2017

1. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie;
2. Empty Without You;
3. Primary Colors;
4. Mean Little Deaf Queer;
5. Born a Crime;
6. The Last Black Unicorn;
7. Comfort Me With Apples;
8. Lock In;
9. Map of Bones (Sequel to Fire Sermon);
10. Who Thought This was a Good Idea;
11. My Name is Lucy Barton;
12. Girl at War;
13. Under Your Skin;
14. The Betty Davis Club;
15. A Sudden Light;
16. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel;
17. The Good Friday Murder;
18. The Yum Kippur Murder;
19. What I Know For Sure;
20. Agent to the Stars;
21. Sisters In Law;
22. Minaret;
23. Strangers Drowning;
24. The Summer We Read Gatsby;
25. The Wangs Versus The World;
26. The Alice Network;
27. The Facebook Effect;
28. Just Kids;
29. Shatter Me/Unravel Me/Ignite Me trilogy;
30. Waiting in the Wings;
31. Surpassing Certainty;
32. Just Mercy;
33. Stop Kiss;
34. The Hundred Secret Senses;
35. Nixson's White House;
36. People of the Whale;
37. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend;
and my most favorite book of the year:
38: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me.
​Recommended by someone you just met: 
The Rainbow Comes and Goes
*The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

Recommended by someone in your family:
Life of Pi

Recommended by someone you admire:
I, Robot

One you have been meaning to read for ages:
Daily Rituals

A book of letters:
*Empty Without You

One with one of the four seasons in the title:
The Spring of Candy Apples (possibly the worst book I have read ever)

A story within a story:
The Red Tent

One with multiple authors:
Empty Mansions

An espionage thriller:
The Man in the High Castle

One with a rabbit on the cover:
Sophie's World

By an author who used a pseudonym:
Silas Marner

By Annonymous:
*Primary Colors

From the 2016 Best Seller List:
*Born a Crime

By a person with a disability:
*Mean Little Dear Queen

A travel memoir:
No Baggage

A book with a subtitle:
Grace Meets Grit

A book published in 2017:
This is Just My Face: Try Not To Stare
*The Last Black Unicorn

A book involving a mythical creature:
Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them

A book about food:
*Comfort Me With Apples

A book about a career you have never wanted to have:
Lab Girl
*Agent to the Stars

A book from a non-human perspective:
Living Dead in Dallas

A book with a red spine:
Things Fall Apart

A book set in the wilderness:
*Map of Bones (sequel to Fire Sermon)

One set in a country you have never visited:
And the Mountains Echoed

A book by an author whose name you don't know how to pronounce:
*Who Thought this was a Good Idea?

One with a title that's a character's name:
*My Name is Lucy Barton

A novel set in war time:
*Girl at War

A book with an unreliable narrator:
*Under Your Skin
*The Betty Davis Club

A book set in two different time periods:
*A Sudden Light

A graphic novel with a women protagonist:
Jessica Jones: The Pulse

A book set in a hotel:
*The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

A book with a day of the week in the title
*The Good Friday Murder

a book that has won an Audie Award
*What I Know for Sure

One that will be released as a movie in 2017:
The Miracle of Dunkirk

One set around a holiday besides Christmas:
*The Yum Kippur Murder

A book you buy on a trip:
My Brilliant Friend
*Lock In

One recommended by an author you love:
*Strangers Drowning (rec by David Sedaris)

One with a family member term in the title:
*Sisters In Law

A book about refugees or immigrants:
*Minaret

A book with an eccentric character:
A Study in Scarlet Women

A book that was mentioned in another book you read this year:
The World is Round

A book about ancient history:
The Life of Pythagoras

A book about a sport you don't care about:
The Boys in the Boat (rowing)

A debut novel:
*The Wangs v. The World

A book about books:
*The Summer We Read Gatsby

One by an author from Central America:
The Body Where I was Born

A book published before 1900:
Lady Audley's Secret

A book set within 100 miles of your location:
Heartsick

A book set more than 500 miles from your location:
The Husband's Secret                             
*Just Kids
*The Alice Network

A young adult fiction book:
The Gender Game

A non-fiction book about technology:
*The Facebook Effect

A romance novel by an author who identifies as Queer:
*Waiting in the Wings

A book that has been banned:
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee

A book of science fiction by a POC:
*Shatter Me/Unravel Me/Ignite Me

A book where a main character is Queer:
Glitterland

a book where a main character is Trans:
*Surpassing Certainty

A translated book:
The 100-Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

A book of short stories:
Collected Fictions: Andrew Hurley & Jorge Luis Borges

A book where all point-of-view characters are POC
*Just Mercy
*The Hundred Secret Senses

A play:
*Stop Kiss

A children's picture book you have never read before:
Little Soul in the Sun

A book published in the year you were born:
Fear of Flying

A book about a time in history that reminds you of now:
*Nixon's White House

A book involving slaves or slavery:
The Underground Railroad

A book written from a child's perspective:
Caleb's Crossing

A book that got terrible reviews:
Black Man, White House

A book written by someone who did not graduate from high school:
On The Road

A book by a Native American author:
*People of the Whale
*You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me

A book set in a book store:
*The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend