What I Read in 2017

My resolution for 2017 was to read as much nonfiction as fiction, to get more facts in my life and more credible information about how the world works. ...And I did it!

Well, are poems nonfiction? Are graphic novels fiction? I DON'T KNOW.

With a week to go left in the year, I am reading my 64th book. Here's the breakdown:

Favorites of 2017

• The Mothers - Brit Bennett
• The Hired Man - Aminatta Forna
• SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome - Mary Beard
• The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
• Sword Art Online: Aincrad - Art by Tamao Nakamura, original story by Reki Kawahara
• The Long Loneliness - Dorothy Day
• Berlin Calling: A Story of Anarchy, Music, the Wall, and the Birth of the New Berlin - Paul Hockenos
• Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body - Roxane Gay
• Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse and the Race to Electrify the World - Jill Jonnes
• Displacement: Poems - Leslie Harrison

**** Read during the last week of 2017, I am adding: I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika. L. Sanchez.


Fiction
1. The Winter People - Jennifer McMahon
2. The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
3. The Age of Grief - Jane Smiley
4. The Mothers - Brit Bennett
5. The Hired Man - Aminatta Forna
6. The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
7. Strange as this Weather Has Been - Ann Pancake
8. Nemesis Games - James S.A. Correy
9. Merrick - Anne Rice
10. The View from Saturday - E.L. Konigsburg
11. Difficult Women - Roxane Gay
12. Large Animals - Jess Arndt
13. The Dog of the Marriage - Amy Hempel
14. Blood and Gold - Anne Rice
15. The Stories of Muriel Spark
16. Babylon's Ashes - James S.A. Correy
17. A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
18. The Misadventures of Sulliver Pong - Leland Cheuk
19. Her Body and Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado
20. Village Books - Craig McLay
21. The Walmart Book of the Dead - Lucy Biederman
22. The Bridge - Kay Bratt
23. The Paying Guests - Sarah Waters
24. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter - Erika L. Sanchez
25. The Three-Body Problem -  Cixin Liu

Nonficion
1. The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza and the Fate of God in the Modern World - Matthew Stewart
2. M Train - Patti Smith
3. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Solider - Ismael Beah
4. Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism, Dad and Surrealism - Philippe Soupault (Translated by Alan Bernheimer)
5. The Woman Warrior - Maxine Hong Kingston
6. Abandon Me - Melissa Febos
7. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome - Mary Beard
8. Flaneuse - Lauren Elkin
9. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! - Richard P. Feynman
10. Underground America: Narratives from Undocumented Lives - Peter Orner, ed.
11. The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age - Gino Segre and Bettina Hoerlin
12. The Long Loneliness - Dorothy Day
13. Einstein: A Biography - Jurgen Neffe (translated by Shelley Frisch)
14. The Serbian Folk Epic: Its Theology and Anthropology - Dr. Kristovoj Kotur
15. The Radium Girls - Kate Moore
16. Borderlands / La Frontera - Gloria Anzaldua
17. A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War - Susan Griffin
18. Berlin Calling: A story of anarchy, music, the Wall, and the birth of the New Berlin - Paul Hockenos
19. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body - Roxane Gay
20. Journey to Portugal - Jose Saramago
21. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin - Erik Larson
22. Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse and the Race to Electrify the World - Jill Jonnes
23. The Buddha Said... - Osho
24. Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence - Rachel Sherman
25. The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle
26. Blind Spot - Teju Cole
27. Woodswoman: Living alone in the Adirondack Wilderness - Anne LaBastille

Poetry
1. Poetry Comics - Bianca Stone
2. Deep Lane: Poems - Mark Doty
3. Displacement: Poems - Leslie Harrison
4. Garvey's Choice - Nikki Grimes
5. [lukao] - Craig Santos Perez

Comics / Graphic Novels
1. Swamp Thing Vol. 1: Sow and Ye Shall Reap - Brian K. Vaughan
2. Sword Art Online: Aincrad - Art by Tamao Nakamura, original story by Reki Kawahara
3. Tokyo Ghoul: 1 - Sui Ishida
4. Tokyo Ghoul: 2 - Sui Ishida
5. Tokyo Ghoul: 3 - Sui Ishida
6. Saga: Vol 7 - Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
7. Tokyo Ghost 1-10 - Remender, Murphy, Hollingsworth