2017 Reading
262 books read. 60% of new reads Non-fiction, authors from 55 unique countries, 35% of authors read from countries other than USA, UK, Canada, and Australia. Asterisks denote re-reads, bolds are favorites.
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 *
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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