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.
- Progress by Johan Norberg (2016)
- The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst (1988)
- The Diary Of A Nobody by George & Weedon Grossmith (1888)
- Free-Range Chickens by Simon Rich (2009)
- Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch (2011)
- Third Girl by Agatha Christie (1966)
- Brighton Rock by Graham Greene (1938)
- Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949)
- How To Find Love In A Bookshop by Veronica Henry (2016)
- Man V. Nature by Diane Cook (2015)
- Stone Spring by Stephen Baxter (2010)
- Agatha by Anne Martinetti (2016)
- The House Of Sleep by Jonathan Coe (1997)
- The Labours Of Hercules by Agatha Christie (1947)
- Superfreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner (2009)
- Ape And Essence by Aldous Huxley (1948)
- Five Rivers Met On A Wooded Plain by Barney Norris (2016)
- Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor (2014)
- Five On Brexit Island by Bruno Vincent (2016)
- The Radleys by Matt Haig (2010)
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)
- Problem At Pollensa Bay by Agatha Christie (1935)
- Vox by Nicholson Baker (1992)
- Dead Like You by Peter James (2010)
- King Crow by Michael Stewart (2011)
- A Planet For Rent by Yoss (2001)
- Whispers Underground by Ben Aaronovitch (2012)
- A Is For Arsenic by Kathryn Harkup (2015)
- Saga: Volume 7 by Brian K. Vaughn (2017)
- The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom (2003)
- Passenger To Frankfurt by Agatha Christie (1970)
- Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut (1998)
- Dead Man’s Grip by Peter James (2011)
- Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor (2013)
- A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby (2005)
- The Wife Of Bath by Geoffrey Chaucer (1400)
- Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch (2013)
- Evil Under The Sun by Agatha Christie (1941)
- Nina Is Not OK by Shappi Khorsandi (2016)
- The Sculptor by Scott McCloud (2015)
- After Dark by Haruki Murakami (2004)
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)
- The Readers Of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald (2013)
- Wonder by R. J. Palacio (2012)
- Dead Writers In Rehab by Paul Bassett Davies (2017)
- Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch (2015)
- Veni, Vidi, Vici by Peter Jones (2014)
- A Talent For Murder by Andrew Wilson (2017)
- Feed by Mira Grant (2010)
- Here, The World Entire by Anwen Kya Hayward (2016)
- The Hollow by Agatha Christie (1946)
- Nothing But Blue Skies by Tom Holt (2001)
- Sum by David Eagleman (2009)
City Of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett (2014)
- The Last Family In England by Matt Haig (2005)
- The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley (1929)
- While The Light Lasts by Agatha Christie (1997)
- Drinking by John Cheever (2017)
- A Field Guide To Irish Fairies by Bob Curran (2017)
- The Reader On The 6.27 by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent (2015)
- Spectacles by Sue Perkins (2015)
- Breakfast With The Borgias by D. B. C. Pierre (2014)
The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch (2016)
- Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)
- Superpowers by David J. Schwartz (2008)
- Destination Unknown by Agatha Christie (1954)
- The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus (2012)
- Of Men And Monsters by William Tenn (1968)
- Swimming by Roger Deakin (2017)
- Being A Beast by Charles Foster (2016)
- The Floating Admiral by The Detection Club (1931)
- The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton (2014)
- Strangers On A Train by Patricia Highsmith (1950)
- The Beginner’s Goodbye by Anne Tyler (2012)
- How To Stop Time by Matt Haig (2017)
- My Dad Wrote A Porno by Rocky Flintstone et. al. (2016)
- Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie (1934)
- After Man by Dougal Dixon (1981)
- Gently Does It by Alan Hunter (1955)
- The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (1930)
- Twenty Trillion Leagues Under The Sea by Adam Roberts (2014)
- Decanting A Murder by Nadine Nettmann (2016)
- The Listerdale Mystery by Agatha Christie (1934)
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)
- The Z Murders by J. Jefferson Farjeon (1932)
- The Death Of Grass by John Christopher (1956)
- The Goddess Of Buttercups And Daisies by Martin Millar (2015)
- No-One Ever Has Sex On A Tuesday by Tracy Bloom (2013)
- The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne (1922)
- Things I Don’t Want To Know by Deborah Levy (2013)
- Curtain by Agatha Christie (1975)
- Madness by Roald Dahl (1944)
- You by Austin Grossman (2013)
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1843)
- Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips (2007)
- Portrait Of A Murderer by Anne Meredith (1933)
- Wake Up, Sir! by Jonathan Ames (2005)
- The Escape by C. L. Taylor (2017)
- How To Talk To Girls At Parties by Neil Gaiman (2016)
- This Is Going To Hurt by Adam Kay (2017)
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