Top 20 Books I Read in 2017

it's a hilarious book and it's probably also the saddest in this in this video

some of his short stories are among my very favorite short stories of all times the axolotl house taking over continuity of parts I'm not that much of a fan of others maybe it's longer narratives but still again is a mass street

an excellent spy story thriller it's hilarious at times it's engaging all the way through

a novel I waited so long to read but I absolutely adored it's a hell of a ride very fast fantasy novel once more about the nature of power

it's incredibly perverse and [ __ ] up but at the same time it's so beautiful it's a pleasure even just to read / to listen to

it's so impossibly beautiful it's a pleasure to read even just because of Chandler's writing style the guy who's really impossibly good in the span of two chu lines he can make you cry

a beautiful book about life in prison a beautiful book about the power of theatre and Shakespeare's power to allow people to get in touch with yes of course their emotions

it's heartbreaking as a novel its third part the one setting Budapest before World War two is yeah by far the best piece of fiction I've read this year like by a longshot

an incredible novel in verse it's just such a beautiful reading experience even because of the sheer musicality of the thing

it's one of the most enjoyable books in this chart it's hilarious fun but it also features some pretty heavy reflections on motherhood

okay wasn't expecting to like so much at all but I absolutely adored it's a cerebral book it's very much a literary game

a beautiful historical novel set in early twentieth century New York giving you an idea of how it was to live in the city back then both if you were incredibly rich and if you were very poor

it's a amazingly entertaining it is slow and there are there's a long chapter for instance that just tells you the backstory of every character in this novel but it's so well written

this one made absolute sense in today's world where social media are such an important presence in our life and it was incredibly scary

master of pulp fiction how early 20th century horror science fiction most of his stories are simply amazing is also a big influence on contemporary fantasy fiction

an author I discovered this year and I absolutely loved just as much as the White Castle the following story has that type of Calvin esque vibe definitely that type of sort of postmodern vibe

I loved these fantasy novel hilarious there's a joke every two lines but at the same time it's heartbreaking and it's an addictive and thrilling narrative

which is a great fantasy novel although its characters are all unfailingly obnoxious it still had some pretty interesting reflections on the nature of power

a beautiful postmodern novel a classic of post-modernism American post-modernism and a great novel on the dark side of escapism and an awesome reflection on how the powers of imagination allows you to escape from your bleak reality

poor horsemen in waise is a darker book than ascension is very fun full of jokes it's uplifting

I was stunned by how good Fitzgerald's short stories are of course I know the Great Gatsby but beyond that I'm not I don't know much about Fitzgerald at home

by far the best straight-up horror book I read this year an awesome collection of short stories or stories set in South America

V never stop surprising me every time I think about it because you know it was written by a guy who was 24 really when it was published and it features some of pensions most unforgettable passages the guy converting the rats in sewers of New York hunting for alligators in the sewers the passage in Africa those bleak passages about the horrors of colonialism at the same time probably more than any other of his novels these fell to me like he didn't really know where it was going

incredible short novel reminded me a lot of eternal Calvino's fiction about the nature of narration about the nature of storytelling