2017 Reading Challenge

JANUARY – DECEMBER 2017 READING CHALLENGE

January

  1.  The Glass Sword – Victoria Aveyard  – Book 2 in the Red Queen series    
  2.  Our Souls At Night – Kent Haruf  
  3.  The Hanging Tree – Ben Aaronovitch – The Rivers of London 6  
  4.  Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – JK Rowling  
  5.  The Redemption Song – Craig Schaefer – Daniel Faust 2 
  6.  Imprudence – Gail Carriger – The Custard Protocol 2  
7.  The Witch of Duvo – Leigh Bardugo – Grisha 0.5     
8.  Shadow and Bone – Leigh Bardugo – Grisha 1      
9.  Siege and Storm – Leigh Bardugo – Grisha 2      
10. The Too-Clever Fox – Leigh Bardugo – Grisha 2.5     
11.  Little Knife – Leigh Bardugo – Grisha 2.6    

February

12.  Ruin and Rising – Leigh Bardugo – Grisha 3    
13.  Throne of Glass – Sarah J Maas – Throne of Glass 1    
14.  Crown of Midnight – Sarah J Maas – Throne of Glass 2    
15.  Heir of Fire – Sarah J Maas – Throne of Glass 3    
16.  Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy     

March

 17.  Queen of Shadows – Sarah J Maas – Throne of Glass 4     
 18. Empire of Storms – Sarah J Maas – Throne of Glass 5     
 19. The Thirst – Jo Nesbo – Harry Hole      
 20. Hanya Yanagihara – A Little Life     

APRIL

 21.  Police at the Station and They Don’t Look Friendly – Adrian McKinty – Detective Sean Duffy 6     
 22.  Silence Fallen – Patricia Briggs – Mercy Thompson 10     
 23.  Bound – Benedict Jacka – Alex Verus 8 (so good I read it twice!)     
  24.  A Darker Shade of Magic – VE Schwab – A Darker Shade of Magic #1      
  25.  A Gathering of Shadows – VE Schwab – A Darker Shade of Magic #2     

MAY 

  26. ACOWAR – Sarah J Maas    
  27. And the Rest is History – Jodi Taylor – Chronicles of St Mary’s #8      
  28. A Conjuring of Light – VE Schwab – A Darker Shade of Magic #3      
  29. Jane Steele – Lyndsay Faye     

JUNE 

  30. The Little Paris Bookshop – Nina George    
31. A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles    
32. A Rare Book of Cunning Device – Ben Aaronovitch – Peter Grant Short Story (free audible audio)    
33. The Kill Society – Richard Kadrey – Sandman Slim #9     
34. A Dark So Deadly – Stuart MacBride    
35.  Plenty – Yotam Ottolengui    

JULY 

36.  An Unattractive Vampire – Jim McDoniel    
37.  Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen     
38.  William Shakespeare – A Winter’s Tale    
39.  Strange the Dreamer – Laini Taylor     
  40.  Jules Verne – 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea   

AUGUST 

 41. Talking to the Dead – Harry Bingham   (#whodunnituk)   
 42. Reading Lolita in Tehran – Azir Nafisi    
 43. Bad Choices – How Algorithms Can Help You Think Smarter and Live Happier   
 44. Delivering Happiness – Tony Hsieh   
 45. Tower of Dawn – Sarah J Maas   DNF   
 46. The Gentlemen’s Guide to Vice and Virtue    
  47. Every Dead Thing – John Connolly  (#whodunnituk)    

SEPTEMBER 

47. John le Carre – Legacy of Spies    
48. Val McDermid – Insideous Intent    
49. Michael Connelly – The Late Show    
50. Elisabeth Hyde – The Abortionist’s Daughter #whodunnituk  

OCTOBER

51. Kerri Maniscalco  – Stalking Jack the Ripper -book 1    
52. Kerri Maniscalco  – Hunting Prince Dracula  – book 2    
53. Tana French – The Secret Place (#whodunnituk)   
54.  Ben Aaronovitch – The Furthest Station – Peter Grant #5.5    
55.  Jussi Adler Olsen – The Scarred Woman – Dept Q #7    
56.  Roald Dahl – The Witches    
57. Ray Bradbury – Something Wicked This Way Comes   
58.  Jo Malone – My Story   

NOVEMBER

59.  Stuart MacBride – Now we are Dead  (Roberta Steele spinoff from Logan MacRae series)    
60.  Michael Connelly – Two Kinds of Truth – Bosch #22     
61.  An American Werewolf in London – full cast production audiobook   
 62.  Everything Everything – Nicola Joon   
 63.  For All the Tea in China – How the English Stole the World’s Favourite Drink – Sarah Rose    
64.  Modern Tea –  A Fresh Look at an Ancient Beverage – LisaBoalt Richardson    
65.  The Dry – Jane Harper (#whodunnituk)   
 66.  Everybody Yoga – Jessamyn Stanley    
 67. The Yoga Lifestyle: Using the Flexitarian Method to Ease Stress, Find Balance & Create a Healthy Life – Doron Hanoch    
 68. Overcoming Trauma Through Yoga: Reclaiming Your Body – David Emerson and Elizabeth Hopper   
  69. Yoga for Emotional Trauma: Meditations and Practices for Healing Pain and Suffering – Mary NurrieStearns and Rick NurrieStearns    

DECEMBER

 70. Godsgrave – Jay Kristoff     
 71. What the Nose Knows – The Science of Scent in Everyday Life – Avery Gilbert    
 72. When Paris Sizzled – The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter – Mary McAuliffe    
 73. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens     
 74.  Tea – The drink that changed the world – Laura Martin    
  75.  Namaslay – Candice Moore   
 76. The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra – Vaseem Khan (#whodunnituk)