A list of the books I’ve read, along with the month and year in which I finished each one. An asterisk indicates it is a “best of” book: one of the very best I read that year.
2017
My Wars Are Laid Away in Books, Alfred Habegger (on deck)
Martin Chuzzlewit, Charles Dickens (reading now)
Permanent Rose, Hilary McKay (8/17)
*Rings of Saturn, W.G. Sebald (8/17)
*The Wild Places, Robert Macfarlane (8/17)
*The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander (8/17)
The Crossover, Kwame Alexander (8/17)
White Tears, Hari Kunzru (8/17)
The Prime Minister, Anthony Trollope (7/17)
Call of the Wild, Jack London (7/17)
Binny in Secret, Hilary McKay (7/17)
*A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki (7/17)
The Education of Margot Sanchez, Lilliam Rivera (7/17)
*Daniel Deronda, George Eliot (7/17)
The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan (7/17)
*The Carhullan Army, Sarah Hall (7/17)
Someone At a Distance, Dorothy Whipple (6/17)
The Year of the Runaways, Sunjeev Sahota (6/17)
Follow Her Home, Steph Cha (6/17)
Man and Wife, Wilkie Collins (6/17)
Oblomov, Ivan Goncharov (6/17)
Tales of Burning Love, Louise Erdrich (6/17)
*To the Is-land, Janet Frame (6/17)
*Ruth, Elizabeth Gaskell (6/17)
To Be or Not to Be, Ryan North (6/17)
The Turn of the Screw, Henry James (6/17)
The Fireman, Joe Hill (6/17)
The Inquisitor’s Tale, Adam Gidwitz (6/17)
The Trespasser, Tanya French (5/17)
The Shadow Speaker, Nnedi Okorafor (5/17)
Emily’s Quest, L.M. Montgomery (5/17)
Trigger Warning, Neil Gaiman (4/17)
Emily Climbs, L. M. Montgomery (4/17)
Emily of New Moon, L,M. Montgomery (4/17)
Essays, George Orwell (3/17)
The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead (3/17)
Ordinary Grace, William Kent Krueger (3/17)
The Poisoned Chocolates Case, Anthony Berkeley (2/17)
Country Driving, Peter Hessler (2/17)
*Stories, Anton Chekhov (2/17)
The Truth About Small Towns, David Baker (2/17)
Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi (2/17)
Proof, Dick Francis (re-read, 2/17)
Turning to One Another, Margaret Wheatley (2/17)
The Gold Bug Variations, Richard Powers (abandoned, 2/17)
The Girl Who Wrote in Silk, Kelli Estes (1/17)
The Discoverers, Daniel Boorstin (1/17)
Lanterns Across the Snow, Susan Hill (1/17)
Playing in the Dark, Toni Morrison (1/17)
Peacekeeper, Christopher Bryan (1/17)
A Prayer Journal, Flannery O’Connor (1/17)
Runaway, Alice Munro (1/17)
Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death, James Runcie (1/17)
A Season of Gifts, Richard Peck (1/17)
A Long Way from Chicago, Richard Peck (1/17)
The Tijuana Book of the Dead, Luis Alberto Urrea (1/17)
Stoner, John Williams (1/17)
The Way to Rainy Mountain, N. Scott Momaday (1/17)
