Read More in 2018 New Year’s Resolution Book List

This is the list of the books I plan to read in 2018.  I’ll cross out the ones I’ll get to within the year…

  1. Monday Starts on Saturday – Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
  2. Lincoln in the Bardo – George Saunders 2/11/18 (****)
  3. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
  4. Possession – A.S. Byatt (I tried reading this years ago, but never got around to finishing it.)
  5. Death on the Nile – Agatha Christie
  6. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
  7. The Meaning of Night – Michael Cox (I started this book last year, but got distracted and never got back to it).
  8. The Familiar #1 – Mark Z. Danielewski
  9. The Quiet Ones – Glenn Diaz (started this last December, 2017…not as compelling as I’d hoped, but I’ll try to finish it anyway).
  10. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens (this is a novel I’ve been trying to read since high school…)
  11. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens (I have not read a single novel by Charles Dickens…I know….I know…)
  12. All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
  13. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco (Another novel I’ve been reading for the past 10+ years…)
  14. Silence – Shusaku Endo
  15. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles (I tried reading this in 2017…failed to finish it).
  16. East of Eden – John Steinbeck
  17. The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal
  18. Confessions of Zeno – Italo Svevo
  19. The Makioka Sisters – Junichiro Tanizaki
  20. Beren and Luthien – J.R.R. Tolkien (this is the new edition released in 2017).
  21. Annihilation (Southern Reach Trilogy #1) – Jeff VanderMeer 4-3-18 (****)
  22. Authority (Southern Reach Trilogy #2) – Jeff VanderMeer 4-18-18 (**.5)
  23. Acceptance (Southern Reach Trilogy #3) – Jeff VanderMeer 5-21-18 (***)
  24. The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
  25. Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie (A book I started more than 10 years ago…I’d have to read it again from the start).
  26. The Essex Serpent – Sarah Perry
  27. The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials #1) – Philip Pullman (I’ve actually read this first book, but never got around to finishing the series.  I might re-read this again to refresh my memories.  I’m reading His Dark Materials in preparation of La Belle Sauvage:  The Book of Dust).
  28. The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials #2) – Philip Pullman
  29. The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials #3) – Philip Pullman
  30. The Book of Dust – Philip Pullman
  31. The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe
  32. All the Names – Jose Saramago
  33. Baltasar and Blimunda – Jose Saramago
  34. The Thirteenth Tale – Diane Setterfield
  35. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
  36. A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  37. The Princess Bride – William Goldman
  38. Hunger or Mysteries – Knut Hamsun
  39. A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy #1) – Deborah Harkness 1/4/18 (*)
  40. Shadow of Night (All Souls Trilogy #2) – Deborah Harkness
  41. Book of Life (All Souls Trilogy #3) – Deborah Harkness
  42. The Buried Giant – Kazuo Ishiguro
  43. A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
  44. Salvation of a Saint – Keigo Higashino
  45. Malice – Keigo Higashino
  46. A Thousand Cranes – Yasunari Kawabata
  47. Le Liasons Dangereuses – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
  48. The Three-Body Problem – Liu Cixin
  49. Death in the Andes – Mario Vargas Llosa
  50. Infatuations – Javier Marias (started this in 2017…)
  51. Nutshell – Ian McEwan
  52. Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
  53. Boy, Snow, Bird – Helen Oyeyemi
  54. A Strangeness in my Mind – Orhan Pamuk (another novel I started in 2017…a rather long read.)
  55. Dear Mr. M – Herman Koch 1-22-18 (***)
  56. An Unkindness of Magicians – Kat Howard
  57. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness – Arundhati Roy
  58. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
  59. SPQR – Mary Beard (the only non-fiction on this list)
  60. Down and Out in Paris and London – George Orwell (non-fiction) 1-8-18 (***)
  61. The Portrait of a Murderer – Anne Meredith 1-12-18 (**)
  62. The Magpie Murders – Anthony Horowitz 3-28-18 (***)

So, what do you guys think?  A lot of these have been on my tbr list for years…hopefully 2018 is the year they finally get crossed out!

Good luck to me…I’m gonna need it!