Friday, January 6, 2017

An Ambitious Year In Books


I almost never end up reading exactly what I set out to read, but I make these endless lists, anyway. It's hard to account for the things that get released later on, or the things you randomly discover on the shelf during a library trip, but having at least an "I'd like to read" list for the year is something I do consistently anyway.

So here's what I hope to find in my 2017, knowing full-well that I'll miss many of them.


1. Hands Free Mama by Rachel Macy Stafford
2. Talking As Fast As I can by Lauren Graham
3. Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick
4. Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple
5. The Other Life by Ellen Meister
6. Modern Lovers by Emma Straub
7. I'm Glad About You by Theresa Rebeck
8. The Mothers by Brit Bennett
9. The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
10. It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
11. Crosstalk by Connie Willis
12. Flower by Elizabeth Craft, Shea Olsen
13. White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
14. The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
15. Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To by Dean Burnett
16. Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe
17. The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly
18. The Problem with Forever by Jennifer L. Armentrout
19. The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
20. A Thousand Boy Kisses by Tillie Cole
21. Where One Goes by B.N. Toler
22. This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp
23. P.S. I Like You by Kasie West
24. Always and Forever, Lara Jean (To All the Boys I've Loved Before #3) by Jenny Han
25. Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum
26. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
27. Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins
28. Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins
29. Born for This: How to Find the Work You Were Meant to Do by Chris Guillebeau
30. The Places that Scare You by Pema Chodron
31. 279 Days to Overnight Success: An Unconventional Journey to Full-Time Writing by Chris Guillebeau
32. Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change by Pema Chodron
33. Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living by Pema Chodron
34. Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion by Pema Chödrön
35. Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears by Pema Chodron
36. Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
37. The Secret to Hummingbird Cake by Celeste Fletcher McHale
38. 100 Mindfulness Meditations by Neil Seligman
39. The Cozy Life by Pia Edberg
40. All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner
41. The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
42. My Unscripted Life by Lauren Morrill
43. Just Friends by Tiffany Pitcock
44. #famous by Jilly Gagnon
45. The Levity Effect: Why It Pays to Lighten Up by Adrian Gostick, Scott Christopher
46. Why We Get Fat by Gary Todd
47. Slim By Design by Brian Wansink
48. Everyone We've Been by Sarah Everett
49. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
50. Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller
51. All the Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers by Alana Massey
52. Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran
53. Heartless by Marissa Meyer
54. The Secret of a Heart Note by Stacey Lee
55. Once and for All by Sarah Dessen
56. Lucky in Love by Kasie West
57. Alex and Eliza: A Love Story by Melissa de la Cruz
58. Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennett

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