Best book of 2017: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Overall favorite fiction book of 2017: This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
Overall favorite nonfiction book of 2017: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
Overall favorite romance of 2017: Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
Quick stats:
- # of books read: 117
- format breakdown: 41% print, 51% e-book, 8% audiobook
- most-read genre: romance (44%)
- average star rating: 3.8
my favorite reads • reading stats
FIVE-STAR READS
- The Mothers by Brit Bennett
- How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
- The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner
- Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
- This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
- Whisper No Lies by Cindy Gerard
- All Wound Up by Jaci Burton
- The Invasion of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
- The Thing About Love by Julie James
- The Trump Survival Guide by Gene Stone
- With Love from the Inside by Angela Pisel
- Feel the Heat by Cindy Gerard
- Risk No Secrets by Cindy Gerard
- You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero
- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
- The Wedding Pact by Katee Robert
- Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch
- Evicted by Matthew Desmond
- I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend by Martin Short
- With No Remorse by Cindy Gerard
- Last Man Standing by Cindy Gerard
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- Escape by Carolyn Jessop
- Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
- Anchored by Kayla Aimee
- Hunger by Roxane Gay
FOUR-STAR READS
- Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
- A Certain Age by Beatriz Williams
- Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord by Sarah MacLean
- Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
- Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty
- Take No Prisoners by Cindy Gerard
- Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham
- Something In Between by Melissa de la Cruz
- Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke’s Heart by Sarah MacLean
- Grin and Beard It by Penny Reid
- Hopeless by Colleen Hoover
- Still the One by Jill Shalvis
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- A Separate Peace by John Knowles
- All I Want by Jill Shalvis
- Still Life by Louise Penny
- Sweet Little Lies by Jill Shalvis
- The Marriage Contract by Katee Robert
- A Rogue by Any Other Name by Sarah MacLean
- One Good Earl Deserves a Lover by Sarah MacLean
- Into the Water by Paula Hawkins
- The Trouble with Mistletoe by Jill Shalvis
- Losing Hope by Colleen Hoover
- Beard Science by Penny Reid
- Neanderthal Seeks Human by Penny Reid
- One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul
- Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The Red Hunter by Lisa Unger
- Sunset in Central Park by Sarah Morgan
- The Way to London by Alix Rickloff
- Forbidden Promises by Katee Robert
- Maybe In Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Just One Night by Lauren Layne
- Second Chance Summer by Jill Shalvis
- Riding Wild by Jaci Burton
- The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress by Ariel Lawhon
- Artemis by Andy Weir
- Miracle on 5th Avenue by Sarah Morgan
- It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
- Neanderthal Marries Human by Penny Reid
- A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny
- The Rogue Not Taken by Sarah MacLean
THREE-STAR READS
- Straddling the Line by Jaci Burton
- Be Frank With Me by Julia Claiborne Johnson
- Anything For You by Kristan Higgans
- The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives by Katie Couric
- Truth or Beard by Penny Reid
- Wilde Lake by Laura Lippman
- Quarterback Draw by Jaci Burton
- All Summer Long by Dorothea Benton Frank
- Dare to Hold by Carly Phillips
- The Girls by Emma Cline
- When Lightning Strikes by Brenda Novak
- Falling for Her Fiance by Cindi Madsen
- Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
- The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
- Bridges by Maria Murnane
- The Second Mrs. Hockaday by Susan Rivers
- When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
- Cocoa Beach by Beatriz Williams
- An Indecent Proposal by Katee Robert
- After the Kiss by Lauren Layne
- Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
- Rules of Contact by Jaci Burton
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- Sleepless in Manhattan by Sarah Morgan
- Love the One You’re With by Lauren Layne
- Siracusa by Delia Ephron
- No Good Duke Goes Unpunished by Sarah MacLean
- Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
- Never Judge a Lady By Her Cover by Sarah MacLean
- Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? by Alyssa Mastromonaco
- The Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson
- Accidentally on Purpose by Jill Shalvis
- Rising Strong by Brene Brown
- New York Actually by Sarah Morgan
- Chasing Christmas Eve by Jill Shalvis
TWO-STAR READS
- Extreme You by Sarah Robb O’Hagan
- The Secrets of Sir Richard Kenworthy by Julia Quinn
- Unexpectedly Hers by Jamie Beck
- Unexpected Rush by Jaci Burton
- Kiss Carlo by Adriana Trigiani
- Good as Gone by Amy Gentry
- Beard in Mind by Penny Reid
- Sex Object by Jessica Valenti
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
ONE-STAR READS
- Dare to Rock by Carly Phillips
