fabled_librarian

 This is a list of the books I want to read in 2018, with some caveats:

1. Other than the first five or six books, which are the ones I'm currently reading as I initially type this post, the books are in no particular order. Actually, they are in order -- other than the ones I'm reading now, they are in four stacks, with each stack arranged from larger books at the bottom to smaller books at the top (one of my partners, who is great with visual-spatial stuff, kindly organized them for me, who is...not). So after the books I'm reading, I'll start the list with the books on the top of the stack closest to me, and work my way down and then out. After the initial list is complete, I'll just add any books that I add later onto the bottom of the list.
2. It may take me more than one sitting to type up all the books on the initial list.
3. The initial list is not my complete list. There are so many books that I want to read, that they won't all fit on the stacks, and I'm already pretty intimidated because it's a lot of books and I don't read nearly as fast as I used to, nor are my comprehension and retention great anymore. Just as I'll remove books to add to my list of books I read and possibly to my list of books I quit reading, I'll also add books to the list throughout the year. Most of them will either be books that I already own and are on my agenda to read, but that aren't added to the stack yet, or that were temporarily taken off to make more room and to make me less overwhelmed -- or books that I want to read, that I don't own yet, but that I buy later in the year.
4. I'm only going to list books that I own, that I've borrowed from a library or person, or possibly that I've ordered and that have shipped, but that haven't arrived yet.
5. In an effort to keep myself from getting overwhelmed, exhausted, and frustrated, I'm not going to categorize the books on my to-be-read list. I'm already getting frazzled because so many of the books on my list fit in so many categories and it has been/will be hard to decide how to categorize many of them for my "finished reading" list.
6. For the same reason as number 5, I'm going to list series as one entry, with the name of the "book" being the name of the series, along with the number of books in the series (if I know/remember), unless I have a really good reason not to.
7. For similar reasons, I don''t think I'm going to number the list, even though I might find it helpful later. It's just too daunting of  prospect right now, and numbers give me difficulty, even in numerical order.
8. I'm not going to include audiobooks in this list. I'm usually reading far less audiobooks at a time than I am hard copies. I am also really bad at multi-tasking, so pretty much the only thing I can do at the same time as listening to an audiobook is knit. I do that sometimes, but usually when I'm listening to audiobooks, I'm in really bad shape mentally, emotionally, physically, or some combination of all three. A disproportionate number of my audiobooks are re-reads, And they don't take up any space when they are off the shelves. So for all of those reasons, I'm not usually in any particular hurry to finish audiobooks. I will include them on my "read" list, though, when I finish any that weren't released this year.
9. I'm also not going to include ebooks on this list, though, again, I'll mark down any that I finish on my "read list". The same thing applies as to audiobooks, about them taking up less space. But the main reason is that I don't buy a lot of audiobooks, and when i do, it takes me forever to finish them because I can't look at screens for a very long stretch at a time -- which is probably not what most people would consider a long stretch, though what I can handle does vary somewhat. When I over-do it, I get headaches that often become migraines, extreme nausea, eye pain, disorientation or a "fuzzy brain" feeling, and can even have seizures. It seems to be a genetic thing, as an immediate relative has the same problem. I usually wind up debilitated for anywhere from hours to days. However, I love reading, and sometimes I get caught up in it and lose track (which I sometimes do with a small handful of videogames I really like, too) -- so I usually try my best to avoid the problem entirely, especially because reading a book on a screen takes away from me doing other stuff on screens that can't be done or can't be easily done on paper like reading blog posts and watching television shows and movies. There are exceptions, though -- I do buy audiobooks if it's a book I want that doesn't have a physical or audiobook version. I also sometimes buy audiobooks that are books I really want to read and that are drastically cheaper than the physical copy. If I like them, I usually buy a physical copy, too, and if not, I don't. Kindle and authors also occasionally have promotional free ebooks and if I find out about them and they're fantasy or a subject I'm interested in, I usually download them and, again, if I like them and there is a physical or audiobook copy, I buy that.
10. If I don't get to any of the books, I'll probably add them on to next year's list.
11. Because I'm participating in Novel Knight's Beat the Backlist Challenge for 2018, I'm not including any books I want to read that were released this year on this list. I have a separate blog post with the list of those books on it.

Okay, here we go:

Planescape Torment by Ray and Valerie Vallese
The Earth Path by Starhawk
The Alchemy of Illness by Kay Duff
Unf*uck Your Habitat by Rachel Hoffman
The Mindfulness Solution for Intense Emotions by Cedar R. Coons
Christy by Catherine Marshall
A Pine Barrens Odyssey by Howard P. Boyd
Casting a Queer Circle by Thista Minai
Dahlia Season by Myriam Gurba
Playing With Fire by Dagulf Loptson
Lou Sullivan by Brice D. Smith
On Divination by Galina Krasskova
The Cauldron Cill Brighid Devotional by Cauldron Cill
A Naturalist Along the Jersey Shore by Joanna Burger
Between the Worlds by Sarah Kate Istra Winter
Trans Homo..Gasp! edited by Avi Ben-Zeev
Brilliant Imperfection by Eli Clare
Walt Whitman's America by David S. Reynolds
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Tempests and Slaughter by Tamora Pierce
The Book of the Great Queen by Morpheus Ravenna
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
Edgar Allen Poe A Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance by Kenneth Silverman
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
The Inner Sky by Steven Forrest
Paint It Black by Janet Fitch
You Can Heal Your Life by Louise L. Hay
Spiritual Protection by Sophie Reicher
Animism Respecting the Living World by Graham Harvey
Kharis by Sarah Kate Istra Winter
Planescape Pages of Pain by Troy Denning
Planescape The Blood War Trilogy by J. Robert King (3 book series)
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
The Poetic Edda translated by Carolyne Larrington
The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturlson
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
Maya's Notebook by Isabel Allende
The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King (7 book series)
Facing the Darkness by Cat Treadwell
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
Gods and Myths of Northern Europe by Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson
The Drifters by James Michener