2017 Books

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Here are all the books I read and reviewed in 2017:

★★★☆☆ Alcatraz Versus The Shattered Lens by Brandon Sanderson (Alcatraz #4)
★★☆☆☆ The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit
★★☆☆☆ A Saint on Death Row: The Story of Dominique Green by Thomas Cahill
★★☆☆☆ The Innocent Mage by Karen Miller (Kingmaker, Kingbreaker #1)
★★★★☆ White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
★★☆☆☆ The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier (The Chocolate War #1)
★★★☆☆ You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice by Tom Vanderbilt
★★★★☆ Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (Inkworld #1)
★★★☆☆ Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett (Discworld #8)
★★★★☆ The Help by Kathryn Stockett
★★★☆☆ The Riddle-Master of Hed by Patricia A. McKillip (Riddle-Master #1)
★☆☆☆☆ The Big Four by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot #5)
★★☆☆☆ A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
★★★☆☆ Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake (Three Dark Crowns #1)
★★☆☆☆ The Painter of Battles by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
★★★☆☆ Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
★★☆☆☆ The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan (The Wheel of Time #1)
★★★☆☆ The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
★★★☆☆ The Victim by Saul Bellow
★★★☆☆ The Awakened Mage by Karen Miller (Kingmaker, Kingbreaker #2)
★★★★★ The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
★★★☆☆ Inkspell by Cornelia Funke (Inkworld #2)
★★★★☆ A Cold Legacy by Megan Shepherd (The Madman’s Daughter #3)
★★★★☆ 1984 by George Orwell
★★★★☆ The Magician’s Land by Lev Grossman (The Magicians #3)
★★★★☆ Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In by Bernie Sanders
★★☆☆☆ How Dogs Love Us: A Neuroscientist and His Adopted Dog Decode the Canine Brain by Gregory Berns
★★★☆☆ The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events #11)
★★★☆☆ The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey
★★★★☆ Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection by Brandon Sanderson
★★★★★ The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson (The Masquerade #1)
★☆☆☆☆ Messenger by Lois Lowry (The Giver #3)
★★★★☆ My Life, My Love, My Legacy by Coretta Scott King as told to The Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds
★★★☆☆ Infomocracy by Malka Older (Centenal Cycle #1)
★★★★☆ Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (Little Brother #1)
★★☆☆☆ The Reader by Traci Chee (Sea of Ink and Gold #1)
★★★☆☆ Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between) by Lauren Graham
★★★☆☆ This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab (Monsters of Verity #1)
★★★★☆ Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children #1)
★★★★☆ When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
★★★☆☆ Get in Trouble by Kelly Link
★★☆☆☆ Six Earlier Days by David Levithan
★★★★☆ Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer
★★★☆☆ The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books #1)
★★★★☆ Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
★★★☆☆ The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – But Some Don’t by Nate Silver
★★★☆☆ The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen (The Queen of the Tearling #1)
★★★☆☆ Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce (The Immortals #1)
★★★☆☆ Swing Time by Zadie Smith
★★★★☆ The Penultimate Peril by Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events #12)
★★★☆☆ Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
★★☆☆☆ The Dark Talent by Brandon Sanderson (Alcatraz #5)
★★★★☆ Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
★★★★★ A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. (St. Leibowitz #1)
★★☆☆☆ The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot #6)
★★★☆☆ A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge (Zones of Thought #1)
★★★☆☆ It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
★★★★☆ Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
★★★☆☆ A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
★★★☆☆ The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin
★★★★☆ Touch by Claire North
★☆☆☆☆ The Regulators by Richard Bachman
★★★★☆ We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
★★★★☆ From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
★★★★☆ It Happens All the Time by Amy Hatvany
★★☆☆☆ 67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence by Howard Means
★★★☆☆ A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety by Jimmy Carter
★★☆☆☆ Storm Front by Jim Butcher (The Dresden Files #1)
★★★☆☆ Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer
★★★★☆ The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson
★★☆☆☆ The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star by Nikki Sixx with Ian Gittins
★★☆☆☆ The End by Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events #13)
★★☆☆☆ Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke (Inkworld #3)
★★★☆☆ The Crossover by Kwame Alexander (The Crossover #1)
★★★★☆ Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
★★☆☆☆ Mark of the Thief by Jennifer A. Nielsen (Mark of the Thief #1)
★★★☆☆ Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children #1)
★★★★☆ The Gospel of Loki by Joanne M. Harris (Loki #1)
★★★★☆ The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
★★★★★ The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North
★★★★☆ Games Wizards Play by Diane Duane (Young Wizards #10)
★★☆☆☆ Wolf-Speaker by Tamora Pierce (The Immortals #2)
★★★★☆ Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
★★★★☆ Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
★★☆☆☆ Ever by Gail Carson Levine
★★★★☆ The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
★★★☆☆ Doctor Who: Prisoners of Time by Scott Tipton and David Tipton
★★★☆☆ Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
★★☆☆☆ White Sand, Volume 1 by Brandon Sanderson, Rik Hoskin, and Julius Gopez (White Sand #1)
★★★☆☆ The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick
★★☆☆☆ Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
★★★★★ A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
★★★☆☆ Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
★★★☆☆ Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
★★★★☆ Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
★★☆☆☆ Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
★★★★★ The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
★★★☆☆ His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik (Temeraire #1)
★★★☆☆ Doctor Sleep by Stephen King (The Shining #2)
★★★☆☆ The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
★★★☆☆ The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie (The First Law #1)
★★☆☆☆ John Dies at the End by David Wong (John Dies at the End #1)
★★★★☆ All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
★★★☆☆ Portuguese Irregular Verbs by Alexander McCall Smith (Portuguese Irregular Verbs #1)
★★★☆☆ My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg with Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. Williams
★★★★★ Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo (Six of Crows #2)
★★★★★ Red Rising by Pierce Brown (Red Rising #1)
★★☆☆☆ Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel (Themis Files #1)
★★★★☆ Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
★★★★☆ The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
★★★★☆ Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
★★★☆☆ I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb
★★☆☆☆ Star Wars: Scoundrels by Timothy Zahn
★★★★★ Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor (Strange the Dreamer #1)
★★★☆☆ A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray (Gemma Doyle #1)
★★☆☆☆ The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig (The Girl from Everywhere #1)
★★★☆☆ Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett (Discworld #15)
★★★☆☆ Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott
★★★★☆ Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
★★☆☆☆ Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
★★★☆☆ Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger (Finishing School #1)
★★☆☆☆ The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
★★★☆☆ Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King (Bill Hodges Trilogy #1)
★★★★☆ Feed by Mira Grant (Newsflesh #1)
★★☆☆☆ Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin
★★★☆☆ Someday, Someday, Maybe by Lauren Graham
★★☆☆☆ Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
★★★☆☆ The Invasion of the Tearling by Erika Johansen (The Queen of the Tearling #2)
★★★☆☆ The Dark Man by Stephen King
★★★☆☆ Mister Monday by Garth Nix (The Keys to the Kingdom #1)
★★★★☆ The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson
★★★★★ Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb (Farseer #1)
★★☆☆☆ The Sellout by Paul Beatty
★☆☆☆☆ Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow
★★★☆☆ Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
★★★☆☆ Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis (The Space Trilogy #1)
★★★☆☆ A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson
★★★☆☆ Every Other Day by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
★★★☆☆ The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden (Winternight Trilogy #1)
★★★☆☆ Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear (Maisie Dobbs #1)
★★★★☆ Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
★★★☆☆ Marian by Ella Lyons
★★★☆☆ The Passage by Justin Cronin (The Passage #1)
★★★☆☆ The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
★★★★★ Mindswap by Robert Sheckley
★★★★★ The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
★★☆☆☆ Star Wars: Aftermath by Chuck Wendig (Aftermath #1)
★★☆☆☆ The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
★★★☆☆ Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
★★★☆☆ The Name of God is Mercy by Pope Francis
★★★★★ A Burglar’s Guide to the City by Geoff Manaugh
★★★☆☆ The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie (Superintendent Battle #2)
★★★★★ Deadline by Mira Grant (Newsflesh #2)
★★★★★ S. by J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst
★★★☆☆ Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
★★★☆☆ Runemarks by Joanne M. Harris (Loki #3)
★★☆☆☆ The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau (Book of Ember #1)
★★★★★ Star Wars: Lost Stars by Claudia Gray
★★★☆☆ The End of the Day by Claire North
★★★☆☆ Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes
★★★★☆ Room by Emma Donoghue
★★★☆☆ Finders Keepers by Stephen King (Bill Hodges Trilogy #2)
★★★☆☆ The Gunslinger by Stephen King (The Dark Tower #1)
★☆☆☆☆ Pyramid Schemes by Peter David (Sir Apropos of Nothing #4)
★★★☆☆ The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
★★☆☆☆ House Rules by Jodi Picoult
★★★★☆ Not My Father’s Son by Alan Cumming
★★★★☆ The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
★★☆☆☆ Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard (Johannes Cabal #1)
★★★★☆ They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 by Milton Sanford Mayer
★★★☆☆ Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan #1)
★★★☆☆ Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie (Tommy and Tuppence #2)
★★★★★ Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody
★★☆☆☆ Grim Tuesday by Garth Nix (The Keys to the Kingdom #2)
★★★☆☆ A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray (Firebird #1)
★★★★☆ Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man by William Shatner with David Fisher
★★★★☆ The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
★★★☆☆ Emperor Mage by Tamora Pierce (The Immortals #3)
★★★★☆ Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler (Patternist #1)
★★★☆☆ Perelandra by C. S. Lewis (The Space Trilogy #2)
★★★★★ The Girl with All the Gifts by M. R. Carey
★★★☆☆ The Science of Game of Thrones: From the Genetics of Royal Incest to the Chemistry of Death by Molten Gold – Sifting Fact from Fantasy in the Seven Kingdoms by Helen Keen
★★★☆☆ Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
★★★☆☆ Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede (Enchanted Forest Chronicles #1)
★★★★☆ The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
★★★☆☆ The Last Adventure of Constance Verity by A. Lee Martinez (Constance Verity #1)
★★★☆☆ Rumpole of the Bailey by John Mortimer (Rumpole of the Bailey #1)
★★★★★ The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
★☆☆☆☆ The Infinities by John Banville
★★★☆☆ The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin, Elio M. García Jr., and Linda Antonsson
★★★★☆ The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel
★★★☆☆ Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo (Grisha #1)
★★☆☆☆ Moby Dick by Herman Melville
★★★★☆ Heir of Sea and Fire by Patricia A. McKillip (Riddle-Master #2)
★★★★☆ Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb (Farseer #2)
★★★☆☆ The Iliad by Homer
★★★★☆ Ten Thousand Skies Above You by Claudia Gray (Firebird #2)
★★☆☆☆ The Scourge by Jennifer A. Nielsen
★★★★☆ Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell
★★★☆☆ A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R.R. Martin (The Tales of Dunk and Egg #1-3)
★★★☆☆ The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
★★★★☆ The Odyssey by Homer
★★☆☆☆ Hollow City by Ransom Riggs (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children #2)
★★★☆☆ The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
★★★★☆ Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor (Daughter of Smoke & Bone #1)
★★★☆☆ Nightmares & Dreamscapes by Stephen King
★★★☆☆ The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency #1)
★★★★☆ Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
★★★☆☆ Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach
★★★★☆ What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
★★★☆☆ The Fate of the Tearling by Erika Johansen (The Queen of the Tearling #3) n
★★★☆☆ Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger
★★★★☆ The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King (The Dark Tower #2)
★★★☆☆ Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by Jack Thorne
★★★★☆ Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters
★★★★☆ Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett (Discworld #19)
★★★☆☆ Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
★★★★☆ Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
★★★☆☆ The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie (Miss Marple #1)
★★★★☆ The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland
★★★★☆ Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
★★★★★ Night by Elie Wiesel
★★★☆☆ The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin (Remembrance of Earth’s Past #1)
★★★★☆ Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
★★★★☆ The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin (The Broken Earth #1)
★★☆☆☆ The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley (Flavia de Luce #1)
★★★☆☆ The History of Bees by Maja Lunde
★★★★☆ A Million Worlds with You by Claudia Gray (Firebird #3)
★★★☆☆ The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
★★★☆☆ We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
★★★☆☆ The Field Guide by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black (The Spiderwick Chronicles #1)
★★☆☆☆ The Realms of the Gods by Tamora Pierce (The Immortals #4)
★★★☆☆ The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin (The Broken Earth #2)
★★★☆☆ The Book of Swords edited by Gardner Dozois
★★★★☆ Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children #2)
★★★★☆ Seraphina by Rachel Hartman (Seraphina #1)
★★★☆☆ My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
★★★☆☆ The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King
★★★★☆ I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez
★★☆☆☆ Something from the Nightside by Simon R. Green (Nightside #1)
★★★★★ Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor (Daughter of Smoke & Bone #2)
★★★☆☆ Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo (Grisha #2)
★★★☆☆ La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman (The Book of Dust #1)
★★★★☆ Exit, Pursued by a Bear by E. K. Johnston
★★★☆☆ The Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey
★★★★☆ Shardik by Richard Adams (Beklan Empire #1)
★★★☆☆ The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
★★★★☆ The Color Purple by Alice Walker
★★★☆☆ Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore
★★★★☆ Searching for Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede (Enchanted Forest Chronicles #2)
★★★☆☆ Drowned Wednesday by Garth Nix (The Keys to the Kingdom #3)
★★★☆☆ The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of “Hallelujah” by Alan Light
★★★☆☆ My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories edited by Stephanie Perkins
★★★★☆ Star Trek/Planet of the Apes: The Primate Directive by Scott Tipton, David Tipton, Rachael Stott, and Charlie Kirchoff
★★☆☆☆ Dangerous Women edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois
★★☆☆☆ End of Watch by Stephen King (Bill Hodges Trilogy #3)
★★★☆☆ Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (Southern Reach #1)
★★★★★ How to Set a Fire and Why by Jesse Ball
★★★☆☆ Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold (Vorkosigan Saga #1)
★★★★☆ The Waste Lands by Stephen King (The Dark Tower #3)
★★★★☆ Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
★★★☆☆ Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (Binti #1)
★★★☆☆ New Boy by Tracy Chevalier
★★★☆☆ Doctor Who: The Legends of Ashildr by James Goss, David Llewellyn, Jenny T. Colgan, and Justin Richards
★★★☆☆ Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft (The Books of Babel #1)

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