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13 Books To Start My Year Off Right

Just getting a jump start on that New Year's Resolution.

Samantha Pointon
Jan 09, 2017
Appalachian State University
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13 Books To Start My Year Off Right

I wrote an article last week about my New Year's Resolutions, and one of them happened to be to read more like I used to. But you know I can't really achieve this resolution without a list of books to read, now can I? Many people who know me would just tell me to grab one of the couple hundred books I have on my bookshelves, but it's more complicated than that, and a non-bookworm wouldn't understand. I want to read books this year that I'm going learn a lot from and ones that when I read the summary spark interest in me right away. I think I have found some of those books, at least to give me a good start for the first half of the year.

1. Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

2. The Circle by Dave Eggers

3. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

4. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

5. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

6. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

7. The Shack by William P. Young

8. The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman

9. Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver

10. Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll

11. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

12. The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman

13. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

I'm extremely excited to read all of the books on this list in the next couple of months, and it may or may not be a coincidence that most of these books have recently been released films or soon to be released films, I'll leave that one up to you to decide!

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