Earlier this week, I wrote out all my 2017 goals. There’s so many things that I hope to tackle this year. I’m honestly trying to take it one day at a time since I don’t want to overwhelm myself. It’s so easy for that to happen and it can even result in burn out. Which I know can set me back quite a bit. So anyways, one of my big goals this year for me. I plan on reading at least 30 books this year. I know, it may seem like such a small number, however I rarely read books these days. As I’m always online, either for work or for my blog, articles have replaced the books I used to read.
30+ Books To Read In 2017
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- #GIRLBOSS by Sophia Amoruso
- Calm by Michael Acton Smith
- Make It Happen: The Hip-Hop Generation Guide to Success by Kevin Liles with Samantha Marshall
- I, Justine by Justine Ezarik
- Bloom by Estée Lalonde
- You Are A Badass: How To Stop Doubting Your Greatness And Start Living An Awesome Life by Jen Sincero
- Make It Happen by Lara Casey
- Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
- The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
- Ctrl Atl Delete by Emma Gannon
- Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
- A Girl is a Half Formed Thing by Eimear McBride
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- Goldenhand by Garth Nix
- Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
- The Girl In The Road by Monica Byrne
- Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton
- A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
- Girl Hearts Girl by Lucy Sutcliffe
- The Glitter Plan: How We Started Juicy Couture for $200 and Turned It into a Global Brand by Pamela Skaist-Levy
- The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Max Brooks
- Blog, Inc.: Blogging for Passion, Profit, and to Create Community by Joy Deangdeelert Cho
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Buffering by Hannah Hart
- You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson
- I’m Judging You by Luvvie Ajayi
- Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh
- The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America by Tamara Winfrey Harris
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- Wishcraft: How to Get What You Really Want by Barbara Sher
Afterword
After looking at the list, I realised I chose a lot of the following: self-help, business and memoirs. I think it’s partly because I’m at a point in my life where I’m looking for answers. Especially as someone in their 20s, don’t you feel like you’re being left behind? Maybe after reading some of these books I may find the answers I’m looking for.
So guys, what books are you planning on reading this year? Leave any and all suggestions in the comment section below!
Literally taking a trip to the book store this week. Thanks for this!!
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Definitely glad I could help!
Great list of Hussle Reads
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Glad you like it!
I’m with you … I rarely read these days, but would love to! I’ve heard Girlboss is pretty good and that’s on my list too!
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Thanks for reading. Most definitely wanted to start with GirlBoss but I ended up starting with You Are A Badass.
I love the eclectic mix of books you’ve recommended here. I read ‘ The Bell Jar’ recently and have to say, I’m so grateful that mental health services have progressed so much since then!
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Thank you, I really do like to read a full range of books myself so I’m glad the list reflected it. Oh I can imagine, I’m glad that even today we’re still progressing.
What a great list of books! I loved Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert, she is one of my fav authors and I loved this book so much. It would be great if you linked to the books on Amazon as well 🙂
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Oh that is very true, I’ll definitely work on doing that this evening.
I have to check out your list ! I actually bought myself few books around Christmas for my new year resolution to read more!
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Same here, last year I didn’t read that many books, especially since I was finishing off university. Now I can focus more on expanding my mind and vocabulary.
Great line up 🙂 I’m reading The Shadow Sister by Lucinda Riley and the next I think have to be The Lake house by Kate Morton 🙂
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Thank you for the recommendations, going to definitely add them to my personal list 🙂
Big Magic is such a great book…it came along exactly at the right time for me!
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It’s good to know people can vouch for some of the books on this list.
Yes! Several of these were on my list already, but looks like I will have to add the rest now too!
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I’m glad you found some new ones to add to your list 😀
A lot of these books are on my to read list! I’m actually thinking about starting a book club to force myself to read personal development books haha
I read Calm last year and loved it!
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That’s wonderful. I’m all about personal development this year.
I can’t wait to start it. Today I’ve started on You Are A Badass.
Let me know how it is! I’ve seen it everywhere
A few of these are on my reading list, but quite a few I didn’t recognize that I am now curious about. Great list!
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I’m glad you enjoyed the list. I hope you find something in the list that you’ll like.
If you read The Zombie Survival Guide, be sure to check out World War Z by the same guy. It’s excellent. And nothing like the Brad Pitt movie.
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Oh nice. I guess it will also help that I never watched the Brad Pitt movie, so I’ll go in brand new.
I love these kinds of posts because I’m always (ALWAYS!) looking for my next book to read (sometimes while I’m still reading my current one lol). While I’m partial to sci-fi fantasy, I’ve heard good things about The Happiness Project. And who can say no to The Zombie Survival Guide??? 🙂
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I can’t wait to start the list, I’m so excited. Yes, a lot of these books were based on recommendations. And we should be prepared for the zombies lol.
These all look so great! I love the mix. Looking forward to good reads in 2017!
I love self help/business books! You made the perfect list and I’m excited to hopefully read all of the alongside you!
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I’m glad that you enjoyed my list.
There are so many of these books I love! I, Justine is great as well as The Happiness Project. You should read the power of habit. That’s great too!
Corinne x
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Thanks for checking out my list. I’lll definitely add that to my list.
I love it! Reading more is always a great New Year’s resolution, and I love that you already have a reading list all set out for yourself. The title of the Juicy Couture book has me curious already.
These are all good choices, I need to read all of these too.
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Thank you for reading it 🙂
I do love finding a new book to read. Thank you for this long list. I will look for them on Amazon. xx
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I’m glad that you enjoyed my post.
I absolutely DEVOUR books, I have way too many as I can’t stop buying them on Amazon! Love your picks here, some great varied reads – I have You Are A Badass and can confirm it made me feel way more badass!
Milly
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I’m in the middle of reading that right now and it’s really great.
I am someone who is near the midpoint of their 20s (I will be 25 in May). Thank you for your list of books to look out for. i plan to come back and try to read the books you mention.
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I’m glad that my post could be of some help to you 😀
I’ve read a few of those books on the list! I might have to reread them and go through the whole list! There are some really good books on here 🙂
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I can’t wait to tackle this entire list honestly.
Thanks! for share these are all good.