2017 Reading Challenge

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My goal is to read more books by Women of Color and Indigenous authors. Fairy tales, mythic fiction, magical realism, and science fiction will be the primary genres on which I focus. Plus seasonal reads during the fall and winter. Review policy.

My challenge for 2017 is 100 85 books.
(Adjusted on 12/25; fell behind August-October due to new job.)

Fiction: 78 | Non-Fiction: 8 | Total: 86

January 2017

  1. The Ice Beneath Her by Camilla Grebe [About | My Review] 4 stars
  2. White Space by Ilsa J. Bick [About | My Review] 3.5 stars
  3. Reluctantly Charmed by Ellie O’Neill [About | My Review] 4 stars
  4. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman [About | My Review] 4.5 stars
  5. The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich [About | My Review] 4 stars
  6. In the Cut by Susanna Moore [About | My Review] 2.5 stars
  7. Lambs of God by Marele Day [About | My Review] 3.5 stars
  8. The Fox Woman by Kij Johnson [About | My Review] 3.5 stars
  9. Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day by Seanan McGuire [About | My Review] 4 stars
  10. Changing Woman and Her Sisters by Katrin Hyman Tchana [About | My Review] 5 stars
  11. Paper Girls, Vol. 2 by Brian K. Vaughan [About | My Review] 3.5 stars
  12. The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison [About | My Review] 3.5 stars
  13. Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories by Mariana Enriquez [About | My Review] 3 stars
  14. Bitten by Kelley Armstrong [About | My Review] 3.5 stars
  15. The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden [About | My Review] 4 stars
  16. The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud [About | My Review] 4 stars

February 2017

  1. By Light We Knew Our Names: Stories by Anne Valente [About | My Review] 4 stars
  2. The Grass Dancer by Susan Power [About | My Review] 4.5 stars
  3. Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton [About | My Review] 4 stars
  4. Bog by Karen Krossing [About | My Review] 3 stars
  5. I Hate Fairyland Volume 1: Madly Ever After by Skottie Young [About | My Review] 4 stars
  6. The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy [About | My Review] 4 stars
  7. Baba Yaga’s Assistant by Marika McCoola [About | My Review] 3.5 stars
  8. The Book of Werewolves by Sabine Baring-Gould [About | My Review] 2.5 stars

March 2017

  1. Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson [About | My Review] 4 stars
  2. The Shamer’s Daughter by Lene Kaaberbøl [About | My Review] 3.5 stars
  3. Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World edited by Kelly Jensen [About | My Review] 4.5 stars
  4. Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin [About | My Review] 4.5 stars
  5. Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm [About | My Review] 5 stars
  6. The Caliph’s House: A Year in Casablanca by Tahir Shah [About | My Review] 3 stars
  7. Not Quite Narwhal by Jessie Sima [About | My Review] 5 stars
  8. Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson [About | My Review] 3.5 stars
  9. Eleanor by Jason Gurley [About | My Review] 4.5 stars
  10. The Breakdown by B.A. Paris [About | My Review] 3.5 stars
  11. Tender: Stories by Sofia Samatar [About | My Review] 4 stars

April 2017

  1. Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough [About | My Review] 3.5 stars
  2. The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord [About | My Review] 3 stars
  3. The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti [About | My Review] 4 stars
  4. King Baby by Kate Beaton [About | My Review] 3 stars
  5. Big Mushy Happy Lump by Sarah Andersen [About | My Review] 4 stars
  6. Burntown by Jennifer McMahon [About | My Review] 3.5 stars

May 2017

  1. Into the Water by Paula Hawkins [About | My Review] 3.5 stars
  2. Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang [About | My Review] 4 stars
  3. What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah [About | My Review] 4 stars
  4. Kingdom of Ash and Briars by Hannah West [About | My Review] DNF
  5. When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore [About | My Review] 4 stars
  6. Skeleton Man by Joseph Bruchac [About | My Review] 4 stars
  7. You Have Never Been Here: Stories by Mary Rickert [About | My Review] 4 stars

June 2017

  1. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot [About | My Review] 4.5 stars
  2. Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay [About | My Review] 5 stars
  3. This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare by Gabourey Sidibe [About | My Review] 5 stars
  4. The Leavers by Lisa Ko [About | My Review] 4 stars

July 2017

  1. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. by Samantha Irby [About | My Review] 5 stars
  2. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead [About | My Review] 4 stars
  3. The Changeling by Victor LaValle [About | My Review] 4.5 stars
  4. The Wingsnatchers by Sarah Jean Horwitz [About | My Review] 3 stars
  5. Nightlights by Lorena Alvarez [About | My Review] 5 stars
  6. Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero [About | My Review] 4 stars

August 2017

  1. Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones [About | My Review] 4 stars
  2. One Thousand and One Nights: A Retelling by Hanan al-Shaykh [About | My Review] 4 stars

September 2017

  1. Paper Girls, Vol. 3 by Brian K. Vaughan [About | My Review] 2.5 stars

October 2017

  1. The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld [About | My Review] 4.5 stars
  2. The Rattled Bones by S. M. Parker [About | My Review] 3.5 stars
  3. Native Plant Stories by Joseph Bruchac [About | My Review] 4 stars

November 2017

  1. Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado [About | My Review] 3 stars
  2. Release by Patrick Ness [About | My Review] 4 stars
  3. Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore [About | My Review] 3.5 stars
  4. Mama Day by Gloria Naylor [About | My Review] 3 stars
  5. Norma by Sofi Oksanen [About | My Review] 2.5 stars
  6. A Long, Long Sleep by Anna Sheehan [About | My Review] 3 stars
  7. The Birds of Opulence by Crystal Wilkinson [About | My Review] 4 stars
  8. The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor [About | My Review] 4.5 stars
  9. An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard [About | My Review] 3 stars
  10. Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire [About | My Review] 4.5 stars
  11. Six Months, Three Days, Five Others by Charlie Jane Anders [About | My Review] 3 stars

December 2017

  1. Your House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone by Stefan Kiesbye [About | My Review] 2 stars
  2. Fairy Tale Comics by Various [About | My Review] 4 stars
  3. Lumberjanes, Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy by Various [About | My Review] 3 stars
  4. Raven Girl by Audrey Niffenegger [About | My Review] 4.5 stars
  5. Mother of the Sea by Zetta Elliott [About | My Review] 4 stars
  6. Briar Rose by Robert Coover [About | My Review] 3.5 stars
  7. Animal Farm by George Orwell [About | My Review] 4 stars
  8. You Can’t Touch My Hair by Phoebe Robinson [About | My Review] 4.5 stars
  9. What-the-Dickens by Gregory Maguire [About | My Review] 2.5 stars
  10. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood [About | My Review] 4.5 stars
  11. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern [About | My Review] 5 stars (re-read)

Last Updated: 12/31/2017