Books Read in 2017

My youngest sister has been doing an annual post of books completed, and I always enjoy looking through it. I do keep a log of my finished books, so I'm sharing mine for 2017 here (and here's my list for 2016).

2017 was filled with some exceptional reads. I've noted which ones were especially powerful by bolding the entry below, and I've tried to select them from a variety of genres (young adult, memoir, non-fiction, fiction, poetry).

I wrote about my completed books each month throughout the year, so if you want to read my thoughts about a specific title, visit the links for the appropriate month.

January Book Log
1) 1/5: Chicken With Plums by Maryjane Satrapi
2) 1/5: Same Kind of Different As Me: A modern-day slave, an international art dealer, and the unlikely woman who bound them together by Ron Hall and Denver Moore with Lynn Vincent
3) 1/7: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by JK Rowling
4) 1/11: This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
5) 1/13: My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
6) 1/13: Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace
7) 1/14: Elmer and the Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
8) 1/23: Staggerford by Jon Hassler
9) 1/26: The Dragons of Blueland by Ruth Stiles Gannett

February Book Log
10) 2/27: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by JD Vance

March Book Log
11) 3/3: Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
12) 3/3: Outlander by Diane Gabaldon
13) 3/21: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
14) 3/24: Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
15) 3/27: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

April Book Log
16) 4/12: Idols of the Heart: Learning to Long for God Alone by Elyse Fitzpatrick
17) 4/20: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
18) 4/23: Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
19) 4/29: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

May Book Log
20) 5/7: R My Name is Rachel by Patricia Reilly Giff
21) 5/9: Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo
22) 5/12: Bossypants by Tina Fey
23) 5/12: The Awakening of Miss Prim by Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera
24) 5/18: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
25) 5/19: Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
26) 5/24: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming
27) 5/26: A Portrait of Emily Price by Katherine Reay
28) 5/30: Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly

June Book Log
29) 6/4: 10:04 by Ben Lerner
30) 6/7: 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess by Jen Hatmaker
31) 6/8: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
32) 6/12: The Job by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg
33) 6/27: Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter
34) 6/30: The Scam by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg

July Book Log
35) 7/2: Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America by Linda Tirado
36) 7/8: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie
37) 7/8: A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr
38) 7/21: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweilor by EL Konigsburg
39) 7/27: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
40) 7/29: The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
41) 7/30: Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone by JK Rowling

August Book Log
42) 8/5: Jesus Cow by Michael Perry
43) 8/7: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
44) 8/10: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
45) 8/15: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling
46) 8/20: 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
47) 8/21: Maus: A Survivor's Tale (I: My Father Bleeds History) by Art Spiegelman
48) 8/22: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
49) 8/27: The Angel Knew Papa and the Dog by Douglas Kaine McKelvey

September Book Log
50) 9/4: Americanah by Chimamada Ngozi Adichie
51) 9/4: There Was No Path So I Trod One by Edwina Gateley
52) 9/7: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
53) 9/9: Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
54) 9/11: My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
55) 9/14: Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
56) 9/19: Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
57) 9/22: Learning to Walk in the Dark by Barbara Brown Taylor
58) 9/28: A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park

October Book Log
59) 10/2: Beartown by Fredrik Backman
60) 10/7: Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger
61) 10/11: Dear Enemy by Jean Webster
62) 10/12: Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters
63) 10/13: The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman
64) 10/17: The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
65) 10/21: Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary
66) 10/22: Henry and Beezus by Beverly Cleary
67) 10/24: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
68) 10/28: The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
69) 10/30: The Giver by Lois Lowry

November Book Log
70) 11/1: Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
71) 11/5: Messenger by Lois Lowry
72) 11/8: Son by Lois Lowry
73) 11/19: My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
74) 11/26: White Teeth by Zadie Smith

December Book Log
75) 12/16: Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry
76) 12/16: The Lord and His Prayer by NT Wright
77) 12/16: Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
78) 12/22: Love Does by Bob Goff
79) 12/25: Still Life by Louise Penny
80) 12/25: The Greatest Gift by Ann Voskamp
81) 12/26: Dear Martin by Nic Stone
82) 12/27: The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde