2018 Reading Report

I missed it.

I had a goal to read fifty books this year and I didn’t make it. I tried though, and I came pretty close. I’m counting forty eight books I read this year. Here’s my list.

1. Sea Child, Carol Nicolas
2. Speaking in Tungs, Karla Jay
3. Dark Age America, John Michael Greer
4. Lonely Street, Steve Brewer
5. Coronam 2, of Civilized, Saved, and Savages, Johnny Worthen
6. Dandelion Iron, Aaron Michael Ritchey
7. The Invitation, Oriiah Mountain Dreamer
8. The Occult Book, John Michael Greer
9. Centennial, John Michener
10. Golden Compass, Phillip Pullman
11. The Long Descent, John Michael Greer
12. Cruce Roosters, Brent Michael Kelley
13. Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera
14. The Half Has Never Been Told, Edward E. Baptist
15. Tiger Shrimp Tango, Tim Dorsey
16. A Year of the Monkeys, (various)
17. Shark Skin Suite, Tim Dorsey
18. Coconut Cowboy, Tim Dorsey
19. Goldfinger, Ian Flemming
20. Get Shorty, Elmore Leonard
21. Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
22. Spillover, David Quammen
23. Go Tell it On the Mountain, James Baldwin
24. Monster in the Shadows, Paul Atreides
25. Love on Location, September Roberts
26. Pope of Palm Beach, Tim Dorsey
27. Everyday Witchcraft, Deborah Blake
28. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
29. Are you there God, it’s me Margaret? Judy Blume
30. Gold Coast, Elmore Leonard
31. Coronam 3, of Heroes, Homes, and Honey, Johnny Worthen
32. Red Rising, Pierce Brown
33. Golden Son, Pierce Brown
34. Fiction Can Be Murder, Becky Clark
35. The Compound Effect, Darren Hardy
36. All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
37. Johnny Get Your Gun, Dalton Trumbo 
38. Million Dollar Productivity, Kevin, J. Anderson
39. Morning Star, Pierce Brown
40. Rubberneck, Victor O’Neil
41. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
42. Clownfish Blues, Tim Dorsey
43. In the Wake of Captain Lord, Johnny Worthen
44. The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas
45. Freak Kingdom, Timothy Denevi
46. Factfulness, Hans Rosling
47. Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari
48. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, ’72, Hunter S. Thompson

Total: 48

Some were audiobooks, others kindle, word documents and my favorite—supple bound paper, sensual and crisp.

My goal is to do better next year, but I'm pretty proud of this one.

LIVE IN LETTERS ya’ll!

Happy New Year!

Love,
Johnny :-)