I challenged myself to read 52 books in 2017, one book for each week of the year. At the start of the year I was wildly optimistic and expected I would come in well over 52, BUT, life happens, and I found myself cutting it pretty close towards the end (that will happen when you have a newborn baby in tow I suppose). BUT, I did it.
Here are the 52 books I read in 2017. This was a great year in this bookworm's life, and I enjoyed pretty much everything on the list, but my favorites are highlighted.
1. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
2. In the Company of Women by Grace Bonney
3. Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
4. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
5. Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo
6. Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
7. Difficult Women by Roxane Gay
8. Citizen by Claudia Rankine
9. Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow by Daniel Hunter
10. The Truth About Awiti by CP Patrick
11. The Vegetarian by Han Kang
12. Envy by Sandra Brown
13. Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
14. Milk and Honey by Rupo Kaur
15. An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
16. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
17. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
18. Exit West By Mohsin Hamid
19. The Sun Is Also A Star by Nicola Yoon
20. Hallelujah Anyway by Anne Lamott
21. The Mothers by Brit Bennett
22. Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
23. The Flowering Woman by Q. Gibson
24. Rising Strong by Brené Brown
25. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
26. I'm Judging You by Luvvie Ajayi
27. Ordinary Light by Tracy Smith
28. What It Means When A Man Falls From the Sky by Lesley Arimah
29. Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
30. A Million Junes by Emily Henry
31. The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
32. Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Damian Duffy and John Jennings
33. Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older
34. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
35. What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons
36. All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks
37. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Who by Junot Diaz
38. Ghost by Jason Reynolds
39. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
40. Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
41. Patina by Jason Reynolds
42. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
43. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
44. New People by Danzy Senna
45. Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
46. Hunger by Roxane Gay
47. Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing
48. A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver
49. Present Over Perfect by Shauna Niequist
50. Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown