18 Books I Want to Read in 2018: 180 Days Left!

I had to do some maths to figure out when there was 180 days left of 2018 and I’m still not completely convinced I’m right. But I love matching numbers so I tried. At the beginning of the year, I wrote a list of 18 books that were a priority for me this year and it seems like a good enough time for a check-in on how that’s going!

Starting with the ones I haven’t read (yet); Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion by Jane Austen. I read Emma and Pride and Prejudice in 2017, and was in such an Austen mood at the beginning of the year. I started both Sense and Sensibility, and Mansfield Park but didn’t get very far at all though.

Same with Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. My audiobook listens have been more lighthearted lately but I’m not writing any of them off yet!

I’m actually really feeling like reading Empire and Dominion by Jennifer Ridyard and John Connolly as I write this, its so easy to forget about books with the constant flow of new releases but my YA craving will hopefully mean these are on my read shelf soon.

I can’t believe I didn’t read Coming Out Under Fire by Allan Bérubé during Pride month! I must get to this soon!

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin and Never Greener by Ruth Jones are those kind of books that I picked up then put down again because I know in the future, I’ll be really in the mood for a specific type of story and they will be incredible reads.

I’m actually currently reading Please Take Me Home: The Story of the Rescue Cat by Clare Campbell on-and-off-again whenever I can get my current foster kittens to sit still long enough on my lap, but 8-week-olds very rarely sit still so I’m not very far in! I can already tell its going to break my heart though.

Despite now owning the Folio Society copy of the sequel, and the fact that I literally named three kittens I fostered in March after the characters- I didn’t re-read Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome while I had them! It’s a very Summer-y book though, so maybe this will distract me from this horrible heatwave we’re having.

18 Books I Want to Read in 2018- Read so far!

And the ones I’ve read, like The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. I listened to the first book in May and continued with the second book in June so really I’m overachieving with this one. I did feel the pressure of hype with this one a little and it did have a bit of an effect on my enjoyment but these books are great and I’m glad I’ve finally started this series!

The Fear Within by J.S. Law was the first book on this list that I picked up but it took me a long time to finish! Despite loving the first book in this series; Tenacity (now called The Dark Beneath), it really was a bit of a letdown which you can read a bit more about here.

I was a little let down by The Coffin Path by Katherine Clements too. Probably because I loved Katherine Clements debut; The Crimson Ribbon and her second book The Silvered Heart. But this one just wasn’t for me. I liked it, but I really wanted to love it.

I was dreading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling when I added them to the list after having such an awful time with the fifth book, but these were both pleasant surprises and I had them ticked off by the middle of February. I don’t think I’ll re-read the Harry Potter series again for a long time though.

And the one I won’t be reading; Villette by Charlotte Brontë. I started this and got a good way in but I really don’t like Charlotte Brontë’s writing so I’m giving myself a pass on this one. Maybe in a few years but I can’t see myself getting to it in the next 180 days.

What books do you want to read in the second half of 2018?

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