Laurel Cleary
What I Read in 2017
JANUARY
An African in Greenland Tete-Michel Kpomassie
The Flamethrowers Rachel Kushner
Euphoria Lily King
King John William Shakespeare
FEBRUARY
Watership Down Richard Adams
Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere Andre Aciman
Umami Laia Jufresa
Short Stories Flannery O'Connor
All Things That Rise Must Converge
A Temple of the Holy Spirit
The River
The Life You Save May Be Your Own
A Good Man is Hard to Find
The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion Fannie Flagg
Seeing Nature Paul Krafel
MARCH
Dwelling Places Vinita Hampton Wright
Short Stories John Cheever
Goodbye, My Brother
The Housebreaker of Shady Hill
The Country Husband
The Angel of the Bridge
The Jewels of the Cabots
The Maid's Version Daniel Woodrell
Dept. of Speculation Jenny Offill
Gods, Wasps and Stranglers Mike Shanahan
Henry VIII William Shakespeare
Bright Lines Tanwi Nandini Islam
APRIL
A Girl in Winter Philip Larkin
The Expatriates Janice Y.K. Lee
Stop-Time Frank Conroy
Swann's Way Marcel Proust
Nora Webster Colm Toibin
MAY
All the Birds, Singing Evie Wyld
The Snows of Kilimanjaro Ernest Hemingway
Amy and Isabelle Elizabeth Strout
Selected Short Stories William Faulkner
JUNE
Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese
Snow Hunters Paul Yoon
Inspector Imanishi Investigates Seicho Matsumoto
The Taming of the Shrew William Shakespeare
Josiah's Fire Tahni Cullen w/Cheryl Ricker
JULY
The Gathering * Anne Enright
Nicotine Nell Zink
Black River S.M. Hulse
Full Body Burden Kristen Iversen
The Last Samurai Helen Dewitt
AUGUST
Hadji Murad Leo Tolstoy
Magpie Murders Anthony Horowitz
Etta and Otto and Russell and James Emma Hooper
The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes
At the Edge of the Orchard Tracy Chevalier
SEPTEMBER
Purity Jonathan Franzen
Pensees Blaise Pascal
The Story Hour Thrity Umrigar
Something Wicked This Way Comes Ray Bradbury
OCTOBER
He's Gone Deb Caletti
Anton Chekhov's Selected Stories Anton Chekhov
The Narrow Road to the Deep North * Richard Flanagan
The Mothers Brit Bennett
The Sea John Banville
Please Look After Mom Kyung-Sook Shin
The Comedy of Errors William Shakespeare
NOVEMBER
A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman
The Steppe Anton Chekhov
Everywhere I Look Helen Garner
Lila * Marilynne Robinson
A Lesson of Love: The Revelations Julian of Norwich
Delicious! Ruth Reichl
Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage Dani Shapiro
The Medici Boy John L'Heureux
DECEMBER
Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward
What Paul Really Said About Women John Temple Bristow