What I Read in 2018
JANUARY
A Time of Gifts
Patrick Leigh Fermor
The Signature of All Things Elizabeth Gilbert
White Oleander Janet Fitch
Waiting for God Simone Weil
The Girl Who Circumnavigated
Fairyland in a Ship of Her
Own Making Catherynne M. Valente
An Imaginary Life David Malouf
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland * Lewis Carroll
FEBRUARY
The Road to Little Dribbling Bill Bryson
Sweetbitter Stephanie Danler
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
MARCH
My Name is Lucy Barton Elizabeth Strout
Alice Munro's Best: Selected Stories Alice Munro
The Intimate Merton Thomas Merton
Going Clear Lawrence Wright
As I Lay Dying William Faulkner
The Silkworm Robert Galbraith
APRIL
We the Animals Justin Torres
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears Dinaw Mengestu
I Will Find You Joanna Connors
Austerlitz W.G. Sebald
Love's Labor's Lost W. Shakespeare
The Nest Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
MAY
The Unprofessionals, the Paris Review Lorin Stein, ed.
Ways to Disappear Idra Novey
Today Will Be Different Maria Semple
The Reason for God Timothy Keller
Vinegar Girl Anne Tyler
For the Time Being Annie Dillard
JUNE
Restless William Boyd
The Issa Valley Czeslaw Milosz
Triangular Road Paule Marshall
Imagine Me Gone Adam Haslett
Romeo & Juliet William Shakespeare
JULY
Subject and Structure John M. Wasson
All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost Lan Samantha Chang
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe & Other Stories Carson McCullers
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer
AUGUST
Speak, Memory Vladimir Nabokov
The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros
Everything I Never Told You Celeste Ng
A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles
Mere Christianity C.S. Lewis
SEPTEMBER
A Bend in the River V.S. Naipaul
Love Medicine Louise Erdrich
A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson
OCTOBER
The Lonely City Olivia Laing
NOVEMBER
An Unnecessary Woman
Rabih Alameddine
Pond Claire-Louise Bennett
Barkskins Annie Proulx
DECEMBER
This Boy's Life Tobias Wolff
Edge of Albany Kirby White
Outline Rachel Cusk
Silas Marner * George Eliot