Print and e-books I’ve finished in 2018 (in addition to various and sundry research books and IN DEATH audiobooks):
- On Trails, Robert Moor
- Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Caitlin Doherty
- Stuff Matters, Mark Miodownik
- Gulag, Anne Applebaum
- What Einstein Kept Under His Hat, Robert Wolke
- Dark in Death, JD Robb
- The Library at Mount Char, Scott Hawkins*
- It Devours: A Welcome to Night Vale Novel, Joseph Fink and Jefrey Cranor
- A Darker Shade of Magic, V.E. Schwab
- This Cold Heaven, Gretel Ehrilich
- Lab Girl, Hope Jahren
- Tea Master and the Detective, Aliette De Bodard
- Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Jenny Lawson
- Burial Rites, Hannah Kent
- The Essex Serpent, Sarah Perry
- The Monsters of Templeton, Lauren Groff
- Dark Road to Darjeeling, Deanna Raybourn
- Furiously Happy, Jenny Lawson
- Dust and Shadow, Lyndsay Faye
- H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald
- Disappointment River, Brian Castner
- Arcadia, Lauren Groff
- Cattle Kingdom, Christopher Knowlton
- Down Among the Sticks & Bones, Seanan McGuire
- All Systems Red, Martha Wells
- The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin
- Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin
- The Stone Sky, N.K. Jemisin
- Leverage in Death, JD Robb
- Vicious, V.E. Schwab
- Trail of Lightning, Rebecca Roanhorse**
- The Far-Traveller: Voyages of a Viking Woman, Nancy Marie Brown
- Uprooted, Naomi Novik
- Fates & Furies, Lauren Groff
- Still Life, Louise Penny
- A Fatal Grace, Louise Penny
- Melmoth, Sarah Perry
- Caesar’s Last Breath, Sam Kean
- Jane Steele, Lyndsay Faye
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
- The House of Silk, Anthony Horowitz
- The Whole Art of Detection, Lyndsay Faye
- I’ll be Gone in the Dark, Michelle McNamara
- Dodge City, Tom Clavin
- Beauty Like the Night, Joanna Bourne***
* – Fantastic dark fantasy with perfect bits of humor and heart. Perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman!
** – Fantastic dark urban fantasy with amazing world and kickass heroine. Perfect for CV and Mercy Thompson fans!
*** – One of my favorite romance writers. Her characters are fantastic, and her skill with words is amazing.