ALL I read in 2018

Finally, finally, finally I’m posting all 125 books I read in 2018. I had this post half written months ago, but then my last semester of grad school put everything else on hold. Now that it’s over – I’m finally getting around to sharing all of the books I read last year!

I organized this post into the following categories so that you can easily find book recommendations that match what you’re interested in!

Fiction on African American history / race

• A Long Walk to Water – Linda Sue Park
• A Mercy – Toni Morrison
• Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi
• March – Geraldine Brooks
• Small Great Things – Jodi Picoult
• The Color Purple – Alice Walker
• The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas
• The House Girl – Tara Conklin
• The Invention of Wings – Sue Monk Kidd
• The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
• The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead

Fiction on World War II

• Between Shades of Gray – Ruta Sepetys
• Dawn – Elie Wiesel
• Everyone Brave is Forgiven – Chris Cleave
• Lilac Girls – Martha Hall Kelly
• Salt to the Sea – Ruta Sepetys
• Sarah’s Key – Tatiana de Rosnay
• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas – John Boyne
• The German Girl – Armando Lucas Correa
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
• The Kommandant’s Girl – Pam Jenoff
• The Nightingale – Kristin Hannah
• The Women in the Castle – Jessica Shattuck

Misc. fiction

• A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
• Anthem – Ayn Rand
• Astonish Me – Maggie Shipstead
• Exit West – Mohsin Hamid
• Half-Broke Horses – Jeannette Walls
• Leaving Time – Jodi Picoult
• Midnight Blue – Simone van der Vlugt
• My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
• Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson
• Still Me – Jojo Moyes
• The Anchoress – Robyn Cadwallader
• The Boston Girl – Anita Diamant
• The Enchanted – Rene Denfeld
• The Nest – Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
• The Silver Star – Jeannette Walls
• The Storyteller – Jodi Picoult
• The Virgin Blue – Tracy Chevalier
• Three Sisters, Three Queens – Philippa Gregory

Non-fiction on racial justice

• A Perilous Path – Sherrilyn Ifill, Loretta Lynch, Bryan Stevenson, & Anthony C. Thompson
• At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance – Danielle L. McGuire
• Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Hidden in Plain View – Jacqueline L. Tobin & Raymond G. Dobard
• Just Mercy – Bryan Stevenson
• On the Other Side of Freedom – DeRay McKesson
• Picking Cotton – Jennifer Thompson-Cannino & Ronald Cotton
• The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander
• Voice of America – E.C. Osondu
• White Fragility – Robin DiAngelo

Non-fiction on other justice issues

• Seeking Refuge – Issam Smeir, Matthew Soerens, & Stephen Bauman
• The Locust Effect – Gary A. Haugen

Non-fiction on women / feminism

• Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Girls Like Us – Rachel Lloyd
• We Should All Be Feminists – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Misc. non-fiction

• Anne Frank – Melissa Muller
• Milk and Honey – Rupi Kaur
• The Sun and Her Flowers – Rupi Kaur

Memoirs

• A River in Darkness – Masaji Ishikawa
• All the Colors We Will See – Patrice Gopo
• All the Pretty Things – Edie Wadsworth
• Brown Girl Dreaming – Jacqueline Woodson
• Dreams from My Father – Barack Obama
• Forty Autumns – Nina Willner
• Home – Julie Andrews
• I Am Malala – Malala Yousafzai
• I Have Lived a Thousand Years – Livia Bitton-Jackson
• I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
• I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness – Austin Channing Brown
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – Frederick Douglass
• Night – Elie Wiesel
• Sit, Walk, Stand – Watchman Nee
• Sold as a Slave – Olaudah Equiano
• Survival in Auschwitz – Primo Levi
• The Coldest Winter – Paula Fox
• Without You, There is No Us – Suki Kim

Mysteries

• After the Funeral – Agatha Christie
• Career of Evil – Robert Galbraith
• Sleeping Murder – Agatha Christie
• The Cuckoo’s Calling – Robert Galbraith
• The Distant Hours – Kate Morton
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
• The Silkworm – Robert Galbraith

Christian

• Dance, Stand, Run – Jess Connolly
• Everybody Always – Bob Goff
• Jesus Feminist – Sarah Bessey
• Letters to a Birmingham Jail – Bryan Loritts
• Making All Things New – David Powlinson
• Preemptive Love – Jeremy Courtney
• Strength to Love – MLK Jr.
• The Gospel Comes with a House Key – Rosaria Butterfield
• Wearing God – Lauren F. Winner
• White Awake – Daniel Hill

Hope you came away from this (very long) post with a longer “to read” list! Let me know which books look interesting to you!