The Books I Read in 2018
A complete list of what I read over the course of 2018.
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim: A Midlife Misadventure on Spain’s Camino de Santiago by Jane Christmas
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
Saving Talk Therapy: How Health Insurers, Big Pharma, and Slanted Science are Ruining Good Mental Health Care by Enrico Gnaulati
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by John Tiffany, Jack Throne, J.K. Rowling
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche by Ethan Watters
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey
How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran
Rising Strong: The Reckoning, The Rumble, The Revolution by Brené Brown
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kayden
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown
The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris by John Baxter
On Living by Kerry Egan
Into Thing Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by John Krakauer
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wild Embers: Poems of rebellion, fire and beauty by Nikkita Gill
How to Be Irish: Uncovering the Curiosities of Irish Behaviour by David Slattery
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It: Life Journeys Inspired by the Bestselling Memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert
Live Through This: On Creativity and Self Destruction by Sabrina Chapadjiev
The Family Crucible by Augustus Y. Naper
All Our Waves Are Water: Stumbling Towards Enlightenment and the Perfect Ride by Jamal Yogis
No Matter the Wreckage: Poems by Sarah Kay
Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom by John O’Donohue
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Uplake: Restless Essays of Coming and Going by Ana Maria Spagna
The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich
In Conclusion, Don’t Worry About It by Lauren Graham
Horoscopes for the Dead by Billy Collin’s
On Love by Alain de Botton
The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison
Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
All About Love by bell hooks
Cities I’ve Never Lived In by Sara Majka
To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings by John O’Donohue
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed
Wade in the Water: Poems by Tracy K. Smith
Dare to Lead: Brave Work, Tough Conversations, Whole Hearts by Brené Brown
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness by Mark Epstein
There is No Good Card for This: What to Say and Do When Life is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People You Love by Kelsey Crowe, Emily McDowell
I Thought It was Just Me (But It Isn’t): Making the Journey from “What Will People Think” to “I Am Enough” by Brené Brown
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chumamanda Ngozi Adichie
A Girl is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride
How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits by Anne Berest
Letters to a Young Therapist by Mary Piper
This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live by Melody Warnick
In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
What I was Doing While You Were Breastfeeding by Kristin Newman