50 Books in 2018

46 books in 2017! That is my best book year since college! I’m really proud of myself that I got so close even while working, planning a wedding, etc… on to 2018! Goal is still 50.

01. The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution – Barbara W. Tuchman (audiobook)
02. Smoke – Dan Vyleta
03. Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man’s Fundamentals for Delicious Living – Nick Offerman
04. American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution – Walter R. Borneman (audiobook)
05. Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution – Nathaniel Philbrick (audiobook)
06. The Princess Diarist – Carrie Fisher (audiobook)
07. Theft By Finding: Diaries 1977 – 2002 – David Sedaris (audiobook)
08. American Gods – Neil Gaiman (audiobook) (author’s preferred text, 10th anniversary edition)
09. The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain – Bill Bryson (audiobook)
10. Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman (audiobook) (author’s preferred text)
11. Rebecca – Daphne DuMaurier (audiobook)
12. In A Sunburned Country – Bill Bryson (audiobook)
13. The Girl Who Takes An Eye For An Eye – David Lagercrantz (audiobook)
14. Origin – Dan Brown (audiobook)
15. And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie (audiobook)
16. Something Wicked This Way Comes – Ray Bradbury (audiobook)
17. The Apartment – S.L. Grey (audiobook)
18. Doll Bones – Holly Black (audiobook)
19. The Darkest Evening of the Year – Dean Koontz (audiobook)
20. The Historian – Elizabeth Kostova (audiobook)
21. Welcome to Night Vale – Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor (audiobook)
22. Mr. Dickens and His Carol – Samantha Silva (audiobook)
23. Dracula – Bram Stoker (audiobook)
24. At Home: A Short History of Private Life – Bill Bryson (audiobook)
25. Shakespeare: The World As Stage – Bill Bryson (audiobook)
26. The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands – Stephen King (audiobook)
27. The Swan Thieves – Elizabeth Kostova (audiobook)*
28. A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson (audiobook)
29. Journeys in English – Bill Bryson (audiobook)
30. A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson (audiobook)
31. A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir By Lady Trent – Marie Brennan (audiobook)
32. John Dies At The End – David Wong (audiobook)
33. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid – Bill Bryson (audiobook)
34. The Tropic of Serpents: A Memoir By Lady Trent – Marie Brennan (audiobook)
35. I’m a Stranger Here Myself – Bill Bryson (audiobook)
36. Vlad – Carlos Fuentes (audiobook)
37. The Darkest Part of the Forest – Holly Black (audiobook)
38. The Monstrumologist – Rick Yancey (audiobook)
39. Neither Here Nor There – Bill Bryson (audiobook) (abridged)
40. The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass – Stephen King (audiobook)
41. Doctor Sleep – Stephen King (audiobook)
42. The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla – Stephen King (audiobook)
43. Voyage of the Basilisk: A Memoir by Lady Trent – Marie Brennan
44. Gwendy’s Button Box – Stephen King and Richard Chizmar (audiobook)
45. Mr. Mercedes – Stephen King (audiobook)
46. The Coldest Girl in Coldtown – Holly Black (audiobook)
47. In the Labyrinth of Drakes: A Memoir by Lady Trent – Marie Brennan
48. Finders Keepers – Stephen King (audiobook)
49. The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah – Stephen King (audiobook)
50. Within the Sanctuary of Wings: A Memoir by Lady Trent – Marie Brennan
51. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer – Michelle McNamara (audiobook)
52. End of Watch – Stephen King (audiobook)
53. The Monster of Florence – Douglas Preston & Mario Spezi (audiobook)
54. The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession – Allison Hoover Bartlett (audiobook)
55. Meddling Kids – Edgar Cantero
56. Salem’s Lot – Stephen King (audiobook)
57. The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower – Stephen King (audiobook)
58. A Monster Calls – Patrick Ness
59. Skulduggery Pleasant – Derek Landy (audiobook)
60. House – Fred Peretti & Ted Dekker (audiobook)
61. Those Across the River – Christopher Buehlman (audiobook)
62. Escape From Asylum – Madeleine Roux (audiobook)
63. This Body’s Not Big Enough for the Both of Us – Edgar Cantero (audiobooks)
64. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens (audiobook)
65. A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towels (audiobook)

* – I didn’t finish this book.