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.

1. Eliza, Keith and Ann Terry (1.8, biography)–B
2. Where Love Is, There God Is Also, Leo Tolstoy (1.14, literature, Dole trans. / Jordan intro)–A
3. Eclogues & Georgics, Virgil (1.21, poetry, Mackail trans.)–C
4. The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer (2.11, classics, poetry, Neville Coghill trans.)–A+
5. To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf (3.11, literature)–B
6. A Walk Among the Tombstones, Lawrence Block (3.20, mystery)–B
7. The Little Way of Ruthie Leming, Rod Dreher (3.27, biography)–A+
8. The Benedict Option, Rod Dreher (5.29, religion, politics)–A
9. The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank (6.23, history)–A
10. Born Fighting, James Webb (6.27, history)–A
11. Uncle Vanya, Anton Chekhov (7.1, drama)–C
12. Saint Joan, George Bernard Shaw (7.27, drama)–A
13. Everything That Remains, The Minimalists (7.27, memoir)–A+
14. Purgatory, Dante (7.29, poetry, classic, Anthony Esolen trans.)–A
15. The Awakening of Miss Prim, Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera (8.22, fiction)–B
16. Nightworld, F. Paul Wilson (8.26, horror)–A+
17. Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift (9.17, satire)–A
18. Paradise, Dante (10.17, poetry, classic, Anthony Esolen trans.)–A+
19. How Dante Can Save Your Life, Rod Dreher (10.23, literary criticism, memoir)–A+
20. Speak To The Earth, Rachel Peden (10.31, nature, memoir)–A+
21. Fear and Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard (11.10, philosophy, Lowrie trans.)–A
22. Troilus and Criseyde, Chaucer (11.20, classic, Windeatt trans.)–D
23. Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, Richard Bushman (11.22, biography)–A+
24. Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche (11.23, philosophy, Kaufmann trans.)–C
25. Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual For Reading Plays, David Ball (11.25, literary criticism)–A+
26. Candide, Voltaire (12.2, satire, classic)–A
27. It’s All Relative, A.J. Jacobs (12.8, genealogy, humor)–B
28. The Best American Short Stories 2017, Heidi Pitlor, ed. (12.16, literature)–B
29. The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories, P.D. James (12.19, mystery)–B
30. Rameau’s Nephew, Denis Diderot (12.21, satire, Leonard Tancock trans.)–C