Looking for something to read in 2017?  Maybe I can help, because I somehow read all the books in 2016.  Our family reading habit coupled with my propensity for aggressive to-do lists leads me to go overboard with the books sometimes, if such a thing is possible.  I set a goal last year of reading 52 books - one book for every week of the year.  This turned out to be more manageable than it sounds and I surpassed it to 54, but largely because working from home allows me to read during a lot of those hours the rest of you are spending at the office walking around chitchatting over coffee with your colleagues.  C'est la vie.

Special Recommendations are bolded - here is a link to my GoodReads Challenge.  Get more information on any of the below, and be my friend!

• A People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn) - for the socialist-leaning history buff
• The Brain that Changes Itself (Norman Doidge) - for the amateur neuroscientist
• Appalachian Elegy (bell hooks) - for the blue collar feminist poet
• The Ethics of Ambiguity (Simone de Beauvoir) - for the practical philosopher
• The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up (Marie Kondo) - for the clutter bug
• Fates and Furies (Lauren Groff) - for everyone but the newly married
• Lies My Teacher Told Me (James W. Loewen) - for an expanded view on American history
• Big Magic (Elizabeth Gilbert) - for the part-time creator
• Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury) - for a comfortable entreé into dystopia
• My Life on the Road (Gloria Steinem) - for the budding feminist
• Bad Behavior (Mary Gaitskill) - for the short story fan

• Men Explain Things To Me (Rebecca Solnit) - for anyone who gets man-splained on the regs
• Revenge Wears Prada (Lauren Weisberger) - for the completist
• The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood) - for those looking for a hidden gem
• Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism (Chris Jennings) - for a hidden history
• In A Dark, Dark Wood (Ruth Ware) - for the best-seller buff
• Remembrance of Things Paris (Gourmet Magazine) - for the armchair foodie
• Blue Nights (Joan Didion) - for anyone tough enough to hang through the sads
• Woman Code (Alisa Vitti) - for anyone with alternative views on reproduction
• The Magician's Lie (Greer MacAllister) - for the romantic
• First Bite (Bee Wilson) - for the new parents
• Strangers Drowning (Larissa MacFarquhar) - for the do-gooder who wants to do more

• The Woman in Cabin 10 (Ruth Ware) - for the mystery obsessive
• Multiple Choice (Alejandro Zambra) - for the experimentalist
• Voyager (Russell Banks) - for the photographer
• You'll Grow Out of It (Jessi Klein) - for the comedy writer
• Barbarian Days (William Finnegan) - for the surfer and gypsy
• Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness (Rebecca Solnit) - for the budding philosopher
• Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo (Amy Schumer) - for the super fan
• The Transmigration of Bodies (Yuri Herrera) - for those seeking a fast, dark tale
• The Fire This Time (Jesmyn Ward) - for a deeper view into other perspectives
• Simple Matters (Erin Boyle) - for the responsible citizen and homemaker
• Hagseed (Margaret Atwood) - for the Shakespeare fan

• Hope in the Dark (Rebecca Solnit) - for those stunned by the November election
• The Nest (Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney) - for the members of a large family
• The Year of the Goat (Margaret Hathaway) - for those who want to quit their day jobs
• The Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails (Sarah Bakewell) - for the Francophile
• Hillbilly Elegy (J. D. Vance) - for the empathetic citizen, red or blue
• The Girls (Emma Cline) - for those who were part of a clique
• Sweetbitter (Stephanie Danler) - for the former waitress
• How to Set a Fire and Why (Jesse Ball) - for the adult who was once a sassy tomboy
• In Praise of Slow (Carl Honoré) - for anyone on the verge of burn-out
• On Writers and Writing (Margaret Atwood) - for the writer, obviously

• In Other Words (Jhumpa Lahiri) - for the language-lover
• The City of Mirrors (Justin Cronin) - for the adventure fan who started with Book 1
• All the Single Ladies (Rebecca Traister) - for all the ladies and the men who love them
• The First Bad Man (Miranda July) - for the surrealist
• Smarter Faster Better (Charles Duhig) - for the efficiency maniac
• One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding (Rebecca Mead) - for the bride-to-be
• The Girl in the Red Coat (Kate Hamer) - for the parents of sons, but not daughters
• Notorious RBG (Irin Carmon) - for the #girlboss
• The Widow (Fiona Barton) - for the unreliable narrator
• The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food (Judith Jones) - for the gourmand
• Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Carlo Rovelli) - for the armchair scientist