Recently Read | 2017 recap

Unsurprisingly, 2017 was a good year in books. They helped me escape certain not-so-good aspects of reality and dive into some timely and important topics.

However ... I didn't meet my goal of reading 100 books; I only read 85. I was a little upset about it for a moment or two, but then I realized that meeting an arbitrary number of books read isn't important. It's enjoying the reading that really matters. And although I read a few stinkers, for the most part enjoy them I did.

My favorite reads of the year were:

• Wires and Nerve, Volume One (Wires and Nerve #1) by Marissa Meyer
• Geekerella by Ashley Poston
• Hunted by Megan Spooner
• The Memory Book by Lara Avery
• The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses #3) by Sarah J. Maas
• The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed
• Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore
• Defy the Stars (Constellation #1) by Claudia Gray

You can check out short reviews of these books, and others I read, in my bimonthly Recently Read posts:

January + February | March + April | May + June | July + August | September + October | November + December

And here's a fun little infographic about my 2017 reading stats, via Goodreads:

(Check out the full graphic here.)

What were your fave books of 2017? Do you have any goals for reading in 2018?