the books I read in 2016

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My reading totals were low this past year. I blame this on less public transit time this year in comparison to past years. The best books I read were What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi, Nora Webster by Colm Toibin, and Get Into Trouble by Kelly Link, and there were many good ones too numerous to name in one sentence. The biggest ripoff, or possibly the clumsiest homage, was Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay. Maybe it's a spoiler to say, but we have always lived in the castle, non?


The Mayor of Casterbridge
Hardy, Thomas

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, #1)
Riggs, Ransom

Ninety-Nine Stories of God
Williams, Joy

The After Party
DiSclafani, Anton

The Green Road
Enright, Anne

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
Oyeyemi, Helen

Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty
Ausubel, Ramona

Someone
McDermott, Alice

Gaudi Afternoon (Cassandra Reilly, #1)
Sjoholm, Barbara

All the Birds, Singing
Wyld, Evie

A Head Full of Ghosts
Tremblay, Paul

Sea of Glass
Parry, Dennis

Disappearance at Devil's Rock
Tremblay, Paul

The Waters Rising (Plague of Angels, #2)
Tepper, Sheri S.

Jeweled Fire (Elemental Blessings, #3)
Shinn, Sharon

The Butcher Bird (Somershill Manor Mystery, #2)
Sykes, S.D.

Inside Job
Willis, Connie

Dangerous Angels: Five Weetzie Bat Books
Block, Francesca Lia

Nora Webster
Tóibín, Colm

Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)
Galbraith, Robert

Journey to Munich (Maisie Dobbs, #12)
Winspear, Jacqueline

Wickford Point
Marquand, John P.

Bats of the Republic: An Illuminated Novel
Dodson, Zachary Thomas

White Is for Witching
Oyeyemi, Helen

The Strangler Vine
Carter, M.J.

The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #16)
McCall Smith, Alexander

Get in Trouble
Link, Kelly

The Absent One (Department Q, #2)
Adler-Olsen, Jussi

As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust (Flavia de Luce, #7)
Bradley, Alan