17 Favorite Books of 2017

The reason why I love this book so much is because it feels so real and so honest and so true.

I found it to be just completely fascinating, a great character study.

This book is completely gripping. I read it in like two days.

This book is completely gripping. I read it in like two days.

I think that Gilbert King does a really great job of writing the story in a way that's completely engaging for the reader.

This book is really, I think, unexpected. It doesn't go where you think it's going to go and I just found it to be completely, completely moving.

This book is really, really surreal. It feels like you're in a fever dream while you're reading this book, which is such an interesting thing to experience while reading a book.

One of the things I really like in here is that Roxane gay is so vulnerable about her life and her choices.

This is a mystery book and this book was so delightful, so much fun. I highly recommend it.

There are parts in here that made me cry because again it's so honest and so real and so true to like my experience as well.

This book explores the Armenian genocide that happened in Turkey. And it's completely heartbreaking but completely worth reading.

It's so well done. I was completely shocked by a lot of the twists that happened in this story.

It's so well done. It's so beautifully written. I highly, highly recommend it.

But I found it to be just so poignant and so perfect for this period of time that we're living in. But even beyond that, it has like these really deep, rich characters that you don't often find in young adult stories.

It's a pretty well-known collection of short stories by Sherman Alexie and for good reason because it's really fantastic.

I loved it so, so much that I read it and then I ended up buying a copy within like a week of finishing it. So yeah, highly, highly recommend this one.

This essay collection was everything for me this year.