Jenn's Picks of 2017 - Adult Edition

I don't get to read too many books published for adults, but I try to read at least a few. Approximately 11% of the books I read in 2017 were for adults. Here are my favorites of those.

Fiction



When Nahri accidentally summons a Daeva (or djinn), she discovers that she has Daeva blood and that ifrits are after her. To save her, Dara (the Daeva warrior) must bring her across the desert to a city full of Daeva who might either worship or hate her.



Jack and Jill enter a portal into a world of eternal night, full of mad scientists and vampires. Both adapt to their strange and dangerous new world in their own separate ways. Until Jill tries to hurry her fate and puts both of them in jeopardy.



A short novel about the choices we make when we are given far more power than we want.



All the women in the world are falling asleep and cocooning themselves except for one. If a psychologist for a women's prison cannot keep her safe, the women will never wake up.

Non-Fiction



A funny and moving memoir about Trevor's childhood in South Africa as a forbidden child of an African mother and a Swiss father. Hilarious and heart-breaking in turns. I highly recommend listening to the author read it to you in the audiobook.

Comics



A group of super heroes are banished to a pocket universe where they are unable to escape a small town and an even smaller farm.



Journalist Chloe Pierce infiltrates a cult where her fiance disappeared and finds a far more Lovecraftian world than she expected.



Dana, a young black woman in the 70s, is unexpectedly transported to a plantation in the pre-Civil War South. As she travels back and forth through time, she uncovers truths about her family history that she never expected.



This series continues to deliver on all fronts. This volume is an emotional roller coaster that may convince you to throw the book across the room by the end.

Well, that is the last of my picks for 2017. Next up, what I am looking forward to reading this year.