2017 in Books

I read some stuff last year. It was all pretty good.

Target- 23

Books read- 24

Numbers of new books- 24

Fiction/Non-fiction ratio- 5:19 (bad year for fiction!)
Longest Book- The Clinton Wars, Sidney Blumenthal, 832 pgs.
Shortest Book- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving, 19 pgs.
Quickest Read- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving; May 26th 2017 - May 27th 2017.
Longest Read- Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, Hunter S. Thompson; October 24th 2016 - February 10th 2017.
Most Read Authors- No repeat reads this year!
Ebooks- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving; Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest, Wade Davis; The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda's Road to 9/11, Lawrence Wright.
Audio books- The Divine Comedy, Dante
Useless Fact- Elizabethan England was not all the golden age it was cracked up to be!

The List

Red Army Faction Blues, Ada Wilson

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, Hunter S. Thompson

The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I, Stephen Alford

Enemy of God, Bernard Cornwell

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving

The Road to Wigan Pier, George Orwell

The Clinton Wars, Sidney Blumenthal

In Search of the Dark Ages, Michael Wood

The Lion of Comarre & Against the Fall of Night, Arthur C. Clarke

A Time to Dance, A Time to Die; The Extraordinary Story of the Dancing Plague of 1518, John Waller

Michael Collins,  Leon Ó Broin

Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts, Christopher de Hamel

Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest, Wade Davis

Britannia Obscura: Mapping Britain's Hidden Landscapes, Joanna Parker

The Blunders of our Governments, Anthony King and Ivor Crewe

American Maelstrom: The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division, Michael Cohen

The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Very Short Introduction, Martin Bunton

The Making of the English Landscape, W.G. Hoskins

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda's Road to 9/11, Lawrence Wright

The Divine Comedy, Dante

A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts, Andrew Chaikin

A Blaze of Autumn Sunshine: The Last Diaries, Tony Benn

The Coming of the Third Reich: How the Nazis Destroyed Democracy and Seized Power in Germany, Richard Evans
The Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England, Ian Mortimer