2018 Year in Books

Total books read: 58

Nonfiction: 7

• Craft of writing: 2
• Memoir by Kansas authors: 2

Fiction: 51

• Written by friends: 4 (but I have several more queued up–I ran out of time!)
• Written by other authors represented by my agent: 5

Complete list in the order read:

• The Day I Died, Lori Rader-Day
• One Perfect Lie, Lisa Scottoline
• Snap Judgment, Marcia Clark
• Murder Wears Mittens, Sally Goldenbaum
• Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
• Sulfer Springs, William Kent Krueger
• Let the Dead Speak, Jane Casey
• Mangrove Lightning, Randy Wayne White
• Murder in the Manuscript Room, Con Lehane
• Into the Black Nowhere, Meg Gardiner
• Earthly Remains, Donna Leon
• Queens of Innis Lear, Tessa Gratton
• Ill Will, Dan Chaon
• Don’t Let Go, Harlon Coben
• Sea Witch, Sarah Henning
• I Know a Secret, Tess Gerritsen
• Penance of the Damned, Peter Tremayne
• Seafire, Natalie C. Parker
• Birding is my Favorite Video Game, Rosemary Mosco
• A Higher Loyalty, James Comes
• The Undesired, Yrsa Sigurdardottir
• Snowblind, Ragnar, Jonasson
• Wicked River, Jenny Milchman
• A Game of Ghosts, John Connolly
• Story Genius, Lisa Cron
• All the President’s Men, Woodward and Bernstein
• Exit Strategy, Steve Hamilton
• Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward
• Y is for Yesterday, Sue Grafton
• The Freedom Broker, K.J. Howe
• Walking on My Grave, Carolyn Hart
• A Hunt in Winter, Conor Brady
• Takeout, Margaret Maron
• A Death in the Dales, Frances Brody
• Hot Mess, Emily Belden
• Little Broken Things, Nicole Baart
• The Midnight Line, Lee Child
• Lost in Shangri-La, Mitchell Zuckoff
• Desolation Mountain, William Kent Krueger
• The Lost Woman, Sara Blaedel
• The Emotional Craft of Fiction, Donald Maass
• Magpie Murders, Anthony Horowitz
• Murder on the Serpentine, Anne Perry
• Robicheaux, James Lee Burke
• Heartland, Sarah Smarsh
• The Witch Elm, Tana French
• Every Breath You Take, Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke
• The Coroner’s Daughter, Andrew Hughes
• In Farleigh Field, Rhys Bowen
• Bluebird Bluebird, Atticka Locke
• A Casualty of War, Charles Todd
• Under a Dark Sky, Lori Rader-Day
• Death in St. Petersburg, Tasha Alexander
• The Paris Spy, Susan Elia MacNeal
• Unpunished, Lisa Black
• The Seagull, Ann Cleeves
• Iron Lake, William Kent Krueger
• The Turtle’s Beating Heart, Denise Low