I keep a list of books I read each year — here are the books I read in 2017.
Key:
☆ I liked it a lot.
★ I highly recommend it!
✘ …not so much.
↻ Re-read. (I’m big on revisiting favorite books. Maybe I should blog about that.)
- ☆ The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- ☆ ↻ A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K.
LeGuin - ★ In Calabria by Peter S. Beagle
- ☆ An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
- ★ Passenger by Alexandra Bracken
- ★ Wayfarer by Alexandra Bracken
- ★ The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip
- ★ Uprooted by Naomi Novik
- ★ Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
- ★ On Writing by Stephen King
- ★ The Fantasy Fiction Formula by Deborah Chester
- ★ The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold
- ☆ Crazy Busy by Kevin DeYoung
- ★ Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
- ★ ↻ The Ropemaker by Peter Dickenson
- ☆ ↻ Hart’s Hope by Orson Scott Card
- ★ A Legacy of Spies by John le Carre
- ☆ The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs
- ☆ Persuasion by Jane Austen
- ★ ↻ The Grey King by Susan Cooper
- ★ ↻ The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
- ☆ Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process by Joe Fassler
- ☆ Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher
- A Spy’s Guide to Thinking by John Braddock
- ☆ Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
- ★ Two-Dimensional Man, A Graphic Memoir by Paul Sahre