zadie Smith
- Am I Ugly?- Michelle Elman
- Cuckoo in the Nest- Nat Luurtsema
- Pamper Me to Hell and Back- Hera Lindsay Bird
- Bad Blood- Lorna Sage
- The Book of Forgotten Authors- Christopher Fowler
- Theft by Finding- David Sedaris
- Lush- Gabrielle Fernie
- A Moment of Grace- Patrick Dillon
- Late Fragments- Kate Gross
- The Lonely City- Olivia Laing
- Lit: A Memoir- Mary Karr
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