Like in her excellent debut novel Catalina, the main character in Liska Jacob’s new novel The Worst Kind Of Want (hardcover, Kindle) is a woman who doesn’t want to follow your…rules. But as she says in the following email interview — in which she discusses what inspired and influenced this story — just don’t call her main character a “girl gone wild.”
For the last two years I’ve kept a log of all the good books I read, regardless of when they were originally published. You can read my 2015 list by clicking here, and 2016’s by clicking here.
And since I’m nothing if not predictable, I decided to repeat this process for 2017.
So, here’s a look at the best novels, short story collections, and other books I read in 2017.
Writer Mortimer Smith, Jr. once said, “All writing is [autobiographical], in my opinion.” But in trading emails with author Liska Jacobs about her debut novel Catalina (paperback, Kindle), she noted that while she does have some connections to her book’s protagonist, she’s not as much of a “beautiful mess” as our hero.