books read in 2017

1. Ken Liu/THE GRACE OF KINGS
2. SJ Sindu/MARRIAGE OF A THOUSAND LIES
3. Jan Morris/VENICE*
4. Lidia D. Sciama/A VENETIAN ISLAND: ENVIRONMENT, HISTORY, AND CHANGE IN BURANO
5. Carl Hiaasen/TOURIST SEASON
6. Thomas Madden/VENICE: A NEW HISTORY
7. Yaa Gyasi/HOMEGOING
8. Clarissa Goenawan/RAINBIRDS
9. Raymond Chandler/FAREWELL, MY LOVELY
10. Sister Bartolomea riccoboni, edited and translated by Daniel Bornstein/LIFE AND DEATH IN A VENETIAN CONVENT: THE CHRONICLE AND NECROLOGY OF CORPUS DOMINI, 1395-1436
11. Carole Hayman and Lou Wakefield/LADIES OF LETTERS
12. Agatha Christie/MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS*
13. Dorsey Armstrong/THE BLACK DEATH: THE WORLD’S MOST DEVASTATING PLAGUE
14. Jacqueline Woodson/ANOTHER BROOKLYN
15. Emily Arsenault/THE LEAF READER
16. Alan Watt/THE 90-DAY NOVEL
17. Carl Hiaasen/DOUBLE WHAMMY
18. Justine Larbalestier/MY SISTER ROSA
19. Naomi Hirahara/SUMMER OF THE BIG BACHI
20. Ann Cornelisen/TORREGRECA: LIFE, DEATH, MIRACLES
21. Stephen Hawking/A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME
22. Arthur Conan Doyle/A STUDY IN SCARLET*
23. Arthur Conan Doyle/THE SIGN OF FOUR
24. Arthur Conan Doyle/THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
25. Arthur Conan Doyle/THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
26. Karen Haid/CALABRIA: THE OTHER ITALY
27. Rachel Kadish/THE WEIGHT OF INK
28. George Gissing/BY THE IONIAN SEA: NOTES ON A RAMBLE IN SOUTHERN ITALY
29. Helene Stapinski/MURDER IN MATERA: A TRUE STORY OF PASSION, FAMILY, AND FORGIVENESS IN SOUTHERN ITALY
30. Carl Hiaasen/SKIN TIGHT
31. Elizabeth McKenzie/THE PORTABLE VEBLEN
32. Timothy Hallinan/PULPED
33. Arthur Conan Doyle/THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES*
34. Carl Hiaasen/NATIVE TONGUE
35. Mick Herron/SLOW HORSES
36. Angie Thomas/THE HATE U GIVE
37. Anthony Horowitz/MAGPIE MURDERS
38. Umberto Eco/THE NAME OF THE ROSE*
39. Charmain Craig/MISS BURMA
40. Kate Manning/MY NOTORIOUS LIFE
41. Saverio Strati, translated by Elizabeth Ellman/TERRAROSSA
42. Joe Ide/IQ
43. Amor Towles/A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW
44. Arthur Conan Doyle/THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
45. Arthur Conan Doyle/THE VALLEY OF FEAR
46. George Simenon/PIETR THE LATVIAN
47. Frederick Exley/A FAN’S NOTES
48. Gabriel Tallent/mY ABSOLUTE DARLING
49. Margaret Millar/BEAST IN VIEW
50. Con Lehane/MURDER IN THE MANUSCRIPT ROOM

*denotes a reread