While it’s been fairly quiet on this here Internet destination, I can assure you I’ve been plenty busy. In keeping with tradition, as I’ve done in the past (here, here, and here), I present to you…

Books I read in 2018

• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• Advanced Active Record: A Collection of Practical Deep Dives into Active Record Topics by Tom Copeland
• Designing for Cities by Michael Clare
• It Will Be Exhilarating: Indie Capitalism and Design Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century by Dan Provost and Tom Gerhardt
• The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts by Gary Chapman
• Designing Great Web APIs by James Higginbotham
• Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech by Sara Wachter-Boettcher
• Calm Technology: Principles and Patterns for Non-Intrusive Design by Amber Case
• Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory Of The Web by David Weinberger
• Cracking Security Misconceptions by Andrew Peterson
• Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America by Jack Barsky
• How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft by Edward Jay Epstein
• The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America by Sarah Kendzior
• The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev’s Freedom to Putin’s War by Arkady Ostrovsky
• X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills by Chris Claremont and Brent Anderson
• X-Men: Wolverine/Gambit by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale
• The Thanos Quest by Jim Starlin, Ron Lim, John Beatty, and Ken Bruzenak
• The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries by Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan
• The Infinity Gauntlet by Jim Starlin, Ron Lim, and George Pérez
• The Death of Captain Marvel by Jim Starlin

Thematically, this year’s reading list consists of technology and design books and graphic novels—no change there from previous years—with some current events/geopolitics thrown in for good measure. I expect that particular trend to continue into the New Year based on the stacks of unread books laying around.

So that’s what my 2018 looked like! If you’d like to follow my progress in the New Year, you can find me on Goodreads.