- Do Not Say We Have Nothing (2016) - Madeleine Thien
- The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) - Margaret Atwood
- The Girl on the Train (2015) - Paula Hawkins
- Magic for Beginners (2005) - Kelly Link
- Justine (The Alexandria Quartet #1) (1957) - Lawrence Durrell
- Midnight’s Children (1981) - Salman Rushdie
- Open: An Autobiography (2009) - Andre Agassi
- Lolita (1955) - Vladimir Nabokov
- The Other Side of Sadness (2009) - George A. Bonanno
- American Gods (2001) - Neil Gaiman
- By Faerie Light (2013) - Scott Gable
- The Gunslinger (1982)- Stephen King
- How to Disappear (2010) - Frank M. Ahearn
- Mazirian the Magician (1950) - Jack Vance
- The Blade Itself (2006) - Joe Abercrombie
- The Lessons of History (1968) - Will Durant
- Alexander Hamilton (2004) - Ron Chernow
- Deep Work (2016) - Cal Newport
- Prayers to Broken Stones (1990) - Dan Simmons
- The Cartel (2015) - Don Winslow
- The Little Prince (1943) - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Pumpkinflowers (2016) - Matti Friedman
- Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible (2014) - Peter Pomerantsev
- The Lions of Al-Rassan (1995) - Guy Gavriel Kay
- Big Little Lies (2014) - Liane Moriarty
- On Looking (2013) - Alexandra Horowitz
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) - Carson McCullers
- Jude the Obscure (1895) - Thomas Hardy
- The Gray Man (2009) - Mark Greaney
- Stuff Matters (2013) - Mark Miodownik
- The Franklin Scandal (2008) - Nick Bryant
- Jane Eyre (1847) - Charlotte Brontë
- War (1985) - Gwynne Dyer
- Ron Jeremy: The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz (2007) - Ron Jeremy
- East of Eden (1952) - John Steinbeck
- Catholicism: A Very Short Introduction (2008) - Gerald O’Collins
- Strangers in Their Own Land (2016) - Arlie Russell Hochschild
- Deathless (2011) - Catherynne M. Valente
- Lost Stars (2015) - Claudia Gray
- The Ballad of Black Tom (2016) - Victor LaValle
- Superconductivity: A Very Short Introduction (2009) - Stephen J. Blundell
- Paganism: A Very Short Introduction (2011) - Owen Davies
- Player’s Handbook (Dungeons & Dragons, 5th Edition) (2014) - Wizards of the Coast
- The Force (2017) - Don Winslow
- American Pastoral (1997) - Philip Roth
- Lovecraft Country (2016) - Matt Ruff
- The Laws of Thermodynamics: A Very Short Introduction (1990) -Peter Atkins
- Fiasco (2009) - Jason Morningstar
- Savage Worlds Deluxe (2003) - Shane Lacy Hensley
- Dungeon Master’s Guide (Dungeons & Dragons, 5th Edition) (2014) - Wizards of the Coast
- Shadowrun Fifth Edition (2013) - Catalyst Game Labs
- City of Light, City of Poison (2017) - Holly Tucker
- Supernatural Horror in Literature (1927) - H.P. Lovecraft
- The Master and Margarita (1967) - Mikhail Bulgakov
- Perdido Street Station (2000) - China Miéville
- Kings of the Wyld (2017) - Nicholas Eames
- Jennifer Government (2002) - Max Barry
- HONG KONG State of Mind (2010) - Jason Y. Ng
- Musashi (1935) - Eiji Yoshikawa
- Future Crimes (2015) - Marc Goodman
- Expert Secrets (2017) - Russell Brunson
- Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011) - David Graeber
- Leviathan Wakes (2011) - James S.A. Corey
- The Coming Economic Collapse (2006) - Stephen Leeb
2017 YEAR END TOTALS:
| type | total | % |
|---|
| gnr: | 17 | 54.7% |
| lit: | 13 | 20.3% |
| mm: | 5 | 7.8% |
| pol: | 2 | 3.1% |
| his: | 14 | 21.9% |
| rpg: | 5 | 7.8% |
| sci: | 5 | 7.8% |
| wis: | 2 | 3.1% |
| biz: | 1 | 1.6% |
- Total Fiction: 35 (54.7%)
- Total Heavies (pol/his/sci): 21 (32.8%)
- Total Work (wis/biz): 3 (4.7%)
LEGEND
- gnr - (fiction): genre (sff/hor/mys)
- lit - (fiction): literature
- mm - (fiction): mass market
- pol - geopolitics (eco/pol/soc)
- his - history (bio/rel/war)
- rpg - roleplaying games
- sci - science (chem/phy/psych)
- wis - wisdom/self-help/spiritual
- biz - work (craft/mar/copy)
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