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Read in 2017

Seventh year, let’s go! You know the drill. For clarification, I’m counting my journals this year because each of them are at least 250 pages.

  1. The Essential Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
  2. It’s a Magical World by Bill Watterson
  3. Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple
  4. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  5. Transformations by Anne Sexton
  6. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
  7. One More Thing by B.J. Novak
  8. The Consequence of Loving Colton by Rachel Van Dyken (audio)
  9. The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
  10. Changing Light at Sandover by James Merrill
  11. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler
  12. The Portable Beat Reader by Ann Charters
  13. Just Kids by Patti Smith*
  14. Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith
  15. Winter by Marissa Meyer
  16. The Consequence of Revenge by Rachel Van Dyken
  17. The Wrath and the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh
  18. The Rose and the Dagger by Renée Ahdieh
  19. The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma*
  20. Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater (audio)*
  21. Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
  22. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
  23. Small Damages by Beth Kephart
  24. Journal #1
  25. Journal #2
  26. Journal #3
  27. Journal #4
  28. Journal #5
  29. Journal #6
  30. Journal #7
  31. Journal #8
  32. Journal #9
  33. Journal #10
  34. Journal #11
  35. Journal #12
  36. Journal #13
  37. Journal #14
  38. Journal #15
  39. Journal #16
  40. Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
  41. Love Poems from God by Daniel Ladinsky
  42. No Mud, No Lotus by Thich Nhat Hanh
  43. Second Chance Summer by Morgan Matson
  44. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
  45. Insomnia: Poems by Linda Pastan
  46. Rumi: The Book of Love by Coleman Barks
  47. Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson*
  48. How to Love by Katie Cotugno
  49. The Way I Used to Be by Amber Smith
  50. On Love by Alain de Botton
  51. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
  52. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
  53. Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour
  54. Burn for Burn by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian
  55. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
  56. Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
  57. Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
  58. Perfect Ten by L. Philips
  59. The Devil’s Game (manuscript)
  60. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
  61. Cheater by Rachel van Dyken
  62. Cheater’s Regret by Rachel van Dyken
  63. A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro
  64. Art Is the Highest Form of Hope
  65. Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton
  66. The Last of August by Brittany Cavallaro
  67. The Selfishness of Others: An Essay on the Fear of Narcissism by Kristin Dombek
  68. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
  69. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby
  70. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
  71. Slowness by Milan Kundera
  72. You Are Here by Jennifer E. Smith
  73. The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
  74. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
  75. The Unwanteds by Lisa McMann
  76. The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani
  77. The Path of Most Resistance by Russell Wangersky
  78. A Song to Take the World Apart by Zan Romanoff
  79. A World Without Princes by Soman Chainani
  80. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel*
  81. The Big Red Book by Rumi
  82. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
  83. The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater (audio)
  84. Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater (audio)
  85. The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater (audio)
  86. Spellbook of the Lost and Found by Moïra Fowley-Doyle
  87. The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
  88. Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore*
  89. All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater
  90. A Million Junes by Emily Henry
  91. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
  92. The Big Picture by Sean Carroll*
  93. The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee (audio)*
  94. Midnight at the Electric by Jodi Lynn Anderson
  95. I See London, I See France by Sarah Mlynowski
  96. Soundless by Richelle Mead
  97. Heist Society by Ally Carter
  98. Uncommon Criminals by Ally Carter
  99. Five Lives (manuscript)
  100. Perfect Scoundrels by Ally Carter
  101. Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier (audio)
  102. untitled (manuscript)
  103. Just One Day by Gayle Forman
  104. Fireworks by Katie Cotugno
  105. untitled (manuscript)
  106. untitled (manuscript)
  107. More Than We Can Tell by Brigid Kemmerer
  108. Dead is the New Black by Marlene Perez (audio)
  109. On Love and Loneliness by Jiddu Krishnamurti*
  110. Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater (audio)*
  111. A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas*
  112. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
  113. Calling My Name by Liara Tamani
  114. The Course of Love by Alain de Botton
  115. Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan
  116. History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
  117. Lullabies by Lang Leav
  118. Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
  119. The Madman’s Daughter by Megan Shepherd
  120. Foolish Hearts by Emma Mills
  121. A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken
  122. Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman
  123. The Consequences of Seduction by Rachel Van Dyken
  124. Nantucket Blue by Leila Howland
  125. Seventeenth Century Art and Architecture by Ann Sutherland Harris
  126. Somnium Scipionis by Cicero
  127. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
  128. Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
  129. First and Then by Emma Mills
  130. Little Nothing by Marisa Silver
  131. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez*
  132. Lovely, Dark, and Deep by Amy McNamara
  133. Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
  134. Speak Easy, Speak Love by McKelle George
  135. Flame in the Mist by Renée Ahdieh
  136. All I Want to Do Is Live by Trace Ramsey
  137. Double Crossed by Ally Carter
  138. Wicked Like a Wildfire by Lana Popović*
  139. Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer*
  140. Need by Carrie Jones
  141. Captivate by Carrie Jones
  142. Entice by Carrie Jones
  143. Endure by Carrie Jones
  144. Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman*
  145. Cities I’ve Never Lived In by Sarah Majka

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