In the vein of sharing progress on book goals, I wanted to tell you guys about the goal I set for myself this year which was to read 17 books in 2017. This came after a very hectic 2016 where I finished an embarrassing 6 books (and put down probably a dozen more without finishing them). Here's my list:

• The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
• Finch by Jeff VanderMeer
• On Writing Well by William Zinsser
• Storm Front by Jim Butcher
• Nonstop Metropolis by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro & Rebecca Solnit
• Nyctophobia by Christopher Fowler
• Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil
• Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle
• No Mud, No Lotus by Thich Nhat Hanh
• Adventures in Old New York by Greg Young & Tom Meyers
• Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
• Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• Nabokov's Favorite Word is Mauve by Ben Blatt
• Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan & Pia Guerra
• Hyperion by Dan Simmons
• The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
• The Falls by Peter Greenaway
• The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• The Power by Naomi Alderman

(I try not to include things like graphic novels on these lists but Fun Home felt like an exception, as did the entirety of Y: The Last Man.)

Probably the biggest stopper for me on this list was The Savage Detectives--IIRC it took me something like 2-3 months to finish it and for a while there I wasn't even sure if I would.

My favorite was probably Wolf in White Van, though I definitely wanted more of it by the time the (very) slim book was over. The Secret History is a close second. My least favorite is probably Storm Front. I really love the idea of Dresden and the series, but the writing was just too sloppy for me. I've been told to jump ahead a few books in the series and I may still do that but it was a little too genre for me.

Now to up the ante and try to beat this goal in 2018...