Tag: 2017

• Favorite Books of the 2010s: Quick Takes of 2017 Novels

  This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. These are shorter reviews of good reads published in 2017.  The River at Night by Erica Ferencik (2017) Four women friends go on a whitewater-rafting adventure trip, but an accident leaves them lost in the Maine backwoods, where they run into…

  Shannon Turlington

  January 2, 2020

  Best Books of 2010s

  2010s, 2017, All Our Wrong Todays, Alternate history, Apocalyptic literature, Carmen Maria Machado, Caroline Leavitt, Contemporary fiction, Cruel Beautiful World, David Williams, Dystopia, Elan Mastai, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, Erica Ferencik, Essays, Fairy tales, Feminist fiction, Gail Honeyman, Gay and Lesbian, Ghost stories, Gwendy’s Button Box, Her Body and Other Parties, Historical fiction, Holly Goddard Jones, Horror, Hunger, Mapping the Interior, Megan Hunter, Memoir, News of the World, No Time to Spare, Paulette Jiles, Richard Chizmar, Roxane Gay, Sarah Lotz, Science fiction, Short stories, Slipstream, Stephen Graham Jones, Stephen King, Tade Thompson, The Changeling, The End We Start From, The Murders of Molly Southbourne, The River at Night, The Salt Line, The White Road, Thriller, Time travel, Ursula K Le Guin, Victor LaValle, When the English Fall

• Favorite reads of 2017

  At the end of each year, I round up my favorite five reads of the year–although not all of them were necessarily published this year. This year overall was a good year for reading. I discovered the Nocturnal Readers’ box, a monthly mystery box of horror and dark fiction, which although it contained some real…

  Shannon Turlington

  December 31, 2017

  Reading

  2017, Adam Johnson, Ben H Winters, Borne, Colson Whitehead, Dan Chaon, Ill Will, Jeff VanderMeer, LibraryThing, Nocturnal Reader’s Box, Pulitzer Prize, The Orphan Master’s Son, The Underground Railroad, Top 5, Underground Airlines