The Books I Read in 2017
This was the first year that I kept track of all the books that I read all year. This was inspired by GoodRead’s yearly challenge. I took a shot in the dark and aimed for 40 books. I ended up reading 35- just short of 5, but I don’t feel any disappointment. (One of the books I even read twice but I’m not counting that one.) Some of those books were extremely long! And I lived a lot of life this year! I also started a bunch of books but put them down a few chapters in. But here are the books I did finish in 2017. My favorites have an asterisk next to them:
- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondō (224 pages)
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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifest by Chuck Klosterman (272 pages)
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*Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave (432 pages)
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*The Memory of Us by Camille Di Maio (402 pages)
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Stars Over Sunset Boulevard by Susan Meissner (400 pages)
- The Secret Life of Violet Grant by Beatriz Williams (432 pages)
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Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín (272 pages)
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*The Virgin Cure by Ami McKay (336 pages)
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*The Fiery Cross (Outlander #5) by Diana Gabaldon (1,456 pages)
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Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho (273 pages)
- *11/22/63 by Stephen King (849 pages)
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She Made Me Laugh: My Friend Nora Ephron by Richard Cohen (320 pages)
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My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind by Scott Stossel (416 pages)
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny by Holly Madison (355 pages)
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After the War Is Over: A Novel by Jennifer Robson (384 pages)
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Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century by Sam Kashner, Nancy Schoenberger (544 pages)
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The Fortune Hunter by Daisy Goodwin (473 pages)
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Before the Rain Falls by Camille Di Maio (334 pages)
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Kitchen Table Tarot: Pull Up a Chair, Shuffle the Cards, and Let’s Talk Tarot by Melissa Cynova (271 pages)
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When the World Was Young by Elizabeth Gaffney (298 pages)
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A Certain Age by Beatriz Williams (336 pages)
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The Moon and More by Sarah Dessen (435 pages)
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*The Witches of New York by Ami McKay (320 pages)
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The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah (564 pages)
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*The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure (371 pages)
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Moonlight over Paris by Jennifer Robson (352 pages)
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The Address by Fiona Davis (354 pages)
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*A Column of Fire by Ken Follett (928 pages)
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*La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust #1) by Philip Pullman (464 pages)
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Circling the Sun by Paula McLain (366 pages)
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F*cked: Being Sexually Explorative and Self-Confident in a World That’s Screwed by Corinne Fisher, Krystyna Hutchinson (256)
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Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks (416 pages)
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Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I by Hazel Gaynor (384 pages)
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The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe (448 pages)
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The Clothes Make the Girl (Look Fat)?: Adventures and Agonies in Fashion by Brittany Gibbons (240 pages)
Total number of pages read: 14,977
That’s not bad at all! I like that I mostly stuck with WWII pieces with the odd one thrown in. For 
2018 I have set my goal to 50 books! Maybe this motivate me to step up my reading habits and totally conquer it this year.