My books resolution last year was 15 books, and I used Goodreads to track my progress with that resolution as I have the past few years. I was reading very long and hefty books this year, which was sometimes very frustrating with hitting a certain number of books (versus pages, I guess) because the 14th book I started reading this year was super dense and fairly technical. I loved the book but it was frustrating to read for hours and only have progressed 2% further than when I started that day. If I hadn’t started other books before finishing it, I would never have hit my goal of 15. I also read most of the A Song of Ice and Fire series, aka the Game of Thrones books, which are very, very long. The longest book I read this year, according to my Goodreads Year in Books, was A Storm of Swords at 1,177 pages. For reference, the average number of pages of the books I read this year was less than 500.

Without further ado, here are the books I read this year:

• In Other Words – Jhumpa Lahiri
• A Storm of Swords – George R. R. Martin
• Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby – Sandi Metz
• The Inkblots – Damion Searls
• A Feast of Crows – George R. R. Martin
• A Dance with Dragons – George R. R. Martin
• China Rich Girlfriend – Kevin Kwan
• Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
• The New York Times: Footsteps
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck – Mark Manson
• Rich People Problems – Kevin Kwan
• Modern Lovers – Emma Straub
• Spark Joy – Marie Kondo
• Sharp Objects – Gillian Flynn
• everyone’s an aliebn when ur a aliebn too – jomny sun
• The Comic Book Story of Video Games – Jonathan Hennessey & Jack McGowan (review coming soon!)
• Turtles All the Way Down – John Green
• The Pragmatic Programmer – Andrew Hunt & David Thomas
• The Gene – Siddhartha Mukherjee

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I already have some titles loaded on my Kindle Paperwhite and I’m very excited to get reading this year! Here’s hoping I can make good progress with some easier to manage books and avoid pedantic fictions that make me so nervous about checking out new fiction titles…

Do you have any book recommendations for me going into 2018? Read anything good last year that you’d suggest? New titles, classics? Fiction, non-fiction?

What’s your reading look like? What are your 2018 reading goals?

Previous years: 2016