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.