Hello and welcome back to the Misstery Awards! Is there a better way to start the new year than celebrating the books I loved the most during 2017? Without further ado…
FAVORITE BOOKS of 2017
All The Wicked Girls by Chris Whitaker
Hum If You Don’t Know The Words by Bianca Marais
The Floating Theatre by Martha Conway
The Trapped Girl by Robert Dugoni
Becoming Bonnie by Jenni L Walsh
The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka
Dead Woman Walking by Sharon Bolton
The Road To Bittersweet by Donna Everhart
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HONORABLE MENTIONS: “DON’T MISS THEM!”
The Sisters of Alameda Street by Lorena Hughes
The Girl Who Was Taken by Charlie Donlea
The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter
Lightning Men by Thomas Mullen
Girl on Point by Cheryl Guerriero
A Lesson in Violence by Jordan Harper
Sweet Little Lies by Caz Frear
Since We Fell by Dennis Lehane
You Don’t Know Me by Imran Mahmood
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BEST THROWBACK BOOKS I READ THIS YEAR
The Trouble With Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
Out of The Easy by Ruta Sepetys
The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow
My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
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BEST SERIES I’VE READ THIS YEAR
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TOP POLICE PROCEDURALS / MYSTERIES
Kill The Father by Sandrone Dazieri
A Room Full of Killers by Michael Wood
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TOP PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLERS
The Weight of Lies by Emily Carpenter
The Marsh King’s Daughter by Karen Dionne
The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel
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FAVORITE TWIST
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Have you read any of these? 🙂
Some fab choices Annie still haven’t read All The Wicked Girls 🙈
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Go go go go! 😛
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What a fantastic round up; I enjoyed some of these myself. 🤗 Happy New Year Annie!
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Happy new year 🙂 To more fantastic books in 2018!!
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Dead Woman Walking made both our lists! I wish I would’ve done a few honorable mentions, I would’ve put Since We Fell, Hum & All the Wicked Girls on mine for sure
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I just felt those in the other list deserved a mention too!! We read so many books that it’s hard to choose only 10 haha
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Yes for The Trapped Girl! I’m just going to forget about the next one and look forward to his next new release, hopefully this year! I haven’t read a lot of these on your list but I’m definitely going to read Dead Woman Walking this year!
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Hahahaha Yessss, I think it’s out this first part of 2018! Dead Woman Walking was amazing!!
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Wow! That’s quite a comprehensive list, Annie! I’m really curious how many books you read in 2017? Have a wonderful year in 2018!
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111 🙂 My list last year was longer though, I think I liked more books in 2016 hahaha
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So many amazing books on here (and so many I only read because of you)! And so many I have yet to read. I hope you find just as many wonderful books in 2018 for us to read 🙂
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🙂 ❤ Yes to that!!! 2018 is going to be amazing, I can already feel it!
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Gosh I’ve hardly read any of these, except for Little Deaths, which I enjoyed. Best Twist is a great category idea too!
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I just wanted to highlight how shocked I was lol
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There are some fantastic books here! And many that are on my TBR list 😊
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^Happy to hear that then, looking forward to your thoughts!
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So many fab books, too many to individually single out! But, I did buy ‘Hum If You Don’t Know The Words’ today, so thanks for the heads-up on that one 😊
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YAY! I hope you enjoy it ^^
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I have read some of these but couldn’t get the ARCs for some of your favourites but I am still keen on getting them soon. Definitely ading more to my TBR.
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❤ Awesome Diana!!
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I haven’t had the chance to read any of these but Hum if you Don’t Know the Words, Since We Fell, and The Kitchen House are all on my TBR. It looks like you had a fantastic reading year in 2017! Hope you have another one in 2018 🙂
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I think you’ll love Hum and Kitchen House for sure 😀
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