Sunday, January 28, 2018

Best Books Read in 2017

Drumroll, please....here is my summary of books read in 2017, and my choices for the best books, in several categories. 2017 was an amazing reading year!

Summaries & Fun Facts:


Total Books Read in 2017 = 84 (9 more than in 2016)

Novels - 43
Nonfiction - 12
Teen/YA - 12
Middle-Grade - 17
Audiobooks – 26
Graphic Novels or Memoirs - 8
(some categories overlap)
Women Authors – 51 (61%)
Diverse books – 24 (29%)
From my own shelves – 28 (33%)
See my 2017 Reading Challenges page to see how I did last year!

Best of the Best:
These were mostly VERY hard to choose - see my Top 10 lists below for more amazing books.

Best Novel
The Atlas of Forgotten Places by Jenny D. Williams 
 

Best Nonfiction
Anne Frank Remembered by Miep Gies with Alison Leslie Gold
 



Best Short Stories
Machine Learning by Hugh Howey

 
Best Graphic Novel/Memoir (actually graphic nonfiction)
The Hunting Accident by David L. Carlson & Landis Blair


Best Audio Book
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas  



Best Teen/YA
American Street by Ibi Zoboi  
(this and The Hate U Give were complete ties for this category and Best Audio, so I gave one to each of them!) 


Best Middle-Grade
The Lotterys Plus One by Emma Donoghue 


Top Ten (or Top Whatever) Lists:

Top 10 Adult Fiction:
  1. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
  2. The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
  3. Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
  4. Edgar and Lucy by Victor Lodato
  5. The Leavers by Lisa Ko
  6. The Atlas of Forgotten Places by Jenny D. Williams
  7. Dust by Hugh Howey
  8. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  9. Be Frank with Me by Julia Claiborne Johnson
  10. Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
 
Top 8 Nonfiction:
  1. Anne Frank Remembered by Miep Gies with Alison Leslie Gold
  2. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
  3. Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
  4. Books for Living by Will Schwalbe
  5. I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
  6. The Hunting Accident by David L. Carlson & Landis Blair
  7. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen
  8. Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton
 
Top 4 Teen/YA:
  1. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
  2. Projekt 1065 by Alan Gratz
  3. Overpowered by Mark H. Kruger
  4. American Street by Ibi Zoboi

Top 7 Middle-Grade:

Friends for Life by Andrew Norriss
The Honest Truth by Dan Gemeinhart
The Goldfish Boy by Lisa Thompson
A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold
Hear the Wolves by Victoria Scott
Real Friends by Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham
The Lotterys Plus One by Emma Donoghue
 


Top 10 Audio Books:

  1. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
  2. The Risen by Ron Rash
  3. Anne Frank Remembered by Miep Gies with Alison Leslie Gold
  4. Bored and Brilliant by Manoush Zomorodi
  5. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
  6. Projekt 1065 by Alan Gratz
  7. American Street by Ibi Zoboi
  8. The Goldfish Boy by Lisa Thompson
  9. A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold
  10. The Lotterys Plus One by Emma Donoghue
 
 What an amazing reading year! What were your favorite books read in 2017? Let me know in the comments or leave a link to your own year-end wrap-up!

6 comments:

  1. I love seeing people's top 10 lists and being reminded of books that I enjoyed reading. I also get reminded of the ones I want to make sure I read (Picking Cotton, American Street, The Lotterys)

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    1. Me, too! And those were all great books - hope you get to enjoy them, too!

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  2. I loved reading through your list and getting recommendations. I loved The Hate U Give and American Street too - I listened to both on audiobook - such awesoem narrators.

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    1. Yes! So you understand why they were both a complete tie for both best audio and best YA!

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  3. 84 books! Impressive !

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