As a new year starts, I see lots of people vowing to read plenty of books in 2017. I love reading but I always struggle with finding the time, so with that in mind, I’ve decided to list the last dozen I read in an attempt to motivate me to the next 12. That’s only one a month after all. There are a couple of series in there, so I’ve classed those as one each.
Title | Comment |
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Leviathan Wakes by J Corey | The first in a long series of near future science fiction, recently adapted for TV and it's great! |
Night Without Stars by Peter F Hamilton | The final book in Hamilton's 2 parter that finishes off his Commonwealth books. Satisfactory ending. |
The Gentleman Bastard sequence by Scott Lynch | These are great, real sense of adventure and brilliant humour. Suffer a little if read back to back as a tad formulaic. |
The Psychopath Test by John Ronson | One of two non fiction titles here, brilliantly funny but also great empathy from Ronson as he examines what a psychopath is. |
The World of Ice and Fire | Well, GRRM isn't actually going to get a physical novel out any time soon is he? |
Dancer's Lament Ian Esslemont | Another of the legion of Malazan spin off books, can't believe they're so well written given how many there are. |
Memory, Sorrow and Thorn by Tad Williams | In my opinion, the best fantasy series ever, and I reread it as a new series is coming. WooHoo! |
The Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe | Randall Munroe, of xkcd.com fame, uses an incredibly limited vocab to explain very complicated stuff. It's great |
* the astute among you might currently be railing at how that list isn’t 12 books long. It contains some series. You can even debate how long one of them is- it was 3 books in hardback, 4 in paperback.