In 2015, I set a goal to read at least one book per week, but only made it to 35. In 2016, I again challenged myself to read a book a week, but this time, only made it to 15. No worries – just gonna try again. Besides, I like keeping lists of what I’ve read; wish I’d done it over the course of my entire life! It’s always fun to look back on the year’s reads and think about where I was when I was reading such-and-such a book, or what I learned in one book that lead me to read another work later in the year.

Note: I tend to get bogged down in long, serious books for weeks, so just like last year, I’m making this challenge a little easier by adding graphic novels, trade paperbacks, and romance novels (all of which generally take me less than a couple of hours to devour) to the list.

1. Wishful Drinking, by Carrie Fisher (1/10/17)
2. A Vision of Light, by Judith Merkle Riley (1/12/17)
3. In Pursuit of the Green Lion, by Judith Merkle Riley (1/21/17)
4. Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner, by Judy Melinek, M.D. & T.J. Mitchell (1/22/17)
5. Plain and Simple: A Woman’s Journey to the Amish, by Sue Bender (1/26/17)
6. The Water Devil, by Judith Merkle Riley (1/31/17)
7. Résistance: Memoirs of Occupied France, by Agnes Humbert (2/5/17)
8. The Reader, by Bernhard Schlink (2/5/17)
9. The Boy at the Gate, by Danny Ellis (2/18/17)
10. Stray Bullets, Vol. 1: Innocence of Nihilism, by David Lapham (2/19/17)
11. Shockaholic, by Carrie Fisher (2/23/17)
12. The Princess Diarist, by Carrie Fisher (2/25/17)
13. The Color of Magic, by Terry Pratchett (2/28/17)
14. The Macha of Chira: Confessions of an Anthropologist, by Ethelyn G. Orso (3/6/17)
15. The Three Weissmanns of Westport, by Cathleen Schine (3/12/17)
16. The Marvelous Misadventures of Ingrid Winter, by J.S. Drangsholt (3/17/17)
17. In Praise of the Bees, by Kristin Gleeson (3/18/17)
18. Mercer Girls, by Libbie Hawker (3/20/17)
19. Wild, by Cheryl Strayed (5/17/17)

*Currently 1 book behind schedule. (5/17/17)