I made it through 62 books in 2017, which feels like a success considering the madness this year wrought. In comparison, I read 41 last year, 71 in 2015 and 90 in 2014.
- Page Count: 20,522 pages, based on LibraryThing page numbers
- Library Use: This year I had an even split. I read 31 books from the library and 31 books that I own.
- Female and Male Authors: I read a lot more books by women this year. Fifteen books were written by men, I read two anthologies with a mix of men and women, and the remaining forty-four books were by women. I read books from 50 distinct authors.
- Digital and Analog: Another even split! I read 31 digital and 31 (dead-tree) books this year. I would like to note that I borrow a lot of ebooks from the library so analog and library books are not a total overlap.
- Fiction and Non-Fiction: This year I read 27 non-fiction books. This is more than I usually read. I have been very curious about the world this year and committed to understanding what is happening in the world, plus what has happened to bring the world to this point.
- Books in Other Languages: I read 4 books in Spanish this year, which was less than my goal but still respectable. I finished up the last Harry Potter book, read two memoirs, and a fantasy novel. Not bad.
- Favorites: I read so many good books this year (do I say that every year?), but some favorites include everything by Rebecca Solnit, Dark Orbit by Carolyn Ives Gilman, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein, The Cooking Gene by Michael Tiwtty, and Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado.
Here’s the list of what I read:
| Date Finished | Title | Author |
| 01/02/17 | Shattered Pillars | Elizabeth Bear |
| 01/19/17 | Lies Incorporated: The World of Post-Truth Politics | Arti Rabin-Havt |
| 01/27/17 | Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship | Anjan Sundaram |
| 02/03/17 | Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right | Arlie Russell Hochschild |
| 02/09/17 | The Stars Are Legion | Kameron Huley |
| 02/13/17 | Harry Potter y las reliquias de la muerte | J. K. Rowling |
| 02/16/17 | Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities | Rebecca Solnit |
| 02/27/17 | Crossroads of Canopy | Thoraiya Dyer |
| 03/12/17 | La distancia entre nosotros | Reyna Grande |
| 03/15/17 | Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party | Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin |
| 03/27/17 | Ascension | Jacqueline Koyanagi |
| 04/11/17 | White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide | Carol Anderson |
| 04/14/17 | Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives | Gary Younge |
| 04/17/17 | The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories | Jared Shurin, Mahvesh Murad |
| 04/20/17 | Dark Orbit | Carolyn Ives Gilman |
| 04/21/17 | Men Explain Things to Me | Rebecca Solnit |
| 04/27/17 | Halfway Human | Carolyn Ives Gilman |
| 04/29/17 | Arkfall | Carolyn Ives Gilman |
| 05/01/17 | The Ice Owl | Carolyn Ives Gilman |
| 05/14/17 | Too Like the Lightning | Ada Palmer |
| 05/20/17 | Seven Surrenders | Ada Palmer |
| 05/22/17 | The Geek Feminist Revolution | Kameron Huley |
| 05/24/17 | Shipley Proposal Guide | Larry Newman |
| 05/28/17 | El Mañana: Memorias de un éxodo cubano | Mirta Ojito |
| 05/31/17 | Ammonite | Nicola Griffith |
| 06/09/17 | Leviathan Wakes | James S. A. Corey |
| 06/20/17 | The End of Men and the Rise of Women | Hanna Rosin |
| 06/30/17 | A Field Guide to Getting Lost | Rebecca Solnit |
| 07/02/17 | Double Bind: Women on Ambition | Robin Romm |
| 07/10/17 | Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong — and the New Research that’s Rewriting the Story | Angela Saini |
| 07/15/17 | Todas las hadas del reino | Laura Gallego |
| 07/18/17 | A Conjuring of Light | V. E. Schwab |
| 07/19/17 | The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America | Richard Rothstein |
| 07/31/17 | The Refrigerator Monologues | Catherynne Valente |
| 08/02/17 | History of Wolves: A Novel | Emily Fridlund |
| 08/07/17 | Knitlandia: A Knitter Sees the World | Clara Parkes |
| 08/17/17 | The Bear and the Nightingale | Katherine Arden |
| 08/18/17 | Things We Lost in the Fire | Mariana Enriquez |
| 08/22/17 | The Stone Sky | N. K, Jemisin |
| 09/10/17 | The Radium Girls | Kate Moore |
| 09/11/17 | Ninefox Gambit | Yoon Ha Lee |
| 09/15/17 | Passing Strange | Ellen Klages |
| 09/19/17 | Trainwreck: The women we love to hate, mock, and fear … and why | Sady Doyle |
| 09/21/17 | Hunger | Roxane Gay |
| 09/27/17 | Last First Snow | Max Gladstone |
| 10/01/17 | We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to Cover Girl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement | Andi Zeisler |
| 10/06/17 | Two Serpents Rise | Max Gladstone |
| 10/13/17 | Iraq + 100: The First Anthology of Science Fiction to Have Emerged from Iraq | Hassan Blasim |
| 10/17/17 | The Mothers | Brit Bennett |
| 10/24/17 | Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America | Samhita Mukhopadhyay |
| 10/31/17 | Three Parts Dead | Max Gladstone |
| 11/03/17 | What Happened | Hillary Clinton |
| 11/08/17 | Deep Survival | Laurence Gonzales |
| 11/13/17 | Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights | Katha Pollitt |
| 11/19/17 | Why Bad Governments Happen to Good People | Danny Katch |
| 11/22/17 | Four Roads Cross | Max Gladstone |
| 11/25/17 | An Excess Male | Maggie Shen King |
| 12/03/17 | How Emotions Are Made | Lisa Feldman Barrett |
| 12/15 | The Cooking Gene | Michael Twitty |
| 12/18 | Sing, Unburied, Sing | Jesamyn Ward |
| 12/27 | Full Fathom Five | Max Gladstone |
| 12/27 | Her Body and Other Parties | Carmen Maria Machado |
