Books 2017

Asterisks denote rereads
 

1. Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls—David Sedaris
2. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk—David Sedaris
3. The Beatrice Letters—Lemony Snicket
4. Prodigal Summer—Barbara Kingsolver
5. The Animal Game: Searching for Wildness at the American Zoo—Daniel E. Bender
6. The Last Policeman—Ben H. Winters
7. Countdown City—Ben H. Winters
8. World of Trouble—Ben H. Winters
9. To Say Nothing of the Dog—Connie Willis
10. Station Eleven—Emily St. John Mandel
11. The Phantom Tollbooth—Norton Juster
12. *Island of the Blue Dolphins—Scott O’Dell
13. The Hate U Give—Angie Thomas
14. The Silver Eyes—Scott Cawthon
15. Fun Home—Alison Bechdel
16. A Man Called Ove—Fredrik Bachman
17. A Feast for Crows—George R.R. Martin
18. The Handmaid’s Tale—Margaret Attwood
19. Fellowship of the Ring—JRR Tolkien
20. Angela’s Ashes—Frank McCourt
21. Into Thin Air—Jon Krakauer
22. *Lord of the Flies—William Golding
23.  Columbine—Dave Cullen
24. Fahrenheit 451
25. The Bridges of Maddison County—Robert James Walter
26. A Walk to Remember—Nicolas Sparks
27. My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She’s Sorry—Fredrik Backman
28. Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl—Carrie Brownstein
29. Crocodile in the Sandbank—Elizabeth Peters
30. Watchman—Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons
31. A Dance with Dragons—George R. R. Martin
32. The Invisible Man—H.G. Wells
33. Crime and Punishment—Fyodor Dostoevsky
34. A Column of Fire—Ken Follett
35. Turtles All the Way Down—John Green
36. Red Mars—Kim Stanley Robinson
37. Big Little Lies—Liane Moriarty
38. Little Fires Everywhere—Celeste Ng
39. The Magician’s Nephew—C.S. Lewis
40. The Virgin Suicides—Jeffrey Eugenides
41. The Girl on the Train—Paula Hawkins
42. Mistborn—Brandon Sanderson
43. The Vagina Monologues—Eve Ensler
44. All Over But the Shoutin’—Rick Bragg
45. Modern Romance—Aziz Ansari
46. Everyday Sexism—Laura Bates
47. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History—Elizabeth Kolbert
48. Dead Until Dark—Charlaine Harris
49. Are You My Mother?—Alison Bechdel
50. You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me—Sherman Alexi
51. The Anvil of Dust and Stars—Damon Alan
52. Wuthering Heights—Charlotte Bronte

 
 
Best Reads:
To Say Nothing of the Dog was my absolute favorite. It’s a witty time travel story where a single cat disrupts the space-time continuum. Suspense and hilarity ensue. Other favorites included:
--The Last Policeman (an officer trying to do his job six months before an asteroid will destroy humanity)
--Station Eleven (Alternating flashes before and after a pandemic)
--The Hate U Give (Addressing the Black Lives Matter movement through a young woman)
--A Man Called Ove (The first five minutes of Up, but funny too!)
--Fun Home (Graphic novel chronicling the life and suicide of the author’s father)
--The Handmaid’s Tale (American women lose all reproductive rights)
--Turtles All the Way Down (A teenager’s struggle with OCD)
--Big Little Lies (Kindergarten-mom wars turn into murder)
--Little Fires Everyway (A struggling artist reveals a hidden past)
--Mistborn (Basically metal-bending from Avatar The Last Airbender with a LOT more detail)  
--You Don’t Have to Say You Lovely (The absolutely true story of a Spokane Native American)
 
Skip
The following may have value to you. They didn’t do it for me:
--The Silver Eyes (Poorly written cash-in on the Five Nights at Freddy’s game series)
--The Bridges of Madison County (I couldn’t care less about the breeding pair in this story)
--Fahrenheit 451 (Why do they so vehemently destroy books just because they’re obsolete? It’s like having a special CIA just to find and burn VCRs)
--Dead Until Dark (Are there any vampire books out there that DON’T glorify sexual/domestic abuse? I’m swiftly losing faith in the whole mythology)
--Wuthering Heights (Some extremely unpleasant people fall in love. The End)
 
Recommendations for 2018 welcome!!! 

​~Kelly