In 2017 I shocked myself by reading 100 books, despite a busy two semesters and three busy internships. This was the year that I fully kicked my reading slump and made sure I found more time to read, especially when I wasn't just on a break from school. Thankfully, audiobooks and the NYPL (and my internship at a publishing imprint) kept me reading throughout the spring and fall semesters, not just during the summer months. I also read so many wonderful books last year, so overall... a great reading year. Now, in 2018, I have another long, ambitious reading list to start out the year. I'm excited to pick up some of the newer books I missed last year, catch up on a few books that have been sitting on my shelves for a while, and get to read some upcoming releases that I've been awaiting for a long time (I'm dying to get my hands on Circe by Madeline Miller).
FICTION
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Circe by Madeline Miller
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater
Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Brooklyn & Nora Webster by Colm Toíbín
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio
The Power by Naomi Alderman
The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman
Marlena by Julie Buntin
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Before the Devil Breaks You by Libba Bray
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Smiley's People & A Legacy of Spies by John Le Carŕé
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake
Stolen Beauty by Laurie Lico Albanese
NON-FICTION
What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
All the Single Ladies by Rebecca Traister
Promise Me, Dad by Joe Biden
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II by Liza Mundy
Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard
Flâneuse: Women Walk the City by Lauren Elkin
Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World by Suzy Hansen
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History by Kurt Andersen
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story by Angela Saini
The Lonely City by Olivia Laing
I'll Have What She's Having: How Nora Ephron's Three Iconic Films Saved the Romantic Comedy by Erin Carlson
Vacationland by John Hodgman
Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation by Anne Sebba
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War by Lynsey Addario
In the Garden of the Beasts by Erik Larson
Razzle Dazzle by Michael Riedel
Young Radicals by Jeremy McCarter
First Women by Kate Andersen Brower