GerrysBookshelf is Overflowing in 2018

Hi - I'm Gerry and this is my 4th year with the 75 Books Challenge Group.
I did really well with my book challenges in 2017 and ended up reading 102 books.
This year I will participate in the Non Fiction Challenge and try to make a dent in my TBR pile.

Nonfiction Challenge

January - Prizewinners and Nominees
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson - Pulitzer Prize winner in History for 2017
Testosterone Rex by Cordelia Fine - Royal Society Science Book Prize 2017

February - Biographies
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson

March -Far, Far Away: Travel Narrative
The Waiting land: A Spell in Nepal by Dervla Murphy
Beyond the Sky and the Earth: a journey into Bhutan by Jamie Zeppa

April - History
Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box by Angela P. Dodson

May - Boundaries: Geography, Geopolitics and Maps
On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks by Simon Garfield

June - The Great Outdoors
Ten Million Aliens by Simon Barnes

July - The Arts
The Art of Botanical Illustration: An Illustrated History by Wilfrid Blunt

August - Short and Sweet: Essays and Other Longform Narratives
Essays After Eighty by Donald Hall
The Wave in the Mind by Ursula K. Le Guin

September - Gods, Demons, Spirits and Supernatural Beliefs
The Bible: A Biography by Karen Armstrong

October- First Person Singular
Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World by Yang Erche Namu

November - Politics, Economics, Business
The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court's Assault on the Constitution by David A. Kaplan
Prius or Pickup?: how the answers to four simple questions explain America's great divide by Marc J. Hetherington

December - 2018 in Review
Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution by Menno Schilthuizen
Becoming by Michelle Obama

Global Reading
Italy - The Moon and the Bonfires by Cesare Pavese
Turkey - Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities by Bettany Hughes
Nepal- The Waiting land: A Spell in Nepal by Dervla Murphy
Bhutan - Beyond the Sky and the Earth: a journey into Bhutan by Jamie Zeppa
Myanmar - Miss Burma by Charmaine Craig
Japan - Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
Korea - The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Mongolia - Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong
Maldives - Gatecrashing Paradise: Misadventures in the Real Maldives by Tom Chesshyre
Kyrgyzstan- Jamila by Chingiz Aitmatov
Antigua - Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
China - Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World by Yang Erche Namu
Japan - The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
Denmark - Winter’s Tales by Isak Dinesen

January

1. Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
2. The Moon and the Bonfires by Cesare Pavese
3. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
4. The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
5. Testosterone Rex by Cordelia Fine
6. No Time to Spare by Ursula Le Guin
7. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See

February

8. Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic by David Frum
9. Fire and Fury Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff
10. 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
11. Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
12. Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver
13. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg
14. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
15. Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities by Bettany Hughes
16. Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Golden Samovar by Olga Wojtas

March

17. A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America by Sam White
18. The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty by Carolyn G. Heilbrun
19. The Waiting Land: A Spell in Nepal by Dervla Murphy
20. The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
21. Beyond the Sky and the Earth: a journey into Bhutan by Jamie Zeppa
22. Elmet by Fiona Mozley
23. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
24. The Proud Tower by Barbara W. Tuchman
25. Passing by Nella Larsen
26. Miss Burma by Charmaine Craig
27. Summer Hours at the Robbers Library by Sue Halpern
28. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
29. Paws and Effect by Sofie Kelly

April

30. Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
31. Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
32. Metamorphoses by Ovid
33. Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box by Angela P. Dodson
34. The Idiot by Elif Batuman
35. Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
36. A Boy in Winter by Rachel Seiffert
37. Confessions by Augustine
38. The Little French Bistro by Nina George
39. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
40. The Middle Ages: Everyday Life in Medieval Europe by Jeffrey L. Singman

May

41. The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
42. Mozart’s Starling by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
43. On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks by Simon Garfield

June

44. The Overstory by Richard Powers
45. Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
46. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
47. The Vegetarian by Han Kang
48. Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather
49. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
50. Waiting for Gertrude by Bill Richardson
51. The End of the Alphabet by CS Richardson
52. Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
53. Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold
54. Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast by Bill Richardson
55. Ten Million Aliens by Simon Barnes

July

56. The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan
57. Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast Pillow Book by Bill Richardson
58. Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis by Kim Todd
59. Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer by Barbara Ehrenreich
60. The Art of Botanical Illustration: An Illustrated History by Wilfrid Blunt
61. Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
62. Craeft by Alexander Langlands
63. Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong
64. The Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland
65. Gatecrashing Paradise: Misadventures in the Real Maldives by Tom Chesshyre
66. Jamila by Chingiz Aitmatov
67. Pears on a Willow Tree by Leslie Pietrzyk

August

68. In the Distance by Hernan Diaz
69. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
70. Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
71. Essays After Eighty by Donald Hall
72. The Wave in the Mind by Ursula K. Le Guin
73. The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
74. What a Carve Up by Jonathan Coe
75. Klee Wyck by Emily Carr
76. At Hawthorn Time by Melissa Harrison
77. The House at the End of Hope Street by Menna van Praag
78. American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic by Victoria Johnson

Happy New Year! Nice collection of reading women!

September

79. The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World by Jeff Goodell
80. Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
81. Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
82. The Bible: A Biography by Karen Armstrong
83. The Master by Colm Toibin
84. Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions by Amy Stewart
85. Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
86. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
87. The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene

October

88. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
89. Milkman by Anna Burns
90. Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward
91. Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature by David Quammen
92. Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
93. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
94. Radio Free Vermont by Bill McKibben
95. French Exit by Patrick deWitt
96. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
97. Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World by Yang Erche Namu
98. Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth by Adam Frank
99. The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel

November

100. The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
101. Cain by Jose Saramago
102. The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court's Assault on the Constitution by David A. Kaplan
103. Hope Never Dies by Andrew Shaffer
104. The Devil's Pool by George Sand
105. Miss Kopp Just Won’t Quit by Amy Stewart
106. Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin
107. Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence by Stefano Mancuso
108. Golden Hill: A Novel of Old New York by Francis Spufford
109. Why Religion?: A Personal Story by Elaine Pagels
110. Migrations to Solitude by Sue Halpern

December

111. 1947: Where Now Begins by Elisabeth Asbrink
112. Christmas at High Rising by Angela Thirkell
113. Care of Wooden Floors: A Novel by Will Wiles
114. Prius or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America's Great Divide by Marc J. Hetherington
115. Old Herbaceous by Reginald Arkell
116. Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution by Menno Schilthuizen
117. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
118. Becoming by Michelle Obama
119. Winter’s Tales by Isak Dinesen
120. The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Deborah Blum
121. Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon

Hope you have a great year of reading!

Happy New Year
Happy New Group here
This place is full of friends
I hope it never ends
It brew of erudition and good cheer.

Happy reading in 2018, Gerry!
You found lovely paintings for each month.

Happy New Year! I wish you to read many good books in 2018.

Happy New Year, Gerry. I love your reading women.

Thanks and Happy New Year everyone!

2018 Favorites - Fiction

The Overstory - hands down best book this year
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Waiting for Gertrude
At Hawthorn Time
A Boy in Winter
84, Charing Cross Road
Radio Free Vermont
The Travelling Cat Chronicles

2018 Favorites - Non Fiction

Amity and Prosperity
Blood in the Water
Prius or Pickup
The Water Will Come
Mozart's Starling
Killers of the Flower Moon
Beyond the Sky and Earth

End of year 2018 book meme

Describe yourself: The Forest Lover
Describe how you feel: No Time to Spare
Describe where you currently live: The House at the End of Hope Street
If you could go anywhere, where would you go? Bachelor Brothers Bed and Breakfast
Your favorite form of transportation: Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
Your best friend is: The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
You and your friends are: The Female Persuasion
What's the weather like? A Cold Welcome
You fear: Trumpocracy
What is the best advice you have to give? Remember the Ladies
Thought for the day: Hope Never Dies
How would you like to die? French Exit
Your soul's present condition: The Immortalists

>24 GerrysBookshelf: Nice meme answers. I think I may have used the same answer for "go anywhere" the year I read that book.