Read In 2017
I participated in the Dumbledore’s Army Readathon this January. A post to view my progress can be found here.
I also hosted the Mental Health Reading Challenge and participated in Femividual’s Feminism Reading Challenge. Her Bingo Card is at the bottom of this post.
January
1. Grief Is The Thing With Feathers – Max Porter
2. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison (bingo square: black feminist)
3. The Bad Beginning – Lemony Snicket
4. Girl, Interrupted – Susanna Kaysen (Mental Health Reading Challenge) (bingo square: book about being a girl)
5. Transmission – Hari Kunzru
February
6. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys (bingo square: feminism in another country)
March
7. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte (Mental Health Reading Challenge) (bingo square: feminist book from before 1930)
April
8. We Have Always Lived In The Castle – Shirley Jackson
9. The Turn Of The Screw – Henry James
10. The Reptile Room – Lemony Snicket
11. The Wide Window – Lemony Snicket (Mental Health Reading Challenge)
12. The Miserable Mill – Lemony Snicket
13. The Austere Academy – Lemony Snicket
14. Hard Times – Charles Dickens
15. Dear Ijeawele, Or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (bingo square: book of essays)
May
16. Renascence and Other Poems – Edna St. Vincent Millay (bingo square: book of poetry)
17. Are Women People? a Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times – Alice Duer Miller (bingo square: book about politics)
June
18. Notes From Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky (Mental Health Reading Challenge)
19. Second April – Edna St. Vincent Millay
20. Helen of Troy and Other Poems – Sara Teasdale (bingo square: book of your choice)
21. Spring Awakening – Frank Wedekind
22. The Strange Case Of Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
July
23. The Ersatz Elevator – Lemony Snicket
24. Dear Evan Hansen – Steven Levenson (Mental Health Reading Challenge)
25. The Vile Village – Lemony Snicket
August
26. The Children Act – Ian McEwan
October
27. The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
28. Turtles All The Way Down – John Green (Mental Health Reading Challenge) (bingo square: book about body image)
November
29. Pierre & Jean – Guy de Maupassant
30. The Hostile Hospital – Lemony Snicket
31. The Carnivorous Carnival – Lemony Snicket
32. Milk and Honey – Rupi Kaur
33. The Slippery Slope – Lemony Snicket
34. The Grim Grotto – Lemony Snicket
35. The Penultimate Peril – Lemony Snicket
36. The End – Lemony Snicket
37. Maus I – Art Spiegelman
38. Maus II – Art Spiegelman
39. Death In Venice – Thomas Mann
40. Who Could That Be At This Hour? – Lemony Snicket
December
41. When Did You See Her Last? – Lemony Snicket
42. Shouldn’t You Be In School? – Lemony Snicket
43. Why Is This Night Different From All Other Nights? – Lemony Snicket
44. Almost Midnight – Rainbow Rowell
45. Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography – Lemony Snicket
46. Mis Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children – Ransom Riggs
47. Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal? – Jeanette Winterson (Mental Health Reading Challenge) (bingo square: a memoir)
48. File Under: 13 Suspicious Questions – Lemony Snicket
49. Zombicorns – John Green
50. Miracle On 34th Street – Valentine Davies
51. Men Explain Things To Me – Rebecca Solnit (bingo square: book about rape culture)
52. The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue – Mackenzi Lee (bingo square: LGBTQ book)
Short Stories
More than 10 of the 52 books I read last year were short stories. However, I’ve challenged myself to read 52 books; that means a novel, a book of non-fiction, a play or a collection of poetry or short stories. I’ll be listing individual short stories I’ve read in 2017 here. They do not count towards my reading goal.
The Three Garridebs – Arthur Conan Doyle
The Final Problem – Arthur Conan Doyle
The Musgrave Ritual – Arthur Conan Doyle
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love – Raymond Carver
Nobel Prize Lecture – Toni Morrison
The Dignity Of Begging – William Bloke Modisane
The Talking Raven’s Last Warning – Mia Couto
Is There Nowhere Else Where We Can Meet? – Nadine Gordimer
The Man In The Crowd – Edgar Allan Poe
Young Goodman Brown – Nathaniel Hawthorne
In The Penal Colony – Franz Kafka
The Happy Prince – Oscar Wilde
The Selfish Giant – Oscar Wilde
Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime – Oscar Wilde
The Sphinx Without a Secret – Oscar Wilde
The Fisherman and His Soul – Oscar Wilde
Sambo – William Fryer Harvey
Cat Person – Kristen Roupenian
I’ve reproduced the Feminist Reading Challenge Bingo Card here. I filled out 12 of the 20 squares. It would have been more if I’d counted double: some books cover more than one square, but I felt like that’d be cheating.
