Books Finished in 2017

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Some were begun the year before.

1. A Little History of the World - E H Gombrich A
2. We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea - Arthur Ransome R A
3. Bloodlands - Timothy Snyder
4. A World Gone Mad - Astrid Lindgren, translated Sarah Death
5. Exile for Annis - Josephine Elder
6. Cherry Tree Perch - Josephine Elder
7. Strangers at the Farm School - Josephine Elder
8. Winter - Various, edited Melissa Harrison
9. Desert of the Heart - Jane Rule
10. Secret Water - Arthur Ransome R A
11. Being Christian - Rowan Williams
12. The Idea of North - Peter Davidson
13. Sharon and the Great Horse - Sheila McCullagh R
14. The Popes - John Julius Norwich
15. Evelyn Finds Herself - Josephine Elder
16. The Scholarship Girl - Josephine Elder
17. The Scholarship Girl at Cambridge - Josephine Elder
18. The Word in Winter - John Lewis-Stempel
19. Romeo Fails - Amy Briant
20. The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry
21. The Canary-Coloured Cart - Christina Hardyment
22. The Big Six - Arthur Ransome R A
23. Fathomless Riches - Richard Coles
24. The Horse in the Furrow - George Ewart Evans R
25. Hidden Nature - Alys Fowler
26. Missee Lee - Arthur Ransome R A
27. The English and their History - Robert Tombs
28. My History - Antonia Fraser
29. The Road to Emmaus - Helen Julian CSF
30. Shakespeare on Toast - Ben Crystal
31. The Picts and the Martyrs - Arthur Ransome R A
32. Rising Ground - Philip Marsden
33. In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians - John Dougill
34. Hobberdy Dick - K M Briggs
35. Great Northern? - Arthur Ransome R A
36. Conclave - Robert Harris
37. Old Glory - Jonathan Raban
38. Knit One, Girl Two - Shira Glassman
39. Fearless - Shira Glassman
40. Passing Strange - Ellen Klages
41. The Hobbit - J R R Tolkein R A
42. Spring - Various, edited Melissa Harrison
43. Miss Happiness and Miss Flower - Rumer Godden R A
44. The Fellowship of the Ring - J R R Tolkein R
45. The Two Towers - J R R Tolkein R
46. The Return of the King - J R R Tolkein R
47. Lesbianism Made Easy - Helen Eisenbach
48. Little Plum - Rumer Godden R A
49. Consider the Fork - Bee Wilson
50. My Naughty Little Sister - Dorothy Edwards A
51. More Naughty Little Sister Stories - Dorothy Edwards A
52. Cranky, Beautiful Faith - Nadia Bolz-Weber
53. The Bible - NRSV translation
54. The Bible Challenge - Various, edited Marek Zabriskie
55. Spell It Out - David Crystal
56. A Traveller in Time - Alison Uttley R A
57. A Grave Talent - Laurie R King
58. Bewildering Cares - Winifred Peck
59. Excitements at the Chalet School - Elinor M Brent-Dyer R
60. Middlemarch - George Eliot R
61. The Cruise of Naromis - G A Jones, edited Julia Jones
62. Finn Family Moomintroll - Tove Jansson, translated Elizabeth Portch R A
63. Weeds - Richard Mabey
64. The Moomins and the Great Flood - Tove Jansson, translated David McDuff R A
65. Odd Girl Out - Ann Bannon
66. Blood and Roses - Helen Castor
67. Love in the Sun - Leo Walmsley
68. I Am A Woman - Ann Bannon
69. Unnatural Death - Dorothy L Sayers R
70. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club - Dorothy L Sayers R
71. Strong Poison - Dorothy L Sayers r
72. The Five Red Herrings - Dorothy L Sayers r
73. Comet in Moominland - Tove Jansson, translated Elizabeth Portch R A
74. Have His Carcase - Dorothy L Sayers R
75. Women in the Shadows - Ann Bannon
76. The Exploits of Moominpappa - Tove Jansson, translated Thomas Warburton A
77. Murder Must Advertise - Dorothy L Sayers R
78. The Nine Tailors - Dorothy L Sayers R
79. Gaudy Night - Dorothy L Sayers R
80. Busman's Honeymoon - Dorothy L Sayers R
81. A Scandalous Life - Mary S Lovell R
82. Journey to a Woman - Ann Bannon
83. Moominsummer Madness - Tove Jansson, translated Thomas Warburton R A
84. Landing - Emma Donoghue
85. Beebo Brinker - Ann Bannon
86. Moominland Midwinter - Tove Jansson, translated Thomas Warburton R A
87. Patience and Sarah - Isabel Miller
88. Bess of Hardwick - Mary S Lovell
89. Uprooted - Naomi Novik
90. The Invisible Child and The Fir Tree - Tove Jansson, translated Thomas Warburton 
91. A Notable Woman - Jean Lucey Pratt, edited Simon Garfield
92. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J K Rowling R
93. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J K Rowling R
94. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J K Rowling R
95. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J K Rowling R
96. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J K Rowling R
97. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - J K Rowling R
98. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J K Rowling R
99. Literary Allusion in Harry Potter - Beatrice Groves
100. Women and Power - Mary Beard
101. Joan - Simon Fenwick
102. Accidental Saints - Nadia Bolz-Weber
103. The Days of Abandonment - Elena Ferrante, translated Ann Goldstein
104. Widlfire at Midnight - Mary Stewart
105. The Traveller's Tree - Patrick Leigh Fermor
106. The School at the Chalet - Elinor M Brent-Dyer R
107. Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday - Carol Ann Duffy
108. Lolly Willowes - Sylvia Townsend Warner
109. Sacred Tongues - David Scott
110. Ice - Ulla-Lena Lundberg, translated Thomas Teal
111. The Rule of Benedict - commentary by Joan Chittister

 

R = re-read
A = aloud, to one or both children

For comparison:

2008 - 144 books (full time job, no children)
2009 - 94 books (pregnant and very ill for much of the year, caring for a newborn from November)
2010 - 169 books (maternity leave, hours and hours of breastfeeding a baby with severe feeding difficulties)
2011 - 142 books (back to work part time, second half of the year pregnant again, consciously reading to escape)
2012 - 110 books (maternity leave, caring for a baby and a toddler, but lots of breastfeeding reading)
2013 - 130 books (still breastfeeding)
2014 - 118 books (still breastfeeding)
2015 - 99 books (the year my marriage ended)
2016 - 80 books (the year I got divorced and began getting to grips with this single parenting lark. One child at school, one still at home for most of the year)
2017 - 111 books (both children at school. Started the year volunteering in the local library, ended it working in a school with half hour bus rides to and from work for reading time)