Jacey Bedford's Journal

As the year draws to a close here's my reading list for 2017 - all of them book-logged here. I'm currently about 60% into John Scalzi's Old Man's War. which will become 1/2018. This was the year that I discovered Ben Aaronovitch's Peter Grant books, was delighted to finds that Lisa Shearin had written another Raine Benares book, and caught up with Nnedi Okorafor's first two Binti books, as well as continuing to read every Jodi Taylor as they came out. I've now caught up with all the Alex Verus books and am eagerly awaiting the next. Special mention for Karen Traviss' near future thrillers: Going Grey and Black Run, and also for Andy Weir's Artemis, not quite as good as The Martian, but still nail-bitingly good.

1.    Darcy Burke: The Duke of Deception – The Untouchables #3

2.    George Mann: Doctor Who – Engines of War

3.    Carrie Vaughan: Martians Abroad

4.    Rob Dircks: Where the Hell is Tesla?

5.    Brent Weeks: The Black Prism – Lightbringer #1

6.    Paul Cornell: The Lost Child of Lychford – Lychford #2

7.    Ellis Peters: A Morbid Taste for Bones – Brother Cadfael #1

8.    Danielle Harmon: Captain of my Heart – Heroes of the Sea #2

9.    Tade Thompson: Rosewater

10. Lisa Shearin: The Grendel Affair – SPI Files #1

11. Ben Aaronovitch: Rivers of London – Peter Grant #1

12. Ben Aaronovitch: Moon over Soho – Peter Grant #2

13. Ben Aaronovitch: Whispers Underground – Peter Grant #3

14. Ben Aaronovitch: Broken Homes – Peter Grant #4

15. Ben Aaronovitch: Foxglove Summer – Peter Grant #5

16. Ben Aaronovitch: The Hanging Tree – Peter Grant #6

17. Diana Gabaldon: I Give You My Body (Non-Fiction)

18. Julia Quinn: An Offer from a Gentleman – Bridgertons #3

19. Lisa Shearin: Wedding bells, Magic Spells – Raine Benares #8

20. Lisa Shearin: Treasure and Treason – Raine Benares world

21. Val McDermid: Northanger Abbey

22. Jodi Taylor: The Something Girl – Frogmorton farm #2

23. Nnedi Okorafor: Binti – Binti #1

24. Nnedi Okorafor: Binti: Home – Binti #2

25. Julia Quinn: The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever

26. Ella Quinn: The Second Time Around

27. Ella Quinn: Three Weeks to Wed

28. Ann Aguirre: Perdition – Dred Chronicles #1

29. Georgette Heyer: The Corinthian

30. Emma Newman: Brother’s Ruin

31. Lois McMaster Bujold: Mira’s Last Dance - Penric and Desdemona #4

32. Georgette Heyer: Bath Tangle

33. Julia Quinn: Romancing Mr Bridgerton – Bridgertons #4

34. Jo Baker: Longbourn

35. Benedict Jacka: Bound – Alex Verus #8

36. Jodi Taylor: And the Rest is History – Chronicles of St Mary’s #8

37. Joe Abercrombie: Half the World – Shattered Sea #2

38. Joe Abercrombie: Half a War – Shattered Sea #3

39. Ella Quinn@ It Started with a Kiss – Worthingtons #3

40. Sebastien de Castell: Spellslinger

41. Robyn Bennis: The Guns Above – Signal Airship #1

42. Ben Aaronovitch: The Furthest Station – Peter Grant #5.7

43. Ben Aaronovitch: Rivers of London - Body Work – Peter Grant #4.5 Graphic Novel

44. Gwyneth Jones: Proof of Concept

45. Sarah M. Eden: A Fine Gentleman – Jonquil Brothers #4

46. Catherine Curzon & Willow Winsham: The Crown Spire

47. Gavin Smith: The Hangman’s Daughter

48. Richard Ellis Preston Jr: Romulus Buckle and the City of the Founders – Pneumatic Zeppelin #1

49. Karen Traviss: Going Grey – Ringer #1

50. Karen Traviss: Black Run – Ringer #2

51. Paul Cornell: A Long Day in Lychford

52. George RR Martin and others: Mississippi Roll - a Wild Cards Novel

53. Rod Duncan: The Bullet Catcher’s Daughter – Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire #1

54. Jennifer Ashley The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie

55. Lisa Shearin: Ruins and Revenge – A Raine Benares World novel

56. Jodi Taylor: The Long and the Short of It

57. Jodi Taylor: A Perfect Storm

58. Lois McMaster Bujold: Penric’s Fox – Penric #3

59. C.E. Murphy: Bewitching Benedict

60. Jodi Taylor: White Silence

61. Indrek Hargla: Apothecary Melchior and the Mystery of St Olaf’s Church

62. Patricia Briggs: Silence Fallen – Mercy Thompson #10

63. Andre Norton: The Crystal Gryphon – Witch World Series 2 High Hallack 5

64. Andre Norton: Gryphon in Glory – Witch World Series 2 High Hallack 6

65. Andre Norton & AC Crispin: Gryphon’s Eyrie – Witch World Series 2 High Hallack 7

66. Lois McMaster Bujold: The Prisoner of Limnos – Penric and Desdemona

67. Stephanie Burgess: Snowspelled

68. Adrian Tchaikovsky: Ironclads

69. Myke Cole: The Armored Saint – The Sacred Throne #1

70. Jan Guillou: The Road to Jerusalem – Knight Templar 1

71. Georgette Heyer: Black Sheep

72. Andy Weir: Artemis

73. Sandra Unerman: Spellhaven

74. Louise Allen: The Georgian Seaside (Non – Fic)

75. Jodi Taylor: Christmas Past – A Chronicles of St Mary’s short story

76. Gareth L Powell: Ack-Ack Macaque – Ack-Ack Macaque #1