Books Read 2017

My goal (on Goodreads and on the 50 Book Pledge) is to read 100 books in 2017. I want to have time to enjoy longer books and not feel pressure to get all the books read. I’ve read over 100 books for three years running so this kind of feels like the sweet spot.

1. Along the Infinite Sea
2. The Unmade Bed: The Messy Truth About Men and Women in the 21st Century
3. An Untamed State
4. The Taming of the Queen
5. The Thing Around Your Neck
6. In the Black: My Life
7. After I Do
8. The Twenty Three
9. Books For Living
10. A Little Princess
11. The Unbearable Lightness of Scones
12. Lucky Boy
13. Magda Goebbels: First Lady of the Third Reich
14. The Girl Before
15. Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives
16. The Chosen Maiden
17. The Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun and Be Your Own Person
18. The Leopard
19. The Story of a New Name
20. Big Little Lies
21. Difficult Women
22. Emily of New Moon
23. Three Sisters, Three Queens
24. The Break (Katherena Vermette)
25. My Not So Perfect Life
26. One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway
27. Sad Cypress
28. Dead Letters
29. Mrs Poe
30. The Enemies of Versailles
31. Sofia Khan is Not Obliged
32. The Right To Be Cold: One Woman’s Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet
33. The Handmaid’s Tale
34. The Woman in Cabin 10
35. After You
36. Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in 15 Suggestions
37. Britt-Marie Was Here
38. Sisi: Empress On Her Own
39. I Let You Go
40. The Hating Game
41. The Kept Woman
42. All Grown Up
43. Black Like Me
44. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
45. Asking For It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do About It
46. Possessed: The Life of Joan Crawford
47. The Roanoke Girls
48. Call the Midwife
49. Negroland: A Memoir
50. The Heir Apparent: A Life of Edward VII, the Playboy Prince
51. Rich People Problems
52. Bette and Joan: The Divine Feud
53. The Awakening
54. Saints for All Occasions
55. Into the Water
56. Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy
57. The Edge of the Fall
58. Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life
59. The Hate U Give
60. New Boy
61. Beartown
62. Small Sacrifices
63. Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
64. Emily Climbs
65. Baseball Life Advice: Loving the Game That Saved Me
66. In Cold Blood
67. My Cousin Rachel
68. Behold the Dreamers
69. Fitness Junkie
70. The Stranger Beside Me
71. The Child
72. Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler
73. On Beauty
74. The Expatriates
75. Spoonbenders
76. How to Stop Time
77. Hunger: A Memoir of (my) Body
78. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
79. Sleep Baby Sleep
80. You Will Know Me
81. The Story of the Lost Child
82. The Address
83. Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse
84. A Stranger in the House
85. The Heart’s Invisible Furies
86. Lady Killers: A Compendium
87. Not Working
88. Someone You Love Is Gone
89. The Meaning of Michelle: 16 Writers on the Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Their Own
90. Emily’s Quest
91. After the Crash
92. War and Peace
93. Little Fires Everywhere
94. Dept. of Speculation
95. Seven Fallen Feathers
96. Arcadia
97. The Break (Marian Keyes)
98. Uncommon Type
99. We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
100. The Visitors
101. The Rival Queens: Catherine de’ Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom
102. How to Murder Your Life
103. The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People’s Lives Better, Too)
104. Raising Royalty: 1000 Years of Royal Parenting
105. Run Hide Repeat: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood
106. Bonfire
107. The German Girl
108. Hum If You Don’t Know the Words
109. The Music Shop
110. The Chalk Man
111. The Alice Network
112. Artemis
113. Stolen Beauty
114. The Singles Game