I finished 30 books in 2017. It was a good year for reading–nine perfect scores, including three in a row! The biggest development was getting new glasses over the summer–after suffering headaches that slowed me down for far too long, I finally took care of this, and I got much more done after. On the downside, I now see some big holes: no poetry, no science fiction or fantasy, not nearly enough of what I started the year wanting to read. Alas. Still, a great time.
- Eliza, Keith and Ann Terry (1.8, biography)–B
- Where Love Is, There God Is Also, Leo Tolstoy (1.14, literature, Dole trans. / Jordan intro)–A
- Eclogues & Georgics, Virgil (1.21, poetry, Mackail trans.)–C
- The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer (2.11, classics, poetry, Neville Coghill trans.)–A+
- To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf (3.11, literature)–B
- A Walk Among the Tombstones, Lawrence Block (3.20, mystery)–B
- The Little Way of Ruthie Leming, Rod Dreher (3.27, biography)–A+
- The Benedict Option, Rod Dreher (5.29, religion, politics)–A
- The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank (6.23, history)–A
- Born Fighting, James Webb (6.27, history)–A
- Uncle Vanya, Anton Chekhov (7.1, drama)–C
- Saint Joan, George Bernard Shaw (7.27, drama)–A
- Everything That Remains, The Minimalists (7.27, memoir)–A+
- Purgatory, Dante (7.29, poetry, classic, Anthony Esolen trans.)–A
- The Awakening of Miss Prim, Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera (8.22, fiction)–B
- Nightworld, F. Paul Wilson (8.26, horror)–A+
- Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift (9.17, satire)–A
- Paradise, Dante (10.17, poetry, classic, Anthony Esolen trans.)–A+
- How Dante Can Save Your Life, Rod Dreher (10.23, literary criticism, memoir)–A+
- Speak To The Earth, Rachel Peden (10.31, nature, memoir)–A+
- Fear and Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard (11.10, philosophy, Lowrie trans.)–A
- Troilus and Criseyde, Chaucer (11.20, classic, Windeatt trans.)–D
- Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, Richard Bushman (11.22, biography)–A+
- Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche (11.23, philosophy, Kaufmann trans.)–C
- Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual For Reading Plays, David Ball (11.25, literary criticism)–A+
- Candide, Voltaire (12.2, satire, classic)–A
- It’s All Relative, A.J. Jacobs (12.8, genealogy, humor)–B
- The Best American Short Stories 2017, Heidi Pitlor, ed. (12.16, literature)–B
- The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories, P.D. James (12.19, mystery)–B
- Rameau’s Nephew, Denis Diderot (12.21, satire, Leonard Tancock trans.)–C