In 2015, it was 62. In 2016, it was 60. In 2017, it was 42. Apparently, when you become a real adult with real responsibilities and a real job and a relationship, reading time slips away…

Now it’s time for 2018.

1. High Rise by JG Ballard
2. My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
3. The Dead Mountaineer’s Inn by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
4. Double Bind: Women on Ambition edited by Robin Romm
5. The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
6. In the Woods by Tana French
7. Apocalypse Cow by Michael Logan
8. Dragon Teeth by Michael Crichton
9. Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire – by Simon Winchester
10. World War Moo by Michael Logan
11. Have Mercy On Us All by Fred Vargas
12. A Tale for the Time Being  by Ruth Ozeki
13. A Gambler’s Anatomy by Jonathan Lethem
14. Lexicon by Max Barry
15. The Assistants by Camille Perri
16. Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
17. Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
18. West by Carys Davies
19. Adjustment Day by Chuck Palahniuk
20. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
21. The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac by Sharma Shields
22. The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
23. The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli
24. The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey
25. Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
26. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
27. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
28. Peach by Emma Glass
29. Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
30. Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller
31. Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith
32. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
33. The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
34. The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light by Paul Bogard
35. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
36. Boxers by Gene Luen Yang
37. Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
38. A Firing Offense by George Pelecanos
39. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
40. Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
41. Live from Cairo by Ian Bassingthwaighte
42. The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
43. Welcome to the Writer’s Life: How to Design Your Writing Craft, Writing Business, Writing Practice, and Reading Practice by Paulette Perhach
44. A Girl’s Guide to Missiles: Growing Up in America’s Secret Desert by Karen Piper
45. Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
46. Seven Surrenders by Ada Palmer
47. I Will Find You: Solving Killer Cases from My Life Fighting Crime by Joe Kenda
48. A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
49. Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
50. The Will to Battle by Ada Palmer
51. The Library Book by Susan Orlean
52. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
53. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
54. The Atomic City Girls by Janet Beard