I’ve been in the habit of tracking my books in a database to — among other things — help me avoid purchasing books that I already have (it happened a few times too often, which got me to set up the database in the first place). These are the new (or at least new-to-me) books I read during 2018:

A. Goodwin, The New Cambridge Modern History VIII: The American and French Revolutions, 978-0-521-04546-9.
Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote to Chaos, 978-0-345-81602-3.
Lois McMaster Bujold, Penric’s Fox, 978-1-59606-863-6.
C.W. Crawley, The New Cambridge Modern History IX: War and Peace in an Age of Upheaval, 0-521-04547-9.
Niall Ferguson, The Square and the Tower”, 978-0-7352-2291-5.
George Orwell, It Is What I Think: 1947-48, 978-0-436-21007-5.
Eric H. Cline, 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed, 978-0-691-16838-8.
J.P.T Bury, The New Cambridge Modern History X: The Zenith of European Power, 1830-70, 978-0-5210-4548-3.
P.G. Wodehouse, Pelican at Blandings, 0-88029-281-4.
P.G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, 978-0-09-951394-0.
P.G. Wodehouse, Joy in the Morning, no ISBN or LOC number.
Sarah Marques, Sword & Blood: Book One of the Vampire Musketeers, 978-1-60701-331-0.
Sarah A. Hoyt, Darkship Thieves, 978-1-4391-3398-9.
F.H. Hinsley, The New Cambridge Modern History XI: Material Progress and World-Wide Problems, 1870-1898, 978-0-521-04549-0.
Richard Sennett, The Craftsman, 978-0-141-02209-3.
Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume 1, 978-0-679-42308-9.
Christopher Lloyd, Lord Cochrane: Seaman, Radical, Liberator, 0-8050-5569-X.
Anirudh Arora and Hardeep Singh Kohli, Food of the Grand Trunk Road: Recipes of rural India, from Bengal to the Punjab, 978-1-8477-3968-1.
Sarah A. Hoyt, Darkship Renegades, 978-1-4767-3617-4.
James Holland, The Rise of Germany 1939-1941, 978-0-8021-2397-8.
J.L. Granatstein, The Greatest Victory: Canada’s One Hundred Days, 1918, 978-0-19-900931-2.
P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good Jeeves, no ISBN or LOC number.
Arthur Bryant, The Turn of the Tide, based on the War Diaries of Field Marshal Alanbrooke, no ISBN or LOC number.
Carlo D’Este, Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War 1874-1945, 978-0-06-057573-1.
James Holland, The Allies Strike Back: 1941-1943 The War in the West, 978-0-8021-2560-6.
George Orwell, Our Job Is To Make Life Worth Living: 1949-1950, 0-436-21009-6.
Lois McMaster Bujold, Mira’s Last Dance, 978-1-59606-854-4.
Arthur Bryant, Triumph in the West: Completing the War Diaries of Field Marshal Viscount Alanbrooke, no ISBN or LOC number.
Marc Milner, The U-Boat Hunters: The Royal Canadian Navy and the Offensive against Germany’s Submarines, 0-8020-0588-8.
Edward Spears, Prelude to Dunkirk, no ISBN or LOC number.
Edward Spears, The Fall of France, no ISBN or LOC number.
Bing Coughlin, Herbie Wuz Here! A collection of WWII Canadian Military Cartoons, 978-1-897030-67-7.
P.G. Wodehouse, Right Ho Jeeves, no ISBN or LOC number.
Larry Correia, Monster Hunter Memoirs: Saints, 978-1-4814-8307-0.
P.G. Wodehouse, Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, no ISBN or LOC number.
William L. Shirer, Collapse of the Third Republic, 0-671-78509-5.
Nick Lloyd, Hundred Days: The End of the Great War, 978-0-670-92006-8.
Dave DeWitt and Janie Lamson, The Field Guide to Peppers, 978-1-60469-588-5.
No author credit, Indian … Made simple, 978-1-4454-3056-0.
Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, War Diaries, 1939-1945, 978-1-8421-2526-7.
P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves, no ISBN or LOC number.
Dominic Sandbrook, The Great British Dream Factory, 978-0-141-97930-4.
C.L. Mowat, The New Cambridge Modern History XII: The Shifting Balance of World Forces, 1898-1945, 978-0-521-04551-3.
Major-General I.S.O. Playfair, The Mediterranean and Middle East Volume II: The Germans come to the help of their Ally (1941), 1-845740-66-1.
David X. Manners, Planning and Building Your Home Workshop, 0-06-090824-6.
Robert Wearing, The Essential Woodworker, 978-0-578-06044-6.
Peter Heather, Rome Resurgent: War and Empire in the Age of Justinian, 978-0-19-936274-5.
Dave DeWitt, The Chile Pepper Encyclopedia, 0-688-15611-8.
P.G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves, no ISBN or LOC number.
Major L. F. Ellis, The War in France and Flanders, 1-845740-52-4.
Joseph E. Persico, 11th Month, 11th Day, 11th Hour: Armistice Day, 1918, 0-375-50825-2.
Kenneth Macksey, Why the Germans Lose At War: The myth of German military superiority, 1-85367-693-4.
W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman, 1066 and all that, 0-413-61880-3.
François Kersaudy, Norway, 1940, 0-8032-7787-3.
Madhur Jaffrey, Madhur Jaffrey’s Ultimate Curry Bible, 0-091-87415-7.
John Colville, The Fringes of Power: Downing Street Diaries Volume 1, 1939-October 1941, 0-340-40269-5.
P.G. Wodehouse, Young Men in Spats, 0-88029-280-6.
John Colville, The Fringes of Power: Downing Street Diaries Volume 2, 1941-1955, 0-340-40336-5.
David Potter, Theodora: Actress, Empress, Saint, 978-0-19-069275-9.
Heinz Werner Schmidt, With Rommel in the Desert, 0-553-13130-3.
H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon’s Mines, 978-0-8129-6629-9.
Donald Thomas, The Secret Cases of Sherlock Holmes, no ISBN or LOC number.
Robert E. Howard, The Complete Chronicles of Conan, the Centenary Edition, 978-0-575-07766-9.
Shelby Foote, The Civil War, A Narrative – Fort Sumter to Perryville, 0-394-74623-6.
John Cannan, Burnside’s Bridge, 1-58097-035-4.
Nicholas Harman, Dunkirk: The Necessary Myth, 0-340-24299-X.

As usual, the list doesn’t include any re-reads of old favourites (Tolkien, Conan Doyle, Bujold, Heinlein, etc.). I’ve had to radically cut back my magazine subscriptions over the last year or so, as my personal expenses needed to be reeled-in to more closely match my vastly reduced income, so I’m down to only Reason and Popular Woodworking as my remaining regular magazine reads. Hopefully, I’ll be back to earning more in 2019…