2017 Favorites List Part 1: Backlist Books

Welcome to the first of the favorite lists for the year! This list will have multiple parts and will be divided up as follows:

Part 1: Backlist books-Favorite books I read this year that were not published during 2017
Part 2: Favorite YA/MG-Favorite books from the Young Adult/Middle-Grade categories
Part 3: Favorite Adult Fiction: Favorite books from literature, sci-fi, fantasy etc.
Part 4: Favorite Non-Fiction: Favorite books from biography, memoir, essays etc.

It will all end on the 31rst where I will have a big post explaining my reading plans/goals for the new year and some new things you might be seeing on the blog.

Favorites List Part 1: Backlist Books

Classics (aka books published before 1985)

The Witches by Roald Dahl
A Room With a View by E. M. Forester
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
1984 by George Orwell
The Bell Jar by Slyvia Plath
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

Young Adult/Middle-Grade

Six of Crows Book 2: Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
The Naturals Book 4: Bad Blood by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
Three Dark Crowns Book 1 by Kendare Blake
Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown
The Great Library Books 1 and 2 by Rachel Caine
Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst
Wolf by Wolf Book 1 by Ryan Graudin
Proxy Book 1 by Alex London
Young Elites 3: The Midnight Star by Marie Lu
The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis
More Than This by Patrick Ness
Timekeeper Book 1 by Tara Sim
The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon

Adult Fiction

Flavia de Luce series Books 6-8 by Alan Bradley
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Another Brooklyn by Jacquelyn Woodson

Sci-Fi/Fantasy

Peter Grant Book 6: The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch
Dresden Files series Books 10-13 by Jim Butcher
Custard Protocol Book 2: Imprudence by Gail Carriger
Wayfarers Books 1 and 2 by Becky Chambers
Themis Files 1: Sleeping Giants by Slyvain Neuvel
Discworld series (Small Gods, Witches Abroad, Reaper Man) by Terry Pratchett

Non-Fiction

Victoria the Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire by Julia Baird
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero
The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley
The Princess Saves Herself in This One by Amanda Lovelace
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
Sex Object by Jessica Valenti
Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman by Lindy West