Sunday, December 31, 2017

Readings 2017 - Fiction

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.



  1. 4 3 2 1 - Paul Auster, 2017
  2. Everybody's Fool - Richard Russo, 2016
  3. The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. - Neal Stephenson, 2017
  4. Wolf on a String - Benjamin Black, 2017
  5. News of the World - Paulette Jiles, 2016
  6. The Trespasser - Tana French, 2016
  7. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson, 1992
  8. The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead, 2016
  9. Bed-Stuy Is Burning - Brian Platzer, 2017
  10. A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James, 2014
  11. Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann, 2009
  12. Underground Airlines - Ben Winters, 2016
  13. A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan, 2010
  14. You Belong to Me - Colin Harrison, 2017
  15. The Moor's Account - Laila Lalami, 2014
  16. Perfume River - Robert Olen Butler, 2016
  17. Mount Pleasant - Patrice Nganang, 2011
  18. Leviathan Wakes - James S. A. Corey, 2011
  19. Red Rising - Pierce Brown, 2014
  20. Caliban's War - James S. A. Corey, 2012
  21. A Hundred Thousand Worlds - Bob Proehl, 2016
  22. Abaddon's Gate - James S. A. Corey, 2013
  23. The Book of Joan - Lidia Yuknavitch, 2017
  24. Cibola Burn - James S. A. Corey, 2014
  25. Zero K - Don DeLillo, 2016
  26. Babylon's Ashes - James S. A. Corey, 2016
  27. Golden Son - Pierce Brown, 2015
  28. The North Water - Ian McGuire, 2016
  29. American War - Omar El Akkad, 2017
  30. The Nemesis Games - James S. A. Corey, 2015
  31. Morning Star - Pierce Brown, 2016
  32. Sleeping Giants - Slvain Neuvel, 2016
  33. It Can't Happen Here - Sinclair Lewis, 1935
  34. Jane, Unlimited - Kristin Cashore, 2017
  35. Infomocracy - Ann Malka Older, 2016
  36. Hystopia - David Means, 2016
  37. Metal Swarm - Kevin J. Anderson, 2007
  38. The Flight of the Silvers - Daniel Price, 2013


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