2017 was another fantastic year of British books. I really love participating in this challenge and always surprise myself with the amount I manage to read. Here’s what I read this year:
Checkmate (Noughts & Crosses #3) – Malorie Blackman
The Muse – Jessie Burton
A Boy Made Of Blocks – Keith Stuart
Monsters Of Men (Chaos Walking #3) – Patrick Ness
Burned And Broken – Mark Hardie
Swimming Lessons – Claire Fuller
Just What Kind Of Mother Are You? – Paula Daly
The Girl Who Walked On Air – Emma Carroll
The Trouble With Goats And Sheep – Joanna Cannon
The Wishing Tree – Lucy Wood
The Cuckoo Sister – Vivian Alcock
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time – Mark Haddon
Mad Girl – Bryony Gordon
How To Be A Good Wife – Emma Chapman
Blood Red, Snow White – Marcus Sedgwick
Faithful Lovers – Margaret Drabble
Stasi Child (Karin Müller #1) – David Young
A Place Called Winter – Patrick Gale
Double Room – Ramsey Campbell
Etta And Otto And Russell And James – Emma Hooper
Tastes Like Fear (Marnie Rome #3) – Sarah Hilary
The Adventure Of The Engineer’s Thumb – Arthur Conan Doyle
In Darkling Wood – Emma Carroll
Lie With Me – Sabine Durrant
The Girl In The Red Coat – Kate Hamer
That Girl From Nowhere – Dorothy Koomson
Bamboo Heart – Ann Bennett
Bamboo Island – Ann Bennett
Bamboo Road – Ann Bennett
Awful Auntie – David Walliams
Shadow Magic – Joshua Khan
Dream Magic – Joshua Khan
The Stranger In My Home – Adele Parks
Fleeing Complexity – Jon McGregor
Six Tudor Queens – Katherine Of Aragon: The True Queen
A Kiss In The Dark – Cat Clarke
Double Cross – Malorie Blackman
Close To Me – Amanda Reynolds
The Birds – Daphne du Maurier
He Said/She Said – Erin Kelly
Glow – Ned Beauman
Gone Without A Trace – Mary Torjussen
The Drowned Village – Kate Mosse
This Must Be The Place – Maggie O’Farrell
Jane Austen At Home: A Biography – Lucy Worsley
Alice Through The Plastic Sheet – Robert Shearman
I See You – Clare Mackintosh
Black Water – Louise Doughty
Anne Boleyn: A Kings Obsession (Six Tudor Queens #2) – Alison Weir
The Owl At The Window – Carl Gorham
Fruits – Steve Mosby
The Prime Minister’s Brain – Gillian Cross
Quieter Than Killing (DI Marnie Rome #4) – Sarah Hilary
The Book Of Souls (Inspector McLean #2) – James Oswald
The Shut Eye – Belinda Bauer
Living The Dream – Lauren Berry
Leopard At The Door – Jennifer McVeigh
Together – Julie Cohen
Conclave – Robert Harris
An Anxious Man – James Lasdun
Ask No Questions – Lisa Hartley
The Essex Serpent – Sarah Perry
Miss You – Kate Eberlen
Broken Branches – M. Jonathan Lee
Then She Was Gone – Lisa Jewell
Necropolis – Guy Portman
Blue Moon – Lucy Wood
The End We Start From – Megan Hunter
Master – Angela Carter
Possum – Matthew Holness
This Beautiful Life – Katie Marsh
The Adventure Of The Noble Bachelor – Arthur Conan Doyle
The Snow Sister – Emma Carroll
Wages Of Sin – Kaite Welsh
Last Seen Alive – Claire Douglas
The White Doe – Rosy Thornton
Beyond Black – Hilary Mantel
How To Be Both – Ali Smith
Animal: The Autobiography Of A Female Body – Sara Pascoe
The Way Back To Us – Kay Langdale
Cartes Postales From Greece – Victoria Hislop
Did You See Melody? – Sophie Hannah
Vessel – Jon McGregor
Madness Is Better Than Defeat – Ned Beauman
Fortunately, The Milk – Neil Gaiman
Monte Verita – Daphne du Maurier
Good Me Bad Me – Ali Land
The Watchmaker Of Filigree Street – Natasha Pulley
The Last Letter From Your Lover – Jojo Moyes
The Prisoner Of Ice And Snow – Ruth Lauren
The House On The Hill – Kate Mosse
The Paying Guests – Sarah Waters
The Farm – Tom Rob Smith
Girl 4 – (January David #1) – Will Carver
The Two (January David #2) – Will Carver
The Immortals – S.E. Lister
Fire Lines – Cara Thurlbourn
Saffy’s Angel – Hilary McKay
Western Fringes – Amer Anwar
The King’s Curse – Philippa Gregory
The Next Together (The Next Together #1) – Lauren James
A Place For Violence – Kevin Wignall
Black Hearts In Battersea (The Wolves Chronicles #2) – Joan Aiken
The House – Simon Lelic
Is Monogamy Dead? – Rosie Wilby
A Dangerous Crossing – Rachel Rhys
The Things We Learn When We’re Dead – Charlie Laidlaw
Hush Little Baby – Joanna Barnard
The Art Of Hiding – Amanda Prowse
What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky – Lesley Nneka Arimah
Under A Pole Star – Stef Penney
Wisht – Lucy Wood
Witch Child – Celia Rees
Dead Set – Will Carver
The Strangler Vine – M.J. Carter
The Hangman’s Song – James Oswald
Seeing Double – Sara Maitland
Dreamwalker (The Ballad Of Sir Benfro #1) – James Oswald
Strange Star – Emma Carroll
High House – Rosy Thornton
Finding Jennifer Jones (Jennifer Jones #2) – Anne Cassidy
So if my calculations are correct, that makes 123 British books/short stories read this year which has smashed last year’s record of 72 which I’m very pleased about. Highlights of this year have to be The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry which just captivated me, A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale which completely stole my heart and I still think about today and A Dangerous Crossing by Rachel Rhys, a fantastic surprise that I didn’t anticipate enjoying as much as I did. I’ve also enjoyed catching up on Emma Carroll’s back catalog (one of my targets for the year) and read some beautiful short stories, including one very recently by Rosy Thornton. I’m very excited for some more British books in 2018 – bring it on!
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