Book List 2017


A list of books read this year. Most will be fiction, some won’t be finished, some might be read more than once and others might be recommended for others to read. Here goes:

January 2017

Speaking in Bones – Kathy Reichs
A Christmas Cornucopia – Mark Forsyth
She – Pete Brassett
My Name is Markham: A Chronicles of St Mary’s Short Story – Jodi Taylor
The Coroner (Coroner Jenny Cooper Series) – M R Hall
The Disappeared (Coroner Jenny Cooper Series) – M R Hall
The Redeemed (Coroner Jenny Cooper Series) – M R Hall

February 2017

The Flight (Coroner Jenny Cooper Series) – M R Hall
Crime On The Fens – Joy Ellis
Whatever You Love – Louise Doughty
Might There Be More To Hallowe’en? – The Bible Society
Might There Be More To Christmas – The Bible Society
The Ghosts of Idlewood – M L Bullock
Silent Child – Sarah Deakin
Equal Rites – Terry Pratchett

March 2017

Wyrd Sisters – Terry Pratchett
Mothering Sunday* – Graham Swift
Sourcery (Discworld #5, Rincewind #3) Terry Pratchett
My Sister’s Grave (Tracy Crosswhite #1)* – Robert Dugoni

April 2017
The Phantom Tree – Nicola Cornick
The Medicine Tree (The Comanche’s Crow Western Series, Book 1) – Travis McGaughey
Die Trying – Lee Child
(record lost because I had to reset my Kindle)

May 2017
Squall – Sean Costello
Scandinavia: A History – Ewan Butler
The Ghost of Shapley Hall – Amy Cross
Monk’s Hood (The Cadfael Chronicles) – Ellis Peters
The Black Mile (Soho Noir #1)* – Mark Dawson
You Are Dead (Sign Here Please)* – Andrew Stanek
Zero Day (John Puller, #1) – David Baldacci

June 2017
The Beekeeper – Stewart Giles
The Servants – Michael Marshall Smith
A Spell of Snow – Jill Rowan
Psychic Surveys: The Haunting of Highdown Hall – Shani Struthers
Resurrection – Ray Clark

July 2017
Love Like Blood – Mark Billingham
A Ghostly Diversion – Paul L Money
The Servants – Michael Marshall Smith

August 2017
A Perfect Storm – Jodi Taylor
Dunstan: One Man Will Change the Fate of England – Conn Iggulden
The Chalk Pit – Elly Griffiths
Emperor: The Gates of Rome – Conn Iggulden
Emperor: The Death of Kings – Conn Iggulden

September 2017
I Know a Secret – Tess Gerritsen
Fifteen Postcards – Kirsten McKenzie
The Seagull – Ann Cleeves

October 2017
O Henry: Collected Works – O Henry
Still Waters – Tami Hoag
The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories – Alastair Gunn
Rather Be The Devil – Ian Rankin
Even The Dogs – Jon McGregor
The Death and Life of Charlie St Cloud – Ben Sherwood
Angelica Died – Jill Rowan
Once Upon a Midnight – Jill Rowan

November 2017
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
Now We Are Dead – Stuart MacBride

December 2017
Christmas Past: A Chronicles of St Mary’s Short Story – Jodi Taylor
On the Night of The Christmas Eve – Gowtham Gurunath
Origin – Dan Brown

Sleeping in the ground – Peter Robinson