Books I've read in 2017

For the past few years I have attempted to keep track of what books I've read. I start January with a list and slowly add to it throughout the first month, but once February hits, it completely goes out the window, and this year was no exception. However the other night, I thought I would attempt to get a list together. So I looked on Amazon at my past orders, looked at my university website at my past modules, and tried to remember the books I read over summer because of YALC and the list was created (however not in order).  I'm pretty sure I have missed off a few I read over summer but overall I read at least read 52 books, and I'm really quite proud of that number if I'm honest! So here it is, all the novels I read in 2017: 

1. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
2. Baumgartner’s Bombay, Anita Desai
3. How Hard Can Love Be? Holly Bourne
4.  Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Sherman Alexie
5. Burnt Shadows, Kamila Shamsie
6. The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai
7. What Maisie Knew, Henry James
8.  The Once and Future King, T.H.White (Not all chapter but most)
9. A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Mas
10.  Lord of Shadows, Cassandra Clare
11. Idylls of the King, Alfred Lord Tennyson
12. The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas
13. Tales from a Shadowhunter academy, Cassandra Clare
14. Wing Jones, Katherine Webber
15. Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery
16.  Once and For All, Sarah Dessen
17. Always and Forever: Lara Jean, Jenny Han
18. The Upside of Unrequited, Becky Albertalli
19. A Quiet Kind of Thunder, Sara Barnard
20. The Truth about Forever, Sarah Dessen [re-read]
21. This Lullaby, Sarah Dessen [re-read]
22. The Names They Gave Us, Emery Lord
23. Geekerella, Ashley Poston
24. This Raging Light: But Then I Came Back, Estelle Laure
25.  Malory Towers, Enid Blyton
26. Peter and Wendy, J.M. Barrie
27. City of Spades, Colin MacInnes
28. Girl in pieces, Kathleen Glasgow
29. This Raging Light, Estella Laure
30. Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda, Becky Albertalli
31.  Love & Gelato, Jenna Evans Welch
32.  The Dark Days Club, Alison Goodman
33. Mansfield park, Jane Austen
34.  Lock and Key, Sarah Dessen [re-read]
35.   Under the Net, Iris Murdoch
36.  The L-Shaped Room, Lynne Reid Banks
37. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Alan Sillitoe 
38.  Disreputable History of Franke Landau Banks, E. Lockhart [re-read]
39. Am I Normal Yet?, Holly Bourne
40. Girlhood, Cat Clarke
41. It Only Happens in the Movies, Holly Bourne
42. Moxie, Jennifer Mathieu
43.  The Exact Opposite of Okay, Laura Stevens
44. Everless, Sarah Holland
45. One of us is Lying, Karen McManus
46. Freshers, Lucy Ivison and Tom Ellen
47. The Loneliest Girl in the Universe, Lauren James
48. The Truth and Lies of Ella Black, Emily Barr
49. The Hazel Wood, Melissa Albert
50.   Juniper Lemon’s, The Happiness Index, Julie Israel
51. The End of the Affair, Graham Greene
52.  The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins

As you can tell, with my course and my own personal taste, I read quite a range of novels! I had thought I would pick my few favourites, but I honestly am struggling to pick out just a few, so I have put my favourite eleven books in bold, although I would recommend most of these books to anyone! 

Hope you all had a lovely Christmas, surrounded by friends, family and lots of food. I had a lovely few days break, however it's already back to essay writing for me as I've got 6,000 words due in next Thursday! But it makes it so much better being surrounded by home comforts and all my family. I'll hopefully write my year round-up, or 2018 hopes soon. Christina xox