10 Best Reads of 2017
Was it a good reading year? Yep. I read what I could, so I read enough. And I read what I felt would give me joy. And, I got in my goal of reading 60 books a year. Sure, a couple were short picture books, but they were lovely. A few more stats for this reading year: Total books read: 60 80% of the authors of the books I read, as far as I know, are women. 9 or 15% of the books I read were written by Filipino authors. 28 or roughly 47% of the books I read were published in 2017; 9 or 15% have yet to be published in 2018. 34 or roughly 57% of the books I read were published by Penguin Random House publishers or clients And here are my best reads for 2017, organized according to when they were/are to be published: Love Irresistibly by Julie James - I only started reading Julie James this year, because I heard she was popular in my region. I see why. I've read a couple, but this one about a prosecutor and a hotshot corporate counsel who unwittingly fall in love was ...