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