2017

December 31, 2017

2017

Looking back through my notes, here are all the books I read in 2017:

January 2017

  • The Bondage of the Will, by Martin Luther
  • Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground (audio), by Kevin Poulsen
  • The Collapse of Parenting: How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups (audio), by Leonard Sax
  • Let the Right One In, by John Ajvide Lindqvist - one of the best horror books I've read

February 2017

  • Feynman (graphic), by Ottaviani and Myrick
  • The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded (graphic), by Ottaviani and Purvis

March 2017

  • A Short History of Nearly Everything (audio), by Bill Bryson
  • Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (print and audio), by Stephen Levy
  • Kindred, by Octavia Butler
  • Shane (audio), by Jack Schaefer
  • A Series of Unfortunate Events #1 (family read), by Lemony Snicket

April 2017

  • A Series of Unfortunate Events #2 (family read), by Lemony Snicket
  • A Series of Unfortunate Events #3 (family read), by Lemony Snicket
  • A Series of Unfortunate Events #4 (family read), by Lemony Snicket
  • A Series of Unfortunate Events #5 (family read), by Lemony Snicket

June 2017

  • A Series of Unfortunate Events #6 (family read), by Lemony Snicket
  • Stories of Your Life and Others (audio), by Ted Chiang
  • David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
  • Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen
  • Bruchko (audio), by Bruce Olson

July 2017

  • The Revenent, by Michael Punke
  • Fargo Rock City, by Chuck Klosterman
  • A Series of Unfortunate Events #7 (family read), by Lemony Snicket

August 2017

  • A Series of Unfortunate Events #8 (family read), by Lemony Snicket
  • A Series of Unfortunate Events #9 (family read), by Lemony Snicket
  • The Relic Master (audio), by Christopher Buckley
  • The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out a Window and Disappeared (audio), by Jonas Jonasson

September 2017

  • How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming (audio), by Mike Brown
  • Moneyball (audio), by Michael Lewis
  • A Series of Unfortunate Events #10 (family read), by Lemony Snicket
  • A Series of Unfortunate Events #11 (family read), by Lemony Snicket
  • Better Than Before (audio), by Gretchen Rubin

October 2017

  • American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

November 2017

  • The Benedict Option (audio), by Rod Dreher
  • My Best Friend's Exorcism, by Grady Hendrix

December 2017

  • Horrorstör, by Grady Hendrix
  • A Series of Unfortunate Events #12 (family read), by Lemony Snicket

Summary:

37 total books: 13 audio, 24 print; 23 fiction, 14 non-fiction.

I can’t believe we started reading A Series of Unfortunate Events (or “S. U. E.,” as we call it) in March – it seems like we’ve been reading them for years. We’re on the last book now, and it’s been fun to read them all together.

The best books I read was definitely David Copperfield. That went straight into my Top 10 list. The Bondage of the Will and Let the Right One In were also highlights.