My 2017 Reading List

I started out with a goal to read 12 books this year. When I started finishing a lot of books (thank you to my DC commutes for that), I raised it to 36. And I did it!

Here they are, grouped into categories based on how I felt when I read them. My especial favorites are marked with an asterisk.

All the feminist feels:

Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture by Peggy Orenstein 

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

*Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon & Shana Knizhnik

Needs no introduction:

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling

All I want to do is read about race in America:

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson

*Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Underwhelmed:

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg

A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression by Jane Ziegelman

Why is this the worst?:

Bossypants by Tina Fey

And its companion, Who let this be published?:

The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe

Classics so good, I can't believe I waited so long to read them:

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

*Emma by Jane Austen

Good because it's a classic, but I'm also not that into it:

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Guilty pleasure:

The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot

Princess in the Spotlight by Meg Cabot

Princess in Love by Meg Cabot

Lol, why am I reading this?:

Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything by Barbara Ehrenreich

That Quail, Robert by Margaret A. Stanger

It's a Long Story: My Life by Willie Nelson with David Ritz

Book topics that are automatic heart eyes:

Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash by Edward Humes

Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us about Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman

I thought this would be a guilty pleasure, but these are legit good:

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

I loved this as a teenager and I love it now:

The Year of Secret Assignments by Jaclyn Moriarty

Gotta pause every 5 minutes to think:

But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past by Chuck Klosterman

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell

*Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb