A couple of weeks ago I wrote about my reading goals for 2017. I use Goodreads to keep track of books I’ve read and want to read, but I thought it would be a good idea to break down my reading lists by month. So, I’ll be doing a monthly post on the books that I read the previous month. Since I’m working toward specific reading goals, I’ll list the books by reading challenge or book list. Below are the books that I read in January and February.
JANUARY
Gilmore Girls Season 2 books
• The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
• The Iliad by Homer
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Gilmore Girls Season 3 books<
• History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
Nancy Drew Mystery Stories
• The Bungalow Myster by Carolyn Keene
• The Mystery at Lilac Inn by Carolyn Keene
• The Secret of Shadow Ranch by Carolyn Keene
• The Secret of Red Gate Farm by Carolyn Keene
• The Clue in the Diary by Carolyn Keene
• Nancy’s Mysterious Letter by Carolyn Keene
• The Sign of the Twisted Candles by Carolyn Keene
• The Password to Larkspur Lane by Carolyn Keene
• The Clue of the Broken Locket by Carolyn Keene
• The Message in the Hollow Oak by Carolyn Keene
Popsugar 2017 Reading Challenge + Advanced List
• The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories by Mark Twain – A book by an author who uses a pseudonym. This book includes The Mysterious Stranger, The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and The 1,000,000 Pound Bank-Note. The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County is on the Gilmore Girls Season 2 book list.
• The Art of Eating by M.F.K. Fisher – A book about food. This book is also on the Gilmore Girls Season 2 book list.
• Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave – A novel set during wartime.
• Every You, Every Me by David Levithan – A book with pictures.
Modern Mrs. Darcy’s 2017 Reading Challenges for Fun and for Growth
Growth
• Holes by Louis Sachar – A Newbery Award Winner or Honor Book.
• Candide by Voltaire – A book in translation. This book is also on the Gilmore Girls Season 2 book list.
• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by Jack Thorne – A book of poetry, a play, or an essay collection.
• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – An immigrant story.
• The Games by James Patterson – Three books by the same author.
• Hope to Die by James Patterson – Three books by the same author.
• Zoo 2 by James Patterson – Three books by the same author.
• Atonement by Ian McEwan – A book with an unreliable narrator or ambiguous ending. This book is also on the Gilmore Girls Season 2 book list.
• Ironweed by William J. Kennedy – A Pulitzer Prize or National Book Award winner. This book is also on the Gilmore Girls Season 2 book list.
Bookriot’s 100 Must-Read Hilarious Books
• What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
Bookriot’s 100 Must-Read Books about Monsters
• Paper Girls, Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan
Other books read (not toward a specific goal)
• Anatomy of a Misfit by Andrea Portes
• Black & Blue by James Patterson
• The Christmas Wedding by James Patterson
• Cross Justice by James Patterson
• Cross Kill by James Patterson
• Cross the Line by James Patterson
• Curious Minds by Janet Evanovich
• Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
• Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella
• Get Your Sh*t Together by Sarah Knight
• The Murder of an Angel by James Patterson
• The Paris Mysteries by James Patterson
• The Passenge by Lisa Lutz
• Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
• Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard
• The Pursuit by Janet Evanovich
• The Sky Is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson
• Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum
• The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
FEBRUARY
Gilmore Girls Season 2 books
• The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty
• Unfinished Business: Memoirs: 1902-1988 by John Houseman
• Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence
• The Dirt by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars, and Nikki Sixx
• Novels and Stories by Shirley Jackson – This book includes The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, and other short stories. The Lottery is on the Gilmore Girls Season 2 book list.
The Twilight novels
• New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
Nancy Drew Mystery Stories
• The Mystery of the Ivory Charm by Carolyn Keene
• The Whispering Statue by Carolyn Keene
• The Haunted Bridge by Carolyn Keene
• The Clue of the Tapping Heels by Carolyn Keene
• The Mystery of the Brass-Bound Trunk by Carolyn Keene
• The Mystery at the Moss-Covered Mansion by Carolyn Keene
Popsugar 2017 Reading Challenge + Advanced List
• Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert – An audiobook.
• This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki – A book with one of the four seasons in the title.
• Wonder by R.J. Palacio – A book by or about a person who has a disability.
• Eligible: A modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice by Curtis Sittenfeld – A book with a subtitle.
• What Color Is Your Parachute? by Richard N. Bolles – A book with career advice. This book is also on the Gilmore Girls Season 2 book list.
• Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir – A book about an interesting woman. This book is also on the Gilmore Girls Season 2 book list.
• The Gates by John Connolly – A book set around a holiday other than Christmas.
• The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith – The first book in a series you haven’t read before.
Modern Mrs. Darcy’s 2017 Reading Challenges for Fun and for Growth
Growth
• The Host by Stephenie Meyer – A book that’s more than 600 pages.
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie – A book by an author who uses a pseudonym. This book is also on Bookriot’s 100 Must-Read Hilarious Books list.
Fun
• Looking for Alaska by John Green – A book you chose for the cover.
• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert – A book set somewhere you’ve never been but would like to visit.
• What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty – A book in the backlist of a new favorite author.
• In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
Other books read (not toward a specific goal)
• Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin
• The Expatriates by Janice Y. K. Lee
• Fortune Hunter by Jana DeLeon
• Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
• P.S. I Like You by Kasie West
• A Separation by Katie Kitamura
• Shift by Hugh Howey
• The Weekenders by Mary Kay Andrews