My goal for 2017 was to read 45 books, mostly from my own shelves, and I reached my goal with only hours to spare. 🙂 I’m calling it a good reading year – a mix of fiction and non-fiction with some standouts. My top ten in no particular order:
- Rules of Civility – Amor Towles
- A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles
- The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ – Andrew Klavan
- Boy’s Life – Robert R. McCammon
- Island of the World – Michael D. O’Brien (my second time through this one and it’s still my favorite novel)
- Little Fires Everywhere – Celeste Ng
- John – R.C. Sproul
- Mere Christianity – C.S. Lewis (a re-read)
- The Girl With Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story – Hyeonseo Lee
- Eleanor Elephant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman
What were your favorites in 2017?
January:
- Cometh the Hour (Book Six of the Clifton Chronicles) – Jeffrey Archer
- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing – Marie Kondo (a few thoughts on this one here and here)
- 30 Days — Change Your Habits, Change Your Life: A Couple of Simple Steps Every Day to Create the Life You Want – Marc Reklau
- Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance – Angela Duckworth
February:
- What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast – Laura Vanderkam
- The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ – Andrew Klavan
- Food Freedom Forever: Letting Go of Bad Habits, Guilt, and Anxiety Around Food – Melissa Hartwig
March:
- Embracing Obscurity: Becoming Nothing in Light of God’s Everything – Anonymous
- Rules of Civility – Amor Towles
- Sweater Quest: My Year of Knitting Dangerously
April:
- Emotional Intelligence 2.0 – Travis Bradberry & Jean Greaves
- The Special Power of Restoring Lost Things – Courtney Elizabeth Mauk
May:
June:
- American Wife – Curtis Sittenfield
- My Name Is Lucy Barton – Elizabeth Strout
- Boy’s Life – Robert R. McCammon
- Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God’s Will – Kevin DeYoung
- Island of the World – Michael D. O’Brien (my second time through this one and it’s still my favorite novel)
- The Magnolia Story – Chip & Joanna Gaines
July:
- You Will Know Me – Megan Abbott
- A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles
- Goodbye, Vitamin: A Novel – Rachel Khong
- Since We Fell – Dennis Lehane
- A Woman’s Wisdom: How the Book of Proverbs Speaks to Everything – Lydia Brownback
- Perfecting Ourselves to Death: The Pursuit of Excellence and the Perils of Perfectionism – Richard Winter
- Commentaries on Proverbs – Matthew Henry
August:
- The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance – Ben Sasse
- Moral Defense (Samantha Brinkman Book 2) – Marcia Clark
- Dot Journaling – A Practical Guide: How to Start and Keep the Planner, To-Do List, and Diary That’ll Actually Help You Get Your Life Together – Rachel Wilkerson Miller
- The Judgment of Richard Richter – Igor Štiks
September:
- I Am Watching You – Teresa Driscoll
- To Dance With the White Dog – Terry Kay
- Little Fires Everywhere – Celeste Ng
- The Woman in Cabin 10 – Ruth Ware
- Into the Water – Paula Hawkins
- Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life – Gretchen Rubin
October:
- Leaving Berlin – Joseph Kanon
- John – R.C. Sproul
- The Touch – Randall Wallace
- Eleanor Elephant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman
November:
I didn’t finish a single book this month! 😦
December:
- The Girl With Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story – Hyeonseo Lee
- Poetic Wonder of Isaac Watts – Douglas Bond
- Mere Christianity – C.S. Lewis
- God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life – Gene Edward Veith, Jr.
- God Rest Ye Merry: Why Christmas is the Foundation for Everything – Douglas Wilson
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