The Challenge: Finish 52 books in 2018.
The Rules:
- I am trying to finish 52 books this year. The books I started in 2017 will count if I finish them.
- Audiobooks count, but will be marked with an asterisk. There is definitely a difference between reading and listening to a book, but for the purposes of this challenge, both will count toward the total.
- Children’s chapter books (i.e. middle-grade readers) count and graphic novels do too. Picture books and comic books — shorter serial volumes — do not.
The Books
- “The Wordy Shipmates,” by Sarah Vowell *
- “Between Me and You,” by Allison Winn Scotch
- “The Lost Queen of Crocker County,” by Elizabeth Leiknes
- “Crosswind: Volume One,” by Simone Staggs
- “The Mad Wolf’s Daughter,” by Diane Magras *
- “A Wrinkle in Time,” by Madeleine L’Engle *
- “Ghost Boys,” by Jewell Parker Rhodes * (twice)
- “Big Foot and Little Foot,” by Ellen Potter *
- “The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (and Their Muses),” by Terri-Lynne DeFino
- “Relish: My Life in the Kitchen,” by Lucy Kinsley
- “The Orphan Band of Springdale,” by Anne Nesbet
- “The Lies They Tell,” by Gillian French
- “Tangerine,” by Christine Mangan *
- “Vox,” by Christina Dalcher
- “Maid,” by Stephanie Land
- “The Boy, The Bird and The Coffin Maker,” by Matilda Woods, illustrated by Anuska Allepuz *
- “The Beach Club,” by Elin Hilderbrand
- “Always Forever Maybe,” by Anica Mrose Rissi
- “Spill Zone,” by Scott Westerfeld and Alex Puvilland
- “Spill Zone: The Broken Vow,” by Scott Westerfeld and Alex Puvilland
- “Bob,” by Wendy Mass and Rebecca Stead and illustrated by Nicholas Gannon *
- “The Paris Secret,” by Karen Swan *
- “Louisiana’s Way Home,” by Kate DiCamillo *
- “Friday Black,” by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
- “Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus,” by Dusti Bowling *
- “Train I Ride,” by Paul Mosier *
- “The Hunt for the Mad Wolf’s Daughter,” by Diane Magras *
- “The Best American Food Writing 2018,” edited by Ruth Reichl
- “Marilla of Green Gables,” by Sarah McCoy
- “The Story of Arthur Truluv,” by Elizabeth Berg