After a successful 2017 finishing a book a week, I know how challenging it can be. This year I’ve decided to scale it down to book of the month or maybe even author of the month or something. Lets see where the year takes us….

January – Nobel Prize winner 2017 – Kazuo Ishiguro

• A pale view of hills
• Nocturnes
• Never let me go
• The Unconsoled

February – Romance / Black History Month

• The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• A streetcar named desire by Tennessy Williams
• Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton
• Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

March – Crime/Mystery/Thriller

• And then there were none by Agatha Christie
• Adnan’s story by Rabia Chaudry
• Murder on the orient express By Agatha Christie
• The Racketeer by john Grisham

April – Science

• Hit Makers: The science of popularity in the age of distraction by Derek Thompson
• Homo Deus: A brief history of tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
• Sapiens: A brief history of humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
• Gut by Giulia Enders

May/June- YA

• The graveyard book by Neil Gaiman
• The invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
• Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
• Another day by David Levithan
• Forgive me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick

July /August – Random summer reads

• Lincoln in the bardo by George Saunders
• Lullaby by Leïla Slimani

September – Inspired by K-Pop

• The ones who walk away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The good son by Jeong You-Jeong
• Into the magic shop by James R. Doty MD

October – That brick that takes forever!

• A little life by Hanya Yanaghara
• The Nix by Nathan Hill

November/December – Memoir

• Becoming by Michelle Obama
• Levels of life by Julian Barnes