2018 in Books – Brett's Footnotes¹: Rebirth!

We Were Eight Years in Power; An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates (1/1)
Invisible Prey by John Sandford (1/2)
The Pine Barrens by John McPhee (1/3)
The Resurrection of Joan Ashby by Cherise Wolas (1/5)
Children of Men by P. D. James (1/6)
Gwendy’s Button Box by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar (1/7)
The Power by Naomi Alderman (1/7)
The Clocks by Agatha Christie (1/9)
Sourdough by Robin Sloan (1/9)
The End of Average; How We Succeed in a World that Values Sameness by Todd Rose (1/10)
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson (1/12)
Fresh Complaint by Jeffrey Eugenides (1/14)
Crashed by Timothy Hallinan (1/16)
The Trials by Linda Nagata (1/17)
Warp by Lev Grossman (1/20)
The Dispatcher by John Scalzi (1/20)
Dinner at the Center of the Earth by Nathan Englander (1/20)
A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles by John McPhee (1/22)
Phantom Prey by John Sandford (1/24)
The Taken by Sarah Pinborough (1/26)
Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett (1/27)
Katalin Street by Magda Szabo (1/30)
The Gathering by Anne Enright (2/2)
Promise Me, Dad; A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose by Joe Biden (2/3)
Little Elvises by Timothy Hallinan (2/3)
An American Family; A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice by Khizr Khan (2/3)
Going Dark by Linda Nagata (2/4)
I Will Have Vengeance; The Winter of Commissario Ricciardi by Maurizio de Giovanni (2/5)
The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 edited by Charles Yu (2/6)
Third Girl by Agatha Christie (2/8)
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (2/10)
Pyramids by Terry Pratchett (2/11)
The Art of Happiness; A Handbook for Living by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler, M.D. (2/12)
Beyond the Messy Truth; How We Came Apart, How We Come Together by Van Jones (2/13)
The Heavens May Fall by Allan Eskens (2/15)
Essentialism; The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Gregory McKeown (2/16)
The White Road by Sarah Lotz (2/18)
Wicked Prey by John Sandford (2/18)
City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty (2/20)
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (2/22)
Rocannon’s World by Ursula K. Le Guin (2/23)
Autumn by Ali Smith (2/24)
The Fame Thief by Timothy Hallinan (2/25)
The Burning Girl; A Novel by Claire Messud (2/25)
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (2/26)
After Atlas by Emma Newman (3/1)
300 Arguments by Sarah Manguso (3/1)
Levels of the Game by John McPhee (3/2)
Five Carat Soul by James McBride (3/3)
Bird Box by Josh Malerman (3/3)
Matchup ed. by Lee Child (3/5)
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett (3/7)
Blood Curse; the Springtime of Commissario Ricciardi by Maurizio de Giovanni (3/9)
Drown by Junot Diaz (3/10)
Hallowe’en Party by Agatha Christie (3/11)
Baltimore Blues by Laura Lippman (3/11)
The Deep Dark Descending by Allen Eskens (3/12)
Acqua Alta by Donna Leon (3/13)
Storm Prey by John Sandford (3/14)
Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong (3/17)
The Broken Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin (3/19)
Herbie’s Game by Timothy Hallinan (3/20)
Broken Harbor by Tana French (3/22)
Getting It Wrong from the Beginning; Our Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget by Kieran Egan (3/24)
The Inverted World by Christopher Priest (3/24)
Mislaid by Nell Zink (3/27)
Black Mad Wheel by Josh Malerman (3/28)
Transit by Rachel Cusk (3/30)
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain (3/30)
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (3/30)
How Should A Person Be? by Sheila Heti (3/30)
The Vegetarian by Han Kang (3/31)
The Crofter and the Laird by John McPhee (3/31)
Charm City by Laura Lippman (4/1)
Everyone in their Place; The Summer of Commissario Ricciardi by Maurizio de Giovanni (4/5)
Planet of Exile by Ursula K. Le Guin (4/6)
The Forgotten Girl by Rio Youers (4/7)
This Book is Full of Spiders by David Wong (4/8)
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (4/8)
Buried Prey by John Sandford (4/9)
The Kingdom of Gods by N. K. Jemisin (4/12)
BOLO by Keith Laumer (4/13)
Eric by Terry Pratchett (4/13)
Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie (4/13)
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado (4/14)
King Maybe by Timothy Hallinan (4/15)
Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs (4/16)
Blackout by Connie Willis (4/20)
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (4/21)
Crash Override by Zoë Quinn (4/22)
Butchers Hill by Laura Lippman (4/23)
Deep Work; Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport (4/25)
Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee (4/27)
S. by Doug Dorst and J. J. Abrams (4/28)
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark; One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara (4/29)
City of Illusions by Ursula K. Le Guin (5/1)
Unbury Carol by Josh Malerman (5/3)
Let Me Lie by Clare Mackintosh (5/5)
In Fields Where They Lay by Timothy Hallinan (5/6)
Quietly In Their Sleep by Donna Leon (5/8)
Not a Sound by Heather Gudenkauf (5/12)
Curtain by Agatha Christie (5/13)
A Long Way From Home by Peter Carey (5/16)
In Big Trouble by Laura Lippman (5/21)
The Wolves of Winter by Tyrell Johnson (5/22)
No Time to Spare; Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin (5/23)
Our Little Secret by Roz Nay (5/24)
Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett (5/25)
Head On; A Novel of the Near Future by John Scalzi (5/27)
The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed by John McPhee (5/27)
Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney (5/28)
Zero Day by Ezekiel Boone (5/29)
The Cartel by Don Winslow (5/29)
Paper Ghosts by Julia Heaberlin (6/1)
The Ghost Writer* by Philip Roth (6/2)
The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker (6/3)
All Clear by Connie Willis (6/4)
Ghosts of the Tsunami; Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone by Richard Lloyd Parry (6/7)
The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn (6/9)
The Overstory by Richard Powers (6/12)
Stolen Prey by John Sandford (6/12)
Cain by Jose Saramago (6/16)
The Day of the Dead; The Autumn of Commissario Ricciardi by Maurizio de Giovanni (6/18)
Significant Zero: Heroes, Villains, and the Fight for Art and Soul in Video Games by Walt Williams (6/19)
Ongoingness; The End of a Diary by Sarah Manguso (6/20)
Florida by Lauren Groff (6/21)
Providence by Caroline Kepnes (6/23)
Property; Stories Between Two Novellas by Lionel Shriver (6/25)
Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett (6/28)
The Secret Place* by Tana French (6/29)
The Good Son by You-Jeong Jeong (6/30)
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (7/1)
The Watch Tower by Elizabeth Harrower (7/1)
Barbarian Days; A Surfing Life by William Finnegan (7/6)
Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories by Vanada Singh (7/8)
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday (7/9)
The Outsider by Stephen King (7/12)
Bluebird Bluebird by Attica Locke (7/14)
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner (7/15)
The Trespasser by Tana French (7/18)
Death du Jour by Kathy Reichs (7/24)
Walking the Way; 81 Zen Encounters with the Tao Te Ching by Robert Rosenbaum (7/27)
Wanderlust; A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit (7/27)
Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett (7/29)
The Curve of Binding Energy by John McPhee (7/29)
Dusk by Tim Lebbon (7/31)
The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks (7/31)
The So Blue Marble by Dorothy Hughes (8/1)
Silver on the Road by Laura Anne Gilman (8/4)
The Book of Joan by Lydia Yuknavich (8/6)
I Pass Like Night by Jonathan Ames (8/6)
Binti Home by Nnedi Okorafor (8/7)
Winter by Ali Smith (8/9)
Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage (8/11)
The Force by Don Winslow (8/12)
The Ten-Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer (8/13)
Lost Connections by Johann Hari (8/16)
Find Me by Laura Van Der Berg (8/18)
The Well by Catherine Chanter (8/20)
When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön (8/21)
Deadly Décisions by Kathy Reichs (8/21)
By My Hand; The Christmas of Commissario Ricciardi by Maurizio de Giovanni (8/23)
Hawkmoon: The Jewel in the Skull by Michael Moorcock (8/23)
The Singer’s Gun by Emily St. John Mandel (8/25)
Pieces of the Frame by John MacPhee (8/26)
The Bamboo Blonde by Dorothy B. Hughes (8/26)
Dawn by Tim Lebbon (8/28)
The Dying Earth by Jack Vance (8/28)
Elric of Melniboné by Michael Moorcock (8/28)
The Eyes of the Overworld by Jack Vance (8/29)
Sailor on the Seas of Fate by Michael Moorcock (8/30)
The Weird of the White Wolf by Michael Moorcock (8/30)
The Vanishing Tower by Michael Moorcock (8/30)
Staying Dead by Laura Anne Gilman (9/1)
Summerland by Hannu Rajaniemi (9/1)
Men Explain Things To Me by Rebecca Solnit (9/1)
Room to Dream by David Lynch and Kristine McKenna (9/4)
The Bane of the Black Sword by Michael Moorcock (9/4)
Stormbringer by Michael Moorcock (9/6)
Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood (9/7)
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh (9/8)
Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine (9/8)
Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell (9/10)
How to Be a Person in the World by Heather Havrilesky (9/10)
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (9/11)
The Sugar House by Laura Lippman (9/13)
The Mad God’s Amulet by Michael Moorcock (9/14)
The Fallen Sparrow by Dorothy B. Hughes (9/15)
Provenance by Ann Leckie (9/15)
The Cold Eye by Laura Anne Gilman (9/16)
The Impostor by Javier Cercas (9/17)
public library, and other stories by Ali Smith (9/18)
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk (9/21)
The Battle of Brazil by Jack Mathews (9/21)
All the Answers by Michael Kupperman (9/21)
Bitwise; A Life in Code by David Auerbach (9/22)
Misterioso by Arne Dahl (9/22)
Hope in the Dark; Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit (9/23)
The Survival of the Bark Canoe by John McPhee (9/24)
The Book of M by Peng Shepherd (9/25)
Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter (9/26)
Catching the Big Fish; Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity by David Lynch (9/26)
The Quiller Memorandum by Adam Hall (9/29)
Landscape with Traveler by Barry Gifford (9/29)
MJ-12: Inception by Michael J. Martinez (9/30)
Hope Never Dies by Andrew Shaffer (10/1)
Cross Her Heart by Sarah Pinborough (10/2)
Reader, Come Home; The Reading Brain in a Digital World by Maryanne Wolf (10/4)
Killman Creek by Rachel Caine (10/5)
The Shakespeare Requirement by Julie Schumacher (10/5)
The Golden Child by Penelope Fitzgerald (10/6)
Girl Meets Boy; the Myth of Iphis by Ali Smith (10/6)
Severance by Ling Ma (10/7)
Less by Andrew Sean Greer (10/7)
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (10/9)
Curse the Dark by Laura Anne Gilman (10/10)
The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrere (10/11)
Small Gods by Terry Pratchett (10/12)
Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl (10/12)
The Blackbirder by Dorothy B. Hughes (10/13)
Feed by Mira Grant (10/14)
Clade by James Bradley (10/15)
Bad Blood by Arne Dahl (10/16)
Hammers on Bone by Cassandra Khaw (10/17)
The Ninth Directive by Adam Hall (10/19)
The Grip of It by Jac Jemc (10/20)
Red River Rising by Laura Anne Gilman (10/21)
The Missing by Sarah Langan (10/22)
Silken Prey by John Sandford (10/23)
Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix (10/24)
Tomorrow’s Kin by Nancy Kress (10/25)
All Systems Red by Martha Wells (10/25)
Hotel World by Ali Smith (10/26)
Transactions in a Foreign Currency – Stories by Deborah Eisenberg (10/27)
The Witch Elm by Tana French (10/28)
The Good House by Tananarive Due (11/1)
Class Trip by Emmanuel Carrere (11/2)
Red Clocks by Leni Zumas (11/3)
A Delicate Ape by Dorothy B. Hughes (11/4)
Transcription by Kate Atkinson (11/5)
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry (11/8)
The Night Ocean by Paul LaFarge (11/9)
In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami (11/10)
The Craftsman by Sharon Bolton (11/12)
Enigma Variations by Andre Aciman (11/14)
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald (11/15)
Every Heart A Doorway by Seanan McGuire (11/15)
Artificial Condition by Martha Wells (11/16)
MJ-12: Shadows by Michael J. Martinez (11/17)
The Speed of Light by Javier Cercas (11/19)
Vox by Christina Dalcher (11/20)
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton (11/23)
The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem (11/23)
If Tomorrow Comes by Nancy Kress (11/25)
Those Who Knew by Idra Novey (11/25)
Presidio by Randy Kennedy (11/28)
Elevation by Stephen King (11/28)
Dread Journey by Dorothy B. Hughes (11/30)
Hello World; Being Human in the Age of Algorithms by Hannah Fry (12/1)
10:04 by Ben Lerner (12/2)
Fear; Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward (12/4)
Melmoth by Sarah Perry (12/6)
The Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell (12/8)
Wake of Vultures by Lila Bowen (12/9)
Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald (12/10)
Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells (12/10)
The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker by Leanna Renee Hieber (12/14)
Past Tense by Lee Child (12/15)
The Emissary by Yoko Tawada (12/15)
Newcomer by Keigo Higashino (12/16)
The Between by Tanarive Due (12/21)
Kisscut by Karin Slaughter (12/23)
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor Lavalle (12/23)
The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi (12/25)
The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt (12/28)
Mildred Pierce by James Cain (12/30)
My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Brathwaite (12/30)
Exit Strategy by Martha Wells (12/30)
The Mansion by Ezekiel Boone (12/31)

*indicates audio book

Graphic novels:

Hawkeye; My Life as a Weapon by Matt Fraction (3/10)
Hawkeye; Little Hits by Matt Fraction (3/10)
Kill or Be Killed by Ed Brubaker (3/13)
All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka (3/14)
The Invincible Iron Man: The Five Nightmares by Matt Fraction (3/25)
Kill or Be Killed vol 2 by Ed Brubaker (3/30)
Hawkeye; L. A. Woman by Matt Fraction (3/30)
Hawkeye: Rio Bravo by Matt Fraction (4/1)
Criminal: The Sinners by Ed Brubaker (4/5)
Green River Killer; A True Detective Story by Jeff Jensen (5/26)
Sex Criminals Vol 2 by Matt Fraction (6/18)
The Wicked and the Divine Vol 1 by Kieron Gillen (7/27)
Here by Richard McGuire (8/1)
The Wicked and the Divine Vol 2 by Kieron Gillen (8/11)
The Wicked and the Divine Vol 3 by Kieron Gillen (8/13)
The Wicked and the Divine Vol 4 by Kieron Gillen (8/16)
The Wicked and the Divine Vol 5 by Kieron Gillen (9/13)
The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye by Sonny Liew (9/16)
The EC Archives: Tales from the Crypt (9/21)
The Wicked and the Divine Vol 6 by Kieron Gillen (9/26)
How to be Happy by Eleanor Davis (10/13)
Delilah Dirk and the Pillars of Hercules by Tony Cliff (10/23)
Kill or Be Killed Vol 3 by Ed Brubaker (10/25)
Kill or Be Killed Vol 4 by Ed Brubaker (11/16)
Scenes from an Impending Marriage by Adrian Tomine (12/31)