A Baker’s Dozen: a list of books I’ve read and admired in 2017

This year felt a little short on books I felt passionate about—you know, the books you want to insist that your friends read. Still, there were some pleasures, including nonfiction (NF), memoir (M), and several delightful re-reads (R). So this is my list.

·      Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout

·      Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (M)

·      The Code Girls by Liza Mundy (NF)

·      The Door by Magda Szabo

·      Draft No.4: On the Writing Process by John McPhee (NF)

·      Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

·      A Hidden Wholeness: Toward an Undivided Life by Parker Palmer (NF)

·      How It All Began by Penelope Lively (R)

·      The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories by Penelope Lively

·       The Senator’s Children by Nicholas Montemarano

·      Talking Pictures: How to Watch Movies by Ann Hornaday (NF)

·      The Trespasser by Tana French

·      Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings: A Novel by Stephen O’Connor

Up next: recommendations from reader friends--and Barack Obama's book list for 2017!