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
- The Ice Beneath Her by Camilla Grebe [About | My Review] 4 stars
- White Space by Ilsa J. Bick [About | My Review] 3.5 stars
- Reluctantly Charmed by Ellie O’Neill [About | My Review] 4 stars
- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman [About | My Review] 4.5 stars
- The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich [About | My Review] 4 stars
- In the Cut by Susanna Moore [About | My Review] 2.5 stars
- Lambs of God by Marele Day [About | My Review] 3.5 stars
- The Fox Woman by Kij Johnson [About | My Review] 3.5 stars
- Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day by Seanan McGuire [About | My Review] 4 stars
- Changing Woman and Her Sisters by Katrin Hyman Tchana [About | My Review] 5 stars
- Paper Girls, Vol. 2 by Brian K. Vaughan [About | My Review] 3.5 stars
- The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison [About | My Review] 3.5 stars
- Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories by Mariana Enriquez [About | My Review] 3 stars
- Bitten by Kelley Armstrong [About | My Review] 3.5 stars
- The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden [About | My Review] 4 stars
- The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud [About | My Review] 4 stars
February 2017
- By Light We Knew Our Names: Stories by Anne Valente [About | My Review] 4 stars
- The Grass Dancer by Susan Power [About | My Review] 4.5 stars
- Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton [About | My Review] 4 stars
- Bog by Karen Krossing [About | My Review] 3 stars
- I Hate Fairyland Volume 1: Madly Ever After by Skottie Young [About | My Review] 4 stars
- The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy [About | My Review] 4 stars
- Baba Yaga’s Assistant by Marika McCoola [About | My Review] 3.5 stars
- The Book of Werewolves by Sabine Baring-Gould [About | My Review] 2.5 stars
March 2017
- Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson [About | My Review] 4 stars
- The Shamer’s Daughter by Lene Kaaberbøl [About | My Review] 3.5 stars
- Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World edited by Kelly Jensen [About | My Review] 4.5 stars
- Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin [About | My Review] 4.5 stars
- Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm [About | My Review] 5 stars
- The Caliph’s House: A Year in Casablanca by Tahir Shah [About | My Review] 3 stars
- Not Quite Narwhal by Jessie Sima [About | My Review] 5 stars
- Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson [About | My Review] 3.5 stars
- Eleanor by Jason Gurley [About | My Review] 4.5 stars
- The Breakdown by B.A. Paris [About | My Review] 3.5 stars
- Tender: Stories by Sofia Samatar [About | My Review] 4 stars
April 2017
- Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough [About | My Review] 3.5 stars
- The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord [About | My Review] 3 stars
- The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti [About | My Review] 4 stars
- King Baby by Kate Beaton [About | My Review] 3 stars
- Big Mushy Happy Lump by Sarah Andersen [About | My Review] 4 stars
- Burntown by Jennifer McMahon [About | My Review] 3.5 stars
May 2017
- Into the Water by Paula Hawkins [About | My Review] 3.5 stars
- Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang [About | My Review] 4 stars
- What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah [About | My Review] 4 stars
- Kingdom of Ash and Briars by Hannah West [About | My Review] DNF
- When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore [About | My Review] 4 stars
- Skeleton Man by Joseph Bruchac [About | My Review] 4 stars
- You Have Never Been Here: Stories by Mary Rickert [About | My Review] 4 stars
June 2017
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot [About | My Review] 4.5 stars
- Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay [About | My Review] 5 stars
- This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare by Gabourey Sidibe [About | My Review] 5 stars
- The Leavers by Lisa Ko [About | My Review] 4 stars
July 2017
- We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. by Samantha Irby [About | My Review] 5 stars
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead [About | My Review] 4 stars
- The Changeling by Victor LaValle [About | My Review] 4.5 stars
- The Wingsnatchers by Sarah Jean Horwitz [About | My Review] 3 stars
- Nightlights by Lorena Alvarez [About | My Review] 5 stars
- Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero [About | My Review] 4 stars
August 2017
- Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones [About | My Review] 4 stars
- One Thousand and One Nights: A Retelling by Hanan al-Shaykh [About | My Review] 4 stars
September 2017
October 2017
- The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld [About | My Review] 4.5 stars
- The Rattled Bones by S. M. Parker [About | My Review] 3.5 stars
- Native Plant Stories by Joseph Bruchac [About | My Review] 4 stars
November 2017
- Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado [About | My Review] 3 stars
- Release by Patrick Ness [About | My Review] 4 stars
- Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore [About | My Review] 3.5 stars
- Mama Day by Gloria Naylor [About | My Review] 3 stars
- Norma by Sofi Oksanen [About | My Review] 2.5 stars
- A Long, Long Sleep by Anna Sheehan [About | My Review] 3 stars
- The Birds of Opulence by Crystal Wilkinson [About | My Review] 4 stars
- The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor [About | My Review] 4.5 stars
- An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard [About | My Review] 3 stars
- Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire [About | My Review] 4.5 stars
- Six Months, Three Days, Five Others by Charlie Jane Anders [About | My Review] 3 stars
December 2017
- Your House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone by Stefan Kiesbye [About | My Review] 2 stars
- Fairy Tale Comics by Various [About | My Review] 4 stars
- Lumberjanes, Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy by Various [About | My Review] 3 stars
- Raven Girl by Audrey Niffenegger [About | My Review] 4.5 stars
- Mother of the Sea by Zetta Elliott [About | My Review] 4 stars
- Briar Rose by Robert Coover [About | My Review] 3.5 stars
- Animal Farm by George Orwell [About | My Review] 4 stars
- You Can’t Touch My Hair by Phoebe Robinson [About | My Review] 4.5 stars
- What-the-Dickens by Gregory Maguire [About | My Review] 2.5 stars
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood [About | My Review] 4.5 stars
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern [About | My Review] 5 stars (re-read)
Last Updated: 12/31/2017