Code:
- Bold (blue link) = reviewed
- Bold (black) = hope to review
- Italics = re-read; unlikely to review (also unrated; most re-reads are automatic 5-stars)
- * = A top favorite of the year
Books I Read in 2018
Updated Periodically
(Find these on Goodreads on my 2018 Reading Challenge)
- The Stroke of Eleven – Kyle Robert Shultz (re-read)
- The Emerald Dragonfly – Shaun Hume (short story) | 4 stars
- Christmas in Talesend – Kyle Robert Shultz (re-read)
- The Heroes of Tolkien – David Day (non-fiction) | 4 stars
- Disowned – Sarah Addison-Fox | 5 stars
- The Last Days of Lady Cordelia – Kyle Robert Shultz (re-read)
- *The Last Motley – D.J. Edwardson | 5 stars
- The Lord of Dreams – C.J. Brightley
- Mind Writer – Mike Lynch & Lisa Godfrees | 4 stars
- A Monkey Made Me Do It: Part 1 – Why Do Stars Taste of Marmalade? by Shaun Hume (short) | 3 stars
- My Uncle the Spy: Part 1 – Mysterious Meetings – by Shaun Hume (short) | 4 stars
- Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare for Children – E. Nesbit | 3 stars
- Mere Christianity – C.S. Lewis (non-fiction) | 5 stars
- Tolkien: A Celebration – edited by Joseph Pearce (non-fiction) | 5 stars
- *The Ruins of Gorlan (Ranger’s Apprentice, #1) – John Flanagan | 5 stars
- Tolkien and the Silmarillion – Clyde S. Kilby (non-fiction)
- Joseph of Arimathea – Sarah Holman (short story)
- Adela’s Curse – Claire M. Banschbach
- *Lady Moon – Rachel Starr Thomson
- Dear Mr. Knightley – Katherine Reay
- The Mage and the Freckled Frog (short story)
- Red Boots (short story)
- Rosette Thornbriar (short story)
- For Elise – Hayden Wand
- The Lady and the Frog – L. Palmer
- Lady Moon (re-read)
- Love’s Labour’s Won (short story)
- The Day Boy and the Night Girl (re-read)
- Dissemble – Sarah Addison-Fox
- *Masque – W.R. Gingell
- Finding God in The Lord of the Rings (nonfiction)
- The King’s Equal (picture book)
- *Minstrel’s Call – Jenelle Leanne Schmidt | 5 stars
- The Game – Diana Wynne Jones
- Dragons at Crumbling Castle (and Other Tales) – Terry Pratchett
- The Homeward Bounders – Diana Wynne Jones
- Discover – Sarah Addison-Fox (short story)
- The Leprechaun Trap – Kyle Robert Shultz (short story)
- My Uncle the Spy: Part Two – On the Run – Shaun Hume (short story/serial)
- Yes Dear – Diana Wynne Jones (picture book)
- Dragons Love Tacos 2 – Adam Rubin (picture book)
- *Sage – Jamie Foley | 5 stars
- A Blink of the Screen – Terry Pratchett
- Scoundrels (Star Wars) – Timothy Zahn
- A Sudden Wild Magic – Diana Wynne Jones
- How I Had Fun Writing 10 Novels in 13 Months – Sarah Addison-Fox (short nonfiction)
- For My Good – Sarah Holman (short story)
- The Lady of Thorns – Kyle Robert Shultz (short story)
- The Busy Mom’s Guide to Writing – Jamie Foley & Angela Castillo (nonfiction)
- Horseman – Kyle Robert Shultz
- Horseman – Kyle Robert Shultz (re-read)
- The Lost Castle – Kristy Cambron
- The Sailing Saint (picture book)
- No Dragons, Please! – Annie Louise Twitchell (short story)
- Kate’s Dilemma – Sarah Holman
- The Story Peddler – Lindsay A. Franklin
- Mythical Doorways – various members of the Fellowship of Fantasy (anthology)
- Common – Laurie Lucking
- Trial by Song – Alicia Gaile
- Create – Perry Elisabeth Kirkpatrick (short story)
- A Sidekick’s Tale – Elisabeth Grace Foley
- The Stealthmaster’s Shadow – Hope Ann
- Arbrook Huxley and the Star-Crossed Lovers – Mollie E. Reeder (short story)
- *The Electrical Menagerie – Mollie E. Reeder
- *Song of Leira – Gillian Bronte Adams
- Lightporter – C. B. Cook
- A Net to Catch the Wind (picture book)
- Paddington at the Tower (picture book)
- The Janus Elixir – Kyle Robert Shultz
- King’s War – Jill Williamson
- The Hound of Duville – Kyle Robert Shultz
- The Rise of Aredor – Claire M. Banschbach
- Healers and Warriors – Daley Downing
- Windswept – Sarah Delena White (short story)
- Initiation – Grace Bridges (short story)
- Cart and Cwidder – Diana Wynne Jones (re-read)
- Drowned Ammet – Diana Wynne Jones (re-read)
- Mairelon the Magician – Patricia C. Wrede
- Magician’s Ward – Patricia C. Wrede (re-read)
- East of the Sun and West of the Moon (picture book)
- Fly Away – Patricia MacLachlan
- Right Ho, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse (re-read; audiobook)
- The Worth of a King – Kendra E. Ardnek
- World-Building from the Inside Out – Janeen Ippolito (nonfiction; audiobook)
- The Beast of Talesend – Kyle Robert Shultz (re-read)
- Cinder – Marissa Meyer
- Punctuation 101 – Jill Williamson (non-fiction)
- The Orphan’s Wish – Melanie Dickerson
- RotoVegas – Grace Bridges
- The Tomb of the Sea Witch – Kyle Robert Shultz (re-read)
- The Stroke of Eleven – Kyle Robert Shultz (re-read)
- The Centaur Express – Kyle Robert Shultz (short story)
- The False Prince – Jennifer Nielsen
- A Spoonful of Aether – Kyle Robert Shultz (short story)
- The Haunted Hoard – Kyle Robert Shultz (short story)
- Arbrook Huxley and the Star-Crossed Lovers – Mollie E. Reeder (short story; re-read)
- A Royal Masquerade – Allison Tebo
- Ravenous – Kyle Robert Shultz (short story)
- Blood in the Snow – Sarah Pennington
- King’s Warrior – Jenelle Leanne Schmidt (re-read aloud)
- Armor of Aletheia – Ralene Burke
- The Wisdom of Merlin – T. A. Barron (nonfiction)
- The Stone Fey – Robin McKinley (picture book)
- The Naming – Margaret Greaves and Pauline Baynes (picture book)
- Gekko Saves Christmas (picture book)
- My Man Beasley – Kyle Robert Shultz (short story)
- The Sixth Christmas – Mollie E. Reeder (short story)
- Mark of the Raven – Morgan L. Busse