These are the books I have tackled this
year.
Alexander McCall Smith
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Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
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Ava Bloomfield
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Never Grow Up
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Chris Lambrianou with Robin McGibbon
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Escape from the Kray Madness
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Dave Simpson
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The Fallen : Life In and Out of Britain's
Most Insane Group
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David Thomson
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The Whole Equation : A History of
Hollywood
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Donald Macintosh
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travels in the white man's grave
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E. Annie Proulx
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That Old Ace In The Hole
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Emma Hooper
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Etta and Otto and Russell and James
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Gregg Hurwitz
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I See You
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Iain M. Banks
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The Hydrogen Sonata
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John Connolly
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The Underbury Witches
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Jon Stock
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Dead Spy Running
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Lisa Scottoline
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Dead Ringer
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Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg MD
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Why Do Men Have Nipples? : Hundreds of
Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini
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Paul Trynka
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Starman : David Bowie the definitive
biography
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Piers Morgan
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The Insider : The Private Diaries Of A
Scandalous Decade
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Richard Bach
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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Richard Branson
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Screw
Business As Usual
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Richard Crompton
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The Honey Guide
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Si King and Dave Myers
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The Hairy Bikers Blood, Sweat & Tyres
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Terry Looker and Olga Gregson
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Manage Your Stress for a Happier Life
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Twenty-one books finished in 2017; I read
(and listened) to 30 books in 2016 – so not as good a year bookwise, Still,
quality always trumps quantity.
On the subject of quality, rarely have I
encountered such utter pompous tosh as Richard Branson’s “Screw Business Usual”,
which was comfortably the worst book I read in 2017 and is a contender for the
worst I have ever tackled. Avoid!
The best? That accolade goes to Dave Simpson’s “The Fallen : Life In and Out of Britain's Most Insane Group”. Honourable mention is also due to “The Whole Equation : A History of Hollywood” and to “Jonathan Livingston Seagull”.
Here’s to 2018 being a good year for reading, if I can find the time ….
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