This was my second year of taking on a Goodreads challenge, and I'm proud to say I hit my 2017 goal of 30 total books (10,697 pages)! <quick GR update> They've improved their UI design a bunch since my last year in review. </quick GR update> Related, the sexiest thing to trend on public transportation are dapper dudes (anyone, really) accessorized with books.
If you're not my friend on Goodreads, are we really friends?
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson
- Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling
- Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
- Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
- Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan
- China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Boerr
- The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living by Meik Wiking
- A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
- The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
- Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
- Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson
- The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
- Truly, Madly, Guilty by Liane Moriarity
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- 1984 by George Orwell
- I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
- In the Country by Mia Alvar
- Steve Jobs By Walter Isaacson
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
- Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian
- The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
- 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Surviving #forty-five's administration books:
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
- Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
Autobiographies:
- Steve Jobs By Walter Isaacson
- Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
- I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Book set in 2017 travel destinations:
- (Paris) A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
- (Paris) All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Boerr
- (Paris) The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
- (Philippines) In the Country by Mia Alvar
- (Denmark layover) The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living by Meik Wiking
- (Eurotrip) Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
- (Seattle train ride) The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (okay okay, not really...)
Recommended by a friend
- (Jessica C.) Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
- (Eunice C.) Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson
- (Darius C.) Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
- (Kevin C.) Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian
- (Mele P.) In the Country by Mia Alvar
- (Hélène L.G.) All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Boerr
- (Hélène L.G.) A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
- (Simon R.) Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
— evelyn, future goodreads' influencer
See 2016 year in review: books
Blog post photo ft. Dara, taken by Ate Allyson