I start every year by making a new reading goal on Goodreads, which is probably my favorite social media site. For 2017, I set my goal at forty-five books, and unfortunately, I fell short by five. Still, forty books in a year is pretty decent, right?
Here is a list of all the books I read, with a few of my favorites linked to their description pages on Goodreads.
- Rising Strong by Brene Brown
- Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
- The Book of Speculations by Erika Swyler
- The Two-Family House by Lynda Cohen Loigman
- Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberryh
- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
- Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich
- The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
- The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
- Spilled Milk by K.L. Randis
- Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun, and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes
- Gulp by Mary Roach
- The Muse by Jessie Burton
- Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum
- Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
- All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
- Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
- Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
- Why Not Me? by Mindy Kahling
- Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
- When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
- You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero
- Theft by Finding Diaries by David Sedaris
- Every Body Yoga by Jessamyn Stanley
- Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
- The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
- Applying Communication Theory for Professional Life by Marianne Dainton
- If I Fix You by Abigail Johnson
- The Power of Different: The Link Between Disorder and Genius by Gail Saltz, M.D.
- Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
- Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
- Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
- I’m Judging You by Luvvie Ajayi
- Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Coming Clean by Kimberly Rae Miller
- We are Okay by Nina LaCour
- Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
- Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
- Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo
I plan to make (and actually meet) the same goal this year, so send any and all book suggestions my way!