Here is a list of the books I read in 2017. Click on the title to read my review. Five star rated books are shown in bold.
- The Good People by Hannah Kent
- Lady Susan by Jane Austen
- Meeting with my Brother by Yi Mun-yol
- Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor
- My Husband the Stranger by Rebecca Done
- In a German Pension: 13 Stories by Katherine Mansfield
- Nelly Dean: A Return to Wuthering Heights by Alison Case by Alison Case
- The Last Act of Hattie Hoffman by Mindy Mejia
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- The Executioner Weeps by Frederic Dard
- Saying Goodbye (Part 1) by Abigail Drake
- Saying Goodbye (Part 2) by Abigail Drake
- Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves by Rachel Malik
- The Promotion by Christopher K. Michael
- The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
- At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier
- The Queen of Katwe by Tim Crothers
- Secrets of Southern Girls by Haley Harrigan
- Indignation by Philip Roth
- Home by Kate Hughes
- Book Blogger Survey by Barb Drozdowich
- If the Creek Don’t Rise by Leah Weiss
- The Somme Legacy by M.J. Lee
- In the Eyes of an Angel by Kimberly Livingston
- Anne Boleyn: A King’s Obsession by Alison Weir
- Final Girls by Riley Sager
- Runaway by Alice Munro
- A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
- Poor Boy Road by James L. Weaver
- In the Name of the Family by Sarah Dunant
- His Whole Life by Elizabeth Hay
- No Ordinary Killing by Jeff Dawson
- Brake Failure by Alison Brodie
- Duels & Deception by Cindy Anstey
- Flesh and Bone and Water by Luiza Sauma
- Gone Without A Trace by Mary Torjussen
- Shelter by Sarah Franklin
- The Outcasts of Time by Ian Mortimer
- Ares Road by James L. Weaver
- These Dividing Walls by Fran Cooper
- The Du Lac Devil by Mary Anne Yarde
- Feast of Sorrow by Crystal King
- Faithless by Kjell Ola Dahl
- Sanctuary by T.M. Brown
- Across Great Divides by Monique Roy
- Gravel Heart by Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Exodus ’95 by Kfir Luzzatto
- Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
- The 7th Function of Language by Laurent Binet
- The X-Variant by Rosemary Cole
- The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain
- City of Masks by S. D. Sykes
- The Wages of Sin by Kaite Welsh
- The King’s Jew: In the Shadow of the King by Darius Stransky
- Crimson & Bone by Marina Fiorato
- A Tapestry of Tears by Gita V. Reddy
- Vindolanda by Adrian Goldsworthy
- The Floating Theatre by Martha Conway
- Fata Morgana by Stephen R. Boyett & Ken Mitchroney
- Widdershins by Helen Steadman
- A Countess in Limbo: Diaries in War and Revolution by Olga Hendrikoff & Sue Carscallen
- The Former Chief Executive by Kate Vane
- Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
- More Than A Soldier by D. M. Annechino
- A Country Road, A Tree by Jo Baker
- Under A Tuscan Sky by Karen Aldous
- Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
- The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
- Exquisite by Sarah Stovell
- The Vanishing Futurist by Charlotte Hobson
- The Girl in the Glass Tower by Elizabeth Fremantle
- Broken Branches by M Jonathan Lee
- Wolves in the Dark by Gunnar Staalesen
- Wake Me When I’m Gone by Odafe Atogun
- House of Names by Colm Toibin
- Dark Dawn over Steep House by M. R. C. Kasasian
- The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
- Did You Whisper Back? by Kate Rigby
- Citizen Kill by Stephen Clark
- A Reluctant Warrior by Kelly Brooke Nicholls
- Revenants: The Odyssey Home by Scott Kauffman
- Court of Lions by Jane Johnson
- The Dream Shelf by Jeff Russell
- The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde by Eve Chase
- The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- The Room by the Lake by Emma Dibdi
- The Watch House by Bernie McGill
- The Virgin of the Wind Rose by Glen Craney
- It Was Only Ever You by Kate Kerrigan
- The Other Twin by L. V. Hay
- The Thirteenth Gate by Kat Ross
- In Shadowland by Timothy Ashby
- Catherine Dickens: Outside the Magic Circle by Heera Datta
- The Sixteen Trees of the Somme by Lars Mytting
- The Scribe’s Daughter by Stephanie Churchill
- The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
- Path of Lucas: The Journey He Endured by Susanne Bellefeuille
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
- The Wardrobe Mistress by Patrick McGrath
- Holding on to Hurt by Charlotte Roth
- Take Courage: Anne Bronte and the Art of Life by Samantha Ellis
- A Dangerous Woman From Nowhere by Kris Radish
- One Day in December by Shari Low
- And The Birds Kept On Singing by Simon Bourke
- The Smallest Thing by Lisa Manterfield
- Stranger by David Bergen
- Flight Before Dawn by Megan Easley-Walsh
- The Indigo Girl by Natasha Boyd
- When It’s Over by Barbara Ridley
- Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
- The Winner by Erin Bomboy
- Dan Knew by F. J. Curlew
- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
- Twilight Empress by Faith L Justice
- Maria in the Moon by Louise Beech
- Woman Enters Left by Jessica Brockmole
- Tremarnock Summer by Emma Burstall
- The Crows of Beara by Julie Christine Johnson
- On the Edge of Sunrise by Cynthia Ripley Miller
- The Book of Forgotten Authors by Christopher Fowler
- The Quest for the Crown of Thorns by Cynthia Ripley Miller
- New Boy: Othello Retold by Tracy Chevalier
- Monsoon Rising by David Lee Corley
- Home is Nearby by Magdalena McGuire
- The Summer Springsteen’s Songs Saved Me by Barbara Quinn
- Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore
- A Sea of Sorrow by David Blixt, et al.
- The Murderer’s Maid by Erika Mailman
- Mr Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva
- The Last Hours by Minette Walters
- Fires by Tom Ward
- Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro
- The Other Life of Charlotte Evans by Louisa George
- Cuz by Danielle Allen
- CWA Anthology of Short Stories: Mystery Tour, ed. by Martin Edwards
- Zenka by Alison Brodie
- Choosing Hope by Holly Kammie
- The Secret of Vesalius by Jordi Llobregat
- Venetian Blood: Murder in a Sensuous City by Christine Evelyn Volker
- Illusion by Stephanie Elmas
- Whiteout by Ragnar Jonasson
- Letting Go by Maria Thompson Corley
- A Pearl for my Mistress by Annabel Fielding
- Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
- The Existence of Pity by Jeannie Zokan
- The Ice by Laline Paull
- The Sixth Man by Rupert Colley
- The Summer of Impossible Things by Rowan Coleman
- Death at Glacier Lake by Pam Stucky
- Fortune’s Wheel by Carolyn Hughes
- Keep Me Safe (Seal Island #1) by Daniela Sacerdoti
- Corpus (Tom Wilde #1) by Rory Clements
- The Last Train by Michael Pronko
- The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
- The Biographies of Ordinary People, Vol. 1, 1989-2000 by Nicole Dieker
- Madam Tulip by David Ahern
- The Twelve-Mile Straight by Eleanor Henderson
- Death Comes For The Archbishop by Willa Cather
- The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
- Under an Amber Sky by Rose Alexander
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