2017 Books

These are the books I read in 2017. Or if you’re in a hurry, here are my ten favourites from the year.

  1. Progress by Johan Norberg (2016)progress
  2. The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst (1988)
  3. The Diary Of A Nobody by George & Weedon Grossmith (1888)
  4. Free-Range Chickens by Simon Rich (2009)
  5. Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch (2011)
  6. Third Girl by Agatha Christie (1966)
  7. Brighton Rock by Graham Greene (1938)
  8. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949)1984-orwell
  9. How To Find Love In A Bookshop by Veronica Henry (2016)
  10. Man V. Nature by Diane Cook (2015)
  11. Stone Spring by Stephen Baxter (2010)
  12. Agatha by Anne Martinetti (2016)
  13. The House Of Sleep by Jonathan Coe (1997)
  14. The Labours Of Hercules by Agatha Christie (1947)
  15. Superfreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner (2009)
  16. Ape And Essence by Aldous Huxley (1948)superfreak
  17. Five Rivers Met On A Wooded Plain by Barney Norris (2016)
  18. Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor (2014)
  19. Five On Brexit Island by Bruno Vincent (2016)
  20. The Radleys by Matt Haig (2010)
  21. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)
  22. Problem At Pollensa Bay by Agatha Christie (1935)
  23. Vox by Nicholson Baker (1992)
  24. Dead Like You by Peter James (2010)
  25. King Crow by Michael Stewart (2011)
  26. A Planet For Rent by Yoss (2001)
  27. Whispers Underground by Ben Aaronovitch (2012)
  28. A Is For Arsenic by Kathryn Harkup (2015)
  29. Saga: Volume 7 by Brian K. Vaughn (2017)
  30. The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom (2003)
  31. Passenger To Frankfurt by Agatha Christie (1970)
  32. Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut (1998)
  33. Dead Man’s Grip by Peter James (2011)
  34. Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor (2013)
  35. A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby (2005)
  36. The Wife Of Bath by Geoffrey Chaucer (1400)
  37. Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch (2013)
  38. Evil Under The Sun by Agatha Christie (1941)
  39. Nina Is Not OK by Shappi Khorsandi (2016)Evil-Under-the-Sun
  40. The Sculptor by Scott McCloud (2015)
  41. After Dark by Haruki Murakami (2004)
  42. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)
  43. The Readers Of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald (2013)
  44. Wonder by R. J. Palacio (2012)
  45. Dead Writers In Rehab by Paul Bassett Davies (2017)
  46. Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch (2015)foxglove summer
  47. Veni, Vidi, Vici by Peter Jones (2014)
  48. A Talent For Murder by Andrew Wilson (2017)
  49. Feed by Mira Grant (2010)
  50. Here, The World Entire by Anwen Kya Hayward (2016)
  51. The Hollow by Agatha Christie (1946)
  52. Nothing But Blue Skies by Tom Holt (2001)
  53. Sum by David Eagleman (2009)
  54. city of stairsCity Of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett (2014)
  55. The Last Family In England by Matt Haig (2005)
  56. The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley (1929)
  57. While The Light Lasts by Agatha Christie (1997)
  58. Drinking by John Cheever (2017)
  59. A Field Guide To Irish Fairies by Bob Curran (2017)
  60. The Reader On The 6.27 by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent (2015)
  61. Spectacles by Sue Perkins (2015)
  62. Breakfast With The Borgias by D. B. C. Pierre (2014)
  63. Pride-and-Prejudice_BNThe Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch (2016)
  64. Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)
  65. Superpowers by David J. Schwartz (2008)
  66. Destination Unknown by Agatha Christie (1954)
  67. The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus (2012)
  68. Of Men And Monsters by William Tenn (1968)
  69. Swimming by Roger Deakin (2017)
  70. Being A Beast by Charles Foster (2016)
  71. The Floating Admiral by The Detection Club (1931)strangers
  72. The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton (2014)
  73. Strangers On A Train by Patricia Highsmith (1950)
  74. The Beginner’s Goodbye by Anne Tyler (2012)
  75. How To Stop Time by Matt Haig (2017)
  76. My Dad Wrote A Porno by Rocky Flintstone et. al. (2016)
  77. Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie (1934)
  78. After Man by Dougal Dixon (1981)
  79. Gently Does It by Alan Hunter (1955)never let me go
  80. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (1930)
  81. Twenty Trillion Leagues Under The Sea by Adam Roberts (2014)
  82. Decanting A Murder by Nadine Nettmann (2016)
  83. The Listerdale Mystery by Agatha Christie (1934)
  84. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)
  85. The Z Murders by J. Jefferson Farjeon (1932)
  86. The Death Of Grass by John Christopher (1956)red house
  87. The Goddess Of Buttercups And Daisies by Martin Millar (2015)
  88. No-One Ever Has Sex On A Tuesday by Tracy Bloom (2013)
  89. The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne (1922)
  90. Things I Don’t Want To Know by Deborah Levy (2013)
  91. Curtain by Agatha Christie (1975)
  92. Madness by Roald Dahl (1944)
  93. You by Austin Grossman (2013)scrooge
  94. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1843)
  95. Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips (2007)
  96. Portrait Of A Murderer by Anne Meredith (1933)
  97. Wake Up, Sir! by Jonathan Ames (2005)
  98. The Escape by C. L. Taylor (2017)
  99. How To Talk To Girls At Parties by Neil Gaiman (2016)
  100. This Is Going To Hurt by Adam Kay (2017)
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