I’m listing here the 97 popular novels reviewed in 2016-17 on this blog. You might also look at 101 mysteries and thrillers reviewed in 2016, 82 mysteries and thrillers reviewed in 2017, 56 nonfiction books reviewed here in 2016, and 36 nonfiction books reviewed here in 2017. I’m also including a list of the 42 commentaries and FAQs posted on this site during the same two-year period.
Touch the Devil (Liam Devlin #2) by Jack Higgins (Harry Patterson)
Slaughterhouse-Five, or: The Children’s Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Finale: A Novel of the Reagan Years by Thomas Mallon
The Seersucker Whipsaw by Ross Thomas
The Relic Master by Christopher Buckley
Dictator (Ancient Rome Trilogy #3) by Robert Harris
The Best of Our Spies by Alex Gerlis
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
Yellow-Dog Contract by Ross Thomas
Crashed (Junior Bender #1) by Timothy Hallinan
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
A Hero of France (Night Soldiers #16) by Alan Furst
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
Fellow Travelers by Thomas Mallon
Dewey Defeats Truman by Thomas Mallon
City of Secrets by Stewart O’Nan
The Devils of Cardona by Matthew Carr
Heroes of the Frontier by Dave Eggers
The Death of Rex Nhongo by C. B. George
Little Elvises (Junior Bender #2) by Timothy Hallinan
Pines (Wayward Pines Trilogy #1) by Blake Crouch
The Last Town (Wayward Pines Trilogy #3) by Blake Crouch
Wayward (Wayward Pines Trilogy #2) by Blake Crouch
The Fame Thief (Junior Bender #3) by Timothy Hallinan
My Real Children: One Woman, Two Worlds, Two Lives by Jo Walton
Skink: No Surrender by Carl Hiaasen
Missionary Stew by Ross Thomas
The Girl from Venice by Martin Cruz Smith
Sleeping Giants (Themis Files #1 of 2) by Sylvain Neuvel
Red Rising (Red Rising Trilogy #1) by Pierce Brown
The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan
Everyone Brave Is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
Selection Day by Aravind Adiga
Precious and Grace (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency #17) by Alexander McCall Smith
The German Girl by Armando Lucas Correa
The Parable of the Talents (Parable #2 of 2) by Octavia E. Butler
Falling Free (Vorkosigan Saga #1) by Lois McMaster Bujold
The Parable of the Sower (Parable #1 of 2) by Octavia E. Butler
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Herbie’s Game (Junior Bender #4) by Timothy Hallinan
Shards of Honor (Vorkosigan Saga #2) by Lois McMaster Bujold
Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Waking Gods (Themis Files #2) by Sylvain Neuvel
The City, Not Long After by Pat Murphy
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Wolf on a String by Benjamin Black
Bodyguard of Deception by Samuel Marquis
Absence of Mind by H.C.H. Ritz
King Maybe (Junior Bender #5) by Timothy Hallinan
The Doubt Factory by Paolo Bacigalupi
Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon
The Collapsing Empire (Interdependency #1) by John Scalzi
Barrayar (Vorkosigan Saga #3) by Lois McMaster Bujold
The Warrior’s Apprentice (Vorkosigan Saga #4) by Lois McMaster Bujold
Landscape with Invisible Hand by M. T. Anderson
After Atlas (Planetfall, A) by Emma Newman
Family Genus Species by Kevin Allardice
The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
The Vor Game (Vorkosigan Saga #5) by Lois McMaster Bujold
A Column of Fire (Kingsbridge #3) by Ken Follett
What’s the Worst That Could Happen? (Dortmunder #9) by Donald E. Westlake
Tool of War (Drowned Cities #3) by Paolo Bacigalupi
Supreme Courtship by Christopher Buckley
The Mouse That Roared by Leonard Wibberley
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The House of Unexpected Sisters (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency #18) by Alexander McCall Smith
Cetaganda (Vorkosigan Saga #6) by Lois McMaster Bujold
42 commentaries and FAQs posted here 2016-17
Wondering why nearly all my reviews are favorable?
35 excellent nonfiction books about politics
30 good books on science and medicine
17 good nonfiction books about espionage
35 great biographies I’ve reviewed
Nominees for the 2016 Northern California Book Awards
My 56 favorite authors of mysteries and thrillers
My 27 favorite science fiction novels
10 Awful Truths about Book Publishing
29 good books about business history
What? Literary critics I agree with?
65 good new books I’ve read in 2016
17 nonfiction books that illuminate the World War II era
8 great books on Big History: New perspectives on world history
48 excellent mystery and thriller series
15 great suspenseful detective novels (plus 23 others)
24 compelling dystopian novels in series
My 10 favorite espionage novels
Just how many books are there, really?
A brief look at 15 notable dystopian scenarios
Five “good” technologies that endanger us
13 good recent books about American foreign policy
My 1000th post: revisiting my 10 most-read book reviews
My new book: a fresh look at dystopian novels
Science history and science explained in 33 excellent popular books
75 readable and revealing historical novels
Yet more fun facts: who is the world’s bestselling author?
More fun facts: how many books are there, really?
Fun facts about books, authors, and readers
My 6 favorite dystopian novels
Philip Kerr’s Bernie Gunther novels
Recommended mysteries, science fiction, historical novels, nonfiction
Even more fun facts: which authors have written the most books?
The Quirke series of Dublin crime novels from Benjamin Black
13 eye-opening books about terrorism
Olen Steinhauer’s brilliant Yalta Boulevard cycle set in Eastern Europe
