It was my goal to read 60 books for 2018, and I only managed to finish 53. It was also my goal to only read books I enjoyed, and I dropped several without finishing, including Farewell to Arms by Earnest Hemingway and Origin by Dan Brown.
My favorite fun reads: My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand (Thanks Katie)
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, narrated by Jim Dale (this one is the first book I’ve listened to that I believe is a better experience listening than it would have been to just read myself)
Classic that I hadn’t read before that I still can’t talk about:
Random Harvest by James Hilton
All I can say for now is that it is what Brideshead Revisited could have been if Evelyn Waugh had written characters worth reading about.
The one book I read that I didn’t enjoy, but I finished because it was good for me:
The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King
Books that I couldn’t stop talking about:
At Home by Bill Bryson (thanks, Ruth)
The War to End All Wars by Russell Freedman
Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul by Stuart Brown
The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle
Best Family Read-alouds:
Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
Little Britches by Ralph Moody
Top 3:
No Greater Love by Mother Teresa
Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor E Frankl
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg Mckeown
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