What I Read in 2017
I read 67 books in 2017, which was seven more than in 2016, but still a long way short of 2014’s epic 95. One of these days I’ll make it to 100.
Anyway, here they all are:
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Half of a Yellow Sun
Alderman, Naomi
The Power
Ball, James
Post Truth
Barnes, Adrian
Nod
Bateman, Colin
Divorcing Jack
Beatty, Paul
The Sellout
Berger, John
Ways of Seeing
Berkeley, Humphry
The Life & Death of Rochester Sneath
Bilston, Brian
You Took the Last Bus Home
Blacker, Terence
You Cannot Live as I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This
Blair, etc. (ed)
Funny Bone: Flashing for Comic Relief
Bray, Carys
The Museum of You
Broadribb, Steph
Deep Down Dead
Bromley, Carole
The Stonegate Devil
Brown, Dan
Inferno
Carver, Raymond
Can You Please Be Quiet, Please?
Conan Doyle, Arthur
His Last Bow
Corlett, Anne
The Space Between the Stars
Cowan Montague, Jude
The Wires 2012
Curtis, Deborah
Touching from a Distance
De Curzon, Colette
Paymon’s Trio
Doig, Ivan
Mountain Time
Elborough, Travis
Atlas of Improbable Places
Emmerich, etc, (ed)
The book of Tokyo
Fitzgerald, Martin
Ruth and Martin’s Album Club
Fleming, Ian
For Your Eyes Only
Frost, Toby
Pincers of Death
Gapper, Frances
In the Wild Wood
Gauld, Tom
Mooncop
Gebbie, Vanessa
Memorandum: Poems for the Fallen
Gebbie, Vanessa
A Short History of Synchronised Breathing
Gompertz, Will
Think Like an Artist
Gonzalez-Crussi, F.
On the Nature of Things Erotic
Hannett, Lisa
Smoke Billows, Soot Falls
Haruf, Kent
Benediction
Haruf, Kent
Our Souls at Night
Hoffnung, Gerard
Acoustics
Hoffnung, Gerard
Encore
Knausgaard, Karl Ove
A Man in Love
Laurenson, Neil
Exclamation Marx!
Macdonald, Rowena
The Threat Level Remains Severe
Marsh, Henry
Do No Harm
Mbarushimana, Andrea
The Africa in My House
Menmuir, Wyl
Bounds
Middleton, Nick
An Atlas of Countries that Don’t Exist
Murakami, Haruki
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Moore, Alison
Death and the Seaside
O’Neil, Cathy
Weapons of Math Destruction
O’Neill, Ryan
Their Brilliant Careers
Perry, Grayson
The Descent of Man
Perry, Sarah
The Essex Serpent
Ronson, Jon
What I Do
Ronson, Jon
The Elephant in the Room
Royle, Nicholas (ed)
Best British Short Stories 2016
Shriver, Lionel
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Slatter, Angela
Home and Hearth
Stokes, Jones (eds)
Unthology #6
Stokes, Jones (eds)
Unthology #7
Stokes, Jones (eds)
Unthology #8
Thorn, Tracey
Bedsit Disco Queen
Tinniswood, Peter
The Brigadier Down Under
Tinniswood, Peter
The Brigadier’s Brief Lives
Tyler, Anne
The Accidental Tourist
Van Den Berg, Laura
Isle of Youth
Vincent, Bruno
Five on Brexit Island
Vowler, Tom
Dazzling the Gods
Watson, SJ
Before I Go To Sleep
If I start trying to highlight any of these, I’ll probably tie myself in knots worrying about the ones I forget to mention (especially the ones by friends of mine). So I’m not going to say anything at all right now (although I may well have more to say about one or two of them later on in the year, once certain things are in place). However, if anyone fancies opening up a discussion below, I’ll be happy to join in. Also, in 2018 I am going to make a determined effort to do some proper reviewing. I have plans.
And, yes, that was the second post of this year to end on an enigmatic wink.
