I read a total of 76 (ish) books this year, which was more than I read last year, so I’m happy with the overall outcome. As I’ve mentioned before, I don’t count all the books I read in my annual end-of-year list, like parenting books, kids books, or the short story advent calendar I just completed, which is why I’ve included the ‘ish’ portion of the number above.
Most of the books listed below are linked to my review-I seem to be getting better at writing out reviews right after I finish reading, although I don’t always have time if I’m putting together a long list of recommendations for my CBC gig, etc.
I sort of doubt my reading stats will improve for 2018 because I’m pregnant with second kid who is due around May, so my one and only goal for this year is to simply ‘survive’. Hopefully I’ll be able to read around 60-ish books which is what I accomplished when my first was born. Thanks to everyone who keeps following along with me, I’ll try to keep my blogging up while keeping a second little human alive.
This is my general motto in life
- The Break by Katherena Vermette
- Juliet’s Answer by Glenn Dixon
- Little Heaven by Nick Cutter
- The Sweetest One by Melanie Mah
- How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids by Jancee Dunn
- A Word for Love by Emily Robbins
- Where I Live Now by Sharon Butala
- I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Ian Reid
- Without the Moon by Cathi Unsworth
- The German Girl by Armando Lucas Correa
- Heroes of the Frontier by Dave Eggers
- Nevermore, Edited by Nancy Kilpatrick
- Perfect World by Ian Colford
- Gizelle’s Bucket List by Lauren Fern Watt
- The Tourist by Robert Dickinson
- Today Will be Different by Maria Semple
- The Dark and Other Love Stories by Deborah Willis
- The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
- Unflinching-The Making of a Canadian Sniper by Jody Mitic
- Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson
- Every Man a Menace by Patrick Hoffman
- Juniper, The Girl Who was Born Too Soon by Kelley and Thomas French
- Faithful by Alice Hoffman
- Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller
- Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
- The World According to Bob by James Bowen
- Next Year For Sure by Zoey Leigh Peterson
- The Lion in the Living Room by Abigail Tucker
- Class by Lucinda Rosenfeld
- The Inner Life of Cats by Thomas McNamee
- A Small Madness by Dianne Touchell
- Mannheim Rex by Rob Pobi
- The Arrangement by Sarah Dunn
- The Substitute by Nicole Lundrigan
- All Waiting is Long by Barbara J. Taylor
- Into the Water by Paula Hawkins
- Sex & Death (Stories), Edited by Sarah Hall and Peter Hobbs
- Winter Child by Virginia Pesemapeo Bordeleau
- The Trophy Child by Paula Daly
- You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie
- Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
- Be Ready for the Lightning-Grace O’Connell
- One Brother Shy by Terry Fallis
- The Change Room by Karen Connelly
- Bleaker House by Nell Stevens
- Just Like Family by Kate Hilton
- Little Deaths by Emma Flint
- Beyond the Wild River by Sarah Maine
- I Hear She’s a Real Bitch by Jen Agg
- Seinlanguage by Jerry Seinfeld
- Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan
- The Late Show by Michael Connelly
- The Dark Lake by Sarah Bailey
- How to Fall in Love With Anyone by Mandy Len Catron
- Daisy in Exile by J.T. Allen
- The Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
- Mrs. Fletcher by Tom Perrotta
- Odd Child Out by Gilly Macmillan
- In the Cage by Kevin Hardcastle
- Brother by David Chariandy
- The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld
- Norma by Sofi Oksanen
- The Good People by Hannah Kent
- Give me the Child by Mel McGrath
- Darwin’s Moving by Taylor Lambert
- Ten Dead Comedians by Fred Van Lente
- American War by Omar El Akkad
- Jesus on the Dashboard by Lisa Murphy-Lamb
- We All Love the Beautiful Girls by Joanne Proulx
- The Usual Santas (Collection of Stories), foreword by Peter Lovesey
- Swearing is Good For You by Emma Byrne
- Worry-Free Money by Shannon Lee Simmons
- A Stranger in the House by Shari Lapena (review to come)
- Fear by Dirk Kurbjuweit (review to come)
- City Mouse by Stacey Lender (review to come)
- By Gaslight by Steven Price (review to come)
*Already this year is off to a rocky start, I mis-published this post before I had completed it! My bad 🙂
You’ve got some really good ones in there. I enjoy seeing where our reading connects and diverges, given that we both read a lot of Canadian stuff! Hope you’ve got some good reading ahead of you this year, even though second human will undoubtedly have its own thoughts about the likelhood of that. Best wishes in that regard! 🙂
Thank you! I’m trying to cram in as much as I can before the second human comes 🙂
Congratulations on baby #2!! 🙂
60 books is amazing for a baby year – I’m pretty sure I only read about 60 books in total between all three of my babies!
Looking forward to your By Gaslight review… a book I still feel a bit hesitant to pick up.
oh right, I totally forgot to even write a review on it! haha I already brought it back to the library, but I should do it soon…
Congrats on baby #2! I find I’m able to read a decent amount but writing reviews is harder. Hopefully your mind will stay sharper than mine has!
Ah yes that doesn’t surprise me. I can already feel my brain slipping! Lol
Pregnancy brain is a real thing…especially when you already have a toddler running around!
That’s a great number and 60 is too. It’s my goal this year 😂. Interesting list of novels you read. I read only one of the titles (The Child Finder) but really liked it. Congrats with baby number 2 on the way!
Thanks so much!
Congratulations on upcoming second child and you’ll have done amazingly well if you clock in 60 books the first year you are a mother of two!!
haha yes, I realize my goal is quite lofty at this point, so I’m trying to fit in as much as possible right now!
Congrats Anne, you kept that under wraps during our month of videos! I believe I had a pretty good reading year after baby #2. My goal was just to read something every day, even if it was a sentence. Like your Garfield pic says…. haha.
thanks! Yah we will see how the reading goes, but as you can probably tell, I’m keeping my expectations quite low 🙂
Love the Garfield Comic :). I also think it is okay if you count children’s book as book read because they sure do help settle the kiddos down 🙂
do they ever!