2017 – A Year of Books

The year is over, and my reading challenge is complete! I read so many good books this year, and finished with a winner, Beartown by Fredrik Backman. Perhaps not the best book I read all year, but it was a great finisher that I highly recommend, which will stick with me for some time.

My goal this year was to get to 52 books in any way I could (ideally with a few classics included), and although I enjoyed having free rein it also made completing the challenge a lot easier. So, for 2018, I’m going to attempt to be a little more structured. I’ll talk about this more in another post, but I’m excited for the challenge of it!

So, without further ado, here is my list of read books in 2017:

1. We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson
2. The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
3. American Witches, Susan Fair
4. The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
5. Where’d You Go, Bernadette?, Maria Semple
6. Winter Garden, Kristin Hannah
7. Wonder, R J Palacio
8. When the Moon is Low, Nadia Hashimi
9. Our Crime Was Being Jewish, Anthony S Pitch
10. Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
11. The Plague, Albert Camus
12. The Man in the High Castle, Philip K Dick
13. On the Beach, Nevil Shute (review here)
14. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie (review here)
15. Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Jenny Lawson (review here)
16. The Storyteller, Jodi Picoult
17. The Sky is Everywhere, Jandy Nelson
18. Head Over Heels, Cindy Procter-King
19. Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by 16 Personalities, Flora Rheta Schreiber (review here)
20. A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J Maas
21. Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. The Sound of Gravel, Ruth Wariner
23. My Antonia, Willa Cather
24. A Room With a View, E M Forster
25. Miss Match, Lindzee Armstrong
26. The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
27. Station Eleven, Emily St John Mandel
28. From Sand and Ash, Amy Harmon
29. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
30. Island Beneath the Sea, Isabel Allende
31. Whatever You Do, Don’t Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide, Peter Allison
32. Holding Still for as Long as Possible, Zoe Whittall
33. The Road to Little Dribbling, Bill Bryson
34. Devil in Spring, Lisa Kleypas
35. Noughts & Crosses, Malorie Blackman
36. Knife Edge, Malorie Blackman
37. Checkmate, Malorie Blackman
38. Double Cross, Malorie Blackman
39. Between Shades of Gray, Ruta Sepetys
40. Six of Crows, Leigh Bardugo
41. Crooked Kingdom, Leigh Bardugo
42. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster, Jon Krakauer (review here)
43. Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
44. Half Broke Horses, Jeannette Walls
45. The Stranger, Albert Camus
46. The Year of Living Biblically, A J Jacobs
47. The First Time I Said Goodbye, Claire Allan
48. Romance Under the Mistletoe, multiple authors
49. A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
50. We Were the Lucky Ones, Georgia Hunter
51. The Boston Girl, Anita Diamant
52. Beartown, Fredrik Backman