2017 Books Read

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2017 was the Year of Re-Reading.  Of the 101 total books I read, 36 were re-reads, partly because some books deserve re-reading, and partly because I had way too much trouble finding good new stuff, especially fiction.

I read 55 works of fiction, and 46 nonfiction.  In the list below, an R indicates a re-read.  On to 2018 books!

FICTION

R  Black Hearts In Battersea  (Joan Aiken)
R  The Hotel Cat  (Esther Averill)
Naughty in Nice  (Rhys Bowen)
Beyond the Paw Paw Trees  (Palmer Brown)
August Heat  (Andrea Camilleri)
Cards on the Table  (Agatha Christie)
Dead Man's Folly  (Agatha Christie)
Three-Act Tragedy  (Agatha Christie)
Elementary, She Read  (Vicki Delany)
Gone West  (Carola Dunn)
Offshore  (Penelope Fitzgerald)
Rest In Peach  (Susan Furlong)
The Doldrums and the Helmsley Curse  (Nicholas Gannon)
By Book or By Crook  (Eva Gates)
R  Comet In Moominland  (Tove Jansson)
R  Finn Family Moomintroll  (Tove Jansson)
R  Moominland Midwinter  (Tove Jansson)
R  Moominpappa at Sea  (Tove Jansson)
R  Moominpappa's Memoirs  (Tove Jansson)
The Moomins and the Great Flood  (Tove Jansson)
R  Moominsummer Madness  (Tove Jansson)
R  Moominvalley in November  (Tove Jansson)
The Summer Book  (Tove Jansson)
R  Tales from Moominvalley  (Tove Jansson)
A Clutch of Constables  (Ngaio Marsh)
R  Hand in Glove  (Ngaio Marsh)
R  Crocodile on the Sandbank  (Elizabeth Peters)
R  The Curse of the Pharaohs  (Elizabeth  Peters)
R  The Deeds of the Disturber  (Elizabeth Peters)
R  Lion in the Valley  (Elizabeth Peters)
R  The Mummy Case  (Elizabeth Peters)
R  Peter Duck  (Arthur Ransome)
R  Great Northern?  (Arthur Ransome)
R  Pigeon Post  (Arthur Ransome)
R  Secret Water  (Arthur Ransome)
R  Swallowdale  (Arthur Ransome)
R  Swallows and Amazons  (Arthur Ransome)
R  Winter Holiday  (Arthur Ransome)
R  Wild Strawberries  (Angela Thirkell)
The Choir  (Joanna Trollope)
R  The Chinese Gold Murders  (Robert Van Gulik)
R  The Chinese Lake Murders  (Robert Van Gulik)
The Feng Shui Detective  (Nury Vittachi)
A Damsel In Distress  (P.G. Wodehouse)
R  Aunts Aren't Gentlemen  (P.G. Wodehouse)
R  The Code of the Woosters  (P.G. Wodehouse)
R  How Right You Are, Jeeves (P.G. Wodehouse)
Leave It To Psmith (P.G. Wodehouse)
Service With a Smile  (P.G. Wodehouse)
Something Fresh  (P.G. Wodehouse)
R  Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves  (P.G. Wodehouse)
Uncle Dynamite  (P.G. Wodehouse)

NONFICTION

344 Questions  (Stefan Bucher)
Age of Enlightenment  (Peter Gay)
Age of Progress (S.C. Burchell)
Ancient America  (Jonathan Leonard)
The Ardent Birder  (Todd Newberry)
Birds Art Life  (Kya Maclear)
British Isles:  A Natural History  (Alan Titchmarsh)
By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life  (Pamela Paul, ed.)
The Card Catalog  (Library of Congress)
Catcher in the Wry  (Bob Uecker)
Chesapeake Spring  (John Taylor)
The Concord Quartet: Alcott, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau (Samuel Schreiner)
Dave Barry Is From Mars and Venus  (Dave Barry)
Dave Barry Talks Back  (Dave Barry)
Dave Barry's Bad Habits  (Dave Barry)
Diary of a Left-Handed Birdwatcher  (Leonard Nathan)
Early Islam  (Desmond Stewart)
Early Japan  (Jonathan Leonard)
Facto-O-Pedia  (Charlotte Lowe, ed.)
Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores (Bob Eckstein)
A Girl Called Vincent  (Krystyna Goddu)
Gods of the Morning: A Bird's-Eye View of a Changing World  (John Lister-Kaye)
Historic India  (Lucille Schulberg)
How We Eat With Our Eyes & Think With Our Stomach (Muhl,M. & Van Kopp, D.)
How We Got To Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World  (Steven Johnson)
R  I'm A Stranger Here Myself  (Bill Bryson)
The Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and Their Friends (Humphrey Carpenter)
Landmarks  (Robert Macfarlane)
R  The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid  (Bill Bryson)
R  The Lost Continent  (Bill Bryson)
A Lust for Windowsills: A Lover's Guide to British Buildings  (Harry Mount)
Making Zen Your Own  (Janet Abels)
Mindfulness for Beginners  (Jon Kabat-Zinn)
Montaigne in Barn Boots: An Amateur Ambles Through Philosophy  (Michael Perry)
R  Neither Here Nor There  (Bill Bryson)
R  Notes from a Small Island  (Bill Bryson)
A Philosophy of Walking  (Frederic Gros)
A Pictorial History of the Great Lakes  (Harlan Hatcher & Erich Walter)
Pure Drivel  (Steve Martin)
A Sideways Look at Clouds  (Maria Mudd Ruth)
Story of Civilization, Vol. 4:  The Age of Faith  (Will Durant)
Story of Civilization, Vol. 5:  The Renaissance  (Will Durant)
R  Tao Te Ching  (Lao Tzu)
Uncle John's Slightly Irregular Bathroom Reader
Union Bay: The Life of a City Marsh  (Harry Higman & Earl Larrison)
Voyages of Discovery  (Tony Rice)
Walking the Way  (Robert Rosenbaum)
Winnowed Wisdom  (Stephen Leacock)
Zen To Go  (Jon Winokur, ed.)