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Books 2017

12/26/2017

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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
1 Comment
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11/15/2022 05:28:13 am

Great read

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