2017 Reading list
If reading more was on your list of New Year’s Resolutions, we’ve snagged this list from Amazon touting their top Literature and Fiction reading list for the last 12 months.
- The Undergroud Railroad, Colson Whitehead
This award-winning book will have you on the edge of your seat. The book is about a young slave’s adventures as she desperately attempts to grasp freedom in the South.
- Moonglow, Michael Chabon
Named book of the year by The New York Times, NPR, Slate and Washington Post, you know it’s going to be a good read. Michael Chabon writes about his grandfather’s deathbed confessions and the miraculous stories of love, war and madness that he lived.
- Another Brooklyn, Jacqueline Woodson
This bestseller opens reader’s eyes into a young women’s world who lives in Brooklyn in the 1970s.
- Swing Time, Zadle Smith
Two young black girls dream of growing up and becoming dancers, but only one has talent. The book follows the characters’ lives and conveys how music and dance can set a person free.
- News of the World, Paulette Jiles
Follow Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd and his journey with a young orphan girl traveling through northern Texas.
- Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
Two sisters are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Because of the small difference in birthplace, one marries an Englishman and lives comfortably, and the other is sold into the Gold Coast’s slave trade.
- Barkskins, Annie Proulx
Annie Proulx’s imagination is well noted in this New York Times bestseller about two poor Frenchmen in the seventeenth century who follow their greed and passions.
- Today will be Different, Maria Semple
Maria Semple writes a hilarious heart-felt story about the little things in life that are actually big things.
- Here I am, Johathan Salran Foer
Here I am is an intimate novel written about a family in a crisis. All emotions will flow out of you as chapter-by-chapter Jonathan Safran Foer walks you through literary genius.
- The Nest, Cythia D’Aprix Sweeney
Called hilarious and big-hearted by People, The Nest is a warm novel about four siblings whose inheritance has shaped their individual life choices.
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