Favorite Books of 2017 (January – May)

Justine Larbalestier – My Sister Rosa (2016, Thriller).
Marieke Nijkamp – This Is Where It Ends (2016, Contemporary, Warning: Shooting).

Jen Blood – The Darkest Thread (2016).
J. L. Bryan – Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper (2014, Paranormal).
Alison Goodman – The Dark Days Pact (2017, Sequel, Fantasy: Regency Era).
Alwyn Hamilton – Rebel of the Sands (2015, Fantasy).
Faith Erin Hicks – The Nameless City (2016, Graphic Novel, Fantasy) and sequel: The Stone Heart (2017).
Matthew J. Kirby – A Taste for Monsters (2016, Fantasy: Historical).
Kristen Simmons – Article 5 (2012, Sci-Fi).
Sabaa Tahir – A Torch Against the Night (2016, Sequel, Fantasy).
Rachel Vincent – Menagerie (2015, Contemporary Fantasy).

J. L. Bryan – Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper (2014, Paranormal).
James Lee Burke – Sunset Limited (1998, Mystery).
C. J. Carmichael – Buried (2015, Mystery).
Richard C. Hale – Frozen Past (2012, Thriller).
Charlaine Harris – An Ice Cold Grave (2007, Psychological Thriller, Reread).
Alex Kava – Breaking Creed (2014, Thriller).
Dale Mayer – Tuesday’s Child (2011, Psychological Thriller) and sequel: Hide’n Go Seek (2011).
Lisa Unger – Fragile (2010, Thriller).
Hester Young – The Gates of Evangeline (2015, Thriller).

Joseph J. Ellis – His Excellency: George Washington (2004, Biography).
Jesse J. Holland – The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House (2016, Non-Fiction: History).
Gilbert King – Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America (2012, Non-fiction: History).
John Lewis (Author), Andrew Aydin (Author) & Nate Powell (Illustrator) – March: Book One (2013, Graphic Novel: History of the Black Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s-1960s in the US South) and sequels: March: Book Two (2015) and March: Book Three (2016).
Jack Olsen – Predator: Rape and Injustice in Seattle (2015, Non-fiction: True Crime).