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Books I Read in 2017

 
 
In 2017, I read 305 books.
 
My favorite read of the year was: This is How it Always Is
My favorite YA read of the year was: Turtles All the Way Down
My favorite middle-grade read of the year was: Full Cicada Moon
My favorite non-fiction read of the year was:  Hunger
 
Here are my favorites, not in order, by genre: 
 
Fiction/Poetry:
  • The Heart’s Invisible Furies
  • Bear Town
  • Lilian Boxfish Talks a Walk
  • The Impossible Fortress
  • The Weight of Ink
  • The Sun and Her Flowers
  • Stay with Me
  • The Ready-Made Thief
  • All Grown Up
  • Sycamore
  • Spoonbenders
  • Standard Deviation
  • Anything is Possible
  • The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
  • Setting Free the Kites
  • My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
  • The Dry
  • Celine
  • Pachinko
  • Faithful
  • Six Wakes
  • The Lonely Hearts Hotel

Young Adult+Middle Grade

  • All the Crooked Saints
  • Full Cicada Moon
  • Letters from Rifka
  • The Golden Compass
  • We are Okay
  • A Million Junes
  • The Hate you Give
  • Strange the Dreamer
  • Scythe
  • Learning to Swear in America
  • Wolf by Wolf

Non-fiction:

  • The Power of Moments
  • A Mind At Home with Itself
  • The Four Tendencies
  • The Bright Hour
  • Radical Candor
  • Loving What Is
  • Mindshift
  • We Should All be Feminists
  • I’m Judging You
  • Shrill
  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

And here’s the full list:

  1. wolf by wolf
  2. learning to swear in america
  3. small great things
  4. because of mr terupt
  5. salt sugar fat – partially
  6. organize today tomorrow
  7. flaws <not done>
  8. The Whole Town’s Talking
  9. The sleeper and the spindle
  10. Wolf in a White Van
  11. Messy (only 2 chapters)
  12. Still Life with Tornado
  13. browsing (partial)
  14. scythe
  15. the diviners
  16. the future of us
  17. the bear and the nightingale
  18. shrill
  19. in defense of food
  20. chasing secrets
  21. the subtle art of not giving a f*ck
  22. a gathering of shadows
  23. lilian boxfish takes a walk
  24. lab girl
  25. The achievement habit
  26. losing it
  27. the look of love
  28. man’s search for meaning
  29. carve the mark
  30. all our wrong todays
  31. the underneath
  32. a truck full of money
  33. this close to happy – halfway
  34. a separation
  35. the lonely hearts hotel
  36. lincoln in the bardo
  37. the three-body problem
  38. my not so perfect life
  39. six wakes
  40. the futures
  41. small admissions
  42. pachinko
  43. you will not have my hate
  44. the impossible fortress
  45. what light
  46. faithful
  47. gemina
  48. the menagerie
  49. version control
  50. exit west
  51. the roanoke girls
  52. i’m judging you
  53. edgar and lucy
  54. the stranger in the woods
  55. the rules do not apply
  56. ill will
  57. celine
  58. number the stars
  59. fuzzy mud
  60. stretch
  61. fear and other uninvited guests
  62. innocents and others
  63. the dry
  64. always
  65. we should all be feminists
  66. dear ijaewele, or a feminist manifesto in fifteen suggestions
  67. milk and honey
  68. my grandmother asked me to tell you she’s sorry
  69. the reader
  70. five dysfunctions of a team
  71. universal harvester
  72. the arrangement
  73. strange the dreamer
  74. solve for happy
  75. eggshells
  76. setting free the kites
  77. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
  78. The Dance of Intimacy
  79. What it Means when a Man Falls from the Sky
  80. Hallelujah Anyway
  81. The Things You Can See Only When you Slow Down
  82. a little more human
  83. this is how it always is****
  84. why won’t you apologize
  85. waking gods
  86. the animators
  87. lucky boy
  88. idaho
  89. perfect little world
  90. the wanderers
  91. hourglass – dani shapiro
  92. the book of polly
  93. the stars are fire
  94. south and west
  95. mindshift
  96. american war
  97. option B
  98. for the love
  99. anything is possible
  100. chasing slow
  101. the hate u give
  102. the upside of unrequited
  103. the one memory of flora banks
  104. the book of joy
  105. beartown
  106. ginny moon
  107. the leavers
  108. men without women
  109. garden of small beginnings
  110. eleanor oliphant is completely fine
  111. dance of anger
  112. the boy on the bridge
  113. The lights we lost
  114. Windfall
  115. new boy
  116. one day we will all be dead and none of this will matter
  117. loving what is
  118. house of names
  119. woman no 17
  120. startup
  121. one of the boys
  122. giant steps
  123. dinner party
  124. the best of adam sharp
  125. golden state
  126. tenth of december
  127. the first bad man
  128. the heirs
  129. trajectory
  130. ramona blue
  131. barrowfields
  132. radical candor
  133. chemistry
  134. craft a life you love
  135. no time like the present
  136. bodhisattva mind
  137. a million junes
  138. standard deviation
  139. touch
  140. overcoming the five dysfunctions of a team
  141. white fur
  142. the bright hour
  143. do not become alarmed
  144. The new old me
  145. The answers
  146. Midnight at the bright ideas bookstore
  147. You don’t look your age and other fairy tales
  148. Dear cyborgs
  149. The chalk artist
  150. A house among the trees
  151. Ministry of utmost happiness
  152. The shack
  153. void star
  154. the fifth season
  155. hungry
  156. fireworks
  157. f*ck feelings
  158. windfall
  159. body love
  160. stories of your life and others
  161. the end of men
  162. spoonbenders
  163. Making friends with your mind
  164. sycamore
  165. what we lose
  166. we are okay
  167. all grown up
  168. don’t bite the hook
  169. hello sunshine
  170. The reason you’re alive
  171. words in deep blue
  172. when dimple met rishi
  173. watch me disappear
  174. A Beautiful, Terrible Thing
  175. Normal
  176. Who is Rich
  177. made for love
  178. make your bed
  179. the turquoise table
  180. less
  181. rabbit cake
  182. after on
  183. spirit junkie
  184. the little things
  185. Rising Strong as a Spiritual practice
  186. Mrs. Fletcher
  187. the dying game
  188. the epiphany machine
  189. hunch
  190. becoming wise
  191. the readymade thief
  192. impossible views of the world
  193. the breakdown
  194. our chemical hearts
  195. perfect just as you are
  196. joy diet
  197. the driver
  198. the marriage pact
  199. The misadventures of awkward black girl
  200. of mess and moxie
  201. amanda wakes up
  202. the locals
  203. class mom
  204. reincarnation blues
  205. almost missed you
  206. home fire
  207. stress proof
  208. would everybody please stop
  209. stay with me
  210. 13 things mentally strong people don’t do – half
  211. the child
  212. a life of adventure and delight
  213. it’s not yet dark
  214. george and lizzie
  215. dinner at the center of the earth
  216. the how of happiness
  217. braving the wilderness
  218. little fires everywhere
  219. flesh and bone and water
  220. i liked my life
  221. the ninth hour
  222. since we fell
  223. new people
  224. conversations with friends
  225. the four tendencies
  226. letters from rifka
  227. they both die in the end
  228. warcross
  229. jane, unlimited
  230. a mind at home with itself
  231. unfuck yourself
  232. forest dark
  233. turtles all the way down
  234. no asshole rule
  235. the sun and her flowers
  236. sourdough
  237. the power of moments
  238. strengths switch
  239. everyone’s a aliebn when ur a alienbn too
  240. towers falling
  241. autonomous
  242. manhattan beach
  243. sing unburied sing
  244. the pema chodron audio collection
  245. the wisdom of sundays
  246. the rules of magic
  247. reset
  248. a short history of the girl next door
  249. dunbar
  250. almost sisters
  251. grit
  252. we need to talk
  253. lagom
  254. dear martin
  255. Heather, the totality
  256. The snow child
  257. I am not your perfect mexican daughter
  258. full cicada moon
  259. Permission to screw up
  260. The golden compass
  261. Real love
  262. Celebrations
  263. Bonfire
  264. Fierce kingdom
  265. The power
  266. Insight
  267. The Weight of Ink
  268. Long Way Down
  269. All the Crooked Saints
  270. Five Carat Soul (some of the stories)
  271. Future Home of the Living God
  272. The gentleman’s guide to vice and virtue
  273. Your best year 2018
  274. The heart’s invisible furies
  275. The Deal of a Lifetime
  276. Dear Fahrenheit 451
  277. Inherit the wind
  278. Rain Reign
  279. Seven days of us
  280. How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
  281. The Uterus is a Feature not a Bug
  282. The story of Arthur truluv
  283. Invincible Summer
  284. Young Jane young
  285. Far from the Tree
  286. Solitude of Prime Numbers
  287. A hundred thousand worlds
  288. Why We Came to the City
  289. Artemis
  290. Miller’s Valley
  291. Flood Girls
  292. The Wangs vs The World
  293. Fishbowl
  294. The Hike
  295. The Last Black Unicorn
  296. Nourishing Intimacy
  297. Coming Closer to Ourselves 
  298. Stick with It
  299. Unlimited Power
  300. It Ends with Us
  301. Inventing Joy
  302. Motherest
  303. Improvement
  304. Britt-Marie was Here
  305. Food Freedom Forever
For 2018 I plan to use a sheet to track my reading. Here’s to another year of reading!
December 22, 2017 | Books Read in 2017

3 comments to Books I Read in 2017

  • Christine
    December 23, 2017 at 6:44 am · Reply

    Wow. I would love to hear you talk with Ann Bogel on the What Should I Read Next podcast. I bet it would be a very interesting conversation.

  • Briel
    December 23, 2017 at 8:25 pm · Reply

    Thank you for taking the time to post about what you are reading. I’ve found a lot of great books through you. You and I have some similar likes in the book department! I really don’t know how you read so much! I finished about 80 this year, and that is double last year (thank you audio books!).

    Cheers!

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