Well, this was my first full year of being retired and these are the novels I read in 2017. I read 66 books this year and 38 of them are fiction. They included many of my favorite authors including Paul Auster, Richard Russo, Tana French, Neal Stephenson, Dom DeLillo and Benjamin Black/John Banville. A wonderful new author for me was Colson Whitehead.
There were a lot of science fiction novels on the list and I continued reading books from a couple of long series. The Red Rising series by Pierce Brown and The Expanse series by James S. A. Corey.
Overall lots of wonderful books this year.
- 4 3 2 1 - Paul Auster, 2017
- Everybody's Fool - Richard Russo, 2016
- The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. - Neal Stephenson, 2017
- Wolf on a String - Benjamin Black, 2017
- News of the World - Paulette Jiles, 2016
- The Trespasser - Tana French, 2016
- Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson, 1992
- The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead, 2016
- Bed-Stuy Is Burning - Brian Platzer, 2017
- A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James, 2014
- Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann, 2009
- Underground Airlines - Ben Winters, 2016
- A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan, 2010
- You Belong to Me - Colin Harrison, 2017
- The Moor's Account - Laila Lalami, 2014
- Perfume River - Robert Olen Butler, 2016
- Mount Pleasant - Patrice Nganang, 2011
- Leviathan Wakes - James S. A. Corey, 2011
- Red Rising - Pierce Brown, 2014
- Caliban's War - James S. A. Corey, 2012
- A Hundred Thousand Worlds - Bob Proehl, 2016
- Abaddon's Gate - James S. A. Corey, 2013
- The Book of Joan - Lidia Yuknavitch, 2017
- Cibola Burn - James S. A. Corey, 2014
- Zero K - Don DeLillo, 2016
- Babylon's Ashes - James S. A. Corey, 2016
- Golden Son - Pierce Brown, 2015
- The North Water - Ian McGuire, 2016
- American War - Omar El Akkad, 2017
- The Nemesis Games - James S. A. Corey, 2015
- Morning Star - Pierce Brown, 2016
- Sleeping Giants - Slvain Neuvel, 2016
- It Can't Happen Here - Sinclair Lewis, 1935
- Jane, Unlimited - Kristin Cashore, 2017
- Infomocracy - Ann Malka Older, 2016
- Hystopia - David Means, 2016
- Metal Swarm - Kevin J. Anderson, 2007
- The Flight of the Silvers - Daniel Price, 2013