My reading was not deep nor particularly wide in 2017. Sixty-two books, down from 72 in 2016 and 90 in 2015. What’s up with that? I blame the distraction of the iPad.
| The Fever | Abbott, Megan |
| The Absent One (Department Q, #2) | Adler-Olsen, Jussi |
| The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian | Alexie, Sherman |
| Beartown (Björnstad, #1) | Backman, Fredrik |
| Broken Promise (Promise Falls Trilogy, #1) | Barclay, Linwood |
| The Ex | Burke, Alafair |
| Silent Voices (Vera Stanhope, #4) | Cleeves, Ann |
| The Crow Trap (Vera Stanhope #1) | Cleeves, Ann |
| Lean Mean Thirteen (Stephanie Plum, #13) | Evanovich, Janet |
| Odds Against | Francis, Dick |
| Spitting Devil (Jonathan Stride, #5.5) | Freeman, Brian |
| Marathon (Jonathan Stride, #8) | Freeman, Brian |
| Juniper: The Girl Who Was Born Too Soon | French, Kelley |
| What My Body Remembers | Friis, Agnete |
| The Dead Cat Bounce (Home Repair is Homicide, #1) | Graves, Sarah |
| The Whistler | Grisham, John |
| Camino Island | Grisham, John |
| The Dry (Aaron Falk, #1) | Harper, Jane |
| Into the Water | Hawkins, Paula |
| I Am Pilgrim (Pilgrim, #1) | Hayes, Terry |
| All Creatures Great and Small | Herriot, James |
| Magpie Murders | Horowitz, Anthony |
| The Quiet Game (Penn Cage, #1) | Iles, Greg |
| Lab Girl | Jahren, Hope |
| Northwest Angle (Cork O’Connor, #11) | Krueger, William Kent |
| Trickster’s Point (Cork O’Connor, #12) | Krueger, William Kent |
| Tamarack County (Cork O’Connor, #13) | Krueger, William Kent |
| Windigo Island (Cork O’Connor, #14) | Krueger, William Kent |
| Manitou Canyon (Cork O’Connor, #15) | Krueger, William Kent |
| The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter | Mackay, Malcolm |
| Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House | Mastromonaco, Alyssa |
| Do Not Become Alarmed | Meloy, Maile |
| A Little Love Story | Merullo, Roland |
| Me Before You (Me Before You, #1) | Moyes, Jojo |
| The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7) | Nesbø, Jo |
| A Stash of One’s Own: Knitters on Loving, Living with, and Letting go of Yarn | Parkes, Clara |
| Claude’s Christmas Adventure | Pembroke, Sophie |
| The Dark Net | Percy, Benjamin |
| Danger, Man Working: Writing from the Heart, the Gut, and the Poison Ivy Patch | Perry, Michael |
| Extreme Double-Knitting: New Adventures in Reversible Colorwork | Post-Quinn, Alasdair |
| Five | Poznanski, Ursula |
| Delicious! | Reichl, Ruth |
| Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children | Riggs, Ransom |
| Pothole Confidential: My Life as Mayor of Minneapolis | Rybak, R.T. |
| Escape Clause (Virgil Flowers, #9) | Sandford, John |
| Extreme Prey (Lucas Davenport, #26) | Sandford, John |
| Golden Prey (Lucas Davenport, #27) | Sandford, John |
| Today Will Be Different | Semple, Maria |
| The Women in the Castle | Shattuck, Jessica |
| Sourdough | Sloan, Robin |
| My Beloved World | Sotomayor, Sonia |
| Kitchens of the Great Midwest | Stradal, J. Ryan |
| Monkeewrench (Monkeewrench, #1) | Tracy, P.J. |
| Live Bait (Monkeewrench, #2) | Tracy, P.J. |
| Dead Run (Monkeewrench, #3) | Tracy, P.J. |
| Snow Blind (Monkeewrench, #4) | Tracy, P.J. |
| Shoot to Thrill (Monkeewrench, #5) | Tracy, P.J. |
| Off the Grid (Monkeewrench, #6) | Tracy, P.J. |
| The Sixth Idea (Monkeewrench, #7) | Tracy, P.J. |
| Nothing Stays Buried (Monkeewrench, #8) | Tracy, P.J. |
| Orphan #8 | von Alkemade, Kim |
| The Bridges of Madison County | Waller, Robert James |
Audiobooks
| Beat the Reaper (Peter Brown #1) | Bazell, Josh |
| Exit West | Hamid, Mohsin |
| The Nix | Hill, Nathan |
| The Gene: An Intimate History | Mukherjee, Siddhartha |
| The Fireman | Hill, Joe |
| Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation into Space | Shetterly, Margot Lee |
| The Underground Railroad | Whitehead, Colson |
| Steve Jobs | Isaacson, Walter |
| Norse Mythology | Gaiman, Neil |
| King Leopold’s Ghost | Hochschild, Adam |
| Al Franken, Giant of the Senate | Franken, Al |
| Before We Were Yours | Wingate, Lisa |
The ones in boldface are the ones that stuck with me.
Excellent books! I have added a few to my list!
That was a fun list. My goodness you are a reader!!! Love that HIGHLIGHTED the good ones. May have to find SOURDOUGH!
Excellent! I love a good book list!
62 books is still a great accomplishment! I’ve read some of the ones on your list this year as well.