Jeremiah's Books 2017

1. Confronting the Classics, Mary Beard
2. Peril at End House, Agatha Christie
3. An Ember in the Ashes, Sabaa Tahir

Randy's Books 2017

(1) The Familiar, Volume 3: Honeysuckle & Pain
by Mark Z. Danielewski

(2) Executing Freedom: The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States
by Daniel LaChance

(3) The Paris Review, No. 219, Winter 2016

(4) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey

(5) The Paris Review, No. 220, Spring 2017

(6) The Satanic Verses
by Salman Rushdie

(7) Don Quixuote
by Miguel de Cervantes

(8) The Gunslinger
by Stephen King

(9) Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
by Daniel H. Pink

(10) Lectures on Don Quixote
by Vladimir Nabokov

(11) Friend & Foe: When to Cooperate, When to Compete, and How to Succeed at Both
by Adam Galinsky & Maurice Schweitzer

(12) The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Diaz

(13) Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
by Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace

(14) The Winning Oral Argument: Enduring Principles with Supporting Comments from the Literature
by Bryan Garner

(15) Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
by Anders Ericsson & Robert Pool

(16) The Paris Review, No. 221, Fall 2017

(17) The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
by Steven Pinker

Best of, 2017.

Billy's Books 2017

1. The Sellout
by Paul Beatty

2. Gulp
by Mary Roach

3. The Last Days of the Incas
by Kim MacQuarrie

4. Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?
by Alyssa Mastromonaco

5. Cork Dork
by Bianca Bosker

6. The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd

7. The Name of the Wind
by Patrick Rothfuss

Brittany's Books 2017

Brittany's Books 2017

a potentially inaccurate list due to #thatgradschoollife

Brittany's Top 3 Books of 2017

20. An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
19. The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
18. Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun, and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes (audio)
17. Before the Devil Breaks You by Libba Bray (audio)
16. My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi Nagata 
15. Hamilton: The Revolution by Jeremy McCarter, Lin-Manuel Miranda (audio)

14. Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera (audio)

13. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

12. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

11. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

10. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

9. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

8. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

7. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
6. Working Stiff: 2 Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek (audio)

5. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (audio)

4. The Chemist by Stephanie Meyer (audio)

3. One More Thing by BJ Novak (audio)

2. Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (audio)

1. Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (audio)

Unfinished Books: 
Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah

Chloe's Books 2017

1. Robinson by Muriel Spark
2. The Brothers Vonnegut by Ginger Strand
3. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
4. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
5. The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
6. Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
7. My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
8. Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
9. The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
10. Every Day by David Levithan
11. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
12. A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
13. The Mandelbaum Gate by Muriel Spark
14. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
15. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
16. Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
17. The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy
18. A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
19. Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
20. Nobody is Ever Missing by Catherine Lacey
21. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
22. Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye
23. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
24. Shrill by Lindy West
25. Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
26. Bringing Up Bébé by Pamela Druckerman
27. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
28. The Fly Trap by Frederik Sjöberg
29. Expecting Better by Emily Oster
30. How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran
31. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. by Judy Blume
32. A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle
33. A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle
34. Only the Little Bone by David Huddle
35. Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
36. Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
37. Moonglow by Michael Chabon
38. Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
39. The House Girl by Tara Conklin
40. Men We Reaped Jesmyn Ward
41. Coming to my Senses by Alice Waters
42. La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman
43. When I was Puerto Rican by Esmerelda Santiago
44. At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier
45. Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
46. Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
47. Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
48. The Leavers by Lisa Ko
49. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
50. The One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg

Top 10 of 2017!

Christopher's Books 2017

67. Love in the Ruins
by Walker Percy
66. Molloy
by Samuel Beckett
65. Martian Time-Slip
by Philip K. Dick
64. Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath
by Sigrid Undset
63. Foundation
by Isaac Asimov
62. Exercises in Style
by Raymond Queneau
61. The Country of the Pointed Firs
by Sarah Orne Jewett
60. The Art of Fiction
by John Gardner
59. Mr. Fortune
by Sylvia Townsend Warner
58. Count Magnus and Other Stories
by M. R. James
57. Demian
by Herman Hesse
56. The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
55. Sanctuary
by William Faulkner
54. Purple Hibiscus
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
53. The Republic of Wine
by Mo Yan
52. The Honorary Consul
by Graham Greene
51. Mystery and Manners
by Flannery O'Cononor
50. The Crossing
by Cormac McCarthy
49. Bird by Bird
by Anne Lamott
48. The Bingo Palace
by Louise Erdrich
47. Passing
by Nella Larsen
46. I Served the King of England
by Bohumil Hrabal
45. The Radiance of the King
by Camara Laye
44. Children of the Mind
by Orson Scott Card
43. The Glass Castle
by Jeanette Walls
42. Letty Fox: Her Luck
by Christina Stead
41. The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium
by Harry Mathews
40. Girl with the Curious Hair
by David Foster Wallace
39. The Bean Trees
by Barbara Kingsolver
38. Fifth Business
by Robertson Davies
37. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
by Mordecai Richler
36. A Death in the Family
by James Agee
35. Breakfast at Tiffany's
by Truman Capote
34. The Death of Napoleon
by Simon Leys
33. The Bachelors
by Muriel Spark
32. Dance of the Happy Shades
by Alice Munro
31. Sartor Resartus
by Thomas Carlyle
30. The Chess Garden
by Brooks Hansen
29. Nightwood
by Djuna Barnes
28. The House of Seven Gables
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
27. Universal Harvester
by John Darnielle
26. Don't Look Now
by Daphne du Maurier
25. Pitch Dark
by Renata Adler
24. Stoner
by John Williams
23. The Republic of Pirates
by Colin Woodard
22. The Twyborn Affair
by Patrick White
21. Independent People
by Halldor Laxness
20. The Medusa Frequency
by Russell Hoban
19. Runaway
by Alice Munro
18. We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson
17. The Confidence-Man
by Herman Melville
16. Solaris
by Stanislaw Lem
15. American Jesus
by Stephen Prothero
14. On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry
by William Gass
13. Augustus
by John Williams
12. Girl Code
by Andrea Gonzales and Sophie Houser
11. The Spider's House
by Paul Bowles
10. The True Deceiver
by Tove Jansson
9. Loving
by Henry Green
8. Othello
by William Shakespeare
7. The Mosquito Coast
by Paul Theroux
6. A Perfect Vacuum
by Stanislaw Lem
5. The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
4. Dear Life
by Alice Munro
3. Herzog
by Saul Bellow
2. Hillbilly Elegy
by J. D. Vance
1. The Robber Bridegroom
by Eudora Welty

Brent's Books 2017

The Best:
My Top 10 of 2017

The List:

1. The Black Stallion
Walter Farley

2. The Damnation of Theron Ware
Harold Frederic

3. Reading Revelation Responsibly
Michael Gorman

4. Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi

5. Seeing Is Believing: Experiencing Jesus Through Imaginative Prayer
Greg Boyd

6. The Black Stallion Returns
Walter Farley

7. Runaway
Alice Munro

8. Go Set a Watchman
Harper Lee

9. Pastoralia
George Saunders

10. Inventing the Flat Earth
Jeffrey Burton Russell

11. Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison

12. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
Cesar Aira

13. Memento Mori
Muriel Spark

14. You, Restless, and No Longer Reformed
 Austin Fischer

15. A More Christlike God
Brad Jersak

16. The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood

17. Fair Play
Tove Jansson

18. Voss
Patrick White

19. The Great Divorce
C.S. Lewis

20. Under the Net
Iris Murdoch

21. Disarming Scripture
Derek Flood

22. Play It as It Lays
Joan Didion

23. Jack of Shadows
Roger Zelazny

24. Idaho
Emily Ruskovich

25. The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Roald Dahl

26. On the Incarnation
Athanasius

27. Old Man's War
John Scalzi

28. Home
Marilynne Robinson

29. Christus Victor
Gustf Aulen

30. The Medusa Frequency
Russell Hoban

31. Son of the Black Stallion
Walter Farley

32. How to Be Evangelical Without Being Conservative
Roger Olson

33. The Black Stallion and Satan
Walter Farley

34. Psalms: The Church's Prayer Book
Deitrich Bonnhoeffer

35. The Medusa Frequency
Russell Hoban

36. An Unnecessary Woman
Rabih Alameddine

37. The Towers of Trezibond
Rose Macauley

38. Hail, Holy Queen
Scott Hahn

39. Brighton Rock
Graham Greene

40. Walkabout
James Vance Marshall

41. Post Office
Charles Bukowski

42. Texts Under Negotiation: The Bible in Postmodern Thought
Walter Brueggermann

43. The Suffering of God: An Old Testament Perspective
Terence E. Fretheim

44. Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You
Alice Munro

45. Jesus and the Disinherited
Howard Thurman

46. The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
Henri Nouwen

47. The Black Stallion's Filly
Walter Farley

48. Kleinzeit
Russell Hoban

49. Jamaica Inn
Daphne Du Maurier

50. Evangelical Theology
Karl Barth

51. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

52. Measure for Measure
William Shakespeare

Randy's Books 2015

(1)  Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
by Kim Cooper

(2)  The Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law
by Mark Herrmann

(3) The Boys in the Boat
by Daniel James Brown

(4)  The Paris Review, No. 211, Winter 2014

(5) Law's Empire
by Ronald Dworkin

(6) Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck

(7) The Death Penalty and Intellectual Disability
Edward A. Polloway, ed.

(8)  Southern Exposure: Modern Japanese Literature from Okinawa
Michael Molasky and Steve Rabson, eds.

(9) The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America
by Naomi Murakawa

(10)  Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
by Jonathan Safran Foer

(11)  Debating the Death Penalty: Should America Have Capital Punishment?
edited by Hugo Bedau and Paul Cassell

(12) The Paris Review, No. 212, Spring 2015

(13) The Killing Joke
by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland

(14) Watchmen
by Alan Moore

(15) The Art of Advocacy: Briefs, Motions, and Writing Strategies of America's Best Lawyers
by Noah A. Messing

(16) The Buried Giant
by Kazuo Ishiguro

(17) Storytelling for Lawyers
by Philip N. Meyer

(18)  Call Me Home
by Megan Kruse

(19)  The Hero with a Thousand Faces
by Joseph Campbell

(20) The Familiar, Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May
by Mark Z. Danielewski

(21) Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut

(22) The Paris Review, No. 213, Summer 2015

(23) The Case Against the Supreme Court
by Erwin Chemerinsky

(24) Go Set a Watchman
by Harper Lee

(25) The Meursault Investigation
by Kamel Daoud

(26) Ready Player One
by Ernest Cline

(27) Modern Romance
by Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg

(28) Night Circus
by Erin Morgenstern

(29) Yes Please
by Amy Poehler

(30) Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead
Frank Meeink with Jody M. Roy, Ph.D

(31) Code Talker
by Chester Nez with Judith Schiess Avila

(32) Minding the Law
by Anthony G. Amsterdam and Jerome Bruner

(33) The First Bad Man
by Miranda July

(34)  The Paris Review, No. 214, Fall 2015

(35) Hamlet
by William Shakespeare

(36) Eileen
by Otessa Moshfegh

(37) The Collapse of American Criminal Justice
by William J. Stuntz

Best of 2015

Brittany's Books 2015

Top Books of 2015

67. Winter by Marissa Meyer

66. The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

65. Dash by Kirby Larson

64. Shooting Kabul by N. H. Senzai

63. Alvin Ho: Allergic to Dead Bodies, Funerals, and Other Fatal Circumstances by Lenore Look (Children's)

62. Alvin Ho: Allergic to Camping, Hiking, and Other Natural Disasters by Lenore Look (Children's)

61. Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School and Other Scary Things by Lenore Look(Children's)

60. Laika by Nick Abadzis (YA Graphic Novel)

59. A Game for Swallows by Zeina Abirached (YA Graphic Novel)

58. March (book 1) by Jon Lewis (YA Graphic Novel)

57. Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol (YA Graphic Novel)

56. The Mystery of Meerkat Hill by Alexander McCall Smith (Children's Mystery)

55. Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage (YA Mystery)

54. Beautiful Music for Ugly Children by Kirsten Cronn-Mills

53. Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba by Margarita Engle (Poetry Historical Fiction)

52. brown girl dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (Poetry Memoir)

51. How I Discovered Poetry by Marilyn Nelson (Poetry Memoir)

50. American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang (YA Graphic Novel - Printz Award)

49. Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor

48. Dante and Aristotle Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz

47. A + E 4ever by Ilike Merey (YA Graphic Novel - Stonewall Award)

46. El Deafo by Cece Bell (Children's Graphic Novel)

45. The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart (Children's)

44. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin (Children's)

43. This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki (YA Graphic Novel)

42. Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper (YA)

41. The Crossover by Kwame Alexander (YA - poetry)

40. Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine (YA)

39. Fat Angie by e. E. Charlton-Trujillo (YA - Stonewall Award)

38. Better Nate Than Ever by Tim Federle (YA - Stonewall Award)

37. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

36. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

35. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me by Mindy Kaling

34. Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne (Children's)

33. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White (Children's)

32. The Children Act by Ian McEwan

31. NW by Zadie Smith

30. Code Talker by Chester Nez

29. Colorless Tsukuru Taziki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami

28. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

27. Alex by Pierre Lemaitre

26. World War Z by Max Brooks (audiobook)

25. Yes Please by Amy Poehler (audiobook)

24. Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari (audiobook)

23. Wild by Cheryl Strayed

22. Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie

21. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

20. The Secret History by Donna Tartt

19. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

18. Shipbreaker by Paolo Bacigalupi (YA)

17. The Carnival at Bray by Jessie Ann Foley (YA)

16. And We Stay by Jennie Hubbard (YA)

15. The Goldfinch by Donna Tart

14. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (YA)

13. Push by Sapphire

12. Running on Empty: An Ultramarathoner's Story of Love, Loss, and a Record-Setting Run Across America

11. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

10. Atonement by Ian McEwan

9. Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson (YA)

8. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

7. Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell

6. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

5. The Color Master by Aimee Bender

4. The Paris Wife by Paula Mclain

3. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

2. Paper Towns by John Green (YA)

1. Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

(I am taking a Children's Lit class for my MLIS which means I am reading picture books, middle readers, and YA fiction in much greater numbers than before. I have decided not to count books under 100 pages - those books will be counted in Roman numerals for my own records. *** means it is an exceptional/important book, ** means it is a good book, * means I hate it and would never buy it for any kids I know)

xxx. And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson, illustrated by Peter Parnell (***)

xxix. Parrots Over Puerto Rico by Cindy Trumbore, illustrated by Susan L. Roth (**) - buy for kids interested in birds or nonfiction

xxviii. Firefly July, poems selected by Paul B. Janeczko, illustrated by Melissa Sweet

xxvii. The Arrival by Shaun Tan (a wordless YA graphic novel)

xxvi. Me, Frida by Amy Novesky illustrated by David Diaz (**) - the text and story is way better than Viva Frida, but the art is less aesthetically interesting. Overall better, but not the Frida children's book I want.

xxv. Diego Rivera by Duncan Tonatiuh (**) - buy for kids interested in art

xxiv. Dear Primo by Duncan Tonatiuh (**) - buy for kids with family abroad

xxiii. Little Red Riding Hood by Trina Schart Hyman (**)

xxii. Lon Po Po by Edward Young (*) - strong dislike of the illustrative style

xxi. Little Roja Riding Hood by Susan Middleton Elya (***) - a modern Spanglish update on a classic about two females who don't need a man to take care of them

xx: Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel (***) - I don't know why this book is so charming, but it is

xix. Waiting is Not Easy by Mo Willems (***) - buy for lower elementary

xviii. You are (not) small by Anna Kang and Christopher Weyant (*)

xvii. The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss (*)

xvi. A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Philip C. Stead and Erin E Stead (***) - buy for lower elementary

xv. Maria Had a Little Llama by Angela Dominguez (*)

xiv. Little Roja Riding Hood by Susan Middleton Elya (***) - buy for lower elementary

xiii. Nino Wrestles the World by Yuyi Morales (***) - buy for lower elementary, esp. mix-gender siblings

xii. Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote by Duncan Tonatiuh (***) - buy for upper elementary

xi. Martin de Porres by Gary D. Schmidt (**)

x. Separate is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh (***) - buy for upper elementary

ix. Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems (**)

viii. The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend by Dan Santat (***) - buy for lower elementary

vii. Firebird by Misty Copeland and Christopher Myers (***) - buy for dancer kids

vi. This Day In June by Gayle E. Pitman an Kristyna Litten (***) - buy for Pride month

v. Mr. Wuffles by David Wiesner (*)

iv. Viva Frida by Yuyi Morales (**)

iii. Picture This: How Pictures Work by Molly Bang

ii. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (*)

i. The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg (**) - buy for Christmas holiday

Courtney's Books 2015