Just about a year ago, I wrote a post about taking on a reading challenge for 2017 in an attempt to boost my somewhat waning reading habits.  Now that nearly a year has passed, I’m quite satisfied with my overall results.

Over the better part of a year, I managed to read a total of 26 books (granted, some were plays/screenplays, but I’m counting them!)  Although I haven’t checked off each of the categories in the original list, I did manage to cross off a number of them.

For anyone interested, here’s what I read in 2017:

• A biography/autobiography
  • Be Feel Think Do – Anne Bérubé
  • The Search / D’Aulnay’s Legacy – Louis Robichaud
  • I Can See Clearly Now – Dr. Wayne Dyer
• A young adult novel
  • Tales from the Haunted Mansion – Amicus Arcane
  • Disney At Last (The Return, book 3) – Ridley Pearson
• A book with a colour in the title
  • The Obsidian Chamber – Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
• A book picked based solely on the cover
  • Universal Harvester – John Darnielle
  • Meddling Kids – Edgar Cantero
• A book set somewhere you’ve never been but would like to visit
  • Origin – Dan Brown
• A non-fiction book
  • The Lost City of the Monkey God – Douglas Preston
  • Astrophysics for People in a Hurry – Neil deGrasse Tyson
• A fantasy novel
  • Grayskull: The Masters of the Universe – Justin Marks (unproduced screenplay)
• A book by a female writer
  • The Woman in Cabin 10 – Ruth Ware
  • The Lying Game – Ruth Ware
• A play
  • Constellations – Nick Payne
  • Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne & John Tiffany
• A book that’s been adapted into a movie
  • The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, vol. 1) – Stephen King
• A book you’ve already read
  • Une cuillerée à thé de bonheur – Isabelle Maillet
• A book in a genre you usually avoid
  • Solving the Innovation Mystery – Steve Gladis
• A book recommendation by someone else
  • The Universe Has Your Back – Gabrielle Bernstein
• Three books by the same author
  • Voilà pourquoi cette fille n’est pas ta mère, T1 – Justin Guitard
  • Voilà pourquoi cette fille n’est pas ta mère, T2 – Justin Guitard
  • Voilà pourquoi cette fille n’est pas ta mère, T3 – Justin Guitard
• A devotional or spiritual book
  • The Book of Joy – His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu & Douglas Abrams
• A book from a favourite author
  • Full Wolf Moon – Lincoln Child
• A book in the backlist of a new favourite author
  • May Cause Miracles – Gabrielle Bernstein

I’m now challenging myself to match (or better) that number in 2018.

So to you my dear readers – what were some of the best books you read in 2017?
Anything you would recommend to me?