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!