Books Read in 2016

It’s been a good year for reading. I read more than I thought I would, but more importantly, I relished slightly longer books than I have in past years. I can never rank my books – mostly because that takes more time than I am willing to devote and because it honestly changes from minute to minute some days. However, here is a list of the books I read this year, where I marked the ones that really stand out to me as I reflect on the year.

1. The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins FAVORITE
2. City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett
3. City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett
4. Arcadia by Iain Pears
5. Flight of Dreams by Ariel Lawhon
6. Burning Midnight by Will McIntosh
7. The Widow by Fiona Barton
8. The Blue Hour by Douglas Kennedy
9. The Taker by Alma Katsu
10. All the Winters After by Sere Prince Halverson  FAVORITE
11. Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes
12. The Passenger by Lisa Lutz
13. A Certain Age by Beatriz Williams
14. The Last Days of Magic by Mark Tompkins
15. The Madwoman Upstairs by Catherine Lowell
16. Flawed by Cecelia Ahern
17. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
18. Washington, A Life by Ron Chernow
19. 13, rue Thérèse by Elena Mauli Shapiro
20. Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor FAVORITE
21. Maestra by L. S. Hilton
22. The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
23. Absolutely, Positively by Heather Webber
24. The First Rule of Swimming by Courtney Angela Brkic
25. Glory Over Everything by Kathleen Grissom
26. The Epidemic by Suzanne Young
27. Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel FAVORITE
28. The Obsession by Nora Roberts
29. The Girl With All the Gifts by M. R. Carey FAVORITE
30. Finders Keepers by Stephen King
31. The Twelve by Justin Cronin
32. I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh FAVORITE
33. The Fireman by Joe Hill FAVORITE
34. The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
35. Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman FAVORITE
36. If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo FAVORITE
37. We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie FAVORITE
38. Don’t You Cry by Mary Kubica
39. Carmilla: A Vampyre Tale by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
40. My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix FAVORITE
41. Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
42. The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin
43. Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge by Paul Krueger
44. The Girls in the Garden by Lisa Jewell
45. The Girls by Emma Cline FAVORITE
46. The Trees by Ali Shaw
47. The Loose Ends List by Carrie Firestone
48. And I Darken by Kiersten White FAVORITE
49. The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
50. The Bourbon Thief by Tiffany Reisz
51. The Perfect Neighbors by Sarah Pekkanen
52. I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid FAVORITE
53. The Last One by Alexandra Oliva
54. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
55. The Light of Paris by Eleanor Brown
56. Driving Mr. Dead by Molly Harper
57. The Crow Girl by Erik Axl Sund
58. Listen to Me by Hannah Pittard FAVORITE
59. The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
60. Mata Hari’s Last Dance by Michelle Moran
61. Under the Dome by Stephen King
62. The Summer That Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel
63. In Twenty Years by Allison Winn Scotch
64. Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters
65. Big Vamp on Campus by Molly Harper
66. The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan
67. The Trap by Melanie Raabe
68. The Wolf Road by Beth Lewis
69. The Invoice by Jonas Karlsson
70. Baby Doll by Hollie Overton
71. All is Not Forgotten by Wendy Walker
72. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch FAVORITE
73. Killfile by Christopher Farnsworth FAVORITE
74. How to Hang a Witch by Adriana Mather FAVORITE
75. Truly, Madly, Guilty by Liane Moriarty
76. The Peculiar Miracles of Antoinette Martin by Stephanie Knipper
77. War Porn by Roy Scranton
78. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead FAVORITE
79. Nevernight by Jay Kristoff FAVORITE
80. Behind Closed Doors by B. A. Paris FAVORITE
81. The Rest I Will Kill by Brian McGinty
82. We Are Unprepared by Meg Little Reilly
83. As I Descended by Robin Talley
84. The Masked City by Genevieve Cogman
85. And The Trees Crept In by Dawn Kurtagich
86. I Will Send Rain by Rae Meadows
87. The Cabin by Natasha Preston
88. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy by Karen Abbott
89. Dear Mr. M by Herman Koch
90. Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake FAVORITE
91. Only Daughter by Anna Snoekstra
92. The Women in the Walls by Amy Lukavics
93. The Immortal Throne by Bree Despain
94. Slade House by David Mitchell
95. Replica by Lauren Oliver
96. In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
97. Wonder Women by Sam Maggs
98. The Terranauts by T. C. Boyle
99. Blood Red Snow White by Marcus Sedgwick
100. Mischling by Affinity Konar FAVORITE
101. Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco
102. The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness
103. Yesternight by Cat Winters FAVORITE
104. Bay of Sighs by Nora Roberts
105. Daughters Unto Devils by Amy Lukavics
106. Scythe by Neal Shusterman FAVORITE
107. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas FAVORITE
108. The Motion of Puppets by Keith Donohue
109. Ghostland by Colin Dickey
110. The Diabolic by S. J. Kincaid FAVORITE
111. Swing Time by Zadie Smith
112. Faithful by Alice Hoffman FAVORITE
113. The Charm Bracelet by Viola Shipman
114. The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
115. The Invasion of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
116. Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance
117. The Fate of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
118. The Uninvited by Cat Winters
119. The Selection by Kiera Cass
120. The Elite by Kiera Cass
121. The One by Kiera Cass
122. Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser
123. Everything Love Is by Claire King
124. How Will I Know You? by Jessica Treadway
125. Island of Glass by Nora Roberts
126. Difficult Women by Roxane Gay FAVORITE
127. All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
128. You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott
129. History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
130. Everything You Want Me to Be by Mindy Mejia
131. The Single Undead Moms Club by Molly Harper
132. Little Heaven by Nick Cutter FAVORITE
133. The Sleepwalker by Chris Bohjalian