This year I continued last year’s trends of reading cook books and stories I’d purchased as part of a Humble Bundle or Story Bundle. This led to some great surprises like Singularity Girl, which I really liked and Kissing Booth Girl which had a bunch of haunting short stories. Because it was the 200th anniversary, I started off the year reading Frankenstein for the first time ever. I read that together with the Sword and Laser book club. Much later in the year I also read Zer0es with the book club. This year I read my first Cuban SF novel with A Planet for Rent and that was a really neat read. But there were two big universes I tackled in 2018. I read nearly all of the novels in The Expanse and I read nearly all of the remaining books, short stories, and novellas in Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere. In fact, reading all of Mistborn Era 1 and 2 and the Stormlight Archive books 1-3 (all that’s out now) took up nearly all of my reading time. I’d set a goal of reading 45 books. I read 81, but would have read many, many more had it not been for the 1000+ pages of each of the Stormlight Archive books.

At the time I write this (a few days into 2019) I have 985ish (because I have some Calibre catalogs in there) ebooks and emagazines. Of those, 704 are unread.

Some Goodreads stats:

• I read 23,910 pages across 81 books
• Shortest book was Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania at 40 pages.
• Longest book was Oathbringer at 1248 pages
• Most popular was Frankenstein also read by 1 million others
• Least popular was Cook’s illustrated 2018 Annual only read by one other person
• My average rating was a 3.7

My favorite book in 2018 was The Emperor’s Soul by Brandon Sanderson

So, here are the books I read in 2018:

1. Chew Vol 4
2. Cook’s Illustrated 2017 Annual
3. Chew: Smorgasboard Edition Vol 2
4. Holiday Entertaining
5. The Mad Tinker’s Daughter
6. Frankenstein
7. Superman: An unauthorized biography
8. Chew: Smorgasboard Edition Vol 3
9. The Final Empire
10. Kissing Booth Girl
11. The Emperor’s Soul
12. Murder at the Vicarage
13. Amberville
14. Chester 5000 XYV
15. Chester 5000: Isabele and George
16. The Well of Ascension
17. Bitch Planet Vol 1
18. Bitch Planet Triple Feature
19. Bitch Planet Vol 2
20. Sex & Violence
21. The Secret History of Star Wars
22. Beyond Lies the Wub
23. Caliban’s War
24. The Best Mexican Recipes
25. The Witch of Portobello
26. The Plot to Hack America
27. The Hero of Ages
28. Mistborn Adventure Game
29. Cook’s Country 2016 Annual
30. Ready Player One
31. Megaman 3
32. Cook’s Country 2017 Annual
33. The Way of Kings
34. Neon Noir
35. White Sand Vol 1
36. You’re Not Fooling anyone when you take your laptop to a coffee shop
37. An Election
38. Ultimate History of Video Games
39. Food Processor Perfection
40. Planet BBQ
41. Prepare to Meet thy Doom
42. Abaddon’s Gate
43. Damnation Alley
44. Singularity Girl
45. The Perfect Cookie
46. Words of Radiance
47. The Future is Japanese
48. Cibola Burn
49. Edge Dancer
50. Sixth of the Dusk
51. The Virtuous Feats of the Indomitable Miss Trafalgar and the Erudite Lady Boone
52. The Churn
53. Altered America
54. Dungeon Hacks
55. Nemesis Games
56. Legion
57. Muffins and Biscuits
58. Storm Front
59. Legion: Skin Deep
60. The Vital Abyss
61. Batman Vol 1
62. Batman Vol 2
63. Batman Vol 3
64. The Marshall’s Lover
65. Dinner Illustrated
66. The World’s Most Dangerous Geek
67. Babylon’s Ashes
68. Katamari Damacy
69. Milk Street Tuesday Nights
70. Zer0es
71. Oathbringer
72. Nightflyers and Other Stories
73. Legends of Texas BBQ
74. The Alloy of Law
75. Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania
76. A Planet for Rent
77. Adrift on a Sea of Rains
78. Shadows of Self
79. The Bands of Mourning
80. Shadows for Silence in the Forest of Hell
81. Cook’s Illustrated 2018 Annual