A list of all 85 books I read in 2018. Didn’t read as many as I usually do, thanks to a heavy work schedule and writing a book, but still not too bad.
Recommended reading denoted with an asterisk “*”.
Also check out my Best of Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2018 list on Tor.com.
Fiction
* Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer (Southern Reach #1)
* The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan
Babe: The Gallant Pig by Dick King-Smith
Before She Sleeps by Bina Shah
Beneath the Citadel by Destiny Soria
The Black Ice by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch #2)
* Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James (Dark Star Trilogy #1)
* A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney (Untitled series #1)
* Blanca and Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore
* Bruja Born by Zoraida Córdova (Brooklyn Brujas #2)
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
* Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (Legacy of Orïsha #1)
* Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
Dark Days Deceit by Alison Goodman (Lady Helen #3)
A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab (Shades of Magic #1)
* Dread Nation by Justina Ireland (Dread Nation #1)
* For A Muse of Fire by Heidi Heilig (For a Muse of Fire #1)
* Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert (The Hazel Wood #1)
Head On by John Scalzi (Lock In #2)
* How Long ‘Til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin
* Hulllmetal Girls by Emily Skrutskie
* Isle of Blood and Stone by Makiia Lucier (Tower of Winds #1)
The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee (Montague Siblings #2)
Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert
* Mirage by Somaiya Daud (Mirage #1)
* The Navigator’s Touch by Julia Ember (The Seafarer’s Kiss #2)
The Raptor and the Wren by Chuck Wendig (Miriam Black #5)
A Room Away from the Wolves by Nova Ren Suma
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (Six of Crows #1)
* Space Unicorn Blues by T.J. Berry
A Spark of White Fire by Sangu Mandanna (The Celestial Trilogy #1)
* Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno
Sweet Black Waves by Kristina Pérez (Sweet Black Waves #1)
Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin
Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone (Craft Sequence #1)
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han (To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before #1)
* Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse (The Sixth World #1)
Treason of Hawks by Lila Bowen (The Shadow #4)
Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson
Vengeful by V.E. Schwab (Villains #2)
Vicious by V.E. Schwab (Villains #1)
* What If It’s Us? by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden (Winternight Trilogy #3)
* Witchmark by C.L. Polk (Kingston Cycle #1)
Novellas and Novelettes
* All Systems Red by Martha Wells (Murderbot Diaries #1)
The Armored Saint by Myke Cole (The Sacred Throne #1)
* Artificial Condition by Martha Wells (Murderbot Diaries #2)
* The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
* The Barrow Will Send What It May by Margaret Killjoy (Danielle Cain #2)
Binti: Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor
* The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark
* The Black Tides of Heaven by JY Yang (Tensorate #2)
* The Descent of Monsters by JY Yang (Tensorate #3)
* Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day by Seanan McGuire
* Exit Strategy by Martha Wells (Murderbot Diaries #4)
Finding Baba Yaga by Jane Yolen
* Gods, Monsters, and Lucky Peach by Kelly Robson
* Hammers on Bone by Cassandra Khaw (Persons Non Grata #1)
* In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children #4)
* The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander
* Passing Strange by Ellen Klages
* The Red Threads of Fortune by JY Yang (Tensorate #1)
* River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey (River of Teeth #1)
* Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells (Murderbot Diaries #4)
A Ruin of Shadows by L.D. Lewis
The Twilight Pariah by Jeffrey Ford
Non-Fiction
* Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston
Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico by Deborah Cohen
The Conflict Between the California Indian and White Civilization by Sherburne F. Cook
* A Cross of Thorns: The Enslavement of California’s Indians by the Spanish Missions by Elias Castillo
* Defiant Braceros: How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom by Mireya Loza
General Vallejo and the Advent of the Americas by Alan Rosenus
Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement by Lori A. Flores
Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America by Juan González
* Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America by Mae M. Ngai
* Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
* The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O’Meara
* Merchants of Labor: The Mexican Bracero Story by Ernesto Galarza
Mexicans in the Making of America by Neil Foley
The Population of the California Indians, 1769-1970 by Sherburne F. Cook
* Santos, duraznos y vino / Saints, Peaches and Wine by Sandra L. Nichols
They Saved the Crops: Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era California by Don Mitchell
* This Land Was Mexican Once: Histories of Resistance from Northern California by Linda Heidenreich
* The Tracks North: The Railroad Bracero Program of World War II by Barbara A. Driscoll
Books In Progress
Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore
Life Debt by Chuck Wendig (Star Wars: Aftermath #2)
Five-Twelfths of Heaven by Melissa Scott (Roads of Heaven #1)
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