Small Great Things, Jodi Picoult

A Short Course in Happiness After Loss, Maria Sirois

Still Foolin' 'Em, Billy Crystal

A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon

Saki: The Complete Short Stories (did not read them all but loved all that I browsed! Most famous is The Open Window)

11/22/63, Stephen King (Good but a tad long)

I was just looking at my lists. It seems my number of books per year have dropped.

2015, 41 books

2016, 32 books

2017, 17 books

I think 2015 was a good year of great reading. Standouts were the Poldard series followed by a few Rosamunde Pitcher books of Cornwall. However, my fav's were The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, Cutting for Stone, Middlesex, The Shadow in the Wind, The Thirteenth Tale and the Rosie books.

In 2016 I read some big books, in particular James Michener's Hawaii and Centennial, Centennial wentinto 2017. Other standouts were Papillion, The Twentieth Wife, The Glass Castle and The Mists of Avalon.

2017 started out just okay but ended well with One in a Million Boy, Ordinary Grace, The Secret Wife and Gentlemen in Moscow.

This year will be great I think. I have already compiled my list.

A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles

Ordinary Grace, William Kent Krueger

The Two Family House, Lynda Cohen Loigman

The One in a Million Boy, Monica Wood

News of the World, Paulette Jiles

Books I enjoyed the most this year:

News of the World, by Paulette Jiles

The Bookseller, by Cynthia Swanson

Under a Pole Star, by Stef Penney

A House in the Sky, by Amanda Lindhout

and something different--a romance that is also an oldie but I'd never read it before and really enjoyed it (I think someone here recommended it for my vacation read!)

Nine Coaches Waiting, by Mary Stewart

I didn't have too many with high ratings last year. I fell behind my goal, because 11/22/63 by Stephen King took me many weeks to read. It was by far the best book I read last year.

Many of those listed here are on my want-to-read list. I need to get cracking!

I should add Jeanette Walls' The Glass Castle.

A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles

Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates

Letting Go: The Pathway to Surrender, David Hawkins

I get most of my books from the Boston Public Library and a large library system in which our town participates. This was in my email today. I read The Girl on The Train, The Goldfinch, Hillbily Elegy, A Man Called Ove and am still on a waiting list for Handmaid's Tale and All the Light We Cannot See. I read e-books on my iPad using Overdrive.

Boston Public Library’s Top Borrowed Titles of 2017

It's no secret that Boston loves books, and now you can see which books Bostonians of all ages loved best in 2017 with BPL's top ten most-borrowed books lists.

BPL's Top Ten Borrowed Adult Books of 2017

1. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
2. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
3. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
4. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
5. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
6. Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty
7. The Girls by Emma Cline
8. Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
9. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
10. All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

I had to check my library history, here are a few I enjoyed:

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

The Bright Hour by Nina Riggs

Hourglass-Time, Memory and Marriage by Dani Shapiro

News of the World by Paulette Jiles

Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick