Current Read: Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Current Listen: The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Hello, internet! Happy New Year! It's been a busy end of the year, as usual (there was one weekend in December where I sang 7 concerts between Friday night and Sunday night), but I have been able to get enough reading in to complete (and exceed) my reading goal for the year! My goal was to read 110 books in 2017, and I ended up reading 125. This year I decided to make a spreadsheet of my read this year so I could keep track of what kinds of books I read, particularly in terms of representation. If you're interested, here is a link to my 2017 list!
What books did Katie read in 2017?
Some statistics that I thought were interesting:
-I read 23 books written by an author that is not American.
-I read 38 books written by people of color.
-I read 82 books written by women.
-I read 42 young adult fiction books (that is honestly not as high as I thought it would be).
-I read 26 middle grade and children's books.
-I read 22 graphic novels.
-I read 22 adult fiction books.
-I read 17 nonfiction books.
Some interesting things for me to think about regarding what I like to read and what I could read more of. This year I am going to attempt to write down what my favorite books were this year. I always find this SUPER challenging, since on the whole I do not read a lot of books that I don't like. But we're gonna try. I've been agonizing over it, and I decided to do a top 5 for YA, a top 5 for adult fiction, and a top 5 for non-fiction. These lists will be in no particular order (because putting them in order would make it 10 times harder).
TOP 5 YOUNG ADULT
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
Warcross by Marie Lu
TOP 5 ADULT FICTION
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman
The Red Rising trilogy by Pierce Brown
Artemis by Andy Weir
TOP 5 NON-FICTION
Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
Dear Ijeawele and We Should All Be Feminists by Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie (I'm gonna count these two as one because they are both about 50 pages each)
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie
There are so many more that could have been included, but overall I think I am pretty happy with these lists. This has maybe been my best reading year ever, and in the next week I will be letting you all know what my reading resolutions are to make 2018 even better. That's all she read!
