The Book I Read 2017

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I purposely didn't number my list of books read in 2016 until the last minute just to see how I was doing. Fewer than the last couple of years, but not a bad number and a fair few of definite length. Obviously the cheery book I'm currently reading about the Black Death will have to wait until next year's list.

1. Chrissie Hynde - Reckless: My Life As A Pretender
2. Arnaldur Indriðason - Black Skies
3. Mario Puzo, Peter Bart & Robert Thompson - The Godfather
4. Neil deGrasse Tyson - Death By Black Hole
5. Amy Tan - The Joy Luck Club
6. Bob Somerville - The Cats Of Kittyville
7. Roméo Dallaire - Shake Hands With The Devil
8. Sheila Weller - Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon - And The Journey Of A Generation
9. Isaac Asimov - Cal
10. Ian Kershaw - Hitler, The Germans And The Final Solution
11. Orson Scott Card - The Crystal City
12. Malcolm Gladwell - Blink
13. Isaac Asimov - The Feeling Of Power
14. Reginald Hill - Bones And Silence
15. John Grogan - Marley And Me
16. Harri Nykänen - Nights Of Awe
17. Vadim J Birstein - SMERSH: Stalin’s Secret Weapon
18. Sue Grafton - U Is For Undertow
19. Frank Dikötter - Mao’s Great Famine
20. John Bradshaw - Cat Sense
21. Will Hermes - Love Goes To Buildings On Fire
22. Sally Cooper - A Burqa And A Hard Place
23. Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown - Cat Of The Century
24. Karin Slaughter - Criminal
25. Irvine Welsh - The Sex Lives Of Siamese Twins
26. James Patterson - Cross Fire
27. Marina Lewycka - Two Caravans
28. Jeffery Deaver - The Twelfth Card
29. Nick Spencer - Atheists: The Origin Of The Species
30. Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
31. Harry Turtledove - Last Orders
32. John Fisher - Tommy Cooper: Always Leave Them Laughing
33. JK Rowling - Tales Of Beedle The Bard
34. Chanrithy Him - When Broken Glass Floast: Growing Up Under The Khmer Rouge
35. Charles R Cross - Heavier Than Heaven
36. Karl Pilkington - The Moaning Of Life
37. Dean Koontz - Brother Odd
38. Chol-Hwan Kang & Pierre Rigoulot - The Aquariums Of Pyongyang: Ten Years In The North Korean Gulag
39. Lilian Jackson Braun - The Cat Who Sniffed Glue
40. Stephen King - Salem’s Lot
41. Ismail Kadare - Elegy For Kosovo
42. Bonny Norton - Language And Identity
43. Belinda Carlisle - Lips Unsealed
44. Arnaldur Indriðason - Strange Shores
45. Michael Crichton - Airframe
46. James Patterson - Kill Alex Cross
47. Reginald Hill - Recalled To Life
48. Neil Degrasse Tyson - Space Chronicles: Facing The Ultimate Frontier
49. Jeffery Deaver - The Bodies Left Behind
50. Jeff Sharlet - The Family
51. Ian Rankin - The Flood
52. Alex James - A Bit Of  A Blur
53. Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner
54. Val McDermid - Conferences Are Murder
55. Jonathan Safran Foer - Eating Animals
56. John Wyndham - The Chrysalids
57. John Avjide Lindquist - Let The Right One In
58. Sue Grafton - V Is For Vengeance
59. Carly Simon - Boys In The Trees: A Memoir
60. Bret Easton Ellis - Less Than Zero
61. Karl Pilkington - Karlology
62. Jeffery Deaver - Praying For Sleep
63. Arthur C Clarke - 3001: The Final Odyssey
64. Geoffrey Abbott - Female Executions: Martyrs, Murderesses And Madwomen
65. Bill Wallace - Dead Men Walking
66. Peter Temple - Dead Point
67. Jane Smilely - The Sagas Of The Icelanders
68. Michael Crichton - State Of Fear
69. Dean Koontz - Odd Hours
70. Robert Fisk - The Great War For Civilisation
71. Stephen Halliday - Newgate: London’s Prototype Of Hell
72. J Randy Taraborelli - Michael Jackson: The Magic, The Madness, The Whole Story
73. Hannah Kent - Burial Rites
74. William Golding - The Lord Of The Flies
75. Reginald Hill - Asking For The Moon
76. Ismail Kadare - The Accident
77. Val McDermid - Booked For Murder
78. James Patterson - Merry Christmas, Alex Cross
79. Mark Bowden - Black Hawk Down
80. Stephen King - The Green Mile
81. Alan Weisman - The World Without Us
82. Jeffrey Archer - Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less
83. Geoffrey Abbott - Amazing True Stories Of Execution Blunders
84. Michael Azerrad - Come As You Are
85. Arthur C Clarke - Islands In The Sky
86. Ken E Grause - North Korea Under Kim Chong-Il
87. Val McDermid - Hostage To Murder
88. James Patterson - Alex Cross, Run
89. Lilian Jackson Braun - The Cat Who Talked To Ghosts
90. Amy Chua - Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother
91. Richard J Evans - The Coming Of The Third Reich
92. JG Ballard - Crash
93. Reginald Hill - The Wood Beyond
94. Rupert Fawcett - On The Prowl: The Secret Life Of Cats
95. Dean Koontz - Demon Seed
96. Ginger Baker - Hellraiser - The Autobiography of the World's Greatest Drummer

The best books were all non-fiction. I especially enjoyed Belinda Carlisle's autobiography (she really should be dead, but I for one am glad she isn't) and Carly Simon's autobiography. "Shake Hands With The Devil", about the Rwandan genocide was a very interesting read as was the first two-thirds of "The Great War For Civilzation". After finishing the Jeffrey Archer novel I felt dirty, especially as I'd really enjoyed it. :-)