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Your Best Books of 2017

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1avaland
Déc 21, 2017, 4:04 pm

I didn't know if someone was going to post a thread for this or not here, and as the end of the month approaches, I took liberty to create this thread (apologies if I've stepped on someone's toes)

A similar thread has been created in the 2018 group as another means of introducing our ourselves, by way of our reading, to each other. People who have posted there might consider cutting & pasting to here also.

2avaland
Déc 21, 2017, 4:39 pm

I've noticed that I read very few books written by American authors this year. Of the (5?) books I did read by American authors they were either nonfiction or dystopian fiction. Veeeery interesting....

To date "Best Of" 2017 list, subject to change slightly.
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Across the China Sea by Gaute Heivoli (2013, T2017 Norwegian)
Compartment No. 6 by Rose Liksom (2014, T Finnish)
Woman at 1000 Degrees by Halgrimur Helgesson (2018, T. Icelandic, novel)
To Back of Beyond by Peter Stamm (fiction, 2016, T 2017, Swiss)
The Red-Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk (2017, T Turkish)
The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso (2017)
Adua by Igiaba Sego (fiction, Italian)
A Meal in Winter by Hubert Mingarelli (2014, T2016 French)
The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch (2017, US)
Exposure by Helen Dunmore (2016, UK)

Non-Fiction:
Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction by Susan Blackmore (philosophy, 2005)
The Times and Trials of Anne Hutchinson: Puritans Divided, Michael P. Kinship (2005, biography/history)
New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America by Wendy Warren (2016, history)

Crime Fiction:
I had a tough year so read more police procedurals than usual. Out of 20 (to date) crime novels, of which nearly all were enjoyed, but here is my standouts. I have read nearly all of Robinson, Disher, Rankin and Holt novels over the years, so they are old favorites.

Signal Loss by Garry Disher (2017, Australian)
Sleeping in the Ground by Peter Robinson (2017, UK)
Rather be the Devil by Ian Rankin (2017, UK)
Odd Numbers by Anne Holt (2017, Norway)
Hollow Man by Oliver Harris (2011, UK) 1st book in series
The Dry by Jane Harper (2017, Australian) standalone

I read 8 books in Alex Gray's Detective Lorimer series and I'm afraid that in memory I can't distinguish one from the other, but they were all quite good (although I was less enamored of installments where the crime were entangled with sports).