Books Read in 2017
Since 2009, I’ve kept a reading log on my laptop of the books I’ve read in the calendar year. I’m not sure this tells you anything all that interesting, but I like to look back at what I’ve read and see the connections between my reading choices, however tenuous those connections might be. This list only includes the books that I’ve read in its entirety, not books that I’ve picked through (story and poetry collections often fall under this category) or given up (novels that I will not list here – hey, not every book is for every reader). Two or three are re-reads. Believe it or not, I have, in fact, read Gatsby before. So! Here they are:
2017
300 Arguments by Sarah Manguso
The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos
The Affair: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child
All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg
All the Lives I Want by Alana Massey
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Bluets by Maggie Nelson
Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
Dark Money by Jane Mayer
Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher
Dog Years by Melissa Yancy
Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp
Fat City by Leonard Gardner
The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Girl at War by Sara Jovic
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Hopeful by Tracy O’Neill
How to Watch a Movie by David Thomson
Ill Will by Dan Chaon
Innocents and Others by Dana Spiotta
Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know by Alexandra Horowitz
Intangiball: The Subtle Things That Win Baseball Games by Lonnie Wheeler
Leaving Lucy Pear by Anna Solomon
The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh
Lighthead by Terrance Hayes
Linden Hills by Gloria Naylor
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Loner by Teddy Wayne
Loose Balls by Terry Pluto
Marlena by Julie Buntin
Massive Cleansing Fire by Dave Housley
Map to the Stars by Adrian Matejka
The Nix by Nathan Hill
Off Speed: Baseball, Pitching, and the Art of Deception by Terry McDermott
The Only Rule Is It Has to Work by Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller
Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down by Anne Valente
The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage by Jared Yates Sexton
Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living, ed. Manjula Martin
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
Setting Free The Kites by Alex George
So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
Slow Lightning by Eduardo Corral
Stephen Florida by Gabe Habash
Stephen King’s The Body by Aaron Burch
Still Can’t Do My Daughter’s Hair by William Evans
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
To Be A Runner by Martin Dugard
We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O’Neil
Work Like Any Other by Virginia Reeves
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