The 53 Books I have Read This Year

This year, with the help of a eBook Reader and a Library Card, I’ve surpassed my goal to read 52 books (that’s one a week) in 2016.

I read everything cover to cover. Some of them weren’t so great but I always finish a book. In doing so, my mind was opened and I learned a lot about the lives of different people (I have a huge fascination with North Korea now), different ways of viewing the world, laughed and cried.

I love reading and I’ll continue to do so in 2017 (with probably the same goal because it is a realistic gauge of books). Follow my reading adventure on Goodreads @tianafeng

Here is a list of all the books I read starting from the most recent.

1. This is Happy by Camilla Gibb.
2. I’m Just A Person by Tig Notaro
3. Where Am I Now? by Mara Wilson
4. The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis
5. The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story by Hyeonseo Lee
6. An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
7. China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan
8. Porcelain: A Memoir by Moby
9. Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
10. Such Good Girls: The Journey of the Hidden Child Survivors of the Holocaust by R.D. Rosen
11. Bloom: navigating life and style by Estée Lalonde
12. Now I Know More: The Revealing Stories Behind Even More of the World’s Most Interesting Facts by Dan Lewis
13. Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay
14. Something to food about: Exploring Creativity with Innovative Chefs by Questlove
15. Sick in the Head by Judd Apatow
16. A Kim Jong Il Production by Paul Fischer
17. The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic by Jessica Hopper
18. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
19. On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes by Alexandra Horowitz
20. Oh Myyy! by George Takei
21. Open City by Teju Cole
22. Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad
23. The Illegal by Lawrence Hill
24. QR Codes Kill Kittens by Scott Stratten
25. The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah
26. The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety by Alan W Watts
27. Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual by Michael Pollan
28. The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory by John Seabrook
29. The Dogs I Have Kissed by Trista Mateer
30. Social: Why Our Brains are Wired to Connect by Matthew D Lieberman
31. The Good Girl by Mary Kubica
32. I Know How She Does It by Laura Vanderkam
33. Nowhere With You: The East Coast Anthems of Joel Plaskett, The Emergency and Thrush Hermit by Josh O’Kane
34. The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck by Sarah Knight
35. Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling by H. Edgar Schein
36. The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness
37. The Crossing by Michael Connelly
38. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nicholas Nassim Taleb
39. This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
40. Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan
41. Mo’ Meta Blues by Questlove
42. Between the World and Me by Ta-neshi Coates
43. Thinking in Numbers: On Life, Love Meaning and Math by Daniel Tammet
44. The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan
45. So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
46. The Ravenous Brain by Daniel Bor
47. Don’t Go Back to School: A Handbook for Learning Anything by Kio Stark
48. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
49. Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling
50. The Door by Magda Szabo
51. Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America’s Gutsiest Troublemakers by Nick Offerman
52. People I Want to Punch in the Throat by Jenn Mann
53. Do Cool Sh*t by Miki Agrawal

Let me know what books I should check out in 2017. I’m up for anything!