Jenny, previous and future guests of the podcast, and a few other readers come together to share their best reads of the year. In typical Reading Envy fashion, these are not necessarily books that were published in 2017. What was your best read of the year? Feel free to share at the end of this post. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 105: Best Reads of 2017 Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher I am scheduling guests for 2018! If you are interested in appearing on the podcast: FAQ Jason Roland (Episodes 14, 25, 42, 54, 73, 80, 104) Autumn by Karl Ove Knaussgard Julie Davis (3, 55, 83) Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott Jenny's top short story collections Things to do when You're Goth in the Country: and Other Stories by Chavisa Woods (88) Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado (101) Reggie Kindred by Octavia Butler (also mentioned The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas) Jenny's top genre reads A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers (87) The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe (91) After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones (98) Lark Benobi, author of The Book of Dog The Eternal Zero by Naoki Hyakuta Lauren (97) China in Ten Words by Yu Hua An Arrangement of Skin by Anna Journey Vulgar Remedies: Poems by Anna Journey Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild The Summer that Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel Annie Muktuk and other Stories by Norma Dunning Elizabeth of Silver’s Reviews The Baker's Secret by Stephen P. Kiernan Jenny's top readalongs East of Eden by John Steinbeck (90) The Secret History by Donna Tartt (99) Scott (most of the first 25, then 52, 58, 71, 82) Dracula by Bram Stoker Bianca Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire. Jeff Koeppen (90, 93, 99) You Don't Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie Jenny's top non-fiction reads Island Home: A Landscape Memoir by Tim Winton (86) Out on the Wire: The Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of Radio by Jessica Abel (97) Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby Tracy (63, 64, 91) Penny Reid, everything she's written Karen Acosta (4, 15, 51, 66, 101) Lab Girl by Hope Jahren Born A Crime by Trevor Noah RealBooks4Ever Lincoln in The Bardo by George Saunders (particularly audio) Jenny's top audiobook reads Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn (97 by Lauren) Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman Bryan Alexander (2, 11, 30, 65, 84) Red Calvary by Isaac Babel Casey The Complete Butcher's Tales by Rikki Ducornet The Box Man by Kobe Abe The View from the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman Amanda from BookClubSocial (87) Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening by Manal al-Sharif (also mentioned on 96) Iran Awakening by Shirin Ebadi The German Girl by Armando Lucas Correa Grace from BookClubSocial (87) The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis Lindy (95) The Ghost Orchard by Helen Humphries Jenny's top reads in poetry A Place Called No Homeland by Kai Cheng Thom Sorry for Your Troubles by Padraig O' Tuoma Readings from the Book of Exile by Padraig O' Tuoma (not featured) The Performance of Becoming Human by Daniel Borzutkzy (88) When I Grow Up I Want To Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen (97) Luke (17, 32, 44, 69 Nine Fox Gambit by Yun Ha Lee Juliane (37, 69) Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Jenny's top reads in fiction Black Wave by Michelle Tea (80 and 102) Plainsong by Kent Haruf (82) (also Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf, 103) Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (96) Suite for Barbara Loden by Nathalie Leger (96) The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyn Elizabeth (33, 61) The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams Jenny's List of Reading Envy for 2017 (aka books I haven't g