So, here, in reverse order (because it's easier that way) is the list of books I read in 2017. And here are some possibly interesting (or possibly not, but I like to keep track!) statistics about what I read over the course of the past year...
Books read: 109
Books bought not counting gifts for others: approx 50 (I may have missed some out); new: 31, used:19
Books acquired as presents, etc: 9
Library books read: 1
Young adult/children's titles read: 33
Books re-read: 20
Non-fiction titles read: 3
And, as usual, I have chosen some of my favourites to pull out for the montage at top and to underline below. I have not included books I've read before in this selection of favourites! Not sure there's a single "best book" I read this year, though I did think Margaret Atwood's The Hag Seed was remarkably good.
109: One of Us is Lying, Karen McManus (YA)
108: She is Not Invisible, Marcus Sedgwick (YA)
107: The Names They Game Us, Emery Lord (YA)
106: Mr Darcy's Daughters, Elizabeth Aston
105: At the Edge of the Orchard, Tracy Chevalier
104: Let it Snow (compilation) (YA, re-read)
103: The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, Joanna Cannon
102: A Noble Radiance, Donna Leon (re-read)
101: La Belle Sauvage, Philip Pullman (YA)
100: Divisadero, Michael Ondaatje
99: Hag-Seed, Margaret Atwood
98: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl, Grayson Perry
(NF)
97: The Girl Next Door, Ruth Rendell
96: The Ask and the Answer, Patrick Ness (YA)
95: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, Natasha Pulley
94: Disturbance, Jan Kelly
93: Wonder, R J Palacio (children's)
92: The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, Becky Chambers
91: Little Gods, Anna Richards
90: Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8, Naoki Higashida (NF)
89: All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders
88: Girl of Ink and Stars (YA)
87: My Name is Lucy Barton, Elizabeth Strout
86: Treason, Berlie Doherty (children's)
85: Case Histories, Kate Atkinson (re-read)
84: More Than This, Patrick Ness (YA)
83: Love Letters to the Dead, Eva Dellaira (YA)
82: Everyone Brave is Forgiven, Chris Cleave
81: The Death of Faith, Donna Leon
80: In a Land of Paper Gods, Rebecca MacKenzie
79: Floodland, Marcus Sedgwick (children's)
78: The Astounding Broccoli Boy, Frank Cottrell Boyce
(children's)
77: Skellig, David Almond (children's)
76: The Keeper of Lost Things, Ruth Hogan
75: The Reason I Jump, Naoki Higashida (NF)
74: The Foreshadowing, Marcus Sedgwick (YA)
73: The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman (YA, re-read)
72: The Subtle Knife, Philip Pullman (YA, re-read)
71: Northern Lights, Philip Pullman (YA, re-read)
70: Sense & Sensibility, Jane Austen (re-read)
69: The Summer Book, Tove Jansson
68: The House at the Edge of the World, Julia Rochester
67: Vinegar Girl, Anne Tyler
66: Acqua Alta, Donna Leon
65: The Fault in our Stars, John Green (YA)
64: The Gift Shop, Charlotte Armstrong (re-read)
63: Emma, Alexander McCall Smith
62: Ink, Alice Broadway (YA)
61: Traitor to the Throne, Alwyn Hamilton (YA)
60: Crooked Kingdom, Leigh Bardugo (YA)
59: About Grace, Anthony Doerr
58: The Moon-Spinners, Mary Stewart (re-read)
57: Nine Coaches Waiting, Mary Stewart (re-read)
56: Madam, Will You Talk, Mary Stewart (re-read)
55: Dawn's Early LIght, Elswyth Thane (re-read)
54: The Light Between Oceans, M L Stedman
53: The Bargain, Mary Jo Putney
52: Three Bedrooms, One Corpse, Charlaine Harris
51: The Belchamber Scandal, Frances Murray (re-read)
50: A Bone to Pick, Charlaine Harris
49: The Heroine's Sister, Frances Murray (re-read)
48: Real Murders, Charlaine Harris
47: The Chocolate Cobweb, Charlotte Armstrong (re-read)
46: The Tightrope Walker, Dorothy Gilman (re-read)
45: The Burning Lamp, Frances Murray (re-read)
44: The Lieutenant, Kate Grenville
43: Dead in the Water, Ann Granger
42: The Haunted Hotel, Wilkie Collins
41: Some Luck, Jane Smiley
40: The Devil in the Marshalsea, Antonia Hodgson
39: Chaplin and Company, Mave Fellows
38: A Venetian Reckoning, Donna Leon
37: Numbers, Rachel Ward
36: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
35: The Knife of Never Letting Go, Patrick Ness
34: The Improbability of Love, Hannah Rothschild
33; Mr Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan
32: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
31: The Little Old Lady Who Broke All The Rules, Catharina
Ingelman-Sunderburgh
30: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
29: Midwinterblood, Marcus Sedgewick
28: Kidnapped, Jan Burke
27: The Silver Linings Playbook, Matthew Quick
26: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Kate DiCamillo
(children's)
25: A Year of Marvellous Ways, Sarah Winman
24: Paper and Fire, Rachel Caine (YA)
23: This isn't the sort of thing that happens to someone
like you, Jon McGregor
22: Bitterblue, Kristin Cashore (YA) (re-read)
21: Fire, Kristin Cashore (YA) (re-read)
20: Graceling, Kristin Cashore (YA) (re-read)
19: Ruin and Rising, Leigh Bardugo (YA)
18:The Loney, Andrew Michael Hurley
17: The Humans, Matt Haig
16: The Anonymous Venetian, Donna Leon (re-read)
15: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac, Gabrielle Zevin (YA)
14: The Wilding, Maria McCann
13: The Rest of Us Just Live Here, Patrick Ness (YA)
12: Slade House, David Mitchell
11: Rebel of the Sands, Alwyn Hamilton (YA)
10: The Year of the Runaways, Sunjeev Sahota
9: The Late Scholar, Jill Paton Walsh
8: The Attenbury Emeralds, Jill Paton Walsh
7: At Hawthorn Time, Melissa Harrison
6: Coraline, Neil Gaiman (YA)
5: Seige and Storm, Leigh Bardugo (YA)
4: All That is Solid Melts into Air, Darragh McKeogh
3: A Presumption of Death, Jill Paton Walsh
2: Thrones, Dominations, Dorothy L Sayers & Jill
Paton Walsh
1: Library of Souls, Ransom Riggs (YA)
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