Best of 2017
Posted in Fantasy, John Banville, Other fiction, Reading Reviewed, Science Fiction, Scottish Fiction, Scottish Literature at 20:35 on 30 December 2017
Fifteen novels make it onto this year’s list of the best I’ve read in the calendar year. In order of reading they were:-
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet
A Man Lies Dreaming by Lavie Tidhar
The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan
The Stornoway Way by Kevin MacNeil
The Sea Road by Margaret Elphinstone
The Untouchable by John Banville
Swastika Night by Katherine Burdekin writing as Murray Constantine
Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfař
The Power by Naomi Alderman
Imagined Corners by Willa Muir
This is Memorial Device by David Keenan
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Kalpa Imperial by Angélica Gorodischer
Psychoraag by Suhayl Saadi
That’s six by women and nine by men. Six were SF or Fantasy, counting in The Underground Railroad, (seven if the Michael Chabon is included,) seven were by Scottish authors.
Tags: Angélica Gorodischer, Colson Whitehead, David Keenan, Graeme Macrae Burnet, Jaroslav Kalfař, Jenni Fagan, John Banville, Katherine Burdekin, Kevin MacNeil, Lavie Tidhar, Margaret Elphinstone, Michael Chabon, Murray Constantine, Naomi Alderman, Suhayl Saadi, Willa Muir
