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My 2017 reading list: a list of books read in 2017 in bibliographic format. This year had no discernible theme for me, I seemed to have read random books that I found or groups of books based on a common topics but nothing devoted to a single genre as in years past. I read 2 books on King Arthur, 5 books on Lithuania, and the rest were a mish-mosh of topics from biographies to the etymology of words.
My 2017 Reading List (with links):
• Oliver, Neil. 2014. The Vikings: A New History. New York: Pegasus Books.
• Winchester, Simon. 1998. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary. New York: MJF Books.
• Mallory, Sir Thomas. 2015. Le Morte d’Arthur: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. San Diego: Canterbury Classics.
• Sutcliff, Rosemary. 2007. The King Arthur Trilogy: The Sword and the Circle, The Light Beyond the Forest, The Road to Camlann. London: Red Fox.
• Fledžinskas, Jonas. 2017. Memories of Family and Estate: Lithuanian in the Early 1900’s. Translation by Ruta Pempė Sevo, with Vytautas Fledžinskas and Sophie Pempė. USA: Fledžinskai Family.
• Slančiauskas, Matas. 2015. Folk Tales of Northern Lithuania: Šiaures Lietuvos Pasakos. From the collections of Matas Slančiauskas, Lithuanian Edited by Robert Staneslow; translated by Ieva Sharžinskaitė and Ona Pelickienė.
• Short, Martin. 2014. I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend. New York: HarperCollins.
• Moody, Zillah. 2016. The Promised Land: Escape From Lithuania. Peterborough: FastPrint Publishing.
• Sepetys, Ruta. 2011. Between Shades of Gray. New York: Speak.
• American Lithuanian Literary Association. 1965. Lithuania Past and Present: Eight Centuries in the Life of a Nation. New York: ALLA.
• Urbonaitė-Narkevičienė, Gailutė. Lithuanian Practical Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books.
• Salecker, Gene Eric. 1996. Disaster on the Mississippi: The Sultana Explosion, April 27, 1865. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.
• Rutherford, Adam. 2016. A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Story in Our Genes. London: W&N.
• Forsyth, Mark. 2016. The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language. London: Icon.
• Shatner, William with Chris Kreski. 1993. Star Trek Memories. New York: HarperCollins.
• Scalia, Antonin, Christopher J. Scalia and Edward Whelan eds. 2017. Scalia Speaks: Reflections on Law, Faith, and Life Well Lived. Foreword by Ruth Bader Ginsburg. New York: Crown Forum.
• Murphy, Bruce Allen. 2014. Scalia: A Court of One. New York: Simon and Schuster.
• Clark, Grahame. 1945. Prehistoric England, Third Edition. London: B. T. Batsford, Ltd.
If I had to pick my top 5 favorites for 2017 that I read, they would be (in no particular order): The Professor and the Madman; Between Shades of Gray; A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived; and Scalia: A Court of One. Happy reading for 2018! You can also check out:
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