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Read in 2017

January:
1. London: the Novel, by Edward Rutherfurd
2. Notes from a Small Island, by Bill Bryson
3. A Very English Scandal, by John Preston
4. Imagined London, by Anna Quindlen
5. The Black Dahlia, by James Ellroy
6. In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote

February
1. Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen
2. The Girls of Slender Means, by Muriel Spark
3. Patience, by John Coates
4. Into the Whirlwind, by Eugenia Ginzburg
5. The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James
6. Few Eggs and No Oranges, by Vere Hodgson
7. Vittoria Cottage, by DE Stevenson

March:
1. The Exiles Return, by Elizabeth de Waal
2. Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen
3. The Death of the Heart, by Elizabeth Bowen
4. The Buccaneers, by Edith Wharton
5. The Death of the Heart, by Elizabeth Bowen
6. White Teeth, by Zadie Smith

April:
1. The Heat of the Day, by Elizabeth Bowen
2. The Two Mrs. Abbotts, by DE Stevenson
3. The Road to Little Dribbling, by Bill Bryson

May:
1. London War Notes, by Mollie Panter-Downes
2. Malory Towers Collection 1-3, by Enid Blyton
3. Famous Five, Collection 1-3, by Enid Blyton
4. Heat Lightning, by Helen Hull

June:
1. The Wicked Boy, by Kate Summerscale
2. The Essex Serpent, by Kate Parry
3. All the Missing Girls, by Megan Miranda
4. Gone girl, by Gillian Flynn
5.  The Passenger, by Lisa Lutz
6. The Couple Next Door, by Shari LaPena
7. The Woman in Cabin 10, by Ruth Ware
8. The Famous Five Collection 2, by Enid Blyton
9. The Kind Worth Killing, by Peter Swanson

July:
1. Dark Places, by Gillian Flynn
2. The Girls, by Emma Cline

Comments

Marianne said…
I am so envious that it's not even the end of January and you've already read five books!

I just saw that the last book you read was IN COLD BLOOD, which I read in December.

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