Happy 2018 everyone! I always like to spend day one of a new year reviewing my last 12 months and setting some goals for the next. When it comes to reading, my annual Goodreads goal is always 50 books. Last year I also participated in the 2017 Book Riot Read Harder Challenge ( you can find the 2018 challenge here!) And I wanted to check off some of the books from the PopChart 100 Essential Novels scratch-off poster I was gifted last year. Happy to say I met all my goals!
My big goal for 2018 is to launch a new themed book blog (expected launch in June!) that I will be sharing more about in the coming months as details come together.
Below is my 2017 reading recap, in order of date read. I’d love to hear your favorite books read last year or your opinion on any books we both read! My favorite reads are bolded.
1. Dear Mr. M by Herman Koch
2. The Last Star by Rick Yancey
3. Lights Out by Ted Koppel
4. Court of Thorns & Roses by Sarah J. Maas
5. Court of Mist & Fury by Sarah J. Maas
6. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
7. Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas
8. Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas
9. Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas
10. Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas
11. The Assassin’s Blade by Sarah J. Maas
12. The Last of August by Brittany Cavallaro
13. The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan
14. The Travelers by Chris Pavone
15. Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson
16. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
17. In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
18. Too Cool to be Forgotten by Alex Robinson
19. The Lost City of Z by David Grann
20. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
21. Tricked by Alex Robinson
22. Court of Wings & Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
23. My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf
24. Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
25. Good as Gone by Amy Gentry
26. Saga Vol. 1-6, graphic novels by Brian K. Vaughan
27. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
28. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
29. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
30. The Bees Laline Paull
31. Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
32. The Lying Game by Ruth Ware
33. Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin
34. Through a Distant Lens: Travel Poems, collected by Sheryl Clough
35. I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
36. Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith
37. Tell Me How This Ends Well by David Samuel Levinson
38. Alexander Hamilton: The Graphic History of an American Founding Father by Jonathan Hennessey
39. The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
40. Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
41. Locke & Key Vol. 1-6, graphic novels by Joe Hill
42. Side Hustle by Chris Guillebeau
43. What is Not Yours is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
44. Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith
45. Perfect Days by Raphael Montes
46. A Well-crafted Home by Janet Crowther
47. Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
48. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
49. Renaissance Business by Emilie Wapnick
50. The Girl from the Train by Irma Joubert
51. Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story by David Levithan
52. The World According to Mr. Rogers by Fred Rogers
53. Walking the Nile by Levison Wood
54. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
55. The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith
56. Appointment in Samarra by John O’Hara
57. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
58. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
59. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
60. Animal Farm by George Orwell
61. My life in baseball, by the Beard, a very short story by Dave Eggers