My 2018 Reading List: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, & Non-fiction Recommendations
My perennial New Year’s resolution is to read one fiction and one non-fiction book per month. I tend to fail, and this year I only averaged 1.33 books per month (which, interestingly, is the same as last year; 2016 was 1.5 per month).
As you can tell from this list, I became a bit obsessed with afrofuturism and am still in awe of the immersive worldbuilding within the genre’s novels I read. I gravitated more towards fiction this year in general, which meant I snuck in fewer non-fiction books than usual (I did read more academic papers this year, but they’re far more arid).
If you’re looking for more science fiction, speculative fiction, or non-fiction recommendations, check out my 2017 and my 2016 reading lists.
Fiction
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
After the Flare: A Novel by Olukotun Deji Bryce
All Systems Red: the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orisha Book 1) by Tomi Adeyemi
The Last Wish: Introducing the Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth Book 2) by N. K. Jemisin
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth Book 3) by N. K. Jemisin
The Tiger’s Daughter by K Arsenault Rivera
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle Series Book 1) by Ursula K. Le Guin
Non-Fiction
Anticipating Surprise: Analysis for Strategic Warning by Cynthia M. Grabo
Behind Human Error by David D. Woods, Sidney Dekker, Richard Cook, Leila Johannesen, Nadine Sarter
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect by Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie
Complexity: A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell
