Top Books from 2008-2017

I've kept records on the number of books I read starting in college (2011-I apparently read 144. Ah, the joys of working a low stress retail job that let me read at the register.)

And with the end of the year coming faster than ever, here are some recs if you need some good reading.

2008
1. The Feminine Mistake: Are We Giving Up Too Much?-Leslie Bennett
2. On My Own Two Feet: A Modern Girl’s Guide to Personal Finance-ed. Manisha Thakor and Sharon Kedar
3. She’s Not the Man I Married: My Life with a Transgender Husband-Helen Boyd
4. The Little School-Alicia Partnoy
5. Krik? Krak!-Edwidge Danticat
6. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle-Barbara Kingsolver

2009
1. Babylove: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence-Rebecca Walker
2. This Common Secret: My Life as an Abortion Doctor-Susan Wicklund
3. Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics-Jennifer Baumgardner

2010
1.The Prisoner’s Wife-asha bandele
2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows-J.K. Rowling

3. A Year of Mornings: 3191 Miles Apart-Maria Alexandra Vettese
4. Are Prisons Obsolete?-Angela Y. Davis
5. Room: A Novel-Emma Donoghue

2011
1. American Vampire Series-Scott Synder/Rafael Albuquerque/Stephen King
2. Haiti Noir-edited by Edwidge Danticat
3. Locke & Key Volume Series-Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodriguez
4. Are You My Guru? How Medicine, Meditation, & Madonna Saved My Life-Wendy Shanker
5. the terrible stories (American Poets Continuum)-Lucille Clifton
6. Fat! So? Because You Don’t Have to Apologize for Your Size-Marilyn Wann
7. Shit My Dad Says-Justin Halpern

2012
1. Built Like That: The Word-Alix Olson
2. Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World-Vicki Myron & Bret Witter
3. Etched On Me-Jenn Crowell
4. The Hunger Games series-Stephanie Collins

2013 

1. The Zero Waste Home-Bea Johnson
2. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks-Rebecca Skloot

2014
1. Tiny Beautiful Things-Cheryl Strayed
2. You Can Buy Happiness (and It’s Cheap): How One Woman Radically Simplified Her Life and How You Can Too-Tammy Strobel
3. The End of Eve-Ariel Gore
4. Wild-Cheryl Strayed

2015
1. Dark Sky Society-Ailish Hopper
2. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up-Marie Kondo

2016
1. Spark Joy-Marie Kondo
2. Here’s the Plan-Allyson Downey
3. How to Have Your Second Child First: Kerry Colburn

2017
1. When Breath Becomes Air-Paul Kalanithi
2. March-Series-John Lewis
3. Cabin Porn
4. Station Eleven-Emily St. John Mandel
5. About What Was Lost-Jessica Berger Gross
6. Beautiful Ghetto-Devin Allen
7. Life’s Work-Willie Parker
8. We Were Witches-Ariel Gore
9. Expecting Better -Emily Oster
10. The Liberal Redneck Manifesto