What I Plan to Read for 2017
In 2016, I set my goal to read 75 books for the year. I ended up having a major reading slump and didn’t read any books for almost two months. This year I decided to set my reading goal for 2017 for 60 books. I will always try to read more than what I challenge myself, but I don’t want to pressure myself like I did in 2016.
My List of Books for 2017
- The Moor’s Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
- Henry V by William Shakespeare
- My Name is Resolute by Nancy E. Turner
- The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
- Love May Fail by Matthew Quick
- Are You fully Charged: the 3 Keys to Energizing Your Work and Life by Tom Rat
- Blue Voyage by Diana Renn
- Girl From Above by Pippa Dacosta
- The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
- Money Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom by Tony Robbins
- Small Business for Dummies by Eric Tyson and Jim Schell
- Villette by Charlotte Bront
- My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop by Ronald Rice
- The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You’ll Never Ready by Stuart Kelly
- A Passion for Books: A Book Lover’s Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Lore, and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring For, and Appreciating Books by
- Read This Next: 500 of the Best Books You’ll Ever Read by Howard Mittelmark and Sandra Newman
- A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books by Nicholas A. Basbanes
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsk
- The Iliad by Homer
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Already Taken: Transform Your Life with the Power of Authenticity by Mike Robbins
- Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World by Linda Hirshman
- The Anatomist’s Wife by Anna Lee
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnet
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
- The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafo
- Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
- The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
- Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbon
- Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
- Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
- The Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media Like Real People and Places by Byron Reeves and Clifford Nass
- The Story of English by Robert McCrum,
- Making Memory Matter: Strategies of Remembrance in Contemporary Art by Lisa Saltzman
- Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
- Mudwoman by Joyce Carol Oates
- Love’s Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature by Martha C. Nussbaum
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Price of Politics by Bob Woodward
- Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books by H.J. Jackson
- The Secret of Pembroke Park by Julie Klasse
- An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
- Oh Dear Silvia by Dawn French
- The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
- The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan
- The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
- Thirteen by Kelley Armstron
- The Pleasures of Reading in the Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs
- Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson
- The Heart of Betrayal by Mary E. Pearson
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen by Mary Norris
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adam
How many books do you plan to read in 2017, and what they are? Tell me in the comments below.