Non-Review Blog Posts

2017 In Books And Onwards To 2018

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I don’t tend to do much “normal” blogging on this site because I figure it’s easier to just keep it to reviews but also because, if I’m being honest, I’m not convinced anyone’s really interested in reading my blathering on.  However, I’ve seen a number of book reviewers whose blogs I follow do a 2017 round up and thought it might be interesting to do the same.

I  had set myself a target of reading 150 books in 2017 and actually managed 152 – the most I’ve ever read in a single year.  The full list is here if anyone’s interested in checking it out.  The vast majority of books have been thrillers (58 of my reviews in total) – mainly because one of my “things” (I don’t do resolutions) for 2018 is to try and write a thriller of my own.  I wanted to read more non-fiction in 2017 and I succeeded in that (24 books read – so almost 16%) and I have found that very beneficial – exposing me to new ideas, theories and bits of information that I’d never normally have been drawn to and, at times discovering that sometimes the truth is indeed more fascinating and stranger than fiction.  Of the books I read, 76 were by female writers (so 50%) and 16 by writers of colour (so about 10.5%) – those aren’t bad statistics, but I’m aware that I can improve on that – particularly for writers of colour as I really need to read more diversely.

I’ve been very fortunate to benefit from being a member of the Amazon Vine Programme (119 of the books I read came courtesy of that) but I’ve also benefited from the kind folk at Faber & Faber, Scholastic, Shrine Bell, Simon & Schuster and Walker Books.  Many thanks to the PR and marketing people at all of them for thinking of me.

There’s a lot of on-line rumour about what Amazon is going to do with the UK Vine programme going forward (indeed 2017 was dogged by rumours that it was about to end at any moment).  I can’t complain if it does – I have had a very good run there and am grateful for the opportunities it’s given me – plus, it may well be better for me if it does finish because I have a massive To Read Pile for 2018 that I really need to make some inroads on (I’m not even joking about that – I’ve hidden the list behind a jump cut because it’s at the point where I’m quite ashamed about how out of control it is).

I moved my blog to WordPress from Livejournal at the end of 2017 (with a complete back up of my posts sitting on my Dreamwidth account) and didn’t really expect to get much in the way of traction.  This has always been a personal review blog that reflects whatever I want to read at a particular time so it’s a bit of a pot pourri of genres and markets when the trend in book blogging seems to be to focus on one or two particular genres.  Plus I don’t do scheduled review posts – fitting them in during my spare time so there may be a week between some posts and sometimes there’ll be several posts on the same day.  Anyway, I’ve been surprised and very pleased to see that a number of people have got enough of an interest in it to follow so hello and thank you to all 29 of you who have subscribed and another hello and thank you to the 1,664 visitors who have checked out the site at some point during 2017.  Many thanks as well to those who have taken the time to comment.

In terms of my favourite books of 2017, I’ve set out the ones I rated the most highly below:

  1. The Political Animal by Jeremy Paxman.
  2. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.
  3. The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome by Robin Lane Fox.
  4. Don’t Know A Good Thing Edited by Kate Pullinger.
  5. Collected Ghost Stories by M. R. James.
  6. The Accidental by Ali Smith.
  7. The Collected Stories by Arthur C. Clarke.
  8. On Writing by Stephen King.
  9. The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft.
  10. On Beauty by Zadie Smith.
  11. Saturday by Ian McEwan.
  12. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror by Robert Louis Stevenson.
  13. Vernon God Little by D. B. C. Pierre.
  14. Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood.
  15. Ghostwritten by David Mitchell.
  16. China Shakes The World: The Rise Of A Hungry Nation by James Kynge.
  17. The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave Robbery in 1830s London by Sarah Wise.
  18. The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy.
  19. Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser.
  20. Mother Tongue: The English Language by Bill Bryson.
  21. Leviathan by Paul Auster
  22. The Bone People by Keri Hulme.
  23. Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith.
  24. The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko.
  25. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke.
  26. A Handbook On Hanging by Charles Duff.
  27. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
  28. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
  29. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell.
  30. White Teeth by Zadie Smith.
  31. Blood and Oil by Michael Klare.
  32. Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Global Energy Crisis by Jeremy Leggett.
  33. The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass.
  34. Power Down: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World by Richard Heinberg.
  35. The Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami.
  36. Jaws by Nigel Andrews.
  37. Nemesis by Bill Napier.
  38. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond.
  39. Gridlinked by Neal Asher.
  40. Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds.
  41. Coldheart Canyon by Clive Barker.
  42. Barrayer by Lois McMaster Bujold.
  43. The Tough Guide to Fantasyland by Diana Wynne Jones.
  44. Summer Chills Edited by Stephen Jones.
  45. Past Magic by Ian R. MacLeod.
  46. Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb.
  47. Making Money by Terry Pratchett.
  48. Movie Idols by John Wrathall and Mick Molloy.
  49. Kings of Comedy by Johnny Actob and Paul Webb.
  50. Winter Warriors by David Gemmell.
  51. Dark Moon by David Gemmell.
  52. Glasshouse by Charles Stross.

ACQUIRED AFTER 1 JANUARY 2008

  1. The Day Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko.
  2. The Golden Age of Censorship by Paul Hoffman.
  3. Extras by Scott Westerfeld.
  4. He Kills Coppers by Jake Arnott.
  5. The Twilight Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko.
  6. The Penguin Book of Columnists edited by Christopher Silvester.
  7. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner.
  8. The World According to Clarkson by Jeremy Clarkson.
  9. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer.
  10. Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin.
  11. The Revenge of Gaia by James Lovelock.
  12. The Shadow Of The Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski.
  13. The Beach by Alex Garland.
  14. The Consolation Of Philosophy by Alain de Botton.
  15. Empire by Niall Ferguson.
  16. Hegemony or Survival by Noam Chomsky.
  17. How To Be Good by Nick Hornby.
  18. The English by Jeremy Paxman.
  19. Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke.
  20. Wannabe A Writer? by Jane Wenham-Jones.
  21. Checkmate by Malorie Blackman.
  22. Knife Edge by Malorie Blackman.
  23. Snakehead by Anthony Horowitz.
  24. Stephen Fry in America by Stephen Fry.
  25. Austerity Britain 1945 – 1951 by David Kynson.

ACQUIRED AFTER 1 JANUARY 2009

  1. The Day Of The Triffids by John Wyndham.
  2. The Graduate by Charles Webb.
  3. Out Of Africa by Karen Blixen.
  4. Breakfast At Tiffany’s by Truman Capote.
  5. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence.
  6. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf.
  7. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
  8. Triskellion 2: The Burning by Will Peterson.
  9. Attack Of The Unsinkable Rubber Ducks by Christopher Brookmyre.
  10. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan.
  11. Around The World In Eighty Days by Jules Verne.
  12. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.
  13. A Journal Of The Plague Year by Daniel Defoe.
  14. The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle.
  15. The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers.
  16. The Lady With The Little Dog And Other Stories by Anton Chekhov.
  17. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox.
  18. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
  19. Under Enemy Colours by Sean Thomas Russell.
  20. Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik.
  21. Marketing Your Book: An Author’s Guide by Alison Baverstock.
  22. The Faerie Conspiracies by Holly Stacey.
  23. Midsummer Legend by Janet Foxley.
  24. The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer.
  25. Family Britain 1951 – 1957 by David Kynaston.
  26. Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett.

ACQUIRED AFTER 1 JANUARY 2010

  1. Nation by Terry Pratchett.
  2. Cirque Du Freak by Darren Shan.
  3. The Vampire’s Assistant by Darren Shan.
  4. Tunnels Of Blood by Darren Shan.
  5. The City & The City by China Mieville.
  6. Angel of Death by J. Robert King.
  7. A Web Of Air by Philip Reeve.
  8. The Liberators by Philip Womack.
  9. The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott.
  10. The Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  11. Hello Dubai by Joe Bennett.
  12. The White Queen by Philippa Gregory.
  13. The Oath by Michael Jecks.
  14. The Light of Burning Shadows by Chris Evans.
  15. Of Saints And Shadows by Christopher Golden.
  16. Time Riders: Day Of The Predator by Alex Scarrow
  17. Linger by Maggie Stiefvater.
  18. Clouds of Witnesses by Dorothy L. Sayers.
  19. Death Most Definite by Trent Jamieson.
  20. The Hours by Michael Cunningham.
  21. Lustrum by Robert Harris.

ACQUIRED AFTER 1 JANUARY 2011

  1. 13 Secrets by Michelle Harrison.
  2. Shadow Chaser by Alexey Pehov.
  3. The Fallen by Thomas E. Sniegoski.
  4. Leviathan by Thomas E. Sniegoski.
  5. Altar Of Bones by Philip Carter.
  6. Urban Shaman by C. E. Murphy.
  7. Radiant Shadows by Melissa Marr.
  8. Darkest Mercy by Melissa Marr.
  9. The Dark And Hollow Places by Carrie Ryan.
  10. Dancing Jax by Robin Jarvis.
  11. Incarceron by Catherine Fisher.
  12. The Crowfield Demon by Pat Walsh.
  13. Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie.
  14. The Lancashire Witches by Harrison Ainsworth.
  15. Anno Dracula by Kim Newman.
  16. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carré.
  17. Covenant by Dean Crawford.
  18. The True Tale Of The Monster Billy Dean Telt By Hisself by David Almond.

ACQUIRED AFTER 1 JANUARY 2012

  1. Tideline by Penny Hancock.
  2. Something Of The Night by Ian Marchant.
  3. The Bellwether Revivals by Benjamin Wood.
  4. The Humorist by Russell Kane.
  5. Snakes And Ladders by Sean Slater.
  6. Cinder by Marissa Meyer.
  7. Zombie Apocalypse edited by Stephen Jones.
  8. Huntress by Malinda Lo.
  9. Snuff by Terry Pratchett.
  10. Johnny Swanson by Eleanor Updale
  11. Immortal by Dean Crawford.
  12. It’s Not Me, It’s You by Jon Richardson.
  13. The Blue Death by Joan Brady.
  14. Johannes Cabal The Detective by Jonathan L. Howard.
  15. The City of Ruin by Mark Charan Newton.
  16. Seven Wonders by Adam Christopher.
  17. Dead Man’s Land by Robert Ryan.
  18. The Painted Bridge by Wendy Wallace.
  19. The Ripper Secret by Jack Steel.

ACQUIRED AFTER 1 JANUARY 2013

  1. Illegal by Miriam Halahmy.
  2. Seraphina by Rachel Hartman.
  3. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & The Prison Of Belief by Lawrence Wright.
  4. The Invention Of Murder by Judith Flanders.
  5. The Merchant Of Dreams by Anne Lyle.
  6. Equations Of Life by Simon Morden.
  7. Railsea by China Mieville.
  8. Out Of The Easy by Ruta Sepetys.
  9. The Poisoned Island by Lloyd Shepherd.
  10. Jack Glass by Adam Roberts.
  11. The London Of Jack The Ripper Then And Now by Robert Clack and Philip Hutchinson.
  12. Starters by Lissa Price.
  13. Looking For Alaska by John Green.
  14. Every Day by David Levithan.
  15. Feather And Bone by Gus Smith.
  16. Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan.
  17. The Blue Blazes by Chuck Wendig.
  18. The Republic Of Thieves by Scott Lynch.
  19. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
  20. Hive Monkey by Gareth L. Powell.
  21. Blood And Feathers: Rebellion by Lou Morgan.
  22. The Burning Circus – A British Fantasy Society Anthology edited by Johnny Mains.
  23. Unexpected Journeys – A British Fantasy Society Anthology edited by Juliet E. McKenna.
  24. Monkey Wars by Richard Kurti.
  25. Girl of Nightmares by Kendare Blake.
  26. A Confusion Of Princes by Garth Nix.
  27. Dream London by Tony Ballantyne.
  28. The Watchers: A Secret History Of The Reign Of Elizabeth I by Stephen Alford.

ACQUIRED AFTER 1 JANUARY 2014

  1. The Shock Of The Fall by Nathan Filer.
  2. We Danced All Night by Martin Pugh.
  3. Harbringer Of The Storm by Aliette de Bodard.
  4. Ripper by Stefan Petrucha.
  5. Quarantine: The Loners by Lex Thomas.
  6. The Art Of Wishing by Lindsay Ribar.
  7. The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle.
  8. The Mammoth Book Of Steampunk edited by Sean Wallace.
  9. The Victorian City by Judith Flanders.
  10. A Clockwork Heart by Liesel Schwarz.
  11. A Million Suns by Beth Revis.
  12. The Bone Dragon by Alexia Castle.
  13. Boneshaker by Cherie Priest.
  14. Homunculus by James P. Blaylock.
  15. The Lives Of Tao by Wesley Chu.
  16. The Prince Of Lies by Anne Lyle.
  17. Ashes Of Honour by Seanan McGuire.
  18. One Salt Sea by Seanan McGuire.
  19. Seasons In The Sun by Dominic Sandbrook.
  20. Hang Wire by Adam Christopher.
  21. Lockwood & Co – The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud.
  22. A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle.
  23. Murder On The Home Front by Molly Lefebure
  24. Flame by Amy Kathleen Ryan.
  25. Singled Out by Virginia Nicholson.
  26. Shadowplay by Laura Lam.
  27. Gunnerkrigg Court: Orientation by Thomas Siddell
  28. Wounded: From Battlefield To Blighty by Emily Mayhew
  29. Our Lady Of The Streets by Tom Pollock.
  30. The City Of Silk And Steel by Mike, Linda and Louise Carey.
  31. Adam Robots Short Stories by Adam Roberts.
  32. The Path Of Anger by Antoine Rouaud.
  33. The House Of War And Witness by Mike, Linda and Louise Carey.
  34. The Assassination Of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel.
  35. Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America by John Waters.
  36. Role Models by John Waters.
  37. Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link.
  38. Costume Not Included by Matthew Hughes.
  39. Letters Between Gentlemen by Professor Elemental and Nimue Brown

ACQUIRED AFTER 1ST JANUARY 2015

  1. Forensics: The Anatomy Of Crime by Val McDermid.
  2. Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge.
  3. Moon’s Artifice by Tom Lloyd.
  4. Son Of The Morning by Mark Alder.
  5. Half Wild by Sally Green.
  6. Hack Attack by Nick Davies.
  7. Flash Boys by Michael Lewis.
  8. The Establishment And How They Get Away With It by Owen Jones.
  9. Modernity Britain 1957 – 62 by David Kynaston.
  10. The Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey.
  11. Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard.
  12. Magisterium: The Iron Trial by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare.
  13. The Peripheral by William Gibson.
  14. The Potion Diaries by Amy Alward.
  15. Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige.
  16. Messenger Of Fear by Michael Grant.
  17. Lock In by John Scalzi.
  18. The Gospel Of Loki by Joanne Harris.
  19. The Shadow Cabinet by Maureen Johnson.
  20. Long Reach by Peter Cocks.
  21. Body Blow by Peter Cocks.
  22. Gilliamesque by Terry Gilliam.
  23. A Robot In The Garden by Deborah Install
  24. The Wolves Of London by Mark Morris.
  25. The Society Of Blood by Mark Morris.
  26. The Lazarus Gate by Mark A. Latham.
  27. Marked by Sue Tingey.
  28. Traitor’s Blade by Sebastien De Castell.
  29. The Knight by Pierre Pevel.
  30. Farlander by Col Buchanan.
  31. Look Who’s Back by Timur Vermes.
  32. Absolute Pandemonium by Brian Blessed.
  33. No One Gets Out Alive by Adam Nevill.
  34. Station Eleven by Emile St John Mandel.
  35. Sleepless by Lou Morgan.
  36. I Think You’ll Find That It’s A Bit More Complicated Than That by Ben Goldacre.
  37. Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L. Sayers.
  38. Digital Divide by K. B. Spangler.
  39. Mr And Mrs Prince by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina.

ACQUIRED AFTER 1 JANUARY 2016

  1. So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson.
  2. The Big Short by Michael Lewis.
  3. The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge.
  4. Rebel Of The Sands by Alwyn Hamilton.
  5. The Art Of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson.
  6. The Fourth Wish by Lindsay Ribar
  7. Demon Road by Derek Landy.
  8. Radio Silence by Alice Oseman.
  9. Ace Of Spiders by Stefan Mohamed
  10. Spy Out The Land by Jeremy Duns.
  11. The Sleeping Prince by Melinda Salisbury.
  12. Half Lost by Sally Green.
  13. Uprooted by Naomi Novik.
  14. The Cold Cold Ground by Adrian McKinty.
  15. Near Enemy by Adam Sternbergh.
  16. The Hangman’s Song by James Oswald.
  17. Desolation by Derek Landy.
  18. This Savage Song by V. E. Schwab.
  19. The Somnambulist And The Psychic Thief by Lisa Tuttle.
  20. And I Darken by Kiersten White.
  21. This Is London by Ben Judah.
  22. SS-GB by Len Deighton.
  23. The Sun Is Also A Star by Nicola Yoon.
  24. The Manifesto On How To Be Interesting by Holly Bourne.
  25. Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith.
  26. They All Love Jack: Busting The Ripper by Bruce Robinson.
  27. His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet.
  28. Darkness Hidden by Zoe Marriott.
  29. Iraq + 100: Stories From A Century After The Invasion edited by Hassan Blasim.
  30. My Gym Teacher Is An Alien Overlord by David Solomons.
  31. A Pocket Full Of Murder by R. J. Anderson.
  32. Demon Hunters: Trinity by Olivia Chase.
  33. Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake.
  34. The Girl With Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee and David John.
  35. Intercept: The Secret History Of Computers And Spies by Gordon Corera.
  36. Skyfaring: A Journey With A Pilot by Mark Vanhoenacker.
  37. Way Down Dark by J. P. Smythe.
  38. The Wrong Case by James Crumley.
  39. I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us And A Grander View Of Life by Ed Yong.
  40. Queen Bees: Six Brilliant And Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between The Wars by Sian Evans.
  41. The Good Liar by Nicholas Searle.

ACQUIRED AFTER 1 JANUARY 2017

  1. We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach.
  2. Hot Lead, Cold Iron by Ari Marmell.
  3. The Rain-Soaked Bride by Guy Adams.
  4. Those Above by Daniel Polansky.
  5. The Famished Road by Ben Okri.
  6. The One From The Other by Philip Kerr.
  7. The Silk Weaver by Liz Trenow.
  8. Die Of Shame by Mark Billingham.
  9. There Was A Country: A Personal History Of Biafra by Chinua Achebe
  10. You Can Run by Steve Mosby.
  11. Hackerspaces: Making The Maker Movement by Sarah R. Davies.
  12. Why Democracies Need Science by Harry Collins & Robert Evans.
  13. The Hamilton Affair by Elizabeth Cobbs.
  14. Basic Income And How We Can Make It Happen by Guy Standing.
  15. The Whitby Witches by Robin Jarvis.
  16. Summary Justice by John Fairfax.
  17. Refuge: Transforming A Broken Refugee System by Alexander Betts and Paul Collier.
  18. Straight Outta Crongton by Alex Wheatle.
  19. The Art of Doing Business Across Cultures by Craig Storti.
  20. In Pursuit Of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer’s by Joseph Jebelli.
  21. The New Scramble For Africa by Padraig Carmody.
  22. Small Money, Big Impact: Fighting Poverty With Microfinance by Peter Fanconi and Patrick Scheurle.
  23. What Everyone Needs To Know About Tax by James Hannam.
  24. When Conflict Resolution Fails by Oliver Ramsbotham.
  25. The Real Politics Of The Horn Of Africa by Alex de Waal.
  26. Lovers And Strangers: An Immigrant History Of Post-War Britain by Clair Wills
  27. One Of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus.
  28. The Death House by Sarah Pinborough.
  29. Dead Man’s Blues by Ray Celestin.
  30. Who Runs The World by Virginia Bergin.
  31. After The Fire by Will Hill.
  32. The Call by Peadar O’Guilin.
  33. Contagion by Teri Terry.
  34. The Traitors: A True Story Of Blood, Betrayal And Deceit by Josh Ireland
  35. Did You See Melody? By Sophie Hannah.
  36. The Boy Who Saw by Simon Toyne.
  37. The Gender Games by Juno Dawson.
  38. Under My Hat: Tales From The Cauldron edited by Jonathan Strahan.
  39. Dangerous Women Part III edited by George R R Martin and Gardner Dozois.
  40. Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory
  41. Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800 – 1906 by David Cannadine.
  42. He: A Novel by John Connolly.
  43. The Last Namsara by Kristen Ciccarelli.
  44. Asia’s Reckoning: China, Japan, The US And The Struggle For Global Power by Richard McGregor.
  45. The Econocracy: On The Perils Of Leaving Economics To The Experts by Joe Earle, Cahal Moran and Zach Ward-Perkins.
  46. Indigo Donut by Patrice Lawrence.
  47. Theft By Finding: Diaries (Volume 1) by David Sedaris.
  48. Moonlocket by Peter Bunzl
  49. My Evil Twin Is A Supervillain by David Solomons.
  50. The Firm Divided: Manager-Shareholder Conflict And The Fight For Control Of The Modern Corporation by Graeme Guthrie.
  51. The Ascendancy Of Finance by Joseph Vogl.
  52. Syriza In Power by Costas Douzinas.
  53. Enemies And Neighbours: Arabs And Jews In Palestine And Israel, 1917 – 2017 by Ian Black.
  54. A Legacy Of Spies by John Le Carré.
  55. What You Don’t Know by Joann Chaney.
  56. Nemesis by Brendan Reichs.
  57. One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake.
  58. Tarnished City by Vic James.
  59. The Spy Who Came In From The Cold by John Le Carré.
  60. Pretend You’re Safe by Alexandra Ivy.
  61. Lost Kingdom: A History Of Russian Nationalism From Ivan The Great To Vladimir Putin by Serhii Plokhy.
  62. What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past And The Journey Home by Mark Mazower.
  63. This Book Will (Help You) Change The World by Sue Turton
  64. The Den Of Geek Guide To The Movieverse: Movie Geek by Simon Brew, Ryan Lambie and Louisa Mellor
  65. Auntie Poldi And The Fruits Of The Lord by Mario Giordano.
  66. Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will by Geoff Colvin
  67. The Internationalists And Their Plan To Outlaw War by Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro
  68. Satellite by Nick Lake.
  69. Solomon Creed by Simon Toyne.
  70. The Woman In The Window by A. J. Finn
  71. Zen And The Art Of Murder by Oliver Bottini.
  72. The Feed by Nick Clark Windo
  73. The City Of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty.
  74. Zenith by Sasha Alsberg and Lindsay Cummings.
  75. Now You See by Max Manning.
  76. While You Sleep by Stephanie Merritt
  77. The Echo Killing by Christi Daugherty.
  78. Blackbird by N. D. Gomes
  79. White Bodies by Jane Robins
  80. East Of Hounslow by Khurrum Rahman.
  81. No Good Brother by Tyler Keevil.
  82. Now We Are Dead by Stuart MacBride.
  83. The Cruel Prince by Holly Black.
  84. The Perfect Girlfriend by Karen Hamilton.
  85. M&A Disputes: A Professional Guide To Accounting Arbitrations by A. Vincent Biemans and Gerald M. Hansen.
  86. I Still Dream by James Smythe.
  87. The Confession by Jo Spain
  88. Directorate S: The CIA And America’s Secret Wars In Afghanistan And Pakistan, 2001 – 2016 by Steve Coll.
  89. The Bees by Laline Paull.
  90. A Quiet Flame by Philip Kerr.
  91. What Not To Do If You Turn Invisible by Ross Welford.
  92. Egypt by Robert Springborg.
  93. Witchsign by Den Patrick
  94. The Colour Of Bee Larkham’s Murder by Sarah J Harris
  95. Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
  96. The Memory Chamber by Holly Cave
  97. The Wicked Cometh by Laura Carlin
  98. How To Hand A Witch by Adriana Mather
  99. Seventeen by Hideo Yokoyama.
  100. Bioinformation by Bronwyn Parry and Beth Greenhough.
  101. The Blood by E. S Thomson.
  102. The Playstation Dreamworld by Alfie Bown.
  103. The Hunger by Alma Katsu
  104. A Hero Born by Jin Yong
  105. The Siege by Helen Dunmore.
  106. Straight Razor Cure by Daniel Polansky.
  107. Sapiens: A Brief History Of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari.
  108. Hole In The Middle by Kendra Fortmeyer.

 

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