Time for a new year! And 2018 is a big year. It’s the 10th anniversary of this blog in April, and that means it’s the 10th anniversary of me keeping this running booklist. So here’s the new list, I’m getting a jump on my reading already for the year. As always, this post will be linked on the What I’ve Read page over on there on the left.

2008: 356 Books Read
2009: 302 Books Read
2010: 344 Books Read
2011: 202 Books Read
2012: 121 Books Read
2013: 118 Books Read
2014: 77 Books Read
2015: 84 Books Read
2016: 76 Books Read
2017: 88 Books Read

2018 Total: 45

B=Biography
BB=Board Book
C=Chapter Book/Easy Reader
CN=Children’s Novel
CNF=Children’s Nonfiction
GN=Graphic Novel or Comic
N=Novel
NF=Other Nonfiction (Teen or Adult)
P=Picture Book
PL=Play (new for 2018)
S=Short Stories

* Audio Book

Picture Books

  1. The Good Little Book — Kyo Maclear (P)
  2. Super Ladybug to the Rescue! — Guido Van Genechten (P)
  3. Home — Carson Ellis (P)
  4. Cupcake — Charise Mericle Harper (P)
  5. Little Fox in the Forest — Stephanie Graegin (P)
  6. First Snow — Bomi Park (P)
  7. Sparkle Boy — Leslea Newman (P)
  8. Where’s Rodney? — Carmen Bogan (P)
  9. Under the Ocean — Anouck Boisrobert (P)
  10. Flashlight Night — Matt Forrest Esenwine (P)
  11. The Glassmaker’s Daughter — Dianne Hofmeyr (P)
  12. Love — Matt de la Pena (P)
  13. You Don’t Want a Unicorn — Ame Dyckman (P)
  14. The Most Magnificent Thing — Ashley Spires (P)
  15. The Pink Hat — Andrew Joyner (P)
  16. The Night Lion — Sanne Dufft (P)
  17. Bruce’s Big Move –Ryan T. Higgins (P)
  18. Egg — Kevin Henkes (P)
  19. Herman and Rosie — Gus Gordon (P)
  20. The Dinosaur Tooth Fairy –Martha Brockenbrough (P)
  21. Bones, Bones, Dinosaur Bones — Byron Barton (P)(CNF)
  22. Gorgonzola: A Very Stinkysaurus — Margie Palatini (P)

Easy Readers/Early Chapter Books

  1. Sophia and Rainbow (Unicorn Academy #1) — Julie Sykes (CN)
  2. Scarlett and Blaze (Unicorn Academy #2) — Julie Sykes (CN)

Children’s/YA Books

  1. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts 1 and 2 — JK Rowling, John Tiffany, Jack Thorne (PL)
  2. This One Summer — Mariko Tamaki (GN)
  3. Long Way Down — Jason Reynolds (N)
  4. *Hello Universe — Erin Entrada Kelly (CN)
  5. Scooby-Doo Team-Up Vol. 2 — Sholly Fisch (GN)

Grownup Books

  1. *Touchstone (Harry Stuyvesant #1) — Laurie R. King (N)
  2. *Before He Finds Her — Michael Kardos (N)
  3. *Magpie Murders — Anthony Horowitz (N)
  4. *The House of Silk (Sherlock Holmes #1) — Anthony Horowitz (N)
  5. *Little Fires Everywhere — Celeste Ng (N)
  6. *The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizer #1) — Caleb Carr (N)
  7. The Woman in the Window — AJ Finn (N)
  8. *The Perfume Collector — Kathleen Tessaro (N)
  9. The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror — Daniel Mallory Ortberg (S)
  10. *I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer — Michelle McNamara (NF)
  11. *Island of the Mad (Mary Russell #15) — Laurie R. King (N)
  12. *The Cheerleaders — Kara Thomas (N)
  13. *The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce #1) — Alan Bradley (N)
  14. *Something in the Water — Catherine Steadman (N)
  15. *Truly Madly Guilty — Liane Moriarty (N)
  16. *The Power — Naomi Alderman (N)