2017 was a good year for reading. I discovered new authors whose work I enjoyed: Jenny Erpenbeck, Álvaro Enrique, Zoey Leigh Peterson, Hiromi Kawakami and Lori McNulty. I continued my affection for authors with whom I had already been acquainted: Rachel Cusk, Ben Lerner, George Saunders, Patrick Modiano, Adam Gopnik and Robert Hughes. I also wrote short reviews of each book I read this past year and posted them on LibraryThing, a few of which I re-posted here on this blog. I’m already looking forward to another great year of reading ahead.
Stats from my 2017 reading list:
- 32 were borrowed from our public library
- 10 have Canadian authors
- 10 were chosen due to personal recommendations from friends
- 2 are by authors who appear more than once on the 2017 list
- 1 was being reread
- 0 was read aloud by my wife and me
- 18 are non-fiction
- 0 are ebooks
Books read in 2017 (60):
- Chabon, Michael. Moonglow
- Erpenbeck, Jenny. Visitation
- Carter, Angela. Artificial Fire
- Cusk, Rachel. Transit
- Thien, Madeleine. Do Not Say We Have Nothing
- Levy, Deborah. Hot Milk
- Constantine, David. The Life-Writer
- Babbitt, Natalie. Tuck Everlasting
- Lerner, Ben. The Hatred of Poetry
- Gretzky, Wayne with McLellan Day, Kirstie. 99 Stories of the Game
- Groff, Lauren. Arcadia
- Smith, Ali. Autumn
- Nguyen, Viet Thanh. The Refugees
- Grayling, A.C. The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century & the Birth of the Modern Mind
- Paley, Grace. Just As I Thought
- Galchen, Rivka. Little Labors
- Enrigue, Álvaro. Sudden Death
- Henighan, Stephen. The Path of the Jaguar
- Li, Yiyun. A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
- Peterson, Zoey Leigh. Next Year, For Sure
- Joyce, James. Dubliners
- Saunders, George. Lincoln in the Bardo
- Fournel, Paul. Dear Reader
- Wecker, Helene. The Golem and the Jinni
- McGregor, Jon. Reservoir 13
- Tóibín, Colm. House of Names
- Ford, Richard. Between Them: Remembering My Parents
- Sutherland, John. How to Read a Novel
- McEwan, Ian. Nutshell
- Martin, Manjula (editor). Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living
- McCann, Colum. Letters to a Young Writer
- Martin, George R.R. Game of Thrones
- Tyson, Neil de Grasse. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
- Tallis, Raymond. The Black Mirror: Fragments of an Obituary for Life
- Modiano, Patrick. In the Café of Lost Youth
- Grossman, David. A Horse Walks into a Bar
- Martin, George R.R. A Clash of Kings
- Kawakami, Hiromi. The Nakano Thrift Shop
- Rovelli, Carlo. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
- Kawakami, Hiromi. manazuru: a novel
- Barwin, Gary. Yiddish for Pirates
- Rosoff, Meg. Jonathan Unleashed
- Meloy, Maile. Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It
- Grady, Wayne. Emancipation Day
- Hardcastle, Kevin. In The Cage
- Johnson, Trevor and Neill, Hugh. Mathematics: A complete introduction
- Acheson, David. 1089 and all that: a journey into mathematics
- Godfrey-Smith, Peter. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
- Gopnik, Adam. At the Stranger’s Gate: Arrivals in New York
- Baldwin, James. Giovanni’s Room
- Smythe, Karen. This Side of Sad
- St. Aubyn, Edward. Dunbar
- Cline, Emma. The Girls: a novel
- Wolitzer, Meg (ed.). The Best American Short Stories 2017
- Sterne, Laurence. A Sentimental Journey and other writings
- Erpenbeck, Jenny. The End of Days
- Weir, Andy. Artemis
- McNulty, Lori. Life on Mars: stories
- Hughes, Robert. Goya