Books read in 2017
[image error]Maybe it’s because I am in a couple of book groups requiring me to read at least two books monthly, plus what the members call ‘side reads’ along the lines of if-you-enjoyed-that-you’ll-like-this’ I have quite a long list here. In fact I’ve started more than I finished and forgotten some I enjoyed, but hadn’t written review notes. Long though this list is, the 2018 reads will outdo it because of my role as a judge in the current FicFun writing competition. For that I will read the equivalent of at least 20 novellas / novels by the end of May.
These are in no particular order – even of chronological reading. Nor do I say if I enjoyed them though books I couldn’t really finish because of the writing style or content don’t make this list at all.
If I had to pick a favourite author of 2017 it would be Claire North.
Crater’s Edge by Lucy Andrews
The Martian Job by Jaine Fenn
Descent by Ken MacLeod
Rotherweird by Andrew Caldecott
The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North
The End of the Day by Claire North
The Roar of Lions by Mark Iles
The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain
Finding Alison Deirdre Eustace
Gone Gods by Frances Gow
Dreamsnake by Vonda McIntyre
The Power Naomi Anderson
The Boldest Measures by Charlie Flowers
About Grace Anthony Doerr
Guardian Angels Dr Bob Rich
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Tamed by Douglas R Brown
The Lady of the Forest by Kevin Carman
The Codex by Helen McCabe
The Tourist by Robert Dickinson
The Christ Killer New York by Brandon S.S. Bourne
Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
Anthologies
The Horror Zine Magazine Summer 2017 Ed Jeani Rector
Stories of Your Life anthology by Ted Chiang (Arrival film story within)
Book of Tricks: Six Cruel and Unusual Short Stories by B.C.Bamber
SFerics 2017 ed Rosie Oliver
Twisted Tales IX ed J Richard Jacobs
Crooked Tales ed Mark Fine, Anita Kovacevic etc
Poetry
Unmaking Atoms Magdelena Ball
Pomegranate Heart by Miriam Calleja
Making Cocoa For Kingsley Amis by Wendy Cope
Non Fiction
Write Well Publish Right by Lucinda Moebius
Memory of Water by Emmi Itaranta
Time Was (Memoir) Howard Waldman
Oxygen – A 4 billion year history by Donal Canfield
Cycling Philosophy for Everyone Ed Fritz Allhoff
The Winding Stair: Francis Bacon bio (not the artist) Daphne Du Maurier
NELDER NEWS
FICFUN
I can recommend this new venture. It is a web-based writing and showcasing site that has already run one successful competition. I am the next honorary judge for the suspense category. If you are hard at work with #NaNoWriMo or just finishing off a novel or long story of at least 10k words and want to know what to do with it, why not enter it for
http://www.ficfun.com/act/fictioncontest
Free to enter, huge prizes
worth a look
tweets @FicFun
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