As I usually post each year, below is a list of the books I read in 2017.

The books are listed in the order I read them with my favorites in bold.

I had a goal to read 50 books for the year, but I cut myself some slack on that for a couple reasons. First, Brad and I both did Nanowrimo in November, which took a chunk of time. In addition, toward the end of the year, I started the Red Mars series by Kim Stanley Robinson (thanks to MA); these are fairly big books, and I opted for finishing that instead of cramming in a few shorter reads at year end.

1. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
2. The Oral History Workshop by Cynthia Hart with Lisa Samson
3. The Tree Bride by by Bharati Mukherjee
4. We Are Stories edited by Margarita Ramirez Loya and her students
5. Epitaph for a Peach by David Mas Masumoto
6. Revival by Stephen King
7. Adnan’s Story by Rabia Chaudry
8. Heirlooms by David Masumoto
9. Sowing Seeds in the Desert by Masanobu Fukuoka
10. Start Where You Are by Pema Chödrön
11. Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben
12. The Innocent Man by John Grisham
13. One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka
14. The Nix by Nathan Hill
15. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
16. The Chamber by John Grisham
17. The Education of Dixie Dupree by Donna Everhart
18. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
19. Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
20. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
21. So Big by Edna Ferber
22. Eiger Dreams by Jon Krakauer
23. Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
24. Public Library by Ali Smith
25. Four Seasons in Five Senses by David Mas Masumoto
26. Desert Sanctuary by Hank Messick
27. Rebel Mother by Peter Andreas
28. The Yellow Envelope by Kim Dinan
29. Andrew’s Brain by E.L. Doctorow
30. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
31. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
32. The Postman by David Brin
33. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
34. The Man in the High Castle by Philip Dick
35. Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
36. Ten Years on the Line by Mike Ligon
37. Assignment Eternity by Robert Heinlein
38. A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
39. Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance
40. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
41. Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
42. India Calling by Anand Giridharadas

What were your favorite reads this year?

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