Sunday, December 31, 2017

2017 Reading List

It's New Year's Eve again, time to share everything I've read this past year.

Starting in 2015, in addition to logging all the books and plays that I read, I also challenged myself to PopSugar's Reading Challenge. I liked the challenge, so I did it again in 2016, and again this year with the 2017 version.

This year, I also set a goal to read one Shakespeare play each month. These are all included on this list under the "plays" heading. I didn't quite make it, but I'm still pretty pleased!

As always, only books that were finished made the list; anything partially read or unfinished is not listed here.

Here's what I read in 2017:

Fiction

  • The Tropic of Serpents by -a book involving a mythical creature

Plays

  • Richard III by William Shakespeare -- a book by or about a person who has a disability
  • The Addams Family Musical book by Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice, music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa -- a book with multiple authors
  • Henry VI Part 2 by William Shakespeare -- a book with a title that's a character's name
  • Honeymoon in Vegas book by Andrew Bergman, music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown -- a book involving travel
  • Henry VI Part 1 by William Shakespeare
  • Ordinary Days music and lyrics by Adam Gwon
  • Henry V by William Shakespeare
  • Red by John Logan -- a book with a red spine
  • Henry IV Part 2 by William Shakespeare
  • The Little Dog Laughed by Douglas Carter Beane -- a book set in a hotel
  • Henry IV Part 1 by William Shakespeare
  • It's Only a Play by Terrence McNally
  • Richard II by William Shakespeare -- a book written by someone you admire
  • The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare -- a book that's been on your TBR list for way too long
  • You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown music and lyrics by Clark Gesner -- a book with a nonhuman perspective
  • The Nance by Douglas Carter Beane -- a book with an eccentric character

Unused Categories:

-a book recommended by a librarian
-a book of letters
-an audiobook
-a book by a person of color
-a book with one of the four seasons in the title
-a book that is a story within a story
-an espionage thriller
-a book with a cat on the cover
-a book by an author who uses a pseudonym
-a bestseller from a genre you don't normally read
-a book with a subtitle
-a book that's published in 2017
-a book you've read before that never fails to make you smile
-a book about food
-a book with career advice
-a steampunk novel
-a book set in the wilderness
-a book you loved as a child
-a book by an author from a country you've never visited
-a novel set during wartime
-a book with an unreliable narrator
-a book with pictures
-a book where the main character is a different ethnicity that you
-a book about an interesting woman
-a book set in two different time periods
-a book with a month or day of the week in the title
-a book that's becoming a movie in 2017
-a book set around a holiday other than Christmas
-the first book in a series you haven't read before
-a book you bought on a trip
-a book recommended by an author you love
-a bestseller from 2016
-a book with a family-member term in the title
-a book that takes place over a character's life span
-a book about an immigrant or refugee
-a book from a genre/subgenre that you've never heard of
-a book that's more than 800 pages
-a book you got from a used book sale
-a book that's been mentioned in another book
-a book about a difficult topic
-a book based on mythology