Hemlokgang's 100 in 2017

2016 included a cross country move and all the settling in which that entails, along with two 2 week deployments as a Disaster Services Volunteer with the American Red Cross. Not as much reading time as usual. Ready to go for 100 this year!

Happy New Year and thank you for starting the 2017 group!

Thanks for creating the group.

Best wishes for a great 2017 with lots of enjoyable reading.

Thank you for 'creating us'. I think that you will make a 'trusty leader' & spur us on. Have a great 2017 in your reading 'career'!

Looking forward to following your reading again this year!

>1 hemlokgang: thanks SO much for creating the 100 book challenge group this year!

Thanks for setting up the group and hope you have a great year of reading !

Happy 2017 and good reading.

#1 - A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara - *****

#2 - Commonwealth by Ann Patchett -***

#3 - Rock, Paper, Scissors by Naja Marie Aidt - *****

#4 - The Most Wonderful Tales of the Year: Holiday Memories Written and Performed by Our Favorite Narrators by Audible Narrators - ***

#5 - Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami - *****

#6 - Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin - **

#7 - Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz - ****

#8 - 33 Revolutions by Canek Sanchez Guevara - *****

#9 - From Ashes Into Light by Gudrun Mouw - **
#10 - Chronicle of A Last Summer by Yasmine El Rashidi - ****

Good luck with the challenge this year, and thanks for setting up the group!

I've been suggesting Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki for bookgroup, and no one seems keen. Oh well, will have to read that one on my own.

#11 - The Children's Home by Charles Lambert - *

#12 - Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance - ****

#13 - The Mortifications by Derek Palacio - *****

#14 - Trespassing Across America: One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland by Ken -- Ilgunas - ****

#15 - Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough - ****

#16 - Exit West by Moshin Hamid

#17 - My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem zibby ****

#18 - Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel - ****

#19 - Lab Girl by Hope Jahren - ****

#20 - In This Grave Hour by Jacqueline Winspear - ****

#21 - Cockroaches by Jo Nesbo - **
#22 - A Strangeness In My Mind by Orhan Pamuk - *****

#23 - How To Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Moshin Hamid - *****

#24 - Human Acts by Kang Han - *****
#25 - We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - ****

#26 - Chronicle of a Blood Merchant by Yu Hua - *****

#27 - Aracoeli by Elsa Morante - *****

#28 - Natural Novel by Georgi Gospodinov - *****

#29 - Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn - *****

#30 - Bright Star: Love letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne by John Keats - ***

#31 - Journey Into The Past by Stefan Zweig - ****

#32 - Work Song by Ivan Doig -****

#33 - Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov - *****

#34 - Ill Will by Dan Chaon -***

#35 - Abahn Sabana David by Marguerite Duras - *****

#36 - The Murder of Mary Russell by Laurie R. King - ****

#37 - Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata - ****

#38 - My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante - ****

#39 - In The Shadow of The Banyan by Vaddey Ratner - ****

#40 - Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich - ****

#41 - The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope - *****

#42 - Al Franken: Giant of The Senate by Al Franken - ****

#43 - Death in Spring by Mercé Rodoreda - **

#44 - Curious Minds by Janet Evanovich - ***

#45 - The Dry by Jane Harper - ****

#46 - The Thirst by Jo Nesbo - ****

#47 - Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon To White America by Michael Eric Dyson - ***

#48 - The Secret Life of Elves by Muriel Barbery - ****

#49 - Madame Zero by Sarah Hall - *****

#50 - The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan - ***

#51 - The Woman In The Dunes by Kobo Abe - ****

#52 - Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning - *****

#53 - Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World by Rita Goldman Gelman - ***

#54 - The Hunger Angel by Herta Muller - *****

#55 - Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferraris - ****

#56 - Intensive Care: The Story of a Nurse by Echo Heron - ***

#57 - A Gentleman In Moscow by Amor Towles - *****

#58 - Rencontre sous x by Didier van Cauwelaert - ***

#59 - When Nietzsche Wept by Irving Yalom - *****

#60 - The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende - ***

#61 - Compass by Mathias Énard - ****

#62 - Thunder Dog: The Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog &The Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero by Michael Hingson.

#63 - In The Wake by Per Petterson - *****

#64 - The Women In The Castle by Jessica Shattuck - ****

#65 - The Underground Railroad By Colson Whitehead - *****

#66 - Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada - *****

Good stretch of reading for you... look at all those 4 and 5 stars!

#67 - We So Seldom Look On Love by Barbara Gowdy - **

#68 - A Piece of the World by Christine Baker Kline - ****

#69 - Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion and The Road to Recovery by Janet F. Kitz - ***

#70 - Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith - ****

#71 - The Sleepwalker by Chris Bohjalian - ***

#72 - The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See - ***
#73 - On Reading by Andre Kertesz - *****
#74 - The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon - ****

#75 - Dear Mr. You by Mary Louise Parker - ****

#76 - Glass Houses by Louise Penny - ****

#77 - The Fact of a Body: A Murder and A Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich - ****

#78 - The Dinner by Herman Koch - *****

#79 - Naked in Death by J D Robb - ****

#80 - The Wine Dark Sea by Leonardo Sciascia - ****

#81 - Sandrine's Case by Thomas H Cook - ****

#82 - The Cold Moon by Jeffrey Deaver - ****

#83 - The Ice Princess by Camilla Lackberg - ****

#84 - The Last Wolf & Herman by Laszlo Krasznahorkai - ****

#85 - Sleep No More by Greg Iles - ****

#86 - The Broken Window by Jeffrey Deaver - ****

#87 - Thirteen Ways of Looking by Colum McCann - *****

#88 - The Pigeon Tunnel by John LeCarre - ***

#89 - The Bear and The Nightingale by Katherine Arden - ***

#90 - The Preacher by Camilla Lackberg - ***

#91 - Bluebird Bluebird by Attica Locke - ****

#92 - What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons - ***

#93 - Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon by Henry Marsh - ****

#94 - Uncommon Type: Some Stories by Tom Hanks - ***

#95 - Obama: An Intimate Portrait by Pete Souza - *****

#96 - Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng - ****it

#97 - Forest Dark by Nicole Krauss - ****

#98 - Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout - ****

#99 - Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit by Chris Matthews - ****it

#100 - Dirty Love by Andre Dubus - **

Congratulations on the 100!
Are you going to start the 2018 100 Books Read group?

Also congrats on squeezing in that 100th book! And the same ?

Hemlokgang, please feel free to yell at me for stepping on toes, but I went ahead and set up a 2018 100 books challenge group here.

Hope to see you all there (or to find the group where you all are should one have been started)!