Book Reviews

2017 Books in review

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Here is a list of all the books I’ve read in 2017. On the bright side, I’ve finished all of Odd Thomas series from Dean Koontz (more books will be published in 2018), started off Alvin Maker series from Orson Scott Card  and completed the 1Q84 mega collection from Haruki Murakami

  1. The Stone Monkey * JEFFERY DEAVER
  2. Stephen King
    1. Thinner
    2. Duma Key
    3. The Tommyknockers
    4. L.T.’s Theory of Pets
    5. Lunch at the Gotham Café 
    6. Autopsy in room 4
    7. The man in the black coat 
    8. Roadwork 
    9. The Pentacle
    10. The Shining
    11. Gerald’s Game
    12. Christine
    13. Rose Madder
    14. Dolan’s Cadillac
    15. Suffer the Little Children
    16. The End of the Whole Mess
    17. Dedication
    18. Pet Sematary
    19. Chattery Teeth
    20. Sneakers
    21. My Pretty Pony
    22. Nightmares and Dreamscapes Story Collection
    23. The Basis of Morality
    24. The Long Walk
    25. Needful Things Book Review
  3. 1984 * George Orwell’s vision on a Big Brother state
  4. Body Surfing * Anita Shreve
  5. Homage to Catalonia * George Orwell
  6. Orson Scott Card
    1. Prentice Alvin
    2. Alvin Maker * The Red Profet
    3. Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker IV 
    4. Empire
    5. Sarah (Women of Genesis, Book 1)
    6. Wyrms
    7. Enchantment
    8. Elephants of Poznan
    9. Freeway Games
    10. Lost Boys
    11. QUIETUS 
    12. A SEPULCHRE OF SONGS
  7. Dean Koontz
    1. The City
    2. The Final Hour
    3. What the Night Knows
    4. Darkness under the sun
    5. One Door Away from Heaven
    6. Odd Apocalypse
    7. Brother Odd
    8. Odd Hours
    9. Forever Odd
    10. The eyes of Darkness
    11. The Mask
  8. Margaret Atwood
    1. Cat’s eye by Margaret Atwood
    2. Margaret Atwood * Moral Disorder Book review
    3. Good bones * Margaret Atwood
  9. All the things that bothered Napoleon in Animal Farm (George Orwell)
  10. The Odd Thomas Series by Dean Koontz
  11. Susan Elizabeth Phillips
    1. Natural Born Charmer
    2. It had to be you
    3. Nobody’s baby but mine
  12. American Pastoral * Philip Roth Book Review
  13. Chicken Soup for the Mother’s soul * 101 Stories
  14. Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson – Book Review
  15. William Trevor* The story of Lucy Gault
  16. American Gods Book Review * Neil Gailman
  17. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium Series Book 1) * Stieg Larsson
  18. Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy * Martin Lindström
  19. Sylvia Day * Entwined with You (Crossfire, Book 3)
  20. Haruki Murakami
    1. 1Q84 – Book 1 
    2. 1Q84 – Book 2
    3. 1Q84 * Book 3
    4. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
    5. After Dark
  21. Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes
  22. The Room by Jonas Karlsson * Book Review
  23. The Book of Madness and Cures by Regina O’Melveny * Review
  24. Maggie Stiefvater
    1. The Wolves Of Mercy Falls Trilogy
    2. Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls #1)
    3. Linger (The Wolves of Mercy Falls #2)
    4. Forever (The Wolves of Mercy Falls #3)
  25. Beautiful Creatures Novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
  26. Jessica Ruston’s Luxury Book Review
  27. Beauty’s Punishment * Anne Rice
  28. Black Ice by Becca Fitzpatrick
  29. Jodi Picoult * Where there is smoke
  30. Tahereh Mafi
    1. Tahereh Mafi * Ignite Me * Book 3
    2. Tahereh Mafi * Destroy Me (“Shatter Me” Series 1.5) Book Review
  31. Kafka * The castle
  32. Amy Poehler * Yes Please book review
  33. Neil Gaiman * Norse Mythology
  34. Darcy Coates
    1. Quarter to Midnight: Fifteen Horror Short Stories
    2. The Haunting of Ashburn House 
    3. 30 Mini-Bites Short Horror Story collection
  35. Mama Cass Biography Book * Dream a little dream of me
  36. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them * J.K. Rowling Book Review
  37. Hughes’ I Wonder As I Wander: Reveries of an Itinerant Poet
  38. Find Me book review * by Laura van den Berg
  39. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley Book review
  40. Reconstructing Amelia By Kimberly McCreight * Book Review
  41. Captive Prince (Captive Prince #1) by C.S. Pacat * Crappiest Book of the year award
  42. Jeffrey Archer – Mightier than the sword
  43. The War of the Worlds * H.G. Wells
  44. Jeff Lindsay
    1. Darkly Dreaming Dexter Book 1
    2. Dearly Devoted Dexter 
    3. Dexter in the Dark
  45. The Good Girl * Fiona Neill Book Review
  46. Worlds Beyond * Ian Wilson
  47. Feasts of the Innocents * Evelio Rosero
  48. American Psycho * Bret Easton Ellis – 1991
  49. Hannibal * by Thomas Harris
  50. House of Leaves * Mark Z. Danielewski * story of the labyrinth
  51. The Cambridge Introduction to Margaret Atwood * Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson
  52. A monster calls – Book Review
  53. The Black House * Stephen King And Peter Straub
  54. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon Book Review
  55. Mircea Eliade * At the Gypsies- The Labyrinth
  56. The Ice Dragon * George R.R. Martin Book Review
  57. Machiavelli – The Prince – Part 1
  58. Machiavelli – The Prince – Part 2
  59. Machiavelli – The Prince – Part 3
  60. Flowers in the Attic * Book 1 * V.C. Andrews Book review
  61. Rick Riordan – Blood of Olympus
  62. What a Boy Needs (book 2) by Nyrae Dawn
  63. The road to Woodbury * Robert Kirkman – The Walking Dead
  64. Anne of Green Gables * Lucy Maud Montgomery – 1908
  65. Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes
  66. The Wise Man’s Fear: Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 2
  67. The Slow Regard of Silent Things * Patrik Rothfuss

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