Monday, December 31, 2018

A Review of 2018

2018 is done. Here's how things went literarily for me.

The ten best books I read this year (in the order I read them):

1.  Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King & Owen King
2.  The Outsider by Stephen King
3.  The Listener by Robert McCammon
4.  Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons
5.  Elevation by Stephen King
6.  Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson
7.  A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
8.  Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
9.  The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams
10. The Farm by Tom Rob Smith

The worst book I read this year was Doomed by Chuck Palahniuk (a repeat accomplishment for Chuck).

Number of books read: 53

Book signings attended:
Orson Scott Card - no particular book
Brandon Sanderson - Skyward

2019 books I'm looking forward to:
Crucible by James Rollins
The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man by Jonas Jonasson
A Labyrinth of Scions and Sorcery by Curtis Craddock
The Thorn of Emberlain by Scott Lynch
Dark Age by Pierce Brown
Early Riser by Jasper Fforde
The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
The Malta Exchange by Steve Berry
Empire of Grass by Tad Williams
The Never Game by Jeffery Deaver
The Philosopher's War by Tom Miller
Fall, or Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson
That one book by that George RR Martin guy???!!!

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