2018 reading

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I have been re-reading Middlemarch over the break and very much enjoying it, but as I still have 150 pages left and have been averaging 50-100 pages per day I don't think I'm going to finish it in time to count it as a 2018 read, so the full list is:

The Sirens Sang of Murder - Sarah Caudwell
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
The King Must Die - Mary Renault
Ethan of Athos - Lois McMaster Bujold
Girl Reporter - Tansy Rayner Roberts
A Free Man of Color - Barbara Hambly
The Seventh Bride - T Kingfisher
Conference at Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Four Ways to Forgiveness - Ursula K Le Guin
The Surgeon’s Mate - Patrick O’Brian
Raven Stratagem - Yoon Ha Lee
Blood and Circuses - Kerry Greenwood
Rustick Exile - L.A. Hall
The Power - Naomi Alderman
Binti - Nnedi Okorafor
The Pinhoe Egg - Diana Wynne Jones
King Hereafter - Dorothy Dunnett
A Change Of Station - L.A. Hall
Labyrinth - Lois McMaster Bujold
Ruddy Gore - Kerry Greenwood
The Ionian Mission - Patrick O’Brian
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea - Ursula K Le Guin
In the Teeth of the Evidence - Dorothy L Sayers
The Masked City - Genevieve Cogman
Empire of Bones - Liz Williams
The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemisin
Old Enemies, New Problems - L.A. Hall
Synners - Pat Cadigan
Wanderlust - Rebecca Solnit
The House of the Four Winds - John Buchan
Dramatick Rivalry - L.A. Hall
Extracurricular Activities - Yoon Ha Lee
The Tea Master and the Detective - Aliette de Bodard
Fire and Hemlock - Diana Wynne Jones
A Spoke in the Wheel - Kathleen Jowitt
Artificial Condition - Martha Wells
Sunbathing in the Rain - Gwyneth Lewis
Fever Season - Barbara Hambly
The Black Tides of Heaven - JY Yang
Bookworm - Lucy Mangan
The Book of Three - Lloyd Alexander
Domestick Disruptions - L.A. Hall
The Borders of Infinity - Lois McMaster Bujold
How to Survive the End of the World (when it’s in your own head) - Aaron Gillies
Musketeer Space - Tansy Rayner Roberts
Rivers of London: Cry Fox - Ben Aaronovitch
Revenant Gun - Yoon Ha Lee
Treason’s Harbour - Patrick O’Brian
Prefects at Vivians - Patricia K. Caldwell
Prairie Fires - Caroline Fraser
Little House in the Big Woods - Laura Ingalls Wilder
Head Girl at Vivians - Patricia K Caldwell
Strangers at Vivians - Patricia K Caldwell
Ash - Malinda Lo
Europe in Winter - Dave Hutchinson
Cream Buns and Crime - Robin Stevens
Gods, Monsters and the Lucky Peach - Kelly Robson
Society Favourite - L.A. Hall
The Silver Pigs - Lindsey Davis
The Obelisk Gate - N.K. Jemisin
Rogue Protocol - Martha Wells
The Game of Kings - Dorothy Dunnett
The Living Mountain - Nan Shepherd
Brothers in Arms - Lois McMaster Bujold
The Dispossessed - Ursula K Le Guin
Sudden Death - L.A. Hall
Exit Strategy - Martha Wells
Handywoman - Kate Davies
A Spoonful of Murder - Robin Stevens
Romantick Stratagems - L.A. Hall
A Closed and Common Orbit - Becky Chambers
Shadows in Bronze - Lindsey Davis
Lies Sleeping - Ben Aaronovitch
The Wild Places - Robert Macfarlane
An Honourable Estate - L.A. Hall
A Natural History of Dragons - Marie Brennan
Alice Payne Arrives - Kate Heartfield

77 books (slightly fewer than the last couple of years, but not as much as I thought it might be as I know I have been reading more slowly the last couple of months); 63 by women, and of the remaining 14, two are by a trans man and one by a non-binary person; 9 (I think) by non-white authors. Lots of ongoing series, but I think my most-read author by quite a long way was a certain L.A. Hall. 8 non-fiction books, which is quite a lot for me; only one graphic novel. I had one DNF (Eva Ibbotson's Madensky Square).

It's always hard to pick favourites, but the three Murderbot novellas (Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol and Exit Strategy) were very enjoyable; I loved the conclusion of Yoon Ha Lee's Machineries of Empire trilogy and the first two books in N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy. The Living Mountain and The Wild Places were both delightful reads, and Kate Davies's Handywoman joins them as my favourite non-fiction of the year. (Reviews of all of the books should be findable under the "2018 books" tag if you want to know more about what I thought of any of them.)