Best of 2017

I’m still not really reviewing books, but I’m still reading.

My top books of 2017 can either be books that I thought were very good, or that I really enjoyed, or that spoke to me in some way.  Often, 2 of these will apply, and occasionally all three.

• Fiction
  • The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
  • The Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham
  • A Great Reckoning (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #12) by Louise Penny
  • Journey to Munich (Maisie Dobbs #12) by Jacqueline Winspear
  • All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
  • Leave Me by Gayle Forman
  • Waking Gods (Themis Files #2) by Sylvain Neuvel
• Short Stories
  • Arrival (Stories of Your Life MTI) by Ted Chiang
• Non-Fiction
  • Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice by Adam Benforado
  • Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
  • Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
  • Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O’Neil