2 0 1 7 b o o k s

j a n u a r y

  1. The Dinner / Herman Koch
  2. A Doubter's Almanac / Ethan Canin
  3. All the Birds in the Sky / Charlie Anders
  4. The Bargaining / Carly Anne West
  5. I'll Give You the Sun / Jandy Nelson
  6. Nimona / Noelle Stevenson
  7. Predator's Gold / Philip Reeve
  8. Paper Girls [vol 1] / Brian K. Vaughan
  9. How to Talk to Girls at Parties / Neil Gaiman
  10. Undermajordomo Minor / Patrick deWitt
  11. The Promise of Stardust / Priscille Sibley
  12. The Things They Carried / Tim O'Brien
  13. The Invisible Library / Genevieve Cogman
  14. A Year Between Friends / Maria Alexandra Vettese and Stephanie Congdon Barnes
  15. The Masked City / Genevieve Cogman
  16. The Wild Robot / Peter Brown
  17. Infernal Devices / Philip Reeve

f e b r u a r y

  1. Shaken / Tim Tebow
  2. Brand New Human Being / Emily Jeanne Miller
  3. The Sky Is Everywhere / Jandy Nelson [*]
  4. Version Control / Dexter Palmer
  5. A Darkling Plain / Philip Reeve
  6. Crooked Heart / Lissa Evans
  7. Doctorow: Collected Stories / E. L. Doctorow
  8. The Bear and the Nightingale / Katherine Arden
  9. You're Never Weird on the Internet (almost) / Felicia Day
  10. Sam the Cat and Other Stories / Matthew Klam
  11. Paper Girls [vol 2] / Brian K. Vaughan
  12. Different Class / Joanne Harris
  13. Tony and Susan / Austin McGiffert Wright
  14. The Princess Diarist / Carrie Fisher

m a r c h

  1. The Watch That Ends the Night / Hugh MacLennan
  2. Idaho / Emily Ruskovich
  3. The Circle / Dave Eggers
  4. In the Great Green Room / Amy Gary
  5. Aerie / Maria Dahvana Headley
  6. Classic German Baking / Luisa Weiss
  7. The Girl Before / J P Delaney
  8. The Everyday Catholic's Guide to The Liturgy of the Hours / Daria Sockey

a p r i l

  1. Stories of your Life and Others / Ted Chiang
  2. History of Wolves / Emily Fridlund
  3. The Most Dangerous Place on Earth / Lindsey Lee Johnson
  4. Pip Bartlett's Guide To Unicorn Training / Maggie Stiefvater and Jackson Pearce
  5. Moonglow / Michael Chabon
  6. The Burning Page / Genevieve Cogman
  7. Scrappy Little Nobody / Anna Kendrick
  8. Fear the Drowning Deep / Sarah Glenn Marsh

m a y

  1. A Sudden Country / Karen Fisher
  2. Norse Mythology / Neil Gaiman
  3. Strange the Dreamer / Laini Taylor
  4. Wylding Hall / Elizabeth Hand
  5. Waking Gods / Sylvain Neuvel
  6. King's Cage / Victoria Aveyard
  7. The Rain in Portugal / Billy Collins
  8. Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World / Haruki Murakami
  9. Tulip Fever / Deborah Moggach
  10. The Awakening of Miss Prim / Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera
  11. The Forgotten Girls / Sara Blaedel
  12. Burntown / Jennifer McMahon
  13. The Coldest City / Antony Johnston
  14. Timekeeper / Tara Sim
  15. Shattered Sky / Erin Hunter
  16. Cinnamon / Neil Gaiman

j u n e

  1. The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley / Hannah Tinti
  2. Flora / Gail Godwin
  3. The Dark Prophecy / Rick Riordan
  4. Anything is Possible / Elizabeth Strout
  5. The Names They Gave Us / Emery Lord
  6. The Chemist / Stephenie Meyer
  7. The Mother Tongue / Bill Bryson
  8. Gwendy's Button Box / Stephen King
  9. Chemistry / Weike Wang
  10. Impossible / Nancy Werlin
  11. The Three-body Problem / Cixin Liu

j u l y

  1. Everything I Never Told You / Celeste Ng

a u g u s t

  1. The Once and Future King / T. H. White *
  2. Kraken / China Mieville
  3. The Boy on the Bridge / M. R. Carey
  4. This Victorian Life / Sarah A Chrisman
  5. The Invaders / Karolina Waclawiak
  6. The News from the End of the World / Emily Jeanne Miller

s e p t e m b e r

  1. The Story of English in 1000 Words / David Crystal
  2. Do Not Become Alarmed / Maile Meloy
  3. A Handful of Dust / Evelyn Waugh
  4. 1984 / George Orwell *
  5. There Is No Good Card for This / Kelsey Crowe
  6. Wake of Vultures / Lila Bowen
  7. Wildwood / Colin Meloy
  8. The Wonderful Things You Will Be / Emily Winfield Martin
  9. Day Dreamers / Emily Winfield Martin
  10. Dream Animals / Emily Winfield Martin
  11. The Littlest Family's Big Day / Emily Winfield Martin
  12. Knitlandia / Clara Parkes
  13. His Majesty's Dragon / Naomi Novik

o c t o b e r

  1. And the Trees Crept In / Dawn Kurtagich
  2. They Both Die at the End / Adam Silvera
  3. The Lost Kitchen / Erin French
  4. Tigerheart's Shadow / Erin Hunter
  5. Stephen Florida / Gabe Habash
  6. Jane, Unlimited / Kristin Cashore

n o v e m b e r

  1. A Gentleman in Moscow / Amor Towles
  2. A Stash of One's Own / Clara Parkes
  3. Release / Patrick Ness
  4. Little Fires Everywhere / Celeste Ng
  5. The Secrets She Keeps / Michael Robotham
  6. Sourdough / Robin Sloan
  7. Before the Devil Breaks You / Libba Bray
  8. The Burning Girl / Claire Messud
  9. All the Crooked Saints / Maggie Stiefvater
  10. The Language of Thorns / Leigh Bardugo
  11. Snow & Rose / Emily Winfield Martin
  12. Serafina and the Splintered Heart / Robert Beatty
  13. The Undertaking / Thomas Lynch
  14. Little Fox in the Forest / Stephanie Graegin
  15. Sleeping Beauties / Stephen King and Owen King
  16. Uncommon Type / Tom Hanks
  17. Claudine at School / Colette
  18. The Dream Keeper's Daughter / Emily Colin
  19. You Should Have Left / Daniel Kehlmann
  20. Saga [vol 7] / Brian K. Vaughn
  21. Somewhere Towards the End / Diana Athill
  22. Ship of the Dead / Rick Riordan

d e c e m b e r

  1. Magpie Murders / Anthony Horowicz
  2. Brighton Rock / Graham Green
  3. The Last Ever After / Soman Chainani
  4. This Darkness Mine / Mindy McGinnis
  5. One Thousand White Women / Jim Fergus
  6. Darkest Night / Erin Hunter
  7. The Deaths of Henry King / Brian Evenson
  8. 999 / Anthology
  9. From Here to Eternity / Caitlin Doughty
  10. Bonfire / Krysten Ritter
  11. The World of the Dark Crystal / Brian Froud
  12. Counting Backwards / Henry Jay Przybylo
  13. The Tale of the Dark Crystal / Donna Bass
  14. The Dark Crystal Creation Myths: vol 1 / Brian Holguin
  15. People Knitting / Barbara Levine
  16. The Goblins of Labyrinth / Brian Froud
  17. Artemis / Andy Weir

s u m m a r y

  1. total books: 138
  2. total pages: 43,357
  3. shortest: 32 pages [Dream Animals by Emily Winfield Martin]
  4. longest: 704 pages [The Once and Future King by T. H. White]
  5. average: 314 pages

[*] = re-read