2017 Books

Jan 01, 2018 01:38

Asterisks denote re-reads. Bolds are favorites, strike throughs are hated books, italics are very meh books which I thought would be much better.

January:
The Deeds of the Disturber - Elizabeth Peters
The Wiregrass - Pam Webber
Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi
It Didn't Start With You - Mark Wolynn
Facing the Lion - Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton
Before We Visit the Goddess - Chitra Divakaruni
Colored People - Henry Louis Gates Jr.
My Khyber Marriage - Morag Murray Abdullah
Miss Bianca in the Salt Mines - Margery Sharp
Farewell to the East End - Jennifer Worth
Fire and Air - Erik Vlaminck
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me - Jennifer Teege
Catherine the Great - Robert K Massie
My Mother's Sabbath Days - Chaim Grade
Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me - Harvey Pekar, JT Waldman
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend - Katarina Bivald
Stammered Songbook - Erwin Mortier
Savushun - Simin Daneshvar
The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
Beyond the Walls - Nazim Hikmet
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana - Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
A Day No Pigs Would Die - Robert Newton Peck *
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February:
Bone Black - bell hooks
Special Exits - Joyce Farmer
Reading Like a Writer - Francine Prose
Bright Dead Things - Ada Limon
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Confessions of an English Opium Eater - Thomas de Quincey
Medusa's Gaze - Marina Belozerskaya
Child of the Prophecy - Juliet Marillier *
The File on H - Ismail Kadare
The Motorcycle Diaries - Ernesto Che Guevara
Passing - Nella Larsen
Whose Body? - Dorothy L. Sayers
The Spiral Staircase - Karen Armstrong
Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
Defiance - Nechama Tec

March:
Yes, Chef - Marcus Samuelsson
Discontent and its Civilizations - Mohsin Hamid
The Gulag Archipelago Vol. 1 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Patience and Sarah - Isabel Miller
Dying Light in Corduba - Lindsey Davis *
Five Days at Memorial - Sheri Fink
A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman *
The Shia Revival - Vali Nasr
Girt - David Hunt
Half Magic - Edward Eager *
Dreams of Joy - Lisa See *
Too Pretty to Live - Dennis Brooks
West with the Night - Beryl Markham
Little Fuzzy - H. Beam Piper *

April:
Defying Hitler - Sebastian Haffner
Monsters in Appalachia - Sheryl Monks
Sorcerer to the Crown - Zen Cho
The Man Without a Face - Masha Gessen
Peace is Every Step - Thich Nhat Hanh
Flory - Flory van Beek
Why Soccer Matters - Pele
The Zhivago Affair - Peter Finn, Petra Couvee
The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake - Breece Pancake
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonasson
Chasing Utopia - Nikki Giovanni
The Invisible Bridge - Julie Orringer *
Young Adults - Daniel Pinkwater
Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel - John Stubbs
Black Gun, Silver Star - Art T. Burton
The Arab of the Future 2 - Riad Sattouf
Hole in the Heart - Henny Beaumont
MASH - Richard Hooker
Forgotten Ally - Rana Mitter
Zorro - Isabel Allende
Flying Couch - Amy Kurzweil

May:
The Bite of the Mango - Mariatu Kamara
Mystic and Rider - Sharon Shinn *
Freedom is a Constant Struggle - Angela Davis
Capture - David A. Kessler
Poor Cow - Nell Dunn
My Father's Dragon - Ruth Stiles Gannett *
Elmer and the Dragon - Ruth Stiles Gannett *
The Dragons of Blueland - Ruth Stiles Gannett *
Hetty Feather - Jacqueline Wilson
In the Shadow of the Banyan - Vaddey Ratner
The Last Camel Died at Noon - Elizabeth Peters
Cannibalism - Bill Schutt
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
The Food of a Younger Land - Mark Kurlansky
Behold the Dreamers - Imbolo Mbue
Words on the Move - John McWhorter
John Ransom's Diary: Andersonville - John Ransom
Such a Lovely Little War - Marcelino Truong
Child of All Nations - Irmgard Keun
One Child - Mei Fong
Country of Red Azaleas - Domnica Radulescu
Between Two Worlds - Zainab Salbi
Malinche - Julia Esquivel
A Lucky Child - Thomas Buergenthal
The Drackenberg Adventure - Lloyd Alexander
Say You're One of Them - Uwem Akpan
William Wells Brown - Ezra Greenspan

June:
Partners In Crime - Agatha Christie
The Chinese in America - Iris Chang
The Great Escape - Kati Marton
As Texas Goes... - Gail Collins
Pavilion of Women - Pearl S. Buck
Classic Chinese Stories - Lu Xun
The Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West
The Slave Across the Street - Theresa Flores
Miss Bianca in the Orient - Margery Sharp
Boy Erased - Garrard Conley
How to Be a Dictator - Mikal Hem
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
Tears of the Desert - Halima Bashir
The Death and Life of Great American Cities - Jane Jacobs
The First Salute - Barbara Tuchman
Come as You Are - Emily Nagoski
The Want-Ad Killer - Ann Rule
The Gulag Archipelago Vol 2 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

July:
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz - L. Frank Baum *
The Blazing World - Margaret Cavendish
Madonna in a Fur Coat - Sabahattin Ali
Duende - tracy k. smith
The ACB With Honora Lee - Kate de Goldi
Mountains of the Pharaohs - Zahi Hawass
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Chronicle of a Last Summer - Yasmine el Rashidi
Killers of the Flower Moon - David Grann
Mister Monday - Garth Nix *
Leaving Yuba City - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Silk Roads - Peter Frankopan
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
A Corner of White - Jaclyn Moriarty *
Circling the Sun - Paula McLain
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them - Al Franken
Believe Me - Eddie Izzard
The Cracks in the Kingdom - Jaclyn Moriarty *
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe - Fannie Flagg *
One Hundred and One Days - Asne Seierstad
Grim Tuesday - Garth Nix *
The Vanishing Velasquez - Laura Cumming
Four Against the Arctic - David Roberts
The Marriage Bureau - Penrose Halson
The Jesuit and the Skull - Amir D Aczel
Drowned Wednesday - Garth Nix *
Roots, Radicals, and Rockers - Billy Bragg
A Tangle of Gold - Jaclyn Moriarty *
Lydia, Queen of Palestine - Uri Orlev *

August:
Sir Thursday - Garth Nix *
The Hoboken Chicken Emergency - Daniel Pinkwater *
Lady Friday - Garth Nix *
Freddy and the Perilous Adventure - Walter R. Brooks *
Venice - Jan Morris
China's Long March - Jean Fritz
Trials of the Earth - Mary Mann Hamilton
The Bully Pulpit - Doris Kearns Goodwin
Final Exit - Derek Humphry
The Book of Emma Reyes - Emma Reyes
Freddy the Politician - Walter R. Brooks *
Dragonflight - Anne McCaffrey *
What the Witch Left - Ruth Chew
All Passion Spent - Vita Sackville-West
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Curse of the Blue Figurine - John Bellairs *
When They Severed Earth From Sky - Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Superior Saturday - Garth Nix *
The Boston Girl - Anita Diamant
The Mummy, The Will, and the Crypt - John Bellairs *
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? - Frans de Waal
The Philadelphia Adventure - Lloyd Alexander *
Lord Sunday - Garth Nix *
The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull - John Bellairs *
Five Little Pigs - Agatha Christie *
Love in Vain - JM Dupont, Mezzo
A Little History of the World - EH Gombrich
Last Things - Marissa Moss
Imagine Wanting Only This - Kristen Radtke
Dinosaur Empire - Abby Howard
The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents - Terry Pratchett *

September:
First Bite by Bee Wilson
The Xanadu Adventure by Lloyd Alexander
Orientalism - Edward Said
The Lost Crown of Genghis Khan - Carl Barks
The Island on Bird Street - Uri Orlev *
The Indifferent Stars Above - Daniel James Brown
Beneath the Lion's Gaze - Maaza Mengiste
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde *
The Book of Five Rings - Miyamoto Musashi
The Drunken Botanist - Amy Stewart
The Turtle of Oman - Naomi Shahib Nye
The Alleluia Files - Sharon Shinn *
Gut Feelings - Gerd Gigerenzer
The Secret of Hondorica - Carl Barks
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight - Alexandra Fuller
The Abominable Mr. Seabrook - Joe Ollmann
Black Flags - Joby Warrick

October:
Fear - Thich Nhat Hanh
Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8 - Naoki Higashida
To the Bright Edge of the World - Eowyn Ivey
Why? - Mario Livio
Just One Damned Thing After Another - Jodi Taylor
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Blindness - Jose Saramago
The Book Thieves - Anders Rydell
Reality is not What it Seems - Carlo Rovelli
Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell *
The Witch Family - Eleanor Estes *
Sister Mine - Nalo Hopkinson
La Vagabonde - Colette
Becoming Nicole - Amy Ellis Nutt

November:
The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
The Children's Book - A.S. Byatt
The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
Under the Udala Trees - Chinelo Okparanta
Who Killed These Girls? - Beverly Lowry
Running for my Life - Lopez Lmong
Radium Girls - Kate Moore
News of the World - Paulette Jiles
The Red Pony - John Steinbeck
The Edible History of Humanity - Tom Standage
A Woman in Arabia - Gertrude Bell and Georgina Howell
Founding Gardeners - Andrea Wulf
Anatomy of a Disapperance - Hisham Matar
The Book of Night Women - Marlon James
Ground Zero - Kevin J. Anderson *
Acorna - Anne McCaffrey and Margaret Ball *
A Girl Named Zippy - Haven Kimmel *
The Age of the Vikings - Anders Winroth
The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction - Helen Graham
A General History of the Pyrates - Captain Charles Johnson (suspected Nathaniel Mist)
Clouds of Witness - Dorothy L. Sayers *
The Lonely City - Olivia Laing
No Time for Tears - Judy Heath

December:
The Unwomanly Face of War - Svetlana Alexievich
Gay-Neck - Dhan Gopal Mukerji
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane - Lisa See
Get Well Soon - Jennifer Wright
The Testament of Mary - Colm Toibin
The Roman Way - Edith Hamilton
Understood Betsy - Dorothy Canfield Fisher *
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - Vicente Blasco Ibanez
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - Robert C. O'Brien
SPQR - Mary Beard
Ballet Shoes - Noel Streatfeild *
Hogfather - Terry Pratchett *
The Sorrow of War - Bao Ninh
Drowned Hopes - Donald E. Westlake *
Selected Essays - Michel de Montaigne
Vietnam - Stanley Karnow
The Snake, The Crocodile, and the Dog - Elizabeth Peters
Guests of the Sheik - Elizabetha Warnok Fernea
Stone Butch Blues - Leslie Feinberg
Wicked Plants - Amy Stewart
Life in a Medieval City - Joseph and Frances Gies
Under the Sea Wind - Rachel Carson
The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia - Mary and Brian Talbot
Brat Farrar - Josephine Tey *
The Treasure of the Ten Avatars - Don Rosa
Escape From Forbidden Valley - Don Rosa
Nightwood - Djuna Barnes
Here Comes the Sun - Nicole Dennis-Benn
Over My Dead Body - Rex Stout *

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