Here is a list of the books I read in 2017. Click on the title to read my review.
- The Good People by Hannah Kent (5 out of 5) NetGalley 2017 Challenge
- Lady Susan by Jane Austen (3 out of 5) Classics Club Challenge/From Page to Screen Challenge
- Meeting with my Brother by Yi Mun-yol (3 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor (4 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- My Husband the Stranger by Rebecca Done (3 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- In a German Pension: 13 Stories by Katherine Mansfield Classics Club Challenge
- Nelly Dean: A Return to Wuthering Heights by Alison Case by Alison Case
- The Last Act of Hattie Hoffman by Mindy Mejia (5 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (4 out of 5)
- The Executioner Weeps by Frederic Dard (5 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- Saying Goodbye (Part 1) by Abigail Drake (3.5 out of 5)
- Saying Goodbye (Part 2) by Abigail Drake (4 out of 5)
- Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves by Rachel Malik (5 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- The Promotion by Christopher K. Michael (2 out of 5)
- The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman (4 out of 5) From Page to Screen Challenge
- At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier (4 out of 5)
- The Queen of Katwe by Tim Crothers (3.5 out of 5) From Page to Screen Challenge
- Secrets of Southern Girls by Haley Harrigan (4 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- Indignation by Philip Roth (4 out of 5) From Page to Screen Challenge
- Home by Kate Hughes (3.5 out of 5)
- Book Blogger Survey by Barb Drozdowich (4 out of 5)
- If the Creek Don’t Rise by Leah Weiss (5 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- The Somme Legacy by M.J. Lee (4 out of 5)
- In the Eyes of an Angel by Kimberly Livingston (2.5 out of 5)
- Anne Boleyn: A King’s Obsession by Alison Weir (4 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- Final Girls by Riley Sager (4 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- Runaway by Alice Munro (3.5 out of 5) From Page to Screen Challenge
- A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (5 out of 5) From Page to Screen Challenge
- Poor Boy Road by James L. Weaver (4.5 out of 5)
- In the Name of the Family by Sarah Dunant (4 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- His Whole Life by Elizabeth Hay (3.5 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- No Ordinary Killing by Jeff Dawson (4 out of 5)
- Brake Failure by Alison Brodie (4 out of 5)
- Duels & Deception by Cindy Anstey (4 out of 5)
- Flesh and Bone and Water by Luiza Sauma (3 out of 5)
- Gone Without A Trace by Mary Torjussen (4 out of 5)
- Shelter by Sarah Franklin (4.5 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- The Outcasts of Time by Ian Mortimer (4 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- Ares Road by James L. Weaver (5 out of 5)
- These Dividing Walls by Fran Cooper (5 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- The Du Lac Devil by Mary Anne Yarde (3.5 out of 5)
- Feast of Sorrow by Crystal King (4 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- Faithless by Kjell Ola Dahl (4 out of 5)
- Sanctuary by T.M. Brown (3 out of 5)
- Across Great Divides by Monique Roy (3.5 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- Gravel Heart by Abdulrazak Gurnah (4 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- Exodus ’95 by Kfir Luzzatto (3 out of 5)
- Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift (5 out of 5) The Walter Scott Prize 2017
- The 7th Function of Language by Laurent Binet (3 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- The X-Variant by Rosemary Cole (4 out of 5)
- The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain (4 out of 5) The Walter Scott Prize 2017
- City of Masks by S. D. Sykes (4 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- The Wages of Sin by Kaite Welsh (4 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- The King’s Jew: In the Shadow of the King by Darius Stransky (4 out of 5)
- Crimson & Bone by Marina Fiorato (4.5 out of 5)
- A Tapestry of Tears by Gita V. Reddy (4 out of 5)
- Vindolanda by Adrian Goldsworthy (5 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- The Floating Theatre by Martha Conway (3.5 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- Fata Morgana by Stephen R. Boyett & Ken Mitchroney (4 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- Widdershins by Helen Steadman (4 out of 5)
- A Countess in Limbo: Diaries in War and Revolution by Olga Hendrikoff & Sue Carscallen (5 out of 5)
- The Former Chief Executive by Kate Vane (4 out of 5)
- Days Without End by Sebastian Barry (5 out of 5) The Walter Scott Prize 2017
- More Than A Soldier by D. M. Annechino (4 out of 5)
- A Country Road, A Tree by Jo Baker (4.5 out of 5) The Walter Scott Prize 2017
- Under A Tuscan Sky by Karen Aldous (3 out of 5)
- Golden Hill by Francis Spufford (4 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017, The Walter Scott Prize 2017
- The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (4 out of 5) From Page to Screen Challenge
- Exquisite by Sarah Stovell (4 out of 5)
- The Vanishing Futurist by Charlotte Hobson (4 out of 5) The Walter Scott Prize 2017
- The Girl in the Glass Tower by Elizabeth Fremantle (4 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- Broken Branches by M Jonathan Lee (4 out of 5)
- Wolves in the Dark by Gunnar Staalesen (4 out of 5)
- Wake Me When I’m Gone by Odafe Atogun (4 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- House of Names by Colm Toibin (3.5 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- Dark Dawn over Steep House by M. R. C. Kasasian (4.5 out of 5)
- The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West (3.5 out of 5) Classics Club Challenge
- Did You Whisper Back? by Kate Rigby (3.5 out of 5)
- Citizen Kill by Stephen Clark (3.5 out of 5)
- A Reluctant Warrior by Kelly Brooke Nicholls (4.5 out of 5)
- Revenants: The Odyssey Home by Scott Kauffman (4 out of 5)
- Court of Lions by Jane Johnson (4 out of 5)
- The Dream Shelf by Jeff Russell (3.5 out of 5)
- The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde by Eve Chase (4.5 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (4 out of 5) Classics Club Challenge
- The Room by the Lake by Emma Dibdin (4 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- The Watch House by Bernie McGill (5 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- The Virgin of the Wind Rose by Glen Craney (3.5 out of 5)
- It Was Only Ever You by Kate Kerrigan (4 out of 5)
- The Other Twin by L. V. Hay (4 out of 5)
- The Thirteenth Gate by Kat Ross (4 out of 5)
- In Shadowland by Timothy Ashby (4 out of 5)
- Catherine Dickens: Outside the Magic Circle by Heera Datta (4.5 out of 5)
- The Sixteen Trees of the Somme by Lars Mytting (5 out of 5) ARC August Challenge/NetGalley Challenge 2017
- The Scribe’s Daughter by Stephanie Churchill (4 out of 5)
- The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz (4.5 out of 5) ARC August Challenge/NetGalley Challenge 2017
- Path of Lucas: The Journey He Endured by Susanne Bellefeuille (3 out of 5)
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (4.5 out of 5) Classics Club
- The Wardrobe Mistress by Patrick McGrath (5 out of 5) ARC August/NetGalley Challenge 2017
- Holding on to Hurt by Charlotte Roth (4 out of 5)
- Take Courage: Anne Bronte and the Art of Life by Samantha Ellis (4 out of 5)
- A Dangerous Woman From Nowhere by Kris Radish (4.5 out of 5) ARC August/NetGalley Challenge 2017
- One Day in December by Shari Low (4 out of 5)
- And The Birds Kept On Singing by Simon Bourke (4.5 out of 5)
- The Smallest Thing by Lisa Manterfield (4 out of 5)
- Stranger by David Bergen (5 out of 5)
- Flight Before Dawn by Megan Easley-Walsh (3.5 out of 5)
- The Indigo Girl by Natasha Boyd (4 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- When It’s Over by Barbara Ridley (4 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke (5 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- The Winner by Erin Bomboy (4 out of 5)
- Dan Knew by F. J. Curlew (3.5 out of 5)
- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (4 out of 5) From Page to Screen
- Twilight Empress by Faith L Justice (4 out of 5)
- Maria in the Moon by Louise Beech (5 out of 5)
- Woman Enters Left by Jessica Brockmole (5 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- Tremarnock Summer by Emma Burstall (3 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- The Crows of Beara by Julie Christine Johnson (4.5 out of 5)
- On the Edge of Sunrise by Cynthia Ripley Miller (3.5 out of 5)
- The Book of Forgotten Authors by Christopher Fowler (4.5 out of 5)
- The Quest for the Crown of Thorns by Cynthia Ripley Miller (3.5 out of 5)
- New Boy: Othello Retold by Tracy Chevalier (3.5 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- Monsoon Rising by David Lee Corley (3 out of 5)
- Home is Nearby by Magdalena McGuire (4.5 out of 5)
- The Summer Springsteen’s Songs Saved Me by Barbara Quinn (4 out of 5)
- Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore (4 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- A Sea of Sorrow by David Blixt, et al (4 out of 5)
- The Murderer’s Maid by Erika Mailman (4 out of 5)
- Mr Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva (5 out of 5)
- The Last Hours by Minette Walters (3.5 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge
- Fires by Tom Ward (4 out of 5)
- Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro (5 out of 5) 1968 Club
- The Other Life of Charlotte Evans by Louisa George (3.5 out of 5)
- Cuz by Danielle Allen (4 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- CWA Anthology of Short Stories: Mystery Tour, ed. by Martin Edwards (5 out of 5)
- Zenka by Alison Brodie (4 out of 5)
- Choosing Hope by Holly Kammier (3.5 out of 5)
- The Secret of Vesalius by Jordi Llobregat (4.5 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- Venetian Blood: Murder in a Sensuous City by Christine Evelyn Volker (3.5 out of 5)
- Illusion by Stephanie Elmas (4 out of 5)
- Whiteout by Ragnar Jonasson (4 out of 5)
- Letting Go by Maria Thompson Corley (4 out of 5)
- A Pearl for my Mistress by Annabel Fielding (4 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (4.5 out of 5) From Page to Screen
- The Existence of Pity by Jeannie Zokan (4 out of 5)
- The Ice by Laline Paull (3.5 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- The Sixth Man by Rupert Colley (4 out of 5)
- The Summer of Impossible Things by Rowan Coleman (4.5 out of 5)
- Death at Glacier Lake by Pam Stucky (4 out of 5)
- Fortune’s Wheel by Carolyn Hughes (4.5 out of 5)
- Keep Me Safe (Seal Island #1) by Daniela Sacerdoti (3 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- Corpus (Tom Wilde #1) by Rory Clements (4.5 out of 5)
- The Last Train by Michael Pronko (4.5 out of 5)
- The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey (4 out of 5)
- The Biographies of Ordinary People, Vol. 1, 1989-2000 by Nicole Dieker (4 out of 5)
- Madam Tulip by David Ahern (3 out of 5)
- The Twelve-Mile Straight by Eleanor Henderson (4 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017
- Death Comes For The Archbishop by Willa Cather (4 out of 5) Classics Club Challenge
- The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (4 out of 5) Classics Club Challenge
- Under an Amber Sky by Rose Alexander (3.5 out of 5) NetGalley Challenge 2017