Well-Read Episode #43 - 2017 Reading Resolutions

The year has flown by! It’s time to revisit our reading resolutions of 2016, and make some new plans for the coming year. And we’ll close with what we’re reading this week.

Books and other media mentioned in this episode:

Episode 17 – 2016 Reading Resolutions
Goodreads Reading Challenge
Book Riot Read Harder Challenge
The Book with No Pictures by B.J. Novak
Pop Sugar Reading Challenge
Sarah MacLean books
Celeste Ng books
Daniel José Older books
Around the Year in 52 Books
Modern Mrs. Darcy
What Should I Read Next (podcast)
Modern Mrs. Darcy Reading Challenge
Litsy
#LitsyAtoZ Challenge
Eurovision
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Neopolitan Novels series by Elena Ferrante
“The Subtle Genius of Elena Ferrante’s Bad Book Covers” (The Atlantic article by Emily Harnett
“Elena Ferrante: An Answer?” (The New York Review of Books article by Claudio Gatti)
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace (TV)
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Dublin Murder Squad series by Tana French
In the Woods by Tana French
Three Pines (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache) series by Louise Penny
Still Life by Louise Penny
The Magicians series by Lev Grossman
A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
“Damn, You’re Not Reading Any Books by White Men This Year? That’s So Freakin Brave and Cool” (Jezebel article by Jia Tolentino)
Flavia de Luce series by Alan Bradley
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows by Alan Bradley
Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear

What We’re Reading This Week:

• Ann: Sex Object by Jessica Valenti
  – The Guardian 
  – Jessica Valenti books
  – The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis
• Halle: Leave Me by Gayle Forman
  – Gayle Forman books