How many books did I read in 2017?

I didn't have any reading goals last year other than to read what I wanted, when I wanted.  Well, I can't always read when I would like to because there are things that have to be done, such as laundry and scrubbing the bathrooms.  And I have three little humans to care for.  It seems, on average, I can get through a book in a week, so I was expecting to read about 50 books and that's exactly what I read.  I only read 41 books in 2016 so you never know.  Some years are better than others.

I have all 50 books listed below in order of when I read them.  If you want to see what I thought of each book, this page provides a link to all my reviews, including those from previous years.    

Favorites

* I read the second and third books of Margaret Atwood's The Maddaddam Trilogy during 2017.  That trilogy was the best I've read and is exactly what a trilogy should be.  Loved it.

* A Man Called Ove - How can anyone not like this book?  (I cried.)  

* The Stranger in the Woods - The subject matter in this was just so incredibly fascinating to me.

* American War - Not without flaws but hard to put down.

* Before We Were Yours - Fiction but based on true life.  Unforgettable.

* The Glass Castle - An incredible memoir


The Books I Read in 2017


1.  Before the Fall by Noah Hawley



2.  Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson



3.  The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood



4.  White Trash by Nancy Isenberg



5.  A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman



6.  The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware



7.  Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah



8.  Behind Closed Doors by B. A. Paris



9.  Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen



10.  Never Let You Go by Chevy Stevens



11.  Seinfeldia by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong



12.  MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood



13.  The Lost Girls by Heather Young



14.  Missoula by Jon Krakauer



15.  Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty



16.  The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel



17.  The Return by Joseph Helmreich



18.  Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah



19.  The Orphan's Tale by Pam Jenoff



20.  Find Me by J.S. Monroe



21.  Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina by Misty Copeland



22.  American War by Omar El Akkad



23.  The Perfect Girl by Gilly MacMillan



24.  The Circle by Dave Eggers



25.  The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard



26.  Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by Robert Kolker



27.  I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh



28.  All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai



29.  The Girl Who Lied by Sue Fortin



30.  Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid



31.  The Child by Fiona Barton



32.  Every Last Lie by Mary Kubica



33.  The Breakdown by B. A. Paris



34.  Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate



35.  Almost Missed You by Jessica Strawser



36.  Under the Dome by Stephen King



37.  The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti



38.  All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda



39.  The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott



40.  Final Girls by Riley Sager



41.  Caroline: Little House, Revisited by Sarah Miller



42.  The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash



43.  Killing Season by Carlton Smith



44.  The Life She Was Given by Ellen Marie Wiseman



45.  Hold Still by Sally Mann



46.  Shallow Graves by Maureen Boyle



47.  Invisible Eden by Maria Flook



48.  Unbelievable by Katy Tur



49.  The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls



50.  The Boston Strangler by Gerold Frank





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