2018 books

Having completely failed to do any reviews this year, I'm just going to list 2018's books here and hope to do better next year!  At least I'll have a record of what I read over the year... 70 of them. Not great; not terrible. I listened to an awful lot of podcasts this year.

It seems I've read an awful lot on the Kindle and listened primarily to stuff on Audible (including a massive Harry Potter re-listen over Christmas and New Year which isn't listed here); this has not, predictably, done a lot for my tendency to continue to collect books. Next year's plan is to read many more paper books and try to make a dent in the heaps... And then get rid of them out of the house. The sheer number of unread books is probably why I retreated to the Kindle...

In true librarian fashion; by alphabetical order of author...

Aaronovitch, Ben: Lies sleeping [audiobook]. Read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith. Audible edition.

Baker, Rob: Beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics: a sideways look at twentieth-century London. London: Amberley Publishing, 2015.

Baxter, Stephen: The massacre of mankind: sequel to War of the worlds. London: Gollancz, 2017.

Blumenthal, Daniel: Alsace-Lorraine: a study of the relations of the two provinces to France and to Germany and a presentation of the just claims of their people. Kindle edition (originally published 1917).

Bolton, Sharon: The craftsman [audiobook]. Read by Nathalie Buscombe. Audible edition.

Castillo, Linda: Her last breath [audiobook]. Read by Kathleen McInerny. Audible edition.

Child, Lee: The midnight line [audiobook]. Read by Jeff Harding. Audible edition.

Child, Lee: Night school [audiobook]. Read by Jeff Harding. Audible edition.

Child, Lee: Past tense [audiobook]. Read by Jeff Harding. Audible edition.

Clarke, Stephen: Paris revealed: the secret life of a city. Kindle edition.

Cleeves, Ann: A day in the death of Dorothea Cassidy. Kindle edition.

Cleeves, Ann: The seagull [audiobook]. Read by Janine Birkitt. Audible edition.

Cleeves, Ann: Wild fire [audiobook]. Read by Kenny Blyth. Audible edition.

Deaver, Jeffery: The cutting edge [audiobook]. Read by Jeff Harding. Audible edition.

Doerr, Anthony: All the light we cannot see. Kindle edition.

Douglas, John and Mark Olshaker: Law and disorder. Kindle edition.

Elkin, Lauren: Flâneuse: women walk the city in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London. London: Chatto and Windus, 2016.

Francis, Felix: Pulse [audiobook]. Read by Claire Corbett. Audible edition.

Francis, Felix: Crisis [audiobook]. Read by Martin Jarvis. Audible edition.

Galbraith, Robert: Lethal white [audiobook]. Read by Robert Glenister. Audible edition.

Garrett, Brandon: Convicting the innocent. Kindle edition.

Grey, Isabelle: Good girls don't die. Kindle edition.

Grey, Isabelle: Shot through the heart. Kindle edition.

Grey, Isabelle: The special girls. Kindle edition.

Grey, Isabelle: Wrong way home. Kindle edition.

Griffiths, Elly: The chalk pit [audiobook]. Read by Jane McDowell. Audible edition.

Griffiths, Elly: The dark angel [audiobook]. Read by Jane McDowell. Audible edition.

Hamilton, Alexander: The federalist papers. Kindle edition.

Harper, Jane: Force of nature. Kindle edition.

Harper, Karen: Shattered secrets. Kindle edition.

Hethrington, Percy: A day's tour: a journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Bergues and St Omer. With a few sketches. Kindle edition (originally published 1887).

Higashida, Naoki: The reason I jump: one boy's voice from the silence of autism. Introduced by David Mitchell. Translated by KA Yoshida and David Mitchell. London: Sceptre, 2014.

Hill, Victor: Wohlzheim: a tale of love in the Devil's half century. Kindle edition.

Izner, Claude: The Père-Lachaise mystery. Kindle edition.

James, Peter: Perfect people. Kindle edition.

Kelly, Jim: The great darkness. London: Allison and Busby, 2018.

King, Laurie R.: Island of the mad. Kindle edition.

King, Laurie R.: Mary Russell's war. Kindle edition.

McDermid, Val: Broken ground [audiobook]. Read by Cathleen McCarron. Audible edition.

McDermid, Val: Insidious intent [audiobook]. Read by Saul Reichlin. Audible edition.

McGregor, Jon: Reservoir 13. London: 4th Estate, 2018.

Macrae, Graeme: The disappearance of Adèle Bedeau. Kindle edition.

Macrae, Graeme: His bloody project: documents relating to the case of Roderick Macrae. Kindle edition.

McNamara, Michelle: I'll be gone in the dark: one woman's obsessive search for the Golden State Killer. Kindle edition.

Mancini, Ruth: In the blood. Kindle edition.

Mangan, Lucy: Bookworm: a memoir of childhood reading [audiobook]. Read by the author. Audible edition.

May, Peter: I'll keep you safe [audiobook]. Read by Anna Murray and Peter Forbes. Audible edition.

Mina, Denise: Garnethill. Kindle edition.

Noah, Trevor: Born a crime: stories from a South African childhood. Kindle edition.

Norwich, John Julius: France: a short history [audiobook]. Read by the author. Audible edition.

Raluca, Boangiu: Montpellier en 100 dates. Kindle edition.

Rayner, Jay: The ten (food) commandments. London: Penguin, 2016.

Robertson, Deborah: Declutter: the get-real guide to creating calm from chaos. Kindle edition.

Ross, LJ: Angel. Kindle edition.

Ross, LJ: Cragside. Kindle edition.

Ross, LJ: Dark skies. Kindle edition.

Ross, LJ: Heavenfield. Kindle edition.

Ross, LJ: The hermitage. Kindle edition.

Ross, LJ: High Force. Kindle edition.

Ross, LJ: Holy Island. Kindle edition.

Ross, LJ: Seven bridges. Kindle edition.

Ross, LJ: Sycamore Gap. Kindle edition.

Rutherfurd, Edward: Paris. Kindle edition.

Shaw, William: Salt Lane [audiobook]. Read by Jasmine Blackborow. Audible edition.

Stembridge, Gerard: What she saw: a novel. New York: HarperPerennial, 2017.

Symon, Vanda: Overkill. Kindle edition.

Upson, Nicola: Nine lessons [audiobook]. Read by Sandra Duncan. Audible edition.

Ward, Sarah: A deadly thaw [audiobook]. Read by Julia Anthony. Audible edition.

Ward, Sarah: A patient fury. London: Faber, 2017.

Ward, Sarah: The shrouded path. Kindle edition.

Wells, HG: The war of the worlds. Kindle edition.