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My 2017 Reading Wrap-Up!

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I’m finally getting around to posting this–my 2017 reading year in review! I had an amazing reading year in 2017; it might have been my best ever. Here are my stats:

Total books read: 105

Total pages read: 31,245

Longest book read in 2017: A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas (705 pages)

Shortest book read in 2017: The Bone Knife by Intisar Khanani (35 pages)

Most popular book read in 2017: Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

Least popular book read in 2017: Phantom Pains by Mishell Baker

Average Goodreads rating: 3.6 stars

Highest rated on Goodreads: Wildfire by Ilona Andrews

#readmyowndamnbooks: 70 (67%)

Live author/bookish events attended: BookCon, including a panel with Charlie Jane Anders, Annalee Newitz, John Scalzi, and Cory Doctorow; Toni Morrison; Roxane Gay; Kelly Link; Margaret Atwood; Dave Eggers

Female Author vs. Male Author

Format

Genre

Adult vs. YA

Colorful Book Covers Challenge – I tried to read 3 of every color and almost made it…

Red Cover
Magic Binds (Kate Daniels, #9) by Ilona Andrews Final Girls by Riley Sager The Refrigerator Monologues by Catherynne M. Valente

Orange Cover
Giant Days, Vol. 2 (Giant Days, #2) by John Allison Poison Princess (The Arcana Chronicles, #1) by Kresley Cole Perfect Little World by Kevin Wilson

Yellow Cover
Giant Days, Vol. 1 (Giant Days, #1) by John Allison Alex + Ada, Vol. 2 by Jonathan Luna Girls Will Be Girls Dressing Up, Playing Parts and Daring to Act Differently by Emer O'Toole

Green Cover
Relish My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3) by Sarah J. Maas Heating & Cooling 52 Micro-Memoirs by Beth Ann Fennelly

Blue Cover
Men Explain Things To Me (Updated Edition) by Rebecca Solnit The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker Truthwitch (The Witchlands, #1) by Susan Dennard

Purple Cover
Wildfire (Hidden Legacy, #3) by Ilona Andrews Phantom Pains (The Arcadia Project, #2) by Mishell Baker Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Pink Cover
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler Marlena by Julie Buntin Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman by Anne Helen Petersen

Black Cover
Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1) by Sylvain Neuvel Difficult Women by Roxane Gay All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood

White Cover
Stiletto (The Checquy Files, #2) by Daniel O'Malley Hunger A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Gray Cover
Down Among the Sticks and Bones (Wayward Children, #2) by Seanan McGuire How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer

Brown Cover
The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself Love Stories by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Colorful Cover
Big Magic Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker

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