The Book I Read 2017
Not a bad number of books read considering I didn't feel that I'd actually read so much this year. Started off well with a book about the plague and almost finished the year with a book about rabies. I guess I'm just that sort of person. :-)
A lot of Nordic Noir, which as of yet, has not let me down. The usual number of books about North Korea. :-) Patti Smith's 'M Train' was an absolute pleasure to read and I was muchly amused by a) her not being bothered to go out because she'd rather stay in and binge-watch UK detective dramas, b) is a grumpy old woman when it comes to self-service check-ins at airports, and c) being a closet fan of 'Midsomer Murders'. Lemmy's autobiography was also a cracking read. He really did come across as a decent bloke to be honest. I also liked the fact that in the whole of the book the only woman he slagged off (and even then reasonably politely) was the Great Kat.
- John Kelly - The Great Mortality
- Arthur C Clarke - Earthlight
- The Oatmeal & Michael Inman - How To Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting To Kill You
- Sue Grafton - W Is For Wasted
- Sarah Palin - Going Rogue: An American Life
- Andrew Leatherbarrow - Chernobyl 01:23:40
- Ace Frehley, Joe Layden & John Ostrosky - No Regrets
- Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke - Black Sun
- Stephen King - The Shining
- Charlie Campbell - Scapegoat
- James Patterson - Cross My Heart
- Patti Smith - M Train
- Steve Turner - Beatles ‘66
- James Patterson - Hope To Die
- Niall Ferguson - The War Of The World: History’s Age Of Hatred
- Jieun Baek - North Korea’s Hidden Revolution
- Orson Scott Card - Grinning Man
- Ian Rankin - Knots And Crosses
- William R Forstchen - It Seemed Like A Good Idea
- Reginald Hill - On Beulah Height
- James Wesley Rawles - How To Survive The End Of The World As We Know It
- HG Wells - The Time Machine
- Myra Friedman - Buried Alive: The Biography Of Janis Joplin
- Ian Rankin - Hide And Seek
- Arthur C Clarke - The Sands Of Mars
- HG Wells - The Invisible Man
- Anne Applebaum - Gulag: A History
- Dean Koontz - Odd Interlude
- Anton LaVey - Satan Speaks!
- Ian Rankin - Tooth & Nail
- Tony Iommi - Iron Man
- Lilian Jackson Braun - The Cat Who Went Underground
- Christopher Davidson - Shadow Wars: The Secret Struggle For The Middle East
- Nigel Cawthorne - Public Executions: From Ancient Rome To The Present Day
- John Irving - Until I Find You
- Rebecca Rideal - 1666
- Jeffrey Archer - Kane And Abel
- James Patterson & Maxine Paetro - Unlucky 13
- Carrie Fisher - The Princess Diarist
- Lars Kepler - The Hypnotist
- Joseph Campbell, Bill D Moyers & Betty Sue Flowers - The Power Of Myth
- Yrsa Sigurðardóttir - The Legacy
- Reginald Hill - Arms And The Women
- Michael Critchon - Timelines
- Jeffery Deaver - Speaking In Tongues
- Gillian Flynn - Dark Places
- John Wyndham - The Day Of The Triffids
- Francis Pike - Hirohito’s War: The Pacific War 1941 - 1945
- Ian Rankin - Strip Jack
- Mark P Donnelly & Daniel Diehl - The Big Book Of Pain: Torture And Punishment Through History
- Lars Kepler - The Nightmare
- Matthew Townend - Viking Age Yorkshire
- Marie Osmond & Marcia Wilkie - Might As Well Laugh About It Now
- John Jobling - U2: The Definitive Biography
- Stephen King - It
- Karin Slaughter - Kisscut
- Dan Davies - In Plain Sight: The Life And Lies Of Jimmy Savile
- Reginald Hill - Dialogues Of The Dead
- Rudolph Herzog - Telling Jokes In Hitler’s Germany
- Wendy E Simmons - My Holiday In North Korea
- Christopher Hitchens - Mortality
- Ted Dekker - Black
- Yrsa Sigurðardóttir - I Remember You
- Donald Spoto - Possessed: The Life Of Joan Crawford
- Jeffrey Deaver - The October List
- CH Dalton - A Practical Guide To Racism
- Niall Ferguson - Civilization: The West And The Rest
- Andrei Lankov - North Of The DMZ
- PD James - Children Of Men
- Lemmy Kilmister - White Line Fever: Lemmy - The Autobiography
- James Patterson - Cradle And All
- Ian Rankin - The Black Book
- Christopher Hitchens - The Enemy
- Jonathan Lethem - Fear Of Music
- Karin Slaughter - A Faint Cold Fear
- Scott Fisher - Axis Of Evil World Tour: An American’s Travels In Iran, Iraq And North Korea
- Jeffrey Deaver - The Devil’s Teardrop
- Zoe Daniel - Storyteller
- Ted Dekker - Red
- Robert S Boynton - The Invitation-Only Zone
- Henning Mankell - Faceless Killers
- Michael Crichton - Disclosure
- Johnny Cash - Cash: The Autobiography
- Yrsa Sigurðardóttir - The Undesired
- Sara Blaedel - Blue Blood
- Bill Wasik & Monica Murphy - Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
- Shirley Jones - A Memoir
- Sue Grafton - X
- Ragnar Jónasson - Snow Blind
A lot of Nordic Noir, which as of yet, has not let me down. The usual number of books about North Korea. :-) Patti Smith's 'M Train' was an absolute pleasure to read and I was muchly amused by a) her not being bothered to go out because she'd rather stay in and binge-watch UK detective dramas, b) is a grumpy old woman when it comes to self-service check-ins at airports, and c) being a closet fan of 'Midsomer Murders'. Lemmy's autobiography was also a cracking read. He really did come across as a decent bloke to be honest. I also liked the fact that in the whole of the book the only woman he slagged off (and even then reasonably politely) was the Great Kat.