In 2018 I read 47 books. My reading tends to be of older books, many of which have languished on my shelves unread for years. My total is never enough, but it’s something. (One friend suggested I stand next to my pile, but really, it rises only a little above my knee. My stack and I would both feel diminished by the comparison.)

Here’s the full list in the order I finished ’em, as drawn from my monthly Reading Log posts on this blog. (I’ve done this annual list a few years now; here’s 2017’s.)

1. Pale Gray for Guilt,” John D. MacDonald
2. “The Shadow of Fu Manchu,” Sax Rohmer
3. “Glimpses,” Lewis Shiner
4. “Beginning to See the Light,” Ellen Willis
5. “The Left Hand of Darkness,” Ursula K. Le Guin
6. “Gather, Darkness!” Fritz Leiber
7. “Lest Darkness Fall,” L. Sprague de Camp
8. “A Scanner Darkly,” Philip K. Dick
9. “The Harlan Ellison Hornbook,” Harlan Ellison (duh)
10. “Edgeworks Vol. 3,” Harlan Ellison (and RIP)
11. “Tricky Business,” Dave Barry
12. “Hollywood Station,” Joseph Wambaugh
13. “How to Find Old Los Angeles,” Kim Cooper
14. “The 20th Century’s Greatest Hits,” Paul Williams
15. “The Fifties,” David Halberstam
16. “Land of 1000 Dances: Chicano Rock ‘n’ Roll from Southern California,” David Reyes and Tom Waldman
17. “The Complete Humorous Sketches and Tales of Mark Twain,” Charles Neider, ed.
18. “We Can Build You,” Philip K. Dick
19. “The Baker Street Letters,” Michael Robertson
20. “The Treasurer’s Report, or Other Aspects of Community Singing,” Robert Benchley
21. “Make Room! Make Room!,” Harry Harrison
22. “The Door Into Summer,” Robert Heinlein
23. “Knockin’ on Dylan’s Door,” the editors of Rolling Stone
24. “The Glass Key,” Dashiell Hammett
25. “Re-Enter Fu Manchu,” Sax Rohmer
26. “Housekeeping,” Marilynne Robinson
27. “The Seven Lost Ranchos of Our Inland Valley,” Bob Smith
28. “As You Like It,” William Shakespeare
29. “Addicted to Americana,” Charles Phoenix
30. “Selected Tales and Sketches,” Nathaniel Hawthorne
31. “The Ganymede Takeover,” Philip K. Dick and Ray Nelson
32. “The Dream Detective,” Sax Rohmer
33. “The Feral Detective,” Jonathan Lethem
34. “The Trial,” Franz Kafka
35. “The Sheep Look Up,” John Brunner
36. “The Maltese Falcon (Film Classics Library),” Richard J. Anobile
37. “Cats, Dogs and Other Strangers at My Door,” Jack Smith
38. “The Perfect Horse,” Elizabeth Letts
39. “The Doom That Came to Sarnath and Other Stories,” H.P. Lovecraft
40. “Echo Round His Bones,” Thomas M. Disch
41. “Banking on Beauty,” Adam Arenson
42. “O Pioneers!” Willa Cather
43. “The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage,” Todd Gitlin
44. “Haircut and Other Stories,” Ring Lardner
45. “Ritchie Valens, the First Latino Rocker,” Beverly Mendheim
46. “Janis,” David Dalton
47. “Bob Dylan: Performing Artist, the Middle Years, 1974-1986,” Paul Williams

I reflect on my year in reading in Wednesday’s column. You can reflect on yours, or mine for that matter, in the comments below.