These are all the books I read in 2017 that I remembered to write down. Asterisks indicate that I didn’t finish the book, for whatever reason (usually I just got distracted, or it was due at the library).
Damballah, John Edgar Wideman
Things That Are, Amy Leach
Sunnyside, Glenn David Gold *
The Regional Office is Under Attack!, Manuel Gonzales
Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit
Letters to a Young Poet, Rilke
Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
McGlue, Otessa Moshfegh
Fifteen Dogs, Andre Alexis
Wait Till You See Me Dance, Deb Olin Unferth
Art of Fiction, John Gardner
You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, Alexandra Kleeman *
The Miniature Wife, Manuel Gonzales
Magic for Beginners, Kelly Link
The Shell Collector, Anthony Doerr *
Gold Fame Citrus, Claire Vaye Watkins
The Quick and the Dead, Joy Williams *
Where’d You Go, Bernadette?, Maria Semple
Veronica, Mary Gaitskill
What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell
Too Fat Too Slutty Too Loud, Anne Helen Peterson *
The Missing Girl, Jacqueline Doyle [Review]
Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado [Review]
The River of Consciousness, Oliver Sacks [Review]
The First Church of What’s Happening, Miah Jeffra
Artemis, Andy Weir