2017 Goals

I've kind of stopped with resolutions. My husband and I do monthly goals instead, e.g., give up alcohol or caffeine for a month. The entire family has monthly goals as well: do neighborhood clean-ups when we go for walks or volunteer somewhere together every weekend. We don't always meet our goals, but we try to have a positive impact on our world around us.

On a personal note, I have very clear and simple goals: stay healthy (by losing a bit of weight and exercising regularly), finish gift shopping for Christmas by October (so I can focus on the real meanings of Thanksgiving and Christmas as well as being able to have fun throughout the holiday season), and reading. 

Yes, a year without reading is horrible to imagine. Here's my reading list (as of now) for 2017. Currently, there are 139 books on the list. Nineteen of them are must reads for blogging purposes. The others are completely up for grabs. Ingrid of Getting Lost in the Stacks decided that this year's challenge is to get through the stacks of books that are either lying around the house or listed on our Kindles. My goal for this year is 117 books in honor of 2017. What books do you recommend from this list?

Audiobooks are denoted for me to remember they're available in that format. With my hour-plus commute most days of the week, these books are a great way to keep reading and stay off my mobile while driving.

And yes, 2017 is the year for me to catch up on my Star Wars reading. I'm a bit of a fan, and it's been waaaay too long since I spent time in a galaxy far, far away.

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To Read List	Instant Mom	To Blog List	An Ishmael of Syria
	In the Shadow of the Banyan		Small Great Things
	The Queen's Lover		Medievalist Comics and the American Century
	The Royal We		The Girl from Venice
Audiobook	My grandmother asked me to tell you she's sorry		Sirius
	A World Lit on Fire		My (Underground) American Dream
	Arab of the future		Kid Artists
	Escape from camp 14		The Midwife
	The Nightingale		Beauty and Attention
Audiobook	The black count		Life Unexpected
	Dead Wake		The Undesirables
	Secrets of a Charmed Life		Trust My Heart
	The Marriage of Opposites		The Honorable Heir
Audiobook	Yes, My Accent is Real		Pointe and Shoot
	When Books Went to War		Victoria
	Brainmaker		The Other Einstein
	Girl at War		It is Well
	Red Queen		In the Blue Hour
	The Thing About Jellyfish		The Murdered Messiah
	The Japanese Lover
Audiobook	The cross and the switchblade
	The traveling tea shop.
	Empress of rome
	Still alice.
	The great leader and the fighter pilot.
	The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
	How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
	Before the End, After the Beginning
	Julio's Day
	Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass
	Across a Hundred Mountains
	Mexican Whiteboy
Audiobook	The Madonnas of Echo Park
	Into the Beautiful North
	Our America: A Hispanic History of the U.S.
	The Distance Between Us
	Still Dreaming: My Journey from the Barrio to Capitol Hill
	The DREAMers: How the Undocumented Youth Movement Transformed the Immigration Rights Debate
	Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League
Audiobook	The Scorch Trials
	A Hole in Texas
	Map of Fates
	Bloodline
	The Moviegoer
	The Lottery
Audiobook	Lily and the Octopus
	The Swans of Fifth Avenue
	The Queen of the Night
	Modern Girls
	Hamilton: The Revolution
	The Geek Feminist Revolution
	The Only Pirate at the Party
	First Women
	Rise of the Rocket Girls
	White Trash
	Salt to the Sea
	Me Talk Pretty One Day
Audiobook	A Tale of Two Cities
Audiobook	Les Miserables
Audiobook	Moby Dick
	The Lovely Bones
	The Poisonwood Bible
	Middlesex
	The Memory Keeper's Daughter
	Under the Tuscan Sun
	Mr. Darcy's Diary
	The Romanov Sisters
	The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
	The Women's War
	The Princess Diarist
	Hidden Figures
	Library of Souls
	Mozart in the Jungle
	The Girl in the Spider's Web
	The Underground Railroad
	Lords of the Sith
Audiobook	Aftermath: Life Debt
	Dark Disciple
	Ashoka
	The Miniaturist
	Alexander Hamilton
	Me Before You
	After You
	A Man Called Ove
	Do More, Spend Less
Audiobook	Cinder
	Charity Girls
	Night
	The Force Unleashed
	The Hundred Dresses
	Women of the Silk
	An Edible History of Humanity
	The Prophets of Eternal Fjord
	Hard Contact
	Darth Bane series
Audiobook	Ana's Story
	Out of the Darkness
Audiobook	The Language of Flowers
	Monuments Men
	Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
Audiobook	The Omnivore's Dilemma
Audiobook	In Defense of Food
	Relativity
	Into the Thickening Fog
	The Perfume Collector
	The Chemist
	The Memory of Us
	The Paper Magician
	Winter Men
	The Light of the Fireflies
	Star Sand
	About the Night
	War Brides
	Pierced by the Sun
	Rage
	The Shelf Life of Happiness
	The Age of Daredevils
	Wake in Winter
	All's Quiet on the Western Front
	In the Shadow of Lakecrest