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Jen’s 2018 shelf

My goal for 2018 is the same as last year: 125 books. Below you’ll find a list of books I’ve read thus far. When reviews are available, I’ll add hyperlinks to the reviews. I won’t be reviewing every book, so if there is a book you would like me to review that doesn’t have either a hyperlink or the phrase “review coming” next to it, just request the review.

Passing by Nella Larsen (joint review to follow shortly)
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff
Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
Maus by Spiegelman
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
Deep River by Endo
The Greenhouse by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
Hunger by Roxane Gay
Her Body and Other Parties by Camen Maria Machado
The Parking Lot Attendant by Nafkote Tamirat
The Wonderful O by James Thurber (4 stars)
The Children’s Book by A.S. Byatt (3 stars)
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami (4 stars)
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah (2 stars)
The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer (4 stars for whole trilogy)
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry (4 stars)
March by John Lewis (5 stars)
Whose Body by Dorothy Sayers (3 stars)
Beartown by Frederik Backman (3.5 stars)
The Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater (3 stars)
The Crying of Lot 46 by Thomas Pynchon (2.5 stars)
Monstress by Marjorie Liu (3 stars)
The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak (4 stars)
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin (4 stars)
We Should All be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (4 stars)
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin (5 stars)
Beasts Made of Night by Tochi Onyebuchi (3 stars)
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (3 stars)
Jazz by Toni Morrison (4 stars)
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto (3.5 stars)
Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller (3 stars)
Nyxia by Scott Reintgen (3 stars)
Wind/Pinball by Haruki Murakami (3 stars)
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf (4 stars)
Red Clocks by Leni Zumas (4 stars)
Scarlet by Marissa Meyer (3.5 stars)
The Wasp Factory by Ian Banks (4 stars)
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (3.5 stars)
Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend (3 stars)
Disappeared by Francisco Stork (3 stars)
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (4 stars)
Dance Dance Dance by Murkami (3 stars)
Saga Book 2 (3.5 stars)
My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent (2 stars, barely)
The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen (4 stars)
Rosewater by Tade Thompson (3 stars)
Force of Nature by Jane Harper (3.5 stars)
The Burning Girl by Claire Messud (4 stars)
Fathers and Sons by Turgenev (4 stars)
The Moor’s Last Sigh by Salman Rushie (4 stars)
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Megan Mullaley
The Boneshaker by Cheri Priest (2.5 stars)