Books I Read in 2018

I am partially copying this post format from my friend Carrie. I like the visual effect made by all the covers of all the books I read this year on one page! The book covers are all from Goodreads.

10 Books I Particularly Loved And Why

• “A Closed and Common Orbit” by Becky Chambers
  I want more sci-fi about people who are super supportive of each other!
• “Successor, Usurper, Replacement” by Alice Sola Kim (from a short story collection but originally published online)
  Writers at parties can be simultaneously awesome and insufferable.
• “The Power” by Naomi Alderman
  Good book club discussion question: If most of the women in this book are brutal and awful humans, does that make it anti-feminist or way more feminist?
• “Stories of Your Life and Others” by Ted Chiang
  I also want more math-based sci-fi (math-fi?).
• “The Song of Achilles” by Madeline Miller
  Everyone’s motivations in “The Iliad” make way more sense if you remember that Achilles is gay and all the men are insecure about their masculinity.
• “Version Control” by Dexter Palmer
  Online dating is barely tolerable even if you own a time machine.
• “Kindred” by Octavia Butler
  White people are barely tolerable especially if you own a time machine.
• “Beyond Infinity” by Eugenia Chang
  I finally learned why mathematicians care about the distinction between cardinal and ordinal numbers!!
• “Bad Blood” by John Carreyrou
  It’s amazing how long you can keep secrets at a company if you fire everyone who learns too much.
• “Little Fires Everywhere” by Celeste Ng
  I’m scared by how many ways there are to screw up as a parent.

Perspective Check

(Books written by multiple people throw the totals off a bit)

By Only Men: 16 / 51
By Only Women: 33 / 51
By Only White People: 32 / 51
By Only Non-White People: 18 / 51
Fiction: 26 / 51
Non-Fiction: 25 / 51

Happy 2019!