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The books listed below were not necessarily published in 2017, but are the ones I read in 2017. I have talked about many of these so there are probably no surprises.
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Mystery
The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes by Lindsay Faye
The Never-Open Desert Diner by James Anderson
Racing the Devil by Charles Todd
Glass Houses by Louise Penny
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Non-fiction
My Family and other Animals by Gerald Durrell
March trilogy by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
The Longest Cave by Roger W. Brucker and Richard A. Watson
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years by Carl Sandburg, ed. by Edward C. Goodman, The Illustrated Edition
The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life by John le Carré
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Based on Real People:
Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan (based on life of Pino Lella, June 1943 to May 1945)
We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
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Fiction
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (re-read)
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
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Scifi/Fantasy
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
Jaran series by Kate Elliott (re-read)
Jaran by Kate Elliott (re-read)
An Earthly Crown by Kate Elliott (re-read)
His Conquering Sword by Kate Elliott (re-read)
The Law of Becoming by Kate Elliott (re-read)
The White Spell by Lynn Kurland
The Gathering Edge by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
(I read the first books of the Lost Fleet series last year and they were on that year's best list.)
The Lost Fleet Beyond the Frontier: Guardian by JackCampbell
The Lost Fleet Beyond the Frontier: Steadfast by JackCampbell
The Lost Fleet Beyond the Frontier: Leviathan by JackCampbell
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The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
The Masked City by Genevieve Cogman
The Burning Page by Genevieve Cogman
The Immortals by Jordanna Max Brodsky
Winter of the Gods by Jordanna Max Brodsky
Babylon’s Ashes by James S. A. Corey
The Mountain of Kept Memory by Rachel Neumeier
Lords of the Sky by Angus Wells (re-read)
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Children’s
The Lost Compass by Joel Ross (sequel of The Fog Diver)
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So what were your best books that you read this year?
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Diaries of the Week:
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/12/7/1722303/-Write-On-Planting-and-sowing
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Updated: The Full Kos Katalogue!
By Avilyn
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/12/7/1722302/-Updated-The-Full-Kos-Katalogue
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