2017’s Top 5:

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• All The Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy 5/5

• Tenth of December, George Saunders, 5/5

• Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders, 5/5

• The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris, 4.5/5

• Mortality, Christopher Hitchens, 5/5

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Runners Up:

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• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz, 5/5

• We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler 4.5/5

• Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut, 5/5

• The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck, 5/5

• In The Lake Of The Woods, Tim O’Brien 5/5

• The Green Mile, Stephen King 5/5

• We Should All Be Feminists, C. Adiche 5/5

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All the Rest:

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• Big Little Lies, Liane Moriarty, 2.5/5

• Salem’s Lot, Stephen King 3/5

• The Danish Girl, David Ebershoff, 2/5, DNF

• Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell 3/5

• The Cutting Season, Attica Locke, 2/5

• The Road, Cormac McCarthy, 4/5

• The Pearl, John Steinbeck, 4/5

• Texts from Jane Eyre, Mallory Ortberg, 2/5

• The Winter People, Jennifer McMahon, 2.5/5

• On Writing, Stephen King,4/5

• The Good Rat, Jimmy Breslin, 2/5, DNF

• This Is How You Lose Her, Junot Diaz, 4.5/5

• All Things Cease To Appear, Elizabeth Brundage, 3.5/5

• Death By Black Hole, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, 4/5

• The Handmaiden’s Tale, Margaret Atwood, 2/5

• Innocent: The Fight Against Wrongful Convictions, Time Magazine, 5/5

• The Daughter Of Time, Josephine Tey, 2.5/5

• F*ck Love, 1/5

• Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, 4/5

• Fates and Furies, Lauren Groff, 3/5

• Great Expectations, Charles Dickens, 5/5

• Listen, Liberal, Thomas Frank, 3.5/5

• Running the Books, Avi Steinberg, 2.5/5

• The Gunslinger, Stephen King, 2.5/5

• Contact, Carl Sagan, 3.5/5

• Blue Heaven, CJ Box, 1.5/5

• Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, 3/5

• The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith, 2/5

• The Children Act, Ian McEwan, 3.5/5

• The Cement Garden, Ian McEwan, 3.5/5

• Commonwealth, Ann Patchett, 4/5

• Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Jeff Lindsay, 2.5/5

• The Talented Mr Ripley, Patricia Highsmith,3/5

• 1984, George Orwell, 5/5

• Gone, Baby, Gone, Dennis Lehane, 1/5

• Atonement, Ian McEwan, 3.5/5

• It, Stephen King, 3.5/5

• We Can’t Teach What We Don’t Know, Howard, 3.5/5

• Love Letters of the Great War, Mandy Kirby, 4/5

• Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie, 2/5

• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Sáenz, 2/5

• The Catcher and the Rye, JD Salinger, 2.5/5

• The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Sherman Alexie, 4.5/5

• Beloved, Toni Morrison, 4.5/5

• Bless Me, Última, Rudolfo Anaya 4.5/5

• The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath 4/5

• Monster, Walter Dean Myers 3.5/5

• Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, Yiyun Lee, 3.5/5

• 11/22/63, Stephen King, 3/5

• The Supreme Court: 20 Cases That Changed America, Tony Mauro, 5/5

• Love Poems, Pablo Neruda, 4/5

• A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess, 3/5

• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Rowling, Tiffany, and Thorne, 1/5

• Where I’m Calling From, Raymond Carver, 4/5

• Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury, 3/5

• The One and Only Ivan, Katherine Applegate, 3.5/5

• Captain Pantone and the Secret Service, Mario Vargas Llosa, 3.5/5

• The Mambo Kings Sing Songs of Love, Oscar Hijuelos, 4.5/5

• The Stand, Stephen King, 3.5/5

• The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander, 5/5