A listing of the books I read this year. The date shown is the date I finished reading the book. Links contain my affiliate code - support this site by buying a book or three.
⊕ denotes new books that I haven't read before.
These books are hors catégorie, beyond categorization.
| date | title | rating | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/19/2014 | The Martian | ★★★★★★ | |
| 5/3/2015 | Born to Win: A Life-long Struggle to Capture the America's Cup | ★★★★★★ | |
| 7/10/2018 | Cryptonomicon | ★★★★★★ | |
| 11/26/2018 | The Lord of the Rings | ★★★★★★ | |
2018 books |
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| 1. | 1/1/2018 | ⊕ The Wrong Stars | ★★★★★ |
| 2. | 1/3/2018 | ⊕ Barbary Station | ★★★☆☆ |
| 3. | 1/5/2018 | ⊕ Metzger's Dog | ★★★★☆ |
| 4. | 1/7/2018 | The Serpent's Coil | ★★★★☆ |
| 5. | 1/10/2018 | ⊕ The Taking of K-129: How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History | ★★★★★ |
| 6. | 1/13/2018 | Grey Seas Under | ★★★★★ |
| 7. | 1/13/2018 | ⊕ Silence | ★★★★☆ |
| 8. | 1/16/2018 | ⊕ The Late Show | ★★★★☆ |
| 9. | 1/19/2018 | Rules of Prey | ★★★★☆ |
| 10. | 1/20/2018 | Shadow Prey | ★★★★☆ |
| 11. | 1/21/2018 | ⊕ Deep Freeze | ★★★★★ |
| 12. | 1/22/2018 | Eyes of Prey | ★★★☆☆ |
| 13. | 1/25/2018 | Silent Prey | ★★★☆☆ |
| 14. | 1/26/2018 | Golden Prey | ★★★★☆ |
| 15. | 1/26/2018 | ⊕ An Unkindness of Magicians | ★★★★★ |
| 16. | 1/27/2018 | Winter Prey | ★★★★★ |
| 17. | 1/27/2018 | Night Prey | ★★★★☆ |
| 18. | 1/29/2018 | Mind Prey | ★★★★☆ |
| 19. | 1/31/2018 | Sudden Prey | ★★★☆☆ |
| 20. | 2/3/2018 | Secret Prey | ★★★★☆ |
| 21. | 2/4/2018 | Certain Prey | ★★★★★ |
| 22. | 2/5/2018 | The Hanged Man's Song | ★★★★★ |
| 23. | 2/5/2018 | Easy Prey | ★★★★☆ |
| 24. | 2/7/2018 | Chosen Prey | ★★★★☆ |
| 25. | 2/8/2018 | Mortal Prey | ★★★★★ |
| 26. | 2/10/2018 | Naked Prey | ★★★★★ |
| 27. | 2/11/2018 | ⊕ The Kill Clause | ★★★★☆ |
| 28. | 2/16/2018 | ⊕ PGP & GPG: Email for the Practical Parinoid | ★★★☆☆ |
| 29. | 2/17/2018 | ⊕ Dead Zero | ★★★☆☆ |
| 30. | 2/18/2018 | Broken Prey | ★★★★☆ |
| 31. | 2/20/2018 | Livia Lone | ★★★★☆ |
| 32. | 2/23/2018 | The Affair | ★★★☆☆ |
| 33. | 2/23/2018 | ⊕ The Night Trade | ★★★★☆ |
| 34. | 3/4/2018 | Red Sparrow | ★★★★★ |
| 35. | 3/10/2018 | Invisible Prey | ★★★★☆ |
| 36. | 3/14/2018 | ⊕ Exploding the Phone | ★★★★★ |
| 37. | 3/15/2018 | ⊕ House of Spies | ★★★★☆ |
| 38. | 3/17/2018 | Palace of Treason | ★★★★★ |
| 39. | 3/21/2018 | ⊕ The Kremlin's Candidate | ★★★★★ |
| 40. | 3/25/2018 | ⊕ Murder on the Orient Express | ★★★★☆ |
| 41. | 3/29/2018 | ⊕ The Take | ★★★★☆ |
| 42. | 3/31/2018 | ⊕ Hellbent: An Orphan X Novel | ★★★★★ |
| 43. | 4/1/2018 | Phantom Prey | ★★★★☆ |
| 44. | 4/5/2018 | Dark of the Moon | ★★★★☆ |
| 45. | 4/6/2018 | ⊕ All Systems Red | ★★★★★ |
| 46. | 4/10/2018 | Heat Lightning | ★★★★☆ |
| 47. | 4/14/2018 | ⊕ The Fifth Season | ★★★★★ |
| 48. | 4/17/2018 | ⊕ The Bomb Maker | ★★★★★ |
| 49. | 4/19/2018 | Wicked Prey | ★★★★☆ |
| 50. | 4/21/2018 | Storm Prey | ★★★★☆ |
| 51. | 4/22/2018 | Buried Prey | ★★★★☆ |
| 52. | 4/24/2018 | Rough Country | ★★★★☆ |
| 53. | 4/29/2018 | Bad Blood | ★★★★☆ |
| 54. | 5/6/2018 | Shock Wave | ★★★★☆ |
| 55. | 5/11/2018 | Ready Player One | ★★★★★ |
| 56. | 5/13/2018 | Mad River | ★★★★☆ |
| 57. | 5/18/2018 | Stolen Prey | ★★★★☆ |
| 58. | 5/20/2018 | Storm Front | ★★★★★ |
| 59. | 5/23/2018 | All Systems Red: The Muderbot Diaries | ★★★★★ |
| 60. | 5/25/2018 | ⊕ Artifical Condition: The Murderbot Diaries | ★★★★★ |
| 61. | 5/26/2018 | Deadline | ★★★★☆ |
| 62. | 5/27/2018 | ⊕ The Wanted | ★★★★★ |
| 63. | 6/3/2018 | Silken Prey | ★★★☆☆ |
| 64. | 6/5/2018 | Escape Clause | ★★★★☆ |
| 65. | 6/7/2018 | Deep Freeze | ★★★★★ |
| 66. | 6/9/2018 | And The Sea Will Tell | ★★★★★ |
| 67. | 6/10/2018 | ⊕ Twisted Prey | ★★★★★ |
| 68. | 6/18/2018 | ⊕ Trust No One | ★★★★☆ |
| 69. | 6/24/2018 | ⊕ Exceptional Clearance | ★★★☆☆ |
| 70. | 6/24/2018 | ⊕ The Obelisk Gate | ★★★☆☆ |
| 71. | 6/27/2018 | ⊕ The Cairo Affair | ★★★★☆ |
| 72. | 7/1/2018 | ⊕ A Darker Shade of Magic | ★★★★☆ |
| 73. | 7/10/2018 | Cryptonomicon | ★★★★★★ |
| 74. | 7/14/2018 | ⊕ The Precisionists: How precision engineers created the modern world | ★★★★★ |
| 75. | 7/17/2018 | Pursuit | ★★★★☆ |
| 76. | 7/20/2018 | ⊕ Vanishing Act | ★★★★★ |
| 77. | 7/21/2018 | ⊕ Dance for the Dead | ★★★★★ |
| 78. | 7/23/2018 | ⊕ Shadow Woman | ★★★★★ |
| 79. | 7/23/2018 | ⊕ The Archer's Tale | ★★★★☆ |
| 80. | 7/27/2018 | ⊕ The Face Changers | ★★★★☆ |
| 81. | 7/29/2018 | ⊕ Blood Money | ★★★★☆ |
| 82. | 8/3/2018 | The Hunt for Red October | ★★★★★ |
| 83. | 8/5/2018 | ⊕ Jack of Spies | ★★★★★ |
| 84. | 8/6/2018 | ⊕ Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI | ★★★★★ |
| 85. | 8/8/2018 | ⊕ Rogue Protocol: The Murderbot Diaries | ★★★★★ |
| 86. | 8/11/2018 | ⊕ The Other Woman | ★★★★★ |
| 87. | 8/15/2018 | ⊕ Gunmetal Gray | ★★★★☆ |
| 88. | 8/22/2018 | ⊕ The Lost City of the Monkey God | ★★★★☆ |
| 89. | 8/25/2018 | ⊕ One Man's Flag | ★★★★★ |
| 90. | 8/27/2018 | ⊕ Ballistic | ★★★★☆ |
| 91. | 8/29/2018 | ⊕ Head On | ★★★★☆ |
| 92. | 9/1/2018 | ⊕ Silesian Station | ★★★★★ |
| 93. | 9/1/2018 | ⊕ The Gray Man | ★★★★☆ |
| 94. | 9/2/2018 | ⊕ On Target | ★★★★☆ |
| 95. | 9/3/2018 | ⊕ Dead Eye | ★★★★☆ |
| 96. | 9/3/2018 | ⊕ Stettin Station | ★★★★★ |
| 97. | 9/10/2018 | ⊕ Potsdam Station | ★★★★★ |
| 98. | 9/11/2018 | ⊕ Creative Selection | ★★★★★ |
| 99. | 9/16/2018 | Meg | ★★★☆☆ |
| 100. | 9/21/2018 | ⊕ Lehrter Station | ★★★★★ |
| 101. | 9/23/2018 | ⊕ Agent in Place | ★★★★☆ |
| 102. | 10/5/2018 | ⊕ Masaryk Station | ★★★★★ |
| 103. | 10/7/2018 | ⊕ We Are Legion | ★★★★☆ |
| 104. | 10/9/2018 | The Stand | ★★★★★ |
| 105. | 10/29/2018 | ⊕ Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road | ★★★★★ |
| 106. | 10/29/2018 | ⊕ Exit Strategy | ★★★☆☆ |
| 107. | 10/30/2018 | ⊕ The Lock Artist | ★★★★★ |
| 108. | 11/3/2018 | ⊕ A Cold Day in Paradise | ★★★★★ |
| 109. | 11/4/2018 | ⊕ Winter of the Wolf Moon | ★★★★★ |
| 110. | 11/4/2018 | ⊕ The Second Life of Nick Mason | ★★★★☆ |
| 111. | 11/5/2018 | ⊕ The Hunting Wind | ★★★★☆ |
| 112. | 11/7/2018 | ⊕ North of Nowhere | ★★★★☆ |
| 113. | 11/10/2018 | ⊕ The Silkworm | ★★★★★ |
| 114. | 11/10/2018 | ⊕ Blood is the Sky | ★★★★★ |
| 115. | 11/11/2018 | ⊕ Ice Run | ★★★★☆ |
| 116. | 11/15/2018 | ⊕ A Stolen Season | ★★★★★ |
| 117. | 11/18/2018 | ⊕ Night Work | ★★★★☆ |
| 118. | 11/26/2018 | The Lord of the Rings | ★★★★★★ |
| 119. | 11/30/2018 | ⊕ Exit Strategy | ★★★★★ |
| 120. | 12/2/2018 | Hunting season | ★★★☆☆ |
| 121. | 12/8/2018 | ⊕ Career of Evil | ★★★★★ |
| 122. | 12/8/2018 | ⊕ Misery Bay | ★★★★★ |
| 123. | 12/10/2018 | ⊕ Gunpowder Moon | ★★★★★ |
| 124. | 12/11/2018 | ⊕ Die A Stranger | ★★★★☆ |
| 125. | 12/11/2018 | ⊕ Let It Burn | ★★★★★ |
| 126. | 12/17/2018 | ⊕ Dead Man Running | ★★★★★ |
| 127. | 12/18/2018 | ⊕ Street Freaks | ★★★☆☆ |
| 128. | 12/22/2018 | ⊕ The Fifth to Die | ★★★★☆ |
| 129. | 12/24/2018 | ⊕ The Boy on the Bridge | ★★★★★ |
| 130. | 12/25/2018 | ⊕ Alien 3 #1 | ★★★☆☆ |
| 131. | 12/25/2018 | ⊕ Alien 3 #2 | ★★★☆☆ |
| 132. | 12/26/2018 | ⊕ For We Are Many | ★★★★★ |
| 133. | 12/27/2018 | ⊕ All These Worlds | ★★★★★ |
| 134. | 12/30/2018 | ⊕ The Rook | ★★★★★ |
| 135. | 12/30/2018 | ⊕ Dark Sacred Night | ★★★★★ |
| 136. | 12/31/2018 | ⊕ Moonwalking with Einstein | ★★★★★ |