Books I Finished in 2017 (and a few I didn’t)
I know you’ve been waiting all year to see what books I managed to get through last year. I started about twice as many as I finished - I've included brief sketches of the more noteworthy ones at the end of this post. About half of the books I finished were inspired by the Tim Ferriss podcast, and are denoted by **. Let me know your favorite reads, and if you read any of the books on this list, let me know in a comment what you thought of them. If nothing else, this may be the only place you'll see the term "bildungsroman" used twice in 14 pages, er, technically three times now. So, in no particular order: Akata Witch Nnedi Okorafor Nnedi Okorafor is a science fiction author who hails from Nigeria, and thus has a different perspective on the future than we get from the European white guys who have owned this space from Day One (see what I did there?). I spent quite a bit of time with her works this year, and plan to spend more in 2018. It’s refreshing encoun...