My Year in Reading—2017
2 min readJan 1, 2018
The books I read + loved in 2017.
Note: The books listed are not stack-ranked within their categories.
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