Books Read in 2017
Fiction
1. Await Your Reply - Dan Chaon
2. The Portable Veblen - Elizabeth McKenzie
3. Hummingbirds - Joshua Gaylord
4. "Who Could That Be At This Hour?" - Lemony Snicket
5. The Beautiful Dead - Belinda Bauer
6. Unquiet Land - Sharon Shinn
7. Perfect Little World - Kevin Wilson
**8. The Animators - Kayla Rae Whitaker
9. The Familiar Vol. 4: Hades - Mark Z. Danielewski
10. Amberlough - Lara Elena Donnelly
11. Universal Harvester - John Darnielle
*12. In The Woods - Tana French
*13. Dead Letters - Caite Dolan-Leach
**14. All Our Wrong Todays - Elan Mastai
15. The Likeness - Tana French
16. Faithful Place - Tana French
17. The Winged Histories - Sofia Samatar
18. Barren Cove - Ariel S. Winter
19. Broken Harbor - Tana French
20. The Secret Place - Tana French
21. The Trespasser - Tana French
22. The Wrong Dead Guy - Richard Kadrey
*23. The Collapsing Empire - John Scalzi
24. Behind Her Eyes - Sarah Pinborough
25. The Arrangement - Sarah Dunn
26. A Closed and Common Orbit - Becky Chambers
Nonfiction
*1. Landmarks - Robert MacFarlane
2. Gods, Wasps, and Stranglers: The Secret History and Redemptive Future of Fig Trees - Mike Shanahan
3. Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter's Son - John Jeremiah Sullivan
4. The Road Beneath My Feet - Frank Turner
5. Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells- Helen Scales
6. Play Matters - Manuel Sicart
*7. The Peregrine - J.A. Baker
*8. The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin - Masha Gessen
9. Whiplash: How To Survive Our Faster Future - Joi Ito & Jeff Howe
10. How to Write a Book Proposal (4th Edition) - Michael Larsen
*11. Poetry As Survival - Gregory Orr
*12. A Field Guide to Awkward Silences - Alexandra Petri
13. The Alchemy of Air - Thomas Hager
14. Talking Back, Talking Black - John McWhorter
15. Boredom - Peter Toohey
16. Searching for John Hughes - Jason Diamond
17. Scrappy Little Nobody - Anna Kendrick
*18. Flow -Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
19. White Hot Truth - Danielle LaPorte
20. Eve's Hollywood - Eve Babitz
*21. Daughter of Empire: My Life as a Mountbatten - Lady Pamela Hicks
22. Fabulous Friendship Festival - SARK
23. Pronoia is the Antidote for Paranoia - Rob Brezsny
--24. Power Your Happy - Lisa Sugar
*25. Abandon Me - Melissa Febos
*26. The Family Gene - Joselin Linder
27. The Miracle of Mindfulness - Thich Nhat Hanh
28. You Are Here - Jenny Lawson
29. Life is a Verb - Patti Digh
*30. 300 Arguments - Sarah Manguso
Poetry
1. Heart's Needle - W.D. Snodgrass
2. The Performance of Becoming Human - Daniel Borzutzky
3. How Beautiful the Beloved - Gregory Orr
4. River Inside the River - Gregory Orr
5. The Caged Owl - Gregory Orr
6. Odes - Sharon Olds
*7. Stunt Water - Buddy Wakefield
8. Bright Dead Things - Ada Limón
9. Sharks in the Rivers - Ada Limón
10. Rattle issue 55
Anthologies/Collections
1. Scratch - edited by Manjula Martin
2. Difficult Women - Roxane Gay
3. Spirits of Place - edited by John Reppion
4. Miniatures - John Scalzi
5. Little Tales of Misogyny - Patricia Highsmith
6. The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales - Franz Xaver von Schönwerth