Favorite books read or listened to in 2017

Jan to Dec order (except for the two nonfiction books at the end)
I listen to around 90 audiobooks each year!

Victoria: A novel of a Young Queen by Daisy Goodwin
Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn by Robin Maxwell
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
Girl Before by JP Delaney
Fatal by John Lescroart
Girl Who Wrote in Silk by Kelli Estes
I See You by Clare Mackintosh
Fallen by Leslie Tentler
Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
Girl in Disguise by Greer Macallister
Tea Planter's Wife by Dinah Jefferies
Breakdown by B.A. Paris
Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine
His Mistress by Christmas by Victoria Alexander
Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva

and
Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde by Jeff Guinn
It's Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going! by Chelsea Clinton

I left out the brackets when the correct books failed to appear.

Favorite Reads of 2017

A Manual For Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie
Charlatan: America’s Most Dangerous Huckster and the Man Who Pursued Him and the Age of Flim Flam by Pope Brock

Celine by Peter Heller
Dead Wake – The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larsen
Follow You Home by Mark Edwards

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Max Perkins: Editor of Genius by Scott A. Berg
The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier

Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of A Victorian Child Murderer by Kate Summersdale

Favorite Reads of the year:
The Light in the Ruins Chris Bohjalian
Maine J Courtney Sullivan
The Little Paris Bookshop Nina George
The Chilbury Ladies Choir Jennifer Ryan
Girl in Disguise Greer Mcallister
Last Days of Summer Steve Kluger
Wonder RJ Palacio
Ill Will Dan Chaon
The Garden of Small Beginnings Abbi Waxman
The Stars are Fire Anita Shreve
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane Lisa See
The Nightingale Kristin Hannah
The Little French Bistro Nina George
Extraordinary Adventures Daniel Wallace
Hello Sunshine Laura Dare
My Absolute Darling Gabriel Tallent
Stay with Me Ayobami Adeboyo

And my absolute most favorite of the year

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman
Hum if You Don't Know the Words Bianca Marais

>3 cdyankeefan: I really liked Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman too.

>hi julielill- I refer Eleanor to everybody- I love her that much!!

>3 cdyankeefan: and >4 JulieLill: note: Have added Eleanor Oliphant to my Amazon wishlist. Thanks for recommending it!

My #1 favourite for the year was:
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.

Other books loved:
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian
The Thirst by Jo Nesbo
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Lake House by Kate Morton

Honourable mentions to:
Britt-Marie was Here by Fredrik Backman
The Man Who Went up in Smoke by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
The Forgotten Garden and The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton

In the order read:

The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain
The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble
Nights at the Alexandra by William Trevor (a novella and three stories}
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
A Country Road, A Tree by Jo Baker
A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin (stories)
Attrib. and Other Stories by Eley Williams
My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent
Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

Honorable mention to all three of Donna Leon's Brunetti mysteries I read this year:
Falling in Love
The Waters of Eternal Youth
Earthly Remains

Happy New Year!

My 10 favorite books of 2017 in the order I read them are:

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
The Tea Rose: A Novel by Jennifer Donnelly
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West
New Boy (Hogarth Shakespeare) by Tracy Chevalier
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
One Good Dog by Susan Wilson
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Salem's Lot by Stephen King
A Long Way Home: A Memoir by Saroo Brierley
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Also I want to shout-out my rereads:
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: The Illustrated Edition by J. K. Rowling

A Mother's Reckoning, Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy by Sue Klebold
Franklin and Winston by Jon Meacham
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The War I Finally Won by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Last Hope Island by Lynne Olson
Wonder by R. J. Palacio
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
The Hired Man by Aminatta Forna
In this Grave Hour by Jacqueline Winspear
Counting by 7's by Holly Goldberg Sloan