Thank you to everyone who sent in your first book pics of the year. This is absolutely one of my favorite posts to put up each year and the fact that it is the first post each year…. even better.
The following are the pictures that came in from around the world of what people have chosen as their first book of the year. For me… it was a huge deal trying to pick what I wanted to read and when I found it… I was thrilled and will be listening to it this morning on audio while I drive to the first run of the year. (Hint in the pics below I am wearing a penguin hat)
Below everyone’s pics I have listed the areas in which these pictures came in from and under that the books that were chosen. If you missed out, and still want to send your picture and first book in – please email me today at journeythroughbooks@gmail.com including where you live and I will add these pictures tomorrow.
Thank you again to everyone and Happy New Year.
Pics are from: Alabama, Arkansas, Australia, Bermuda, California, Canada, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, New Zealand, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Scotland, Tennessee, Texas, UK, Virginia, Washington DC, Wisconsin and Wyoming
First Books:
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
Just Between Us by Rebecca Drake
Into The Water by Paula Hawkins
The Hearts Invisible Furries by John Boyne
The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
The Sandcastle by Iris Murdock
The Wake Up by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
The Promise Between Us by Barbara Claypole White
Copy Cat by Alex Lake
Jack Reacher The Midnight Line by Lee Child
Every Breath You Take by Mary Higgins Clark
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Little French Bistro by Nina George
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
The Papers of Tony Veitch by William McIivanney
Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
Curse on the Land by Faith Hunter
Degrees of Love by Lisa Slabach
Killers Of The Flower Moon by David Grann
A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms by George RR Martin
The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore by Kim Fu
The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks
American Indians American Presidents
Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck
The African Trilogy by Chinua Achebe
Reset Reset Reset by Ellen Pao
The Mayflower Bride by Kimberly Woodhouse
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
Jacqueline Willoughby by Schuyler Randall
The World To Come by Dara Horn
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Those who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
All The Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood
Tell Me More by Kelly Corrigan
I liked My Life by Abby Fabiaschi
Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage by Hugh Brewster
The Listener by Robert McCammom
What If God Wrote Your To Do List by Jay Payleitner
The One Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith
In the Moment by Karen Kingsbury
Book Journey 
Happy New Year! There are some great books listed here today! Mine will be Glass Houses by Louise Penny. I am heading off to work, stay warm on your run, it is about 13 below on my side of the Twin Cities!
It was fun to really look at the books. I found a few I want to read as well 🙂
Happy New year!!! Thanks so much for letting me be apart of this year. Everyone looks so excited and I see lots of books to add to my TBR list.
Its fun to do 🙂
Happy new year and I hope you enjoy your first book of the year, also I hope your run was amazing. You have more stamina than I do running in this cold weather! This is my first time participating and I can see this will introduce me to new authors and blogs!
More stubbornness than stamina.:) Doing the run each year gets me through the New Year in a positive way and having something to put my mind on. 🙂
Happy New Year, Sheila and thanks for hosting this event again. It’s a great way to start the year!!
I agree. Its a lot of work to put together but seeing all the pics come in and the book choices makes it worth it. I love that there are no duplicates.
Happy New Year!!
LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT.
Great added touch listing where the photos came from.
Such fun…thanks for doing this again.
Elizabeth of Silver’s Reviews – in case anyone wants to know who I am – I am reading NEXT YEAR IN HAVANA.
Can everyone do that, Sheila?
That would be cool Elizabeth and everyone sure can … I just have nothing left to make it happen 🙂 LOL
It was fun to capture where everyone was from and I was hoping to put it on each pic but it was too hard with the size of the pics and making sure the word fit in the box not to mention the extra time involved. As it was I worked on this post for about 7 hours. 😀
Wow….SEVEN hours is crazy…sorry, but thank you so much.
You did a FANTASTIC job as always.
It is fun recognizing other bloggers. I hope some other folks tell who they are. 🙂
That is the easiest for everyone and especially YOU.
Thanks again, and Happy New Year!!
Nah I love to do it… the pics, the collages the book links 😉
Happy 2018! Thanks for hosting again Sheila!
You are welcome Stacy 🙂 Happy New Year
I will be only be able to read school books up until May. But I am entering my last semester of college. Nicholas Nickleby will be my main classic of the upcoming summer.
OOH well read on my friend 🙂
I will be reading Nicholas Nickleby over the summer. After that David Copperfield. Than have to choose between seven classics. I already have books lined up. I have to get through this semester of school before reading for fun
Happy New Year! Thanks for hosting 🙂
My First book of the year is The Alice Network by Kate Quinn.
Lynn@Ellesea Loves Reading, Norway
http://norwayellesea.blogspot.no/2018/01/first-book-of-year-2018.html
I am curious about that one. Not to late to send in a pic 😉
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year Kathy 🙂
Happy New Year Sheila! What fun to see what everyone is reading today.
Thank you Katherine. I agree 🙂
Happy New Year, Sheila! Thanks for hosting First Book.
Sure 🙂 I enjoy doing it.
Happy New Year, Sheila! LOVE seeing all the “first books”! Thanks for hosting this fun event once again!
No problem 🙂 I enjoy seeing the books as much as everyone 🙂
Happy New Year! Thanks for hosting, and I’m loving Every Breath You Take.
Oh I am glad! I am enjoying mine as well!
Awesome collage! Thanks for doing this again Sheila!
Absolutely Laura. Its fun to go through them and go … “I met her, and I met her… and I met her…”
Happy New Year, Sheila! Thanks for doing this again…I love participating and seeing what everyone else is reading. Some great books being read this year!
Yes! Some books that were new to me. By linking them I was able to learn more about them…. which was dangerous for me 😉
Happy New Year Shelia. Thanks for hosting this fun yearly event. It is fun to look through the pictures to see what everyone is reading and to put faces to blog names!
My First Book
It is a ton of fun doing this First Book of the Year.
I enjoy putting faces with the blog. 🙂
Yes I wish I could connect everyone to their blog but it is so much work … maybe I will be inspired next year 😀
Yes I agree! I love it 😉
Love it! Thanks again for organizing this. It’s fun to see what everyone has picked and I’m adding things to my TBR list 🙂
I added things to… EEP! lol
I’ve read some of the books mentioned and am now adding several others listed to my ever-growing TBR list. Thanks, as always, for doing this, Sheila!
Absolutely Jill 🙂 I was on the road today and needed my book to also be audio or yours was going to be the one 😉
Happy new year, everyone! Hope you enjoy a year filled with a ton of great books.
That is a good wish 🙂 I hope that I take the time to read more this year.
Happy New Year! Thanks for doing this — so much fun to see what everyone one is reading and its also a reminder of several books that I want to read.
Thank you Chris, I fully agree. SO many great reads and I love how diverse they are – fiction, non fiction, advice, fitness, new titles and old.
One of these years, I’m going to get the pic to you in time!
http://litandlife.blogspot.com/2018/01/first-book-of-2018.html
LOL I suspect if I wasn’t hosting I would be the same… as it was I sat down with a PILE of books last night trying to choose “the one”
Happy New Year, Sheila! Thanks for hosting this again in 2018!
Absolutely Vicki. I get excited about it 😀
Such a lovely idea! I just linked to this post in my blog post that rounded up the year and introduced my first read of 2018. I’m in Birmingham UK by the way, and am the lady with some Iris Murdoch, wearing a bobble hat. Happy reading, everyone!
LOL Bobble hat… now I have to look since I do not know what a bobble hat is. LOVE that! SO glad you joined us.
Thanks for identifying yourself, Liz.
Took me a while, but I think I found you.
I identified you by Murdoch not the bobble hat…I don’t know that term. I think that is called a tossle cap in the US. 🙂
Happy New Year!!
Oh, interesting, I’ve just been asking my US friends what they call it! Is the big pompom on the top called a tossle, then?
Well if I ever get one I am calling it a bobble. Love that! 🙂
Great collage Sheila! Thanks for including the pics! Happy New Year!
Absolutely! Thank you for participating!
It has been fun! So should I post the pics on my page as well under first book of the year post, and ping back to yours?
You can do whatever you would like 😉
I pingbacked! : )
Happy New Year!!! Thank you so much for hosting this again…I look forward to it each year 🙂 I think it’s amazing that with so many people participating, there aren’t that many duplicates 😉 Hope you had a great run today!
You are correct…I don’t see any unless I am not looking closely enough.
That is true…no duplicates. 🙂 I love that. And yes, had a very chilly but good run
Such fun photographs; what a great way to begin the new year!
Yes I enjoy doing it 😉
Looks like some great reading ahead!
Yes 🙂
Happy New Year, and thanks for hosting this. Your choice looks GOOD.
I’m at http://www.alwaysreiding.com/first-book-2018/
Happy New Year 🙂
I’m so sorry I missed this. So much going on including the worst colds of our lives. I don’t know what I’m going to start next.
Ugh. Feel better.
Thanks!
This is always fun to participate in. That is a great turn out! Thanks for taking the time to share with all of us.
It is a great turn out 🙂 I was thrilled to see all the participants 🙂
This is absolutely amazing!! Thanks for doing this and making it an annual event!
Thank you so much for doing this each year–it is so much fun to see what everyone is reading!
Thank you for letting me share my photo of my first book of the year with you again! 🙂
I almost forgot this! Oh, my! But I didn’t 😀
Yay! I made it into the collage this year. 🙂 Thanks for making this a tradition, Sheila. My First Book and One Word are all together in one post here: http://www.truebookaddict.com/2018/01/2018-first-book-of-year-plus-my-one.html
Thanks again! Happy New Year to you and yours!
I think it’s amazing how we all have different choices.