Best books of 2017

I almost wonder if I should make this a top 20, since I'm starting with 18 on this list....
Let's see if I can prioritize though:

Top 9 (in no particular order, series included as singles...yep, that's probably cheating...):

1. Lilac Girls (Martha Hall Kelly)--January
2. Three Allen Eskens books:  (last one was best):  The Life We Bury (Allen Eskens), The Guise of Another, the Heavens May Fall--February
3.  Robert Dugani's books--My Sister's Grave and Her Final Breath (Robert Dugoni)--July, In the Clearing --August, The Trapped Girl--September, Close to Home--October
4.  The Alice Network (Kate Quinn)--October
5.  Dark Places (Gillian Flynn)--July
6.  Henry's Sisters (Cathy Lamb)--July
7.  Back Over There (Richard Rubin)--June
8.  The Chemist (Stephanie Meyer)--October
9. Woman of God (James Patterson)--December

Honorable Mention
1. Four  Mike Mullin books (first one was best)-February
2. Long Way Gone (Charles Martin)--August
3.  Barbara Nickless--Dead Stop--October
4.  Hardcore Twenty-Four (Janet Evanovich)--December
5. The Sleepwalker (Chris Bojalian)--March
6. The Painted Queen (Elizabeth Peters)--August


Links to this year's book blogs:
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