Sunday, December 31, 2017

The Books I Read in 2017 and My Top 10 List

In the summer of 2017, my second book, American Abandon, was self-published as both an ebook and a paperback through Amazon.  It is a collection of short stories with the unifying theme of an America abandoned by God.  Here are links to the two copies:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071KLPHBM/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1497657498&sr=1-1&keywords=american+abandon

https://www.amazon.com/dp/152151464X

Here are my top 10 favorite books I read in 2017:
1. Selected Short Stories--Guy de Maupassant
2. Indignation--Philip Roth
3. The Kingdom of Speech--Tom Wolfe
4. Cosmopolis--Don DeLillo
5. The Harbinger--Jonathan Cahn
6. The First Bad Man--Miranda July
7. The Smear--Sharyl Attkisson
8. Death Comes for the Archbishop--Willa Cather
9. Libra--Don DeLillo
10. Between You & Me--Mary Norris

Here are the 35 books I read in 2017:
1. Cosmopolis--Don DeLillo
2. Elijah of Buxton--Christopher Paul Curtis
3. Libra--Don DeLillo
4. Night of the Ninjas--Mary Pope Osborne
5. My Name Is Mahtob--Mahtob Mahmoody
6. Afternoon on the Amazon--Mary Pope Osborne
7. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm--Nancy Farmer
8. A Man Called Ove--Fredrik Backman
9. Death Comes for the Archbishop--Willa Cather
10. The Kingdom of Speech--Tom Wolfe
11. Sunset of the Sabertooth--Mary Pope Osborne
12. Fantastic Mr.  Fox--Roald Dahl
13. Under the Volcano--Malcolm Lowry
14. Midnight on the Moon--Mary Pope Osborne
15. Twelve Extraordinary Women--John MacArthur
16. The Secret Agent--Joseph Conrad
17. Looking for Alaska--John Green
18. The Fault in Our Stars--John Green
19. What Successful People Know About Leadership--John C. Maxwell
20. Madam President--William Elliott Hazelgrove
21. Grinding It Out--Ray Kroc with Robert Anderson
22. The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
23. Selected Short Stories--Guy de Maupassant
24. The Harbinger--Jonathan Cahn
25. The First Bad Man--Miranda July
26. The Two Towers--J.R.R. Tolkien
27. Consider the Lobster--David Foster Wallace
28. Indignation--Philip Roth
29. Between You & Me--Mary Norris
30. Selected Stories--Alice Munro
31. Lincoln in the Bardo--Geroge Saunders
32. The Unholy Trinity--Matt Walsh
33. The Smear--Sharyl Attkisson
34. Manhattan Beach--Jennifer Egan
35. I Believed--Douglas Hyde