Books Read in 2016
Bolds are favorites, italics are meh books that I don't really recommend, and strike-throughs are books I disliked. Asterisks are re-reads and thus are mostly favorites, or things I liked well enough to re-read for book clubs.
January:
Donald Duck Vol 13 Trick Or Treat - Carl Barks
Radioactive - Lauren Redniss
Rat Queens Vol 2 - Kurtis J Wiebe (illustrators Roc Upchurch, Stjepan Sejic)
The Phoenix Program - Douglas Valentine
The Alleluia Files - Sharon Shinn *
Saga Vol 5 - Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Foundation - Peter Ackroyd
Moomin Comic Strip Vol 1 - Tove Jansson
The Mouse and his Child - Russell Hoban
Moomin Comic Strip Vol 3 - Tove Jansson
Dictator - Robert Harris
Wave - Sonali Deraniyagala
Mysteries of the Middle Ages - Thomas Cahill
A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
Sailing Alone Around the World - Joshua Slocum
They Do it With Mirrors - Agatha Christie
Room - Emma Donoghue
The Most Wanted Man in China - Fang Lizhi
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
All Decent Animals - Oonya Kempadoo
The Upstairs Wife - Rafia Zakaria
February:
Tower of Thorns - Juliet Marillier
Fashion Victims - Alison Matthews David
Loneliness - John T. Cacioppo, William Patrick
Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl - Daniel Pinkwater
The Log From the Sea of Cortez - John Steinbeck, Ed Ricketts
The Price of Salt - Patricia Highsmith
The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt - Caroline Preston
Freddy Rides Again - Walter R. Brooks
The Distance Between Us - Reyna Grande
The House on the Lagoon - Rosario Ferre
Queen of the Air - Dean Jensen
Circus of the Damned - Laurell K. Hamilton *
Capital - John Lanchester
The Laughing Corpse - Laurell K. Hamilton *
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Brown
Simon the Dictator - Walter R. Brooks
March:
Creativity Inc - Ed Catmull
Going Solo - Roald Dahl
The Beauty and the Sorrow - Peter Englund
The Lunatic Cafe - Laurell K. Hamilton *
The Curse of the Pharaohs - Elizabeth Peters
The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
I Shall Wear Midnight - Terry Pratchett *
Evicted - Matthew Desmond
Bloody Bones - Laurell K. Hamilton *
Love InshAllah - Nura Maznavi, Ayesha Mattu (editors)
The Killing Dance - Laurell K. Hamilton *
The Bridge of Beyond - Simone Schwarz-Bart
Only for a Fortnight - Sue Read
Bolivar: American Liberator - Maria Arana
Alchemy and Meggy Swann - Karen Cushman
The Shepherd's Crown - Terry Pratchett
Griffin and Sabine - Nick Bantock *
A Woman in Berlin - Anonymous (possibly Marta Hillers)
Silas Marner - George Eliot
Burnt Offerings - Laurell K. Hamilton *
Bellwether - Connie Willis
Sabriel - Garth Nix *
Know the Mother - Desiree Cooper
April:
Vengeance Road - Erin Bowman
China in Ten Words - Yu Hua
A Very Dangerous Woman - Deborah McDonald
Shadows of the Workhouse - Jennifer Worth
My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante
The Cracks in the Kingdom - Jaclyn Moriarty
Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
The Colonel - Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
Charity and Sylvia - Rachel Cleves
The Pharos Gate - Nick Bantock
The Battle of Hastings - Harriet Harvey Wood
Chronicle in Stone - Ismail Kadare
Midaq Alley - Naguib Mahfouz
Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs - Barbara Mertz
Lumberjanes Vol 3 - Noelle Stevenson, Shannon Watters
The Language of Goldfish Zibby Oneal *
Blackout - Connie Willis *
America's Hidden History - Kenneth C. Davis
Trauma and Recovery - Judith Lewis Herman
Ozma of Oz - L. Frank Baum *
Under an English Heaven - Donald E. Westlake
May:
F*ck Feelings - Michael and Sarah Bennett
A Tangle of Gold - Jaclyn Moriarty
Buddha - Karen Armstrong
The Aeneid - Virgil
Blue Moon - Laurell K. Hamilton *
The Lady in Gold - Anne-Marie O'Connor
Donald Duck: Terror of the Beagle Boys - Carl Barks
The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson
Kitchen Privileges - Mary Higgins Clark
A Delusion of Satan - Frances Hill
The Arab of the Future - Riad Sattouf
Mister Monday - Garth Nix *
Rebels and Traitors - Lindsey Davis
If the Oceans Were Ink - Carla Power
The Trouble With Women - Jacky Fleming
The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel van der Kolk
The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts - Laura Tillman
The Diary of Frida Kahlo - Frida Kahlo ed. by Sarah M. Lowe
Carmilla - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
438 Days - Jonathan Franklin
Rat Queens Vol 3 - Kurtis J Wiebe
The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith
June:
Magna Carta - Dan
Grim Tuesday - Garth Nix *
The Mummy Case - Elizabeth Peters
The Fishermen - Chigozie Obioma
The Fever of 1721 by Stephen Coss
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
The Book of Sand - Jorge Luis Borges
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher - Kate Summerscale
Life and Death in Shanghai - Nien Cheng
The Argonauts - Maggie Nelson
Drowned Wednesday - Garth Nix *
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Nimona - Noelle Stevenson
The Drone Eats With Me - Atef Abu Saif
Bananeras - Dana Frank
July:
Ms. Marvel Vol 4 - G. Willow Wilson
Emma Vol 1 - Kaoru Mori
Emma Vol 2 - Kaoru Mori
Emma Vol 3 - Kaoru Mori
Emma Vol 4 - Kaoru Mori
Emma Vol 5 - Kaoru Mori
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu - Joshua Hammer
The Life of Elizabeth I - Alison Weir
The Enormous Room - E.E. Cummings
Emma Vol 6 - Kaoru Mori
Emma Vol 7 - Kaoru Mori
Love, Nina - Nina Stibbe
Sir Thursday - Garth Nix *
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks
Agnes Grey - Anne Bronte
A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James
Drowned City - Don Brown
How to be a Tudor - Ruth Goodman
The Prince of Medicine - Susan Mattern
Relish - Lucy Knisley
The Great Transformation - Karen Armstrong
Rosalie Lightning - Tom Hart
Ms Marvel Vol 5 - G. Willow Wilson
A Silent Voice Vol 1 - Yoshitoki Oima
Lady Friday - Garth Nix *
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
Kindred - Octavia E. Butler
Sapiens - Yuval Harari
The Patchwork Girl of Oz - L. Frank Baum
The Invention of Nature - Andrea Wulf
Son of the Shadows - Juliet Marillier *
Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
All Clear - Connie Willis *
The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare *
Vinegar Girl - Anne Tyler
Superior Saturday - Garth Nix *
August:
First They Killed My Father - Loung Ung
$2.00 a Day - Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer
Queen Margot - Alexandre Dumas
The Democracy Project - David Graeber
Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Children of the New World - Assia Djebar
One Dead Spy - Nathan Hale
Free Food for Millionaires - Min Jin Lee
Kaffir Boy - Mark Mathabane
A Thousand Miles to Freedom - Eunsun Kim
See Now Then - Jamaica Kincaid
A Drifting Life - Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Smile - Raina Telgemeier
Sisters - Rainia Telgemeier
Guantanamo Diary - Mohamedou Ould Slahi
Lion in the Valley - Elizabeth Peters
Lord Sunday - Garth Nix *
Secondhand Time - Svetlana Alexievich
Angel-Seeker - Sharon Shinn *
Spark: How Creativity Works - Julie Burstein
The Ghost Road - Pat Barker
Mighty Be Our Powers - Leymah Gbowee
Saga Vol 6 - Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg
A Silent Voice Vol 2 - Yoshitoki Oima
A Silent Voice Vol 3 - Yoshitoki Oima
A Silent Voice Vol 4 - Yoshitoki Oima
September:
A Silent Voice Vol 5 - Yoshitoki Oima
A Silent Voice Vol 6 - Yoshitoki Oima
A Silent Voice Vol 7 - Yoshitoki Oima
The Gold Cell - Sharon Olds
King Leopold's Ghost - Adam Hochschild
The Mathematician's Shiva - Stuart Rojstaczer
Needless Suffering - David Nagel
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows *
Lingo - Gaston Dorren
Night of Many Dreams - Gail Tsukiyama
One Secret Thing - Sharon Olds
Long Division - Kiese Laymon
Hidden Figures - Margot Lee Shetterly
Hitler's Forgotten Children - Ingrid Von Oelhafen
Half a Lifelong Romance - Eileen Chang
Independence Lost - Kathleen DuVal
The Devourers - Indra Das
It Looked Different on the Model - Laurie Notaro
Anya's Ghost - Vera Brosgol
The Broken Spears - Miguel Leon-Portilla
Spectacles - Sue Perkins
Library of Luminaries: Frida Kahlo - Zena Alkayat
The Time Machine - HG Wel'ls
October:
The Secret Adversary - Agatha Christie
Everything is Teeth - Evie Wyld
Hard Tack and Coffee - John D. Billings
Pigeon Post - Arthur Ransome
The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong - Gyalo Thondup, Anne F Thurston
Ostend - Volker Weidermann
Coming Out Under Fire - Allan Berube
Emma - Jane Austen
Anne of the Island - LM Montgomery *
Donald Duck Vol 15 Sheriff of Last Gasp - Carl Barks
The Naturalist - Darrin Lunde
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Seamstress - Sara Tuvel Bernstein
Gabi, A Girl in Pieces - Isabel Quintero
The Girls From Ames - Jeffrey Zaslow
The Gastronomical Me - MFK Fisher
Marriage, A History - Stephanie Coontz
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm - Kate Douglas Wiggin *
The Not-So-Jolly Roger - Jon Scieszka
The Daughter of the Forest - Juliet Marillier *
Gabriela, Clove, and Cinnamon - Jorge Amado
A Torch Against the Night - Sabaa Tahir
November:
Golden Parasol: A Daughter's Memoir of Burma - Wendy Law-Yone
The Emperor of All Maladies - Siddartha Mukherjee
Grandma Gatewood's Walk - Ben Montgomery
The Case of Comrade Tulayev - Victor Serge
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Highly Sensitive Child - Elaine N Aron
The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie
Lirael - Garth Nix *
Unbowed - Wangari Maathai
Thunderstruck - Erik Larson
Twilight of the Eastern Gods - Ismail Kadare
Cancer Made me a Shallower Person - Miriam Engelberg
Only Yesterday - Frederick Lewis Allen
Frontier Grit - Marianne Monson
Den of Wolves - Juliet Marillier
Abhorsen - Garth Nix *
Matewan Before the Massacre - Rebecca J Bailey
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot *
The Moffats - Eleanor Estes
Lumberjanes Vol 4 - Noelle Stevenson, Kirsten Watters
Don Rosa's Donald Duck Vol 5 - Don Rosa
The Price of Justice - Laurence Leamer
Don Rosa's Donald Duck Vol 6 - Don Rosa
Hero of the Empire - Candice Millard
I Will Always Write Back - Martin Ganda, Caitlin Alifirenka
The Wreath - Sigrid Undset
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol 1 - Ryan North, Erica Henderson
Consciousness and the Brain - Stanislas Dehaene
December:
The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks - Igort
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind - William Kamkwamba
Old Goriot - Honore de Balzac
The Vegetarian - Han Kang
The Authentic Life of Billy the Kids - Pat Garrett
A Story of the Red Cross - Clara Barton
In the Sea There are Crocodiles - Enaiotollah Akbari, Fabio Geda
Clariel - Garth Nix *
Sister Outsider - Audre Lorde
The Stranger Beside Me - Ann Rule
Son of the Shadows - Juliet Marillier *
From the Earth to the Moon - Jules Verne
Founding Mothers - Cokie Roberts
If I Stay - Gayle Forman
1491 - Charles C. Mann
Liar Temptress Soldier Spy - Karen Abbott
Fatherland - Nina Bunjevac
Clotel - William Wells Brown
67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence - Howard Means
Life Among the Savages - Shirley Jackson
Ms. Marvel Vol 6 - Willow G. Wilson
Girl in the Dark - Anna Lyndsey
The Road to Mecca - Muhammad Asad
Total read - 278
61% Adult Non-Fiction to 39% Adult Fiction
64% all of reads had been on a to-read list for more than three months
62% of all authors from the US or UK
58% by women authors
65% Audiobooks
31 Re-reads (all fiction)
53 Unique Author Nationalities
Publication dates from Goodreads which sometimes randomly leaves off a book, it turns out.