Books Read in 2018
2018 January—June
Following are what records I kept for 2018. I fell in and out of the habit and was very inconsistent about it. These are salvaged from text files on my computer.
A ⌛︎ before a title indicates that I had not finished reading it.
January
- “The Monkey's Paw” by W.W. Jacobs (short story)
- “Moon Spirit and Coyote Woman” by Clive Grace (short story)
- God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert (novel)
- The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (novel)
- The Vanishing Shadow, Judy Bolton Mystery Series #1 by Margaret Sutton (novel)
- Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation aka Gulliver of Mars by Edwin L. Arnold (novel)
- Fry Havoc Issue #1 (zine)
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (novel, reread)
- “Hours in a Library” by Virginia Woolf (essay)
Total: 5 novels, 2 short stories, 1 essay, 1 zine
February
- Satyrday by Steven Bauer (novel)
- Orion: The Myth of the Hunter and the Huntress by Joseph Fontenrose (academic book, Classical Studies Volume 23)
- Church Fathers, Independent Virgins by Joyce E. Salisbury, final chapter (book chapter)
- “Without Walls” by A. Gislebertus (short story, reread)
- The Eye of the Dragon by Stephen King (novel, reread)
- The New Atlantis ed. by Robert Silverberg: “Silhouette” by Gene Wolfe, “The New Atlantis” by Ursula K. Le Guin, and “A Momentary Taste of Being” by James Tiptree Jr. (three novellas)
- The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood (play, reread)
- Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks (novel)
- Jack of Kinrowan (Jack the Giant-Killer and Drink Down the Moon) by Charles de Lint (two novels)
Total: 5 novels, 3 novellas, 1 academic book, 1 play, 1 short story, 1 essay
March
- Today's OEA, Winter 2018 (magazine)
- The Glue Famine by Lee Bradford (novella)
- Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas by Tom Robbins (novel, reread)
- Oresteia by Aeschylus trans. Peter Meineck intro. by Helene P. Foley (three plays)
- The Haunted Attic (Judy Bolton Mystery Series #2) by Margaret Sutton (novel)
- The Invisible Chimes (Judy Bolton Mystery Series #3) by Margaret Sutton (novel)
- Hope for the Flowers by Trina Paulus (picture book)
- Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (novel)
- The Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum (novel)
- Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum (novel)
- Seven Strange Clues (Judy Bolton Mystery Series #4) by Margaret Sutton (novel)
- Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (novel)
- We by Yvgeny Zamyatin (novel)
- “The Ugly Chickens” by Howard Waldrop (novel)
- “The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees” by E. Lily Yu (short story)
- “Obscena Galli: Praesentia Dehumanizing Cybele’s Eunuch-Priests through Disgust” by Marika Rauhala (academic paper)
- “Eunuchizing Agamemnon: Clytemnestra, Agamemnon and maschalismos” by Ruth Bardel (academic paper)
- “Sacred Eunuchism in the Cult of the Syrian Goddess” by J.L. Lightfoot (academic paper)
- “Looking for Eunuchs: The galli and Attis in Roman art” by Shelley Hales (academic paper)
- “Karian, Greek or Roman? The layered identities of Stratonikeia at the sanctuary of Hekate at Lagina” by Christina Williamson (academic paper)
Total: 10 novels, 1 novella, 3 plays, 1 short story, 5 academic papers, 1 magazine, 1 picture book
May
- “Shibuya no Love” by Hannu Rajaniemi (short story)
- “His Master’s Voice” by Hannu Rajaniemi (short story)
- “Elegy for a Young Elk” by Hannu Rajaniemi (short story)
- “The Guile” by Ian McDonald (short story)
- “Yiwu” by Lavie Tidhar (short story)
- “Terminal” by Lavie Tidhar (short story)
- “Selfies” by Lavie Tidhar (short story)
- ⌛︎ Whipping Girl by Julia Serano (nonfiction book)
Total: 7 short stories
June
- “Dragonkin” by Lavie Tidhar (short story)
Total: 1 short story
2018 Total, for recorded months:
- 20 novels
- 4 novellas
- 3 short stories
- 1 play
- 1 academic book
- 5 academic papers
- 2 essays
- 1 magazine
- 1 zines
- 1 picture book