#MustReadIn2018 is hosted by Carrie Gelson at There Is A Book For That:
“For anyone out there with a To Be Read list that seems like it will never end, this challenge is for you! This is all about making your own personal list of books (5? 10? 20? 30? more?) that you commit to reading in 2016. Books can be published in any year, be from any genre, and be from any category (adult, YA, MG, Graphics, NF, etc.). As your TBR list grows, you promise you will get to the books on this list.”
To see our complete lists and our rationale, see our original post, and to see our other updates visit our Spring and Fall posts. Today we’re happy to share our final update on our 2018 lists!
Kellee’s #mustreadin2018
I have not read any from the list since our Fall Update so no reviews today, but I am still so happy with my progress this year!
Laurie Halse Anderson
Vet Volunteers #1: Fight for Life 6/14/2018
Vet Volunteers #2: Homeless 6/19/18
Vet Volunteers #3: Trickster 6/19/18
Twisted 6/20/18
Vet Volunteers #4: Manatee Blues 7/7/18
Vet Volunteers #5: Say Goodbye 7/19/18
Vet Volunteers #6: Storm Rescue 7/27/18
Vet Volunteers #7: Teacher’s Pet 7/27/18
Vet Volunteers #8: Trapped 8/5/18
Joseph Bruchac
Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code: A Navajo Code Talker’s Story 7/21/18
“Choke” from Guys Read: Sports Pages 7/21/18
Eric Gansworth
“Don’t Pass Me By” from Fresh Ink 2/26/2018
Dan Gemeinhart
Some Kind of Courage 4/21/2018
Good Dog 4/28/2018
Alan Gratz
Prisoner B-3087 2/8/2018
Mitali Perkins
Open Mic edited by Mitali Perkins including her story “Three-Pointer” 3/17/2018
Tiger Boy 5/15/2018
Rickshaw Girl 5/13/2018
Gae Polisner
The Memory of Things 1/22/2018
Rick Riordan
Reread The Lost Hero 7/13/18
Son of Neptune 7/29/18
Mark of Athena 8/16/18
House of Hades 9/1/18
Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
“Confessions of a Black Geek” from Open Mic 3/17/2018
Two Naomis 3/27/2018
Eliot Schrefer
The Deadly Sister 2/11/2018
Mez’s Magic 2/25/2018
Orphaned 7/6/18
Laurel Snyder
Swan 1/6/2018
The Longest Night 1/6/2018
Forever Garden 1/11/2018
Baxter, the Pig Who Wanted to be Kosher 1/13/2018
Any Which Wall 1/13/2018
Seven Stories Up 1/14/2018
Bigger Than a Breadbox (reread) 1/15/2018
Good night, laila tov 1/16/2018
Orphan Island 1/17/2018
Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed 7/19/18
Amina’s Voice by Hena Khan 7/15/18
Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy 8/12/18
The False Prince trilogy by Jennifer A. Nielsen
The False Prince 3/4/2018
The Runaway King 3/13/2018
The Shadow Throne 4/3/2018
The Land of Stories series by Chris Colfer
Started, but then my library loan expired. Will continue listening as soon as it is available.
Rebels by Accident by Patricia Dunn 1/27/2018
A Series of Unfortunate Events series by Lemony Snicket
The Bad Beginning 2/14/2018
Serpent’s Secret by Sayantani Dasgupta
Decided to wait until more of the series is out.
Solo by Kwame Alexander 8/18/2018
Stung series by Bethany Wiggins
Stung 4/1/2018
Cured 4/4/2018
Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman 1/5/2018
What Girls are Made of by Elana K. Arnold 7/25/18
Young Elites trilogy by Marie Lu
Young Elites 9/27/18
Completed: 22 out of 33
Ricki’s #mustreadin2018
There’s a chance that my brother-in-law won’t read this post for the third year in a row and make fun of me for over-promising and underdelivering on my must read list. Ha!
When I create a list like this, I have a hard time reading the books because they feel like requirements. It really helps remind me that requiring reading (even of ourselves) is not the best practice. Instead, I end up circling around the books and reading other books instead. The funny part? For eight of the books on the list, I read half of the book. The eight books are still on my nightstand. I enjoyed them and was forced to read a different book that I assigned my students that week for classes.
The good news is that next semester, I am not teaching my YAL course, so I have much more time that I won’t need to reread YA texts that I love. Instead, I will be able to focus on the books I add to my #mustreadin2019 list! I am terrible at this list!
I read and loved Blood Water Paint and Ghost Boys since the final update. Perhaps I need to finish the others because I know I will love them. There are three or four that I will be moving to my next list. I am still sticking with 16, and I think I’ll actually make it this time. Other authors need to avoid publishing enticing books, please.
Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough December 2018
Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes December 2018
Completed: 2 out of 16
Have you read any of these titles? What’s on your #mustreadin2018 list?
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Ricki, I have worried about struggling with the “requirements” part of this, too. Having a long-term reading list with weeks mapped out ahead with specific books to read isn’t new to me AT ALL. I actually like keeping a running list so that I can get my hands on whichever books come next (I have to ILL or buy some since our local library is so small, so I have to carefully plan ahead). But in the past I would occasionally remove a title or two on my private list when I realized it wasn’t as important to me as I once thought. So I guess the difference this time is that my list is “out there” for all the public to see. So that “MUST read” accountability feels pretty heavy about now. LOL