My Year in Reading—2017

The books I read + loved in 2017.

Note: The books listed are not stack-ranked within their categories.

I love Aardvark’s and Owen.

Top six!

• The One Who Is Not Busy…Darlene Cohen
• PERSON/A…Elizabeth Ellen
• Homegoing…Yaa Gyasi
• All the Birds in the Sky…Charlie Jane Anders
• The Untethered Soul…Michael Singer
• Too Much and Not the Mood…Durga Chew-Bose

Loved these ones IMMENSELY also

• The Principles of Uncertainty…Maira Kalman
• Everyone’s A Aliebn When Ur A Aliebn Too…Jomny Sun
• There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé…Morgan Parker
• The Golden Compass…Philip Pullman (reread)
• The Subtle Knife…Philip Pullman (reread)
• Caca Dolce…Chelsea Martin
• Hunger…Roxane Gay
• 300 Arguments…Sarah Manguso
• Bone…Yrsa Daley-Ward
• Abandon Me…Melissa Febos
• The Wrong Way To Save Your Life…Megan Stielstra
• There is Nothing Wrong With You…Cheri Huber
• Crossing the Unknown Sea…David Whyte
• The Psychedelic Explorers Guide…James Fadiman
• Nobody Is Ever Missing…Catherine Lacey
• Scratch…Manjula Martin
• Shrill…Lindy West
• How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America…Kiese Laymon
• The Signature of All Things…Elizabeth Gilbert
• Difficult Women…Roxane Gay
• Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System…Sonya Huber
• Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?…Roz Chast
• Tender Points…Amy Berkowitz
• The Lonely City…Olivia Laing
• The Hate U Give…Angie Thomas
• Honey From The Rock… Lawrence Kushner

Learned something(s) important from these

• A Really Good Day…Ayelet Waldman
• Why People Don’t Heal and How They Can…Caroline Myss
• The Art Of Being Minimalist…Ev Bogue
• Attached…Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
• Braiding Sweetgrass…Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Don’t Push the River…Barry Stevens
• We Gon’ Be Alright…Jeff Chang
• Legs Get Led Astray…Chloe Caldwell
• The Surrender Experiment…Michael Singer
• So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed…Jon Ronson
• I Touch The Earth, The Earth Touches Me…Hugh Prather
• Kitchen-Table Wisdom…Rachel Naomi Remen
• I Need Your Love. Is That True?… Byron Katie
• The God-Powered Life…Rabbi David Aaron
• She Who Dwells Within…Lynn Gottlieb
• The Earth Wants You…Reverend Billy
• The Girls…Emma Cline

Would read again if I could go back in time and re-decide

• Everything, Everything…Nicola Yoon
• The Left Hand of Darkness…Ursula LeGuin
• We Are Never Meeting in Real Life…Samantha Irby
• One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter…Scaachi Koul
• Chasing Utopia…Nikki Giovanni
• Zion…TJ Jarrett
• The Two Kinds of Decay…Sarah Manguso
• Redefining Realness…Janet Mock
• My Misspent Youth…Megan Daum
• Gold Boy, Emerald Girl…Yiyun Li
• Unspeakable…Megan Daum
• Innocents and Others…Dana Spiotta