It’s true. Today is your last reading day of the year! Have you met your Goodreads Challenge? All caught up on your Netgalley Reviews? Happy to say yes, I am. And following are some but by no means all of the best in their genres.
Best Debut Fiction: Jennifer Irwin for A Dress The Color of The Sky. A book about addictions and breaking cycles. Movie rights have already been grabbed by Reese Witherspoon! I admire Jennifer so much for her work ethic and her writing skills!
Best Historical Fiction: Katherine Arden for the follow-up to her award-winning The Bear and The Nightingale, The Girl in the Tower which was just as brilliant as the first book!
Best Thriller: Karin Slaughter with The Good Daughter. Two girls are forced into the woods at gunpoint. One runs for her life. One is left behind.
Best Suspense Thriller: J.T.Ellison with Lie to Me. This was such a web of lies and deceit, you won’t unravel it until the spider is ready to jump!
Best Crime Thriller: Don Winslow with The Force. Another brilliant contribution by a favorite author! No one does crime like Winslow!
Best Horror Crime: J.D.Barker with The Fourth Monkey! Fans of the movie Se7en meets The Silence of the Lambs in this dark and twisting novel from the author Jeffery Deaver called, A talented writer with a delightfully devious mind.”
Best Cozy Mystery: A Cajun Christmas Killing by Ellen Byron
Best Non-Fiction: Helene Cooper with Madame President.The harrowing, but triumphant story of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, leader of the Liberian women’s movement, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first democratically elected female president in African history.
Best Mystery: Emma in the Night by Wendy Walker
Best Cookbook: The Beach House Cookbook by Mary Kay Andrews
Best General Fiction: Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward who blew my mind with this book set in my Mississippi town.
There could be hundreds more of the over 200 I read this year, but all of these I have read more than once, so that says a lot when you have a TBR list as long as mine.
What were your Best Reads of the Year?
So 2017 all I can say to you is Good bye!
Pirate Patty Reviews 
Wow! You read A LOT of books. I barely get a dozen read in a year as I have so many blogs to read. Most of my reading isn’t fiction either and a great deal on audio. “Into the Magic Shop” by James R. Doty , MD was a favorite this year. I also loved a memoir by JB Rowley called “Whisper My Secret”. Like I said, I rarely have the time for the cozy books I love and there are many with a magical twist that were a lot of fun to read. I have several on my reader written by bloggers that I plan to get to this winter. One is a collection of short stories, the other a horror kind of piece by a wonderful professor that I follow. I don’t particularly like horror so it’s still sitting there but in the end, I’ll probably like this one. Happy New Year and enjoy next years collection of good reads.
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Fab post! Good to see #4MK on there, that too was on my best of 2017. Happy New Year to you 😀
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Oh I loved that book!!
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Happy New Year to you! I love how you divided this by genre! Made it so easy to determine what to add to my TBR🤣
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Great!
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So glad to see girl in the tower on here!! Awesome list!
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Love her books!
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I’m about to make a list of shit to read and get a library card
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Good Choice!
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I am intrigued with “Lie To Me.” It is an easy and engrossing read. I also found “Give Me Everything You Have,” intriguing but I would have liked the character of the stalker from Iran developed more.
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Great list! And just in time, looks like I’ll have some great books to read in 2018!
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That’s a ton of books. How awesome is that! My goal for 2018 is 20. *Sigh*
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When you are restricted to your home for a year waiting on a transplant, there is nothing else to do! lol
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I hope you have the very best of all outcomes this year. May your health wishes come true. ❤
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Great list…
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Very cool, Patricia! I love your line up. So glad you know you. I hope you have the most amazing year ever. Blessings Debbie 😍
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Thank you Debbie! I wish you all of the best!
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There are some great book’s here
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There were so many good ones this year!
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