I am a compulsive reader, and I can "speed read" since I was a kid, so I run through a lot of books, tastes run from dramas, crime fiction, crime non fiction, political, classics, thrillers. These are the one's worth noting from the maybe 15 I've read this year:
Among The Thugs: (1980's investigative journalism about immersing of a reporter in the "soccer hooligans" of England's lower classes, brutal, dark, revealing. Helps understand Trump's rise.
The Fever: dark look at high school girl feuds, obsession, hysteria
Big Little Lies: Book which HBO show was based on, a little soapy, but interesting look inside the lives of upper class Australian women, and communities they inhabit
Ill Will: Thriller involving heroin addiction, serial killer who drowns his victims, the deconstruction of a father/son relationship, and a brutal triple murder committed in the 70's, in which the narrators parents were murdered
Shattered: "inside" look at Hillary's campaign downfall, loosely written, kind of rushed and prose is very basic, still worth reading if you followed 2016 election
My Cousin Rachel: Classic Daphne Du Maurier thriller, obsession, seduction, poisoning, sexuality in the 1800's, paranoia, dope book, movie is out this summer.
The Hate You Give Us: Young adult fiction by a debut author about a young girl who witnesses a friend killed by police, and the fall out. Very dope, very much YA fiction, really cliche in some parts, great and important for kids to read.
ZeroZeroZero: Exploring cocaine trade from Naples, to Mexico, to Colombia, and across the world, the systems of corrupt white collar to kingpins to mid level traffickers, by author of Gomorra.
The Outrun: Part memoir of alcoholism and addiction from a woman in London, and her healing as she comes home to the Orkney Islands off Scotland, which may be somewhere I have to visit after reading.
