2017 Book Reads and 2018 Reading Hopes
As has become my annual tradition, here’s a list of the books I read during the previous year. In 2017 I read 66 books, beating my 2016 record of 64. Beating 2016’s record was my goal, so go me. For 2018, my goal is to read a non-fiction book concurrently with every fiction read. I’ve rarely been one to read more than one book at a time, so we’ll see how this goes. It’s an experiment, and I won’t beat myself up if it doesn’t work out.
So, without further ado or adon’t, here are my
Books I Read in 2017
Fave reads have * or ** or ***, depending on how much I enjoyed them.
1. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant *
2. Definitely Dead (The Southern Vampire Mysteries, #6) by Charlaine Harris
3. Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #3) by Tana French
4. V by A.C. Crispin
5. Steelflower (Steelflower Chronicles, #1) by Lilith Saintcrow
6. The Bone Dragon by Alexia Casale
7. Doctor Sleep by Stephen King **
8. Redshirts by John Scalzi
9. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl *
10. Gathering Blue (Giver Quartet #2) by Lois Lowry *
11. Messenger (Giver Quartet #3 by Lois Lowry *
12. Son (Giver Quartet #4) by Lois Lowry
13. Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz
14. The Four Forges (The Elven Ways, #1) by Jenna Rhodes (Rhondi Vilott Salsitz)
15. Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
16. Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls by Jane Lindskold *
17. Zer0es by Chuck Wendig
18. The Descent by Jeff Long *
19. Thunderbird (Miriam Black, #4) by Chuck Wendig *
20. The Dark and Hollow Places by Carrie Ryan
21. IT by Stephen King *
22. The Sandman: PRELUDES & Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
23. The Broken Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy, #2) by N.K. Jemisin *
24. The Gate of the Cat by Andre Norton
25. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs *
26. Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King
27. ‘Tis by Frank McCourt
28. I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier *
29. The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
30. Star Wars: Aftermath by Chuck Wendig
31. Flight in Yiktor by André Norton
32. The BFG by Roald Dahl
33. Bone Gap by Laura Ruby *
34. Maiden of Greenwold (Choose Your Own Adventure: Dragontales #11) by Rhondi Vilott
35. Cyndere’s Midnight (Auralia Thread #2) by Jeffrey Overstreet
36. The Contrary Tale of the Butterfly Girl (The Peculiar Adventures of John Loveheart, Esq., Vol. II) by Ishbelle Bee
37. The Black Prism (Lightbringer #1) by Brent Weeks
38. The Wolf Road by Beth Lewis
39. Updraft (Bone Universe, #1) by Fran Wilde
40. The Magicians (Magicians Trilogy, #1) by Lev Grossman
41. The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
42. Scarlet (Lunar Chronicles, #2) by Marissa Meyer
43. Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2 by Sarah J. Maas
44. Author Anonymous: A True Story by E.K. Blair
45. The City Stained Red (Bring Down Heaven, #1) by Sam Sykes
46. The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, #2) by Maggie Stiefvater
47. Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle, #3) by Maggie Stiefvater
48. Amatka by Karin Tidbeck
49. All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
50. Sweet Dreams Are Made of Teeth by Richard Roberts
51. After the Woods by Kim Savage
52. The Troubles Keeper by Susan May
53. The Black Swan Effect by Felicity Dale *
54. Jesus Is Family by Jon Zens *
55. Shadow of Night (All Souls Trilogy, #2) by Deborah Harkness *
56. The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis *
57. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, graphic novel adapted by Charles Dixon, illustrated by David Wenzel
58. Farewell Summer by Ray Bradbury
59. The Blinding Knife (Lightbringer, #2) by Brent Weeks **
60. Closed Hearts (Mindjack Trilogy, #2) by Susan Kaye Quinn
61. Death Pope, (Death Pope, Vol. 1) by John Oakes
62. Death Pope: Black Flame (Death Pope, Vol. 2) by John Oakes
63. Harbinger of the Storm (Obsidian and Blood, #2) by Aliette de Bodard
64. Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert ***
65. Green Darkness by Anya Seton
66. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood *
Happy reading, all. 🙂