{"id":69,"date":"2016-01-25T04:31:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T04:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katezellmer.com\/?page_id=69"},"modified":"2017-10-21T22:16:14","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T22:16:14","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/katezellmer.com\/?page_id=69","title":{"rendered":"Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing my yearly challenge of reading more! Here&#8217;s a list of books I read in 2017 (favorites are marked with an asterisk)<\/p>\n<ol class=\"ol1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>Love in the Time of Cholera<\/b>, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez*<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation, <\/b>by Rebecca Traister<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>Today Will Be Different<\/b>, by Maria Semple<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>The Underground Railroad<\/b>, by Colson Whitehead<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>Kafka By The Shore<\/b>, by Haruki Marakumi<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale<\/b>, by Margaret Atwood<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>Crazy Rich Asians<\/b>, by Kevin Kwan<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>Grit, <\/b>by Angela Duckworth*<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>On Writing<\/b>, by Stephen King<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>Tools of Titans<\/b>, by Tim Ferris<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>Moonlight, <\/b>by Michael Chabon<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>Lincoln in the Bardo, <\/b>by George Saunders<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>Mindset, <\/b>by Carol Dweck<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>Option B<\/b>, by Sheryl Sandberg<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>Bad Feminist<\/b>, by Roxane Gay<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>The Girls<\/b>, by Emma Cline<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>A Visit from the Goon Squad<\/b>, by Jennifer Egan<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>The Mothers,<\/b> by Brit Bennett*<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>On the Move<\/b>, by Oliver Sacks<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>Swing Time<\/b>, by Zadie Smith<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>Commonwealth<\/b>, by Ann Patchett<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>China Rich Girlfriend<\/b>, by Kevin Kwan<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>The Romanovs<\/b>, by Simon<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>Quiet<\/b>, by Susan Cain<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>Sour Heart<\/b>, by Jenny Zhang<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>A Little Life<\/b>, by Hanya Yanagihara<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>Creativity, Inc<\/b>, by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>And the Pursuit of Happiness<\/b>, by Maria Kalman<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>Hicksville<\/b>, by Dylan Horrocks<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>Men Explain Things to Me<\/b>, by Rebecca Solnit<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>Tomboy,<\/b> by Liz Prince<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>Steve Jobs<\/b>, by Walter Isaacson<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>When Breath Becomes Air<\/b>, by Paul Kalanithi*<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>Small Victories<\/b>, by Julia Turshen<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>Tenth of December<\/b>, by George Saunders<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the list of books from 2016.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Alexander Hamilton<\/strong>, by Ron Chernow<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Lowland<\/strong>, by Jhumpa Lahiri<\/li>\n<li><b>Americanah,\u00a0<\/b>by\u00a0Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie*<\/li>\n<li><strong>Why Not Me?,<\/strong> by Mindy Kaling<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lafayette in the Somewhat United States,\u00a0<\/strong>by Sarah Vowell<\/li>\n<li><strong>Where&#8217;d You Go Bernadette?,\u00a0<\/strong>by Maria Sample<\/li>\n<li><strong>Room,\u00a0<\/strong>by Emma Donoghue<\/li>\n<li><strong>Between the World and Me,\u00a0<\/strong>by Ta-Nehisi Coates<\/li>\n<li><strong>Beloved,<\/strong> by Toni Morrison.<\/li>\n<li><strong>This Is How You Lose Her,\u00a0<\/strong>by Junot Diaz*<\/li>\n<li><strong>Interpreter of Maladies,\u00a0<\/strong>by Jhumpa Lahiri<\/li>\n<li><strong>Originals,\u00a0<\/strong>by Adam Grant*<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Visit From the Goon Squad,\u00a0<\/strong>by Jennifer Egan<\/li>\n<li><strong>The First Collection of Criticism by A Living Female Rock Critic,\u00a0<\/strong>by Jessica Hopper<\/li>\n<li><strong>H is for Hawk,\u00a0<\/strong>by Helen MacDonald<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,\u00a0<\/strong>by Junot Diaz*<\/li>\n<li><strong>In Other Words,\u00a0<\/strong>by Jhumpa Lahiri<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hamilton: The Revolution,\u00a0<\/strong>by Jeremy McCarter and Lin-Manuel Miranda<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fates and Furies,\u00a0<\/strong>by Lauren Groff<\/li>\n<li><strong>David and Goliath,\u00a0<\/strong>by Malcolm Gladwell<\/li>\n<li><strong>Open City,\u00a0<\/strong>by Teju Cole<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rising Strong,\u00a0<\/strong>by Brene Brown<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eligible,\u00a0<\/strong>by Curtis Sittenfeld<\/li>\n<li><strong>I Was Told There Would Be Cake,\u00a0<\/strong>by Sloane Crosley<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Clasp,\u00a0<\/strong>by Sloane Crosley<\/li>\n<li><strong>Homecoming,\u00a0<\/strong>by Yaa Gyasi*<\/li>\n<li><strong>The View From The Cheap Seats,\u00a0<\/strong>by Neil Gaiman<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>Middlesex<\/b>, by Jeffrey Eugindes<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>In the Company of Women, <\/b>by Grace Bonney<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b>Designing Your Life<\/b>, by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans*<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing my yearly challenge of reading more! Here&#8217;s a list of books I read in 2017 (favorites are marked with an asterisk) Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez* All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation, by Rebecca Traister Today Will Be Different, by Maria Semple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-69","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/katezellmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/katezellmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/katezellmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/katezellmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/katezellmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/katezellmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"http:\/\/katezellmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/katezellmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}