All the Books we Read in 2017
…because we forget. And because finishing books is great, whether we review them here or not, and should occasion stickers and gold stars.
LUCY
1666: Plague, War and Hellfire – Rebecca Rideal
One Night in Winter – Sinom Sebag Montefiore
Mapp and Lucia – E. F. Benson
Leningrad Under Siege – Ales Adamovich and Daniil granin
Dominion – C J Sansom
Nutshell – Ian McEwan
The Reader on the 6.27 – Jean-Paul Didierlaurent
Lady Jane Grey – Eric ives
Stargazing – Peter Hill
To Say Nothing of the Dog – Connie Willis
The Essex Serpent – Sarah Perry
Lincoln in the Bardo – George Saunders
The Private Lives of Saints Janina Ramirez
Sashenka – Simon Sebag Montefiore
Citizens – Simon Schama
The House of Birds – Morgan McCarthy
Dunstan – Conn Iggulden
Today Will Be Different – Maria Semple
Fatal Purity – Ruth Scurr
The Life of an Unknown Man – Andreï Makine
The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind
Conclave – Robert Harris
The World of Christopher Marlowe – David Riggs
Taken At The Flood – Agatha Christie
The Secret Adversary – Agatha Christie
The Plantagenets – Dan Jones
The Ghost – A Cultural History
Grief is The Thing With Feathers – Max Porter
SARAH
The Magic Toyshop – Angela Carter
Silence of the Grave – Arnaldur Indriðason
All Passion Spent – Vita Sackville-West
A Question of Upbringing (Vol.1 A Dance to the Music of Time) – Anthony Powell
Last Rituals – Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Rupture – Ragnar Jónasson
Voices – Arnaldur Indriðason
The Quiet American – Graham Greene
The Man on the Balcony – Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
The Story of a New Name – Elena Ferrante
The Strange Library – Haruki Murakami
Narcissism for Beginners – Martine McDonagh
Those who Leave and those who Stay – Elena Ferrante
The Glorious Heresies – Lisa McInerney
Wild Strawberries – Angela Thirkell
Under the Udala Trees – Chinelo Okparanta
Swing Time – Zadie Smith
Madame Solario – Gladys Huntington
The Talented Mr Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
Klingsor’s Last Summer – Hermann Hesse
Lucy
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