It's hard to believe 2017 is already upon us. As an avid reader, I'm often asked for recommendations of good books to read. Here's what I read last year, roughly classified into some sort of categorizations. Hope you find something to inspire you.
My favorites
- A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
- Dietland by Sarai Walker
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- Age of Myth (The Legends of the First Empire, #1) by Michael J. Sullivan
- Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
Very good books
- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
- The Nix by Nathan Hill
- Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
- Faithful by Alice Hoffman
- Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
- The Lake House by Kate Morton
- My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
- Mischling by Affinity Konar
- The Mothers by Brit Bennett
- Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
- Orhan's Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian
- Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
- The Good Girl by Mary Kubica
- The Life and Death of Sophie Stark by Anna North
- The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard
- The Guest Room by Chris Bohjalian
- The Vegetarian by Han Kang
- Don't You Cry by Mary Kubica
- The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout
- The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli
- The Regional Office Is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales
- Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple
- The Invaders by Karolina Waclawiak
Good books
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The Moth by Catherine Burns
- Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon
- Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks
- The Winter Sea (Slains, #1) by Susanna Kearsley
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
- Inside the O'Briens by Lisa Genova
- Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
- Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
- Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
- Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
- You'll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein
- Zabelle by Nancy Kricorian
- What She Left Behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman
- The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
- Among the Living by Jonathan Rabb
- Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
- The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy by Rainn Wilson
- The Best of Enemies by Jen Lancaster
- The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
- In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
- The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin
- The Girls by Emma Cline
- The New World by Chris Adrian
I wouldn't recommend these - not because they're necessarily "bad" but just not my to my taste
- A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
- The Sellout by Paul Beatty
- Bettyville by George Hodgman
- Oreo by Fran Ross
- The Whites by Harry Brandt