Here the books I’ve bought or received in 2017 are listed! This mostly excludes ARCs unless I went out of my way to obtain a copy. Red strikethrough means I’ve read it or otherwise removed it from the list.
Rolling in the Deep, by Mira Grant. Bought 03/01. Ebook edition.Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day, by Seanan McGuire. Bought 10/01. Kindle edition.- Chimes at Midnight, by Seanan McGuire. Bought 10/01. Dead tree edition.
- The Winter Long, by Seanan McGuire. Bought 10/01. Dead tree edition.
Mesopotamia, by Gwendolyn Leick. Bought 12/01. Dead tree edition.- Goldenhand, by Garth Nix. Bought 27/01. Kindle edition.
p53: The Gene that Cracked the Cancer Code,by Sue Armstrong. Bought 02/02. Kindle edition.Norse Mythology,by Neil Gaiman. Bought 10/02. Dead tree edition.- Four Roads Cross, by Max Gladstone. Bought 10/02. Kindle edition.
The Planet in a Pebble, by Jan Zalasiewicz. Bought 24/02. Kindle edition.Summer in Orcus, by T. Kingfisher. Bought 24/02. Kindle edition.Sleeping Giants, by Sylvain Neuvel. Bought 02/03. Kindle edition.- The Poison Eater, by Shanna Germain. Bought 09/03. Ebook edition.
Harrowing the Dragon, by Patricia McKillip. Bought 10/03. Dead tree edition.- The Dinosaur Lords, by Victor Milan. Bought 10/03. Dead tree edition.
- The Last Days of Magic, by Mark Tompkins. Bought 10/03. Dead tree edition.
- Carthage Must Be Destroyed, by Richard Miles. Bought 10/03. Dead tree edition.
The Paper Trail, by Alexander Munro. Bought 10/03. Dead tree edition.The Brain Supremacy, by Kathleen Taylor. Bought 10/03. Dead tree edition.Neanderthal Man, by Svante Pääbo. Bought 10/03. Dead tree edition.Gaia, by James Lovelock. Bought 10/03. Dead tree edition.Herding Hemingway’s Cats, by Kat Arney. Bought 10/03. Dead tree edition.The Emerald Planet, by David Beerling. Bought 10/03. Dead tree edition.Where the Universe Came From, by New Scientist. Bought 11/03. Dead tree edition.How Your Brain Works, by New Scientist. Bought 11/03. Dead tree edition.How Long is Now? by New Scientist. Bought 11/03. Dead tree edition.- The Human Story, by New Scientist. Bought 11/03. Dead tree edition.
The Human Brain, by New Scientist. Bought 11/03. Dead tree edition.Being Human, by New Scientist. Bought 11/03. Dead tree edition.- Origin, Evolution, Extinction, by New Scientist. Bought 11/03. Dead tree edition.
Relativity: Einstein’s Mind-bending Universe, by New Scientist. Received 11/03. Dead tree edition.- The Quantum World, by New Scientist. Received 11/03. Dead tree edition.
Mind-Expanding Ideas, by New Scientist. Received 11/03. Dead tree edition.Medical Frontiers, by New Scientist. Received 11/03. Dead tree edition.Just Six Numbers, by Martin Rees. Received 12/03. Dead tree edition.- The Vorrh, by B. Catling. Received 12/03. Dead tree edition.
- Red Sister, by Mark Lawrence. Received 12/03. Dead tree edition.
The Real Lives of Roman Britain, by Guy de la Bedoyere. Bought 12/03. Dead tree edition.Ancestral Journies, by Jean Manco. Bought 12/03. Dead tree edition.Hadrian’s Wall, by David J. Breeze and Brian Dobson. Bought 12/03. Dead tree edition.The Golden Age of Murder, by Martin Edwards. Bought 12/03. Dead tree edition.- A Conjuring of Light, by V.E. Schwab. Bought 12/03. Dead tree edition.
- Wintersong, by S. Jae Jones. Bought 12/03. Dead tree edition.
How We Live and Why We Die, by Lewis Wolpert. Bought 12/03. Dead tree edition.Fairweather Eden, by Michael Pitts & Mark Roberts. Bought 12/03. Dead tree edition.Hengeworld, by Mike Pitts. Bought 12/03. Dead tree edition.What is Life? by Addy Pross. Bought 12/03. Dead tree edition.- The Upright Thinkers, by Leonard Mlodinow. Bought 28/03. Dead tree edition.
Subliminal, by Leonard Mlodinow. Bought 28/03. Dead tree edition.The Worm at the Core, by Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg and Tom Pyszczynski. Bought 28/04. Dead tree edition.The Collapsing Empire,by John Scalzi. Bought 07/04. Dead tree edition.- Foundation, by Isaac Asimov. Bought 22/04. Dead tree edition.
- Somewhere Beneath Those Waves, by Sarah Monette. Bought 22/04. Dead tree edition.
- Crimson Bound, by Rosamund Hodge. Bought 22/04. Dead tree edition.
- Strange the Dreamer, by Laini Taylor. Bought 25/04. Dead tree edition.
Life’s Engines, by Paul G. Falkowski. Bought 25/04. Dead tree edition.The Voices Within, by Charles Fernyhough. Bought 25/04. Dead tree edition.The Gene, by Siddhartha Mukherjee. Bought 25/04. Dead tree edition.The Soul of an Octopus, by Sy Montgomery. Bought 25/04. Dead tree edition.- Chameleon Moon, by RoAnna Sylver. Bought 03/05. Kindle edition.
Sunbolt, by Intisar Khanani. Bought 03/05. Kindle edition.Within the Sanctuary of Wings, by Marie Brennan. Bought 01/05. Dead tree edition.- City of Miracles, by Robert Jackson Bennett. Received 23/05. Dead tree edition.
- Caraval, by Stephanie Garber. Received 23/05. Dead tree edition.
False Hearts, by Laura Lam. Received 23/05. Dead tree edition.- The Scarecrow Queen, by Melinda Salisbury. Received 23/05. Dead tree edition.
The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas. Received 23/05. Dead tree edition.- A Court of Wings and Ruin, by Sarah J. Maas. Received 23/05. Dead tree edition.
Wonderful Life, by Stephen Jay Gould. Received 23/05. Dead tree edition.The Philadelphia Chromosome, by Jessica Wapner. Received 23/05. Dead tree edition.- How to Find a Habitable Planet, by James Kasting. Received 23/05. Dead tree edition.
- Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs, by Lisa Randall. Received 23/05. Dead tree edition.
Life On The Edge, by Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden. Received 23/05. Dead tree edition.Bones of Contention, by Paul Chambers. Received 23/05. Dead tree edition.Evolution in Four Dimensions, by Eva Jablonka and Marion J. Lamb. Received 23/05. Dead tree edition.- City of Strife, by Claudie Arseneault. Bought 30/05. Kindle edition.
Lightning in the Blood, by Marie Brennan. Bought 30/05. Kindle edition.The House of Binding Thorns, by Aliette de Bodard. Bought 30/05. Dead tree edition.- Magic Binds, by Ilona Andrews. Bought 03/06. Dead tree edition.
- Heartstone, by Elle Katharine White. Bought 03/06. Dead tree edition.
- Our Dark Duet, by V.E. Schwab. Bought 03/06. Dead tree edition.
- Death’s End, by Cixin Liu. Bought 03/06. Dead tree edition.
The Bear and the Nightingale, by Katherine Arden. Bought 16/06. Dead tree edition.- Forces of Nature, by Brian Cox. Bought 16/06. Dead tree edition.
The Viral Storm, by Nathan Wolfe. Bought 16/06. Dead tree edition.Personality, by Daniel Nettle. Bought 16/06. Dead tree edition.- Traitor’s Blade, by Sebastien de Castell. Bought 16/06. Dead tree edition.
- Knight’s Shadow, by Sebastien de Castell. Bought 16/06. Dead tree edition.
- Saint’s Blood, by Sebastien de Castell. Bought 16/06. Dead tree edition.
The Bonobo and the Atheist, by Frans de Waal. Bought 16/06. Dead tree edition.- Brainwashing, by Kathleen Taylor. Bought 16/06. Dead tree edition.
Endless Forms Most Beautiful, by Sean B. Carroll. Bought 16/06. Dead tree edition.- Vanished Ocean, by Dorrik Stowe. Bought 16/06. Dead tree edition.
- The Wicked + The Divine: Imperial Phase Part I, by Jamie McKelvie and Kieron Gillen. Bought 16/06. Dead tree edition.
A Crack in Creation, by Jennifer Doudna and Sam Sternberg. Bought 23/06. Dead tree edition.- The Wanderers, by Meg Howey. Bought 23/06. Dead tree edition.
- The Space Between the Stars, by Anne Corlett. Bought 23/06. Dead tree edition.
The Paper Magician, by Charlie N.Holmburg. Bought 09/07. Kindle edition.- Gilded Cage, by Vic James. Bought 09/07. Kindle edition.
The Glass Magician, by Charlie N.Holmburg. Bought 13/07. Kindle edition.The Master Magician, by Charlie N.Holmburg. Bought 13/07. Kindle edition.Caliban’s War, by James S.A. Corey. Bought 01/08. Dead tree edition.A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, by Adam Rutherford. Bought 03/08. Kindle edition.- An Anthropologist on Mars, by Oliver Sacks. Bought 05/08. Dead tree edition.
Delusions of Gender, by Cordelia Fine. Bought 05/08. Dead tree edition.- Physics of the Future, by Michio Kaku. Bought 05/08. Dead tree edition.
Catching Breath: The Making and Unmaking of Tuberculosis, by Kathryn Lougheed. Bought 05/08. Dead tree edition.- A Day in the Life of the Brain, by Susan Greenfield. Bought 05/08. Dead tree edition.
- Europe at Midnight, by Dave Hutchinson. Bought 05/08. Dead tree edition.
- Europe in Winter, by Dave Hutchinson. Bought 05/08. Dead tree edition.
- The Stone Sky, by N.K. Jemisin. Bought 05/08. Dead tree edition.
- The Red, by Linda Nagata. Bought 05/08. Dead tree edition.
- The Queen of Blood, by Sarah Beth Durst. Bought 05/08. Dead tree edition.
- The Shards of Heaven, by Michael Livingston. Bought 05/08. Dead tree edition.
Rosewater, by Tade Thompson. Bought 05/08. Dead tree edition.- After the Crown, by K.B. Wagers. Bought 05/08. Dead tree edition.
- Shadowshaper, by Daniel José Older. Bought 05/08. Dead tree edition.
- Arena, by Holly Jennings. Bought 05/08. Dead tree edition.
Heroine Complex, by Sarah Kuhn. Bought 05/08. Dead tree edition.- Hunger Makes The Wolf, by Alex Wells. Bought 05/08. Dead tree edition.
- In the Shadow of the Gods, by Rachel Dunne. Bought 05/08. Dead tree edition.
The Button Box, by Lynn Knight. Bought 09/08. Dead tree edition.A Very British Murder, by Lucy Worsley. Bought 09/08. Dead tree edition.The Emperor of All Maladies, by Siddhartha Mukherjee. Bought 09/08. Dead tree edition.Masquerade, by Laura Lam. Bought 12/08. Dead tree edition.Timekeepers, by Simon Garfield. Bought 12/08. Dead tree edition.The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales. Bought 12/08. Dead tree edition.The Zoo, by Isobel Charman. Bought 12/08. Dead tree edition.Strange Practice, by Vivian Shaw. Bought 12/08. Dead tree edition.Universal, by Brian Cox. Bought 22/08. Dead tree edition.The Hidden Life of Trees, by Peter Wohlleben. Bought 22/08. Dead tree edition.The Lost City of Z, by David Grann. Bought 22/08. Dead tree edition.How We Got To Now, by Steven Johnson. Bought 22/08. Dead tree edition.Raven Stratagem, by Yoon Ha Lee. Bought 22/08. Dead tree edition.- Nyxia, by Scott Reintgen. Bought 22/08. Dead tree edition.
- Wonder Woman: Warbringer, by Leigh Bardugo. Bought 22/08. Dead tree edition.
The Genius of Birds, by Jennifer Ackerman. Bought 22/08. Dead tree edition.Inferior, by Angela Saini. Bought 22/08. Dead tree edition.- Scientific Babel, by Michael Gordin. Bought 22/08. Dead tree edition.
Priam’s Gold, by Caroline Moorehead. Received 20/08. Dead tree edition.Neanderthals Rediscovered, by Dimitra Papagianni. Received 20/08. Dead tree edition.Striding Folly, by Dorothy L. Sayers. Received 20/08. Dead tree edition.The Wimsey Family, by Dorothy L. Sayers. Received 20/08. Dead tree edition.Castle, by Marc Morris. Received 22/08. Dead tree edition.Abaddon’s Gate, by James S.A. Corey. Bought 22/08. Dead tree edition.- Cibola Burn, by James S.A. Corey. Bought 22/08. Dead tree edition.
- Nobody’s Son, by Sean Stewart. Bought 09/09. Dead tree edition.
- Warrior and Witch, by Marie Brennan. Bought 09/09. Dead tree edition.
- The Painter Knight, by Fiona Patton. Bought 09/09. Dead tree edition.
- The Granite Shield, by Fiona Patton. Bought 09/09. Dead tree edition.
Trouble and Her Friends, by Melissa Scott. Bought 09/09. Dead tree edition.Against Empathy, by Paul Bloom. Bought 09/09. Dead tree edition.- Certain Dark Things, by Silvia Moreno Garcia. Bought 09/09. Dead tree edition.
- The Dragon Round, by Stephen S. Power. Bought 09/09. Dead tree edition.
- Everfair, by Nisi Shawl. Bought 09/09. Dead tree edition.
The Gods of Olympus, by Barbara Graziosi. Bought 09/09. Dead tree edition.Gorgon, by Peter D. Ward. Bought 09/09. Dead tree edition.The Seven Daughters of Eve, by Bryan Sykes. Bought 09/09. Dead tree edition.I Am Morgan Le Fay, by Nancy Springer. Bought 09/09. Dead tree edition.Girl Waits With Gun, by Amy Stewart. Bought 09/09. Dead tree edition.Death at Wentwater Court, by Carola Dunn. Bought 09/09. Dead tree edition.The Winter Garden Mystery, by Carola Dunn. Bought 09/09. Dead tree edition.The Great Influenza, by John M. Barry. Bought 09/09. Dead tree edition.Imagining Head-Smashed-In, by Jack W. Brink. Bought 09/09. Dead tree edition.Words are My Matter, by Ursula Le Guin. Bought 09/09. Dead tree edition.Bog Bodies Uncovered, by Miranda Aldhouse-Green. Bought 09/09. Dead tree edition.Arabella of Mars, by David D. Levine. Bought 09/09. Dead tree edition.Moral Tribes, by Joshua Greene. Bought 09/09. Dead tree edition.The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson. Bought 09/09. Dead tree edition.- A Season of Spells, by Sylvia Izzo Hunter. Bought 09/09. Dead tree edition.
- The Innamorati, by Midori Snyder. Bought 09/09. Dead tree edition.
- The Immortals, by Jordanna Max Brodsky. Bought 09/09. Dead tree edition.
- The Voodoo Killings, by Kristi Charish. Bought 09/09. Dead tree edition.
- The Tower of Beowulf, by Parke Godwin. Bought 09/09. Dead tree edition.
- American Elsewhere, by Robert Jackson Bennett. Bought 09/09. Dead tree edition.
- Too Like the Lightning, by Ada Palmer. Bought 09/09. Dead tree edition.
A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeline L’Engle. Bought 09/09. Kobo edition.An Unseen Attraction, by K.J. Charles. Bought 09/09. Kobo edition.An Unnatural Vice, by K.J. Charles. Bought 09/09. Kobo edition.The Magpie Lord, by K.J. Charles. Bought 09/09. Kobo edition.- Babylon Steel, by Gaie Sebold. Bought 09/09. Kobo edition.
Provenance, by Ann Leckie. Bought 28/09. Dead tree edition.- A Skinful of Shadows, by Frances Hardinge. Bought 01/10. Dead tree edition.
Built On Bones, by Brenna Hasset. Bought 01/10. Dead tree edition.Goldilocks and the Water Bears, by Louisa Preston. Bought 01/10. Dead tree edition.Science and the City, by Laurie Winkless. Bought 01/10. Dead tree edition.Bring Back the King, by Helen Pilcher. Bought 01/10. Dead tree edition.- Gunmetal Magic, by Ilona Andrews. Bought 02/10. Dead tree edition.
The Five Daughters of the Moon, by Leena Likitalo. Bought 02/10. Dead tree edition.Summerlong, by Peter S. Beagle. Bought 02/10. Dead tree edition.- After the Bloodwood Staff, by Laura E. Goodin. Received 02/10. Dead tree edition.
- The Occasional Diamond Thief, by J.A. Mclachlan. Received 02/10. Dead tree edition.
- Going for Stone, by Philip Gross. Received 02/10. Dead tree edition.
- How to Survive a Plague, by David France. Received 27/10. Dead tree edition.
Virus X, by Frank Ryan. Bought 20/10. Dead tree edition.- Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC, by Joseph B. McCormick and Susan Fisher-Hoch. Bought 20/10. Dead tree edition.
- No Time to Lose, by Peter Piot. Bought 20/10. Dead tree edition.
Rabid, by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy. Bought 20/10. Dead tree edition.Angel of Death, by Gareth Williams. Bought 20/10. Dead tree edition.Paralysed with Fear, by Gareth Williams. Bought 20/10. Dead tree edition.The Twilight Pariah, by Jeffrey Ford Bought 20/10. Kobo edition.Maps to Nowhere, by Marie Brennan. Bought 09/12. Kindle edition.The Terracotta Army, by JohnMan.Bought 09/12. Kindle edition.Libraries in the Ancient World, by LionelCassen. Bought 09/12. Kindle edition.- The Abyss Surrounds Us, by Emily Skrutskie. Bought 21/12. Kobo edition.
- The Picts, by Tim Clarkson. Bought 21/12. Kobo edition.
In Other Lands, by Sarah Rees Brennan. Bought 21/12. Kobo edition.- The City of Brass, by S.A. Chakraborty. Bought 22/12. Dead tree edition.
- Artemis, by Andy Weir. Bought 22/12. Dead tree edition.
- Tower of Dawn, by Sarah J. Maas. Received 22/12. Dead tree edition.
The Written World, by Martin Puchner. Bought 22/12. Dead tree edition.The Sutton Hoo Story, by Martin Carver. Received 23/12. Dead tree edition.Fossils, by Richard Fortey. Received 23/12. Dead tree edition.The Story of Pain, by Joanna Bourke. Bought 23/12. Dead tree edition.Improbable Destinies, by Jonathan B. Losos. Received 25/12. Dead tree edition.- How Language Began, by Daniel Everett. Received 25/12. Dead tree edition.
Into the Grey Zone, by Adrian Owen. Received 25/12. Dead tree edition.- Jade City, by Fonda Lee. Received 25/12. Dead tree edition.
Kin, by John L. Ingraham. Received 25/12. Dead tree edition.- Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are, by Frans de Waal. Received 25/12. Dead tree edition.
- The End of the Day, by Claire North. Received 25/12. Dead tree edition.
A History of Ancient Egypt, Volume 2, by John Romer. Received 25/12. Dead tree edition.Power, Sex, Suicide, by Nick Lane. Received 25/12. Dead tree edition.The Seafarer’s Kiss, by Julia Ember. Received 25/12. Dead tree edition.The Lost Plot, by Genevieve Cogman. Received 25/12. Dead tree edition.How the Zebra Got Its Stripes, by Léo Grasset. Received 25/12. Dead tree edition.- Runebinder, by Alex R. Kahler. Received 25/12. Dead tree edition.
Lumberjanes Volume 1: To the Max, by Noelle Stephenson, Brooke Allen and Shannon Watters. Received 25/12. Dead tree edition.The Unbelievable Gwenpool: Believe It, by Christopher Hastings. Received 25/12. Dead tree edition.- Spider-Gwen: Weapon of Choice, by Jason Latour and Robbi Rodriguez. Received 25/12. Dead tree edition.
- The Mighty Captain Marvel: Alien Nation, by Margaret Stohl and Ramon Rosanas. Received 25/12. Dead tree edition.
Almost Human, by Lee Berger. Received 25/12. Dead tree edition.The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu, by Charlie English. Received 25/12. Dead tree edition.