Garth Stein, author of The Art of Racing in the Rain, shared his list of books read in 2017 on social media. In the post, he wrote, “I was a little short this year–25 books. I think I took a break or something.” I love a peek into a favorite author’s bookshelves and reading habits, and Garth’s list does not disappoint. There’s a great mix of fiction and nonfiction, classics and contemporary. Do you keep a reading log? Did you and Garth read any of the same books last year? (His asterisks indicate books he read to blurb.)
1. Before the Wind by Jim Lynch
2. *The Dead Go to Seattle* Vivian Faith Prescott
3. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
4. Ubik by Philip K Dick
5. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
6. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
7. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
8. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
9. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
10. *Darkansas* by Jarret Middleton
11. While the City Slept by Eli Sanders
12. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
13. Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
14. The Way of the Writer by Charles Johnson
15. Grendel by John Gardner
16. Saga by Brian Vaughan and Fiona Staples
17. *The Night Child* by Anna Quinn
18. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
19. Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
20. How to Catch a Russian Spy by Naveed Jamali
21. *Kickflip Boys* by Neal Thompson
22. *The Dying of the Light* by Robert Goolrick
23. The Mothers by Brit Bennett
24. The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi Durrow
25. How to Get into Our House and Where We Keep the Money by Panio Gianopoulos