Books I’ve Read in 2016

(in red: I really enjoy it!)

January 2016
1. Anatomy of a Rose  – Sharman Apt Russell
2. Peace Like a River – Leif Enger
3. A year down yonder – Richard Peck
4. Provence A-Z –  Peter Mayle
5. The boy in the suitcase –  Lene Kaaberbøl
6. The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond Of Matches –  Gaetan Soucy

February 2016
7. From Messenger to Manager –  Stanley Yen
8. Brewed Awakening –  Joshua Bernstein
9. The Son of Neptune –  Rick Riordan
10. Soccernomics –  Simon Kuper, Stefan Szymanski
11. Chopstick Childhood –  Nona M. Wyman
12. Kane and Abel –  Jeffrey Archer
13. Secondhand Souls –  Christopher Moore
14. Boy –  Roald Dahl
15. An Ocean Apart, a World Away –  Lensey Namioka
16. The Atlantis Complex –  Eoin Colfer
17. The Demigod Diaries –  Rick Riordan

March 2016
18. How to See Yourself As You Really Are –  HH the Dalai Lama
19. The Art of Disney’s Frozen –  Charles Solomon
20. Book Girl and the Suicide –  Mime Mizuki Nomura
21. The Bondmaid –  Catherine Lim
22. Following Atticus –  Tom Ryan
23. Orphan Train –  Christina Baker Kline
24. Ceremony –  Leslie Marmon Silko
25. City of Glass –  Cassandra Clare
26. Fresh Eggs –  Rob Levandoski
27. The Enchantress of Florence –  Salman Rushdie

April 2016
28. The Rise of Nine –  Pittacus Lore
29. Making Piece –  Beth Howard
30. I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced –  Nujood Ali
31. The Sleeper and the Spindle –  Neil Gaiman
32. Downton Tabby –  Chris Kelly
33. The Language of Silence  –  Peggy Webb
34. The Cuttlefish –  Maryline Desbiolles
35. The Air We Breathe  – Andrea Barrett
36. Rut –  Scott Phillips
37. China Dolls – Lisa See
38. The Accidental Vampire – Lynsay Sands
39. Holy Fools – Joanne Harris
40. Tales of the Sisters Kane – Christy Kane
41. The Calligrapher’s Daughter – Eugenia Kim
42. Roasting in Hell’s Kitchen – Gordon Ramsay
43. The Cave of the Yellow Dog – Byambasuren Davaa, Lisa Reisch
44. With the Light vol 1 – 2 – Keiko Tobe
45. Son – Lois Lowry
46. The Fall of Five – Pittacus Lore

May 2016

47. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas – John Boyne
48. Cooked – Michael Pollan
49. The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm
50. My Brother, My Sister, and I – Yoko Kawashima Watkins
51. Delicate Edible Birds – Lauren Groff
52. The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern
53. Uglies – Scott Westerfeld
54. Fresh Off the Boat – Eddie Huang
55. The Garlic Ballad – Mo Yan
56. The Looking Glass Wars – Frank Beddor
57. Hollow City – Ransom Riggs
58. The Basque History of the World – Mark Kurlansky
59. Tides of Autumn – Pamela Johnson
60. River Town – Peter Hessler

June 2016

61. A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants – Jaed Coffin
62. Getting Unstuck – Pema Chodron
63. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
64. Library of Souls – Ransom Riggs
65. Consider the fork – Bee Wilson

July 2016

66. Fairest – Gail Carson Levine
67. A Thousand Miles of Dreams – Sasha Su-Ling Welland
68. Buddy: How a Rooster Made Me a Family Man – Brian McGrory
69. Songs of Willow – Frost Jamie Ford
70. Endymion Spring – Matthew Skelton
71. The Dog Stars – Peter Heller
72. Why Not Me? – Mindy Kaling
73. The Black Count – Tom Reiss
74. Troll Bridge – Jane Yolen, Adam Stemple
75. Cloud of Sparrows – Takashi Matsuoka

August 2016

76. A Rotten Person Travels the Caribbean – Gary Buslik
77. The Golem and the Jinni – Helene Wecker
78. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – J K Rowling
79. The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana – Umberto Eco
80. Spellcasting in Silk – Juliet Blackwell
81. Honey and Clover – Chica Umino
82. A Flight of Angels – Holly Black and Bill Willingham
83. Loose Woman – Sandra Cisneros
84. The Revenge of Seven – Pittacus Lore
85. Woman Hollering Creek – Sandra Cisneros
86. The House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros
87. America Again – Stephen Colbert
88. The Well of Lost Plots – Jasper Fforde
89. A House in Bali – Colin McPhee
90. Royal Blood – Rhys Bowen
91. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke

September 2016

92. No Angel – Jay Dobyns
93. Love, Loss, and What We Ate – Padma Lakshmi
94. Princess Academy – Shannon Hale
95. With the Light vol 3 – 4 – Keiko Tobe
96. Slade House – David Mitchell
97. Blood Diamonds – Greg Campbell
98. Beowulf – Gareth Hinds
99. Not Buying It – Judith Levine
100. I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: Rebel Allies – Pittacus Lore
101. Bride of Water God vol 1-4 – Mi-Kyung Yun
102. The Secrets of a Fire King – Kim Edwards

October 2016

103. Running the Amazon – Joe Kane
104. The Inn at Lake Devine – Elinor Lipman
105. The Japanese Lover – Isabel Allende
106. Stirring It Up – Gary Hirshberg
107. The Road to My Farm – Nora Janssen Seton
108. Be Still My Vampire Heart – Kerrelyn Sparks
109. Food Rules – Michael Pollan
110. Ru – Kim Thuy
111. The Power of Travel – Steve Zikman
112. The Wisdom of Big Bird – Caroll Spinney, J Milligan
113. Gifts – Ursula K. Le Guin
114. Julie of the Wolves – Jean Craighead George

November 2016

115. What Was Lost – Cathrine O’flynn
116. A Hoboken Hipster in Sherwood Forest – Marianne Mancusi
117. Monkey Hunting – Cristina Garcia
118. Japan Ai – Aimee Major Steinberger
119. The Town that Food Saved – Ben Hewitt
120. The Rainbow Comes and Goes – Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt
121. Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls – David Sedaris
122. Against Medical Advice – James Patterson, Hal Friedman
123. Girlfriend in a Coma – Douglas Coupland
124. Consider the Lobster – David Foster Wallace
125. Modified: GMOs and the Threat to Our Food, Our Land, Our Future –  Caitlin Shetterly
126. The Girl from the Chartreuse – Pierre Péju
127. Stuck in the Middle with You – Jennifer Finney Boylan
128. The Poet’s Dog – Patricia MacLachlan

December 2016

129. Sorrow Mountain – Ani Pachen, Adelaide Donnelley
130. The Scent of Rain and Lightning – Nancy Pickard
131. When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi
132. Cabin Pressure – Josh Wolk
133. Children Of Lir – Callahan Macgill
134. Library Wars vol 8-15 – Kiiro Yumi, Hiro Arikawa
135. Have You Seen Marie? – Sandra Cisneros
136. David and Goliath – Malcolm Gladwell
137. Once Upon a Time – Judy Blume et al
138. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane – Kate DiCamillo
139. Spark Joy – Marie Kondo
140. Genius – Seagle & Kristiansen
141. Lyra’s Oxford – Phillip Pullman
142. Tears in the Darkness – Michael and Elizabeth Norman
143. Death Comes to Pemberley – P. D. James
144. The Hundred-Foot Journey – Richard C. Morais
145. The Starry Starry Night – Jimmy Liao
146. Hospital Sketches – Louisa May Alcott
147. The Mark of Athena – Rick Riordan
148. Deadly Ants – Seymour Simon
149. Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom – Signey Mintz
150. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler – E.L. Konigsburg
151. Voice Like Water – Deanna Nikaido
152. Hamakua Hero – Patsy Y. Iwasaki, Berido
153. Chinglish: Found in Translation – Oliver Lutz Radtke
154. The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
155. Love, Loss, and What I Wore – Ilene Beckerman
156. Tears of a Husky #1 Grey ga Madderu – Kara Hideko Ise
157. The Book of Tomorrow – Cecelia Ahern

My Top Ten of 2016 (in no strict order):

The Hundred-Foot Journey
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Julie of the Wolves
The Black Count
The Golem and the Jinni
Cloud of Sparrows
The Looking Glass Wars
The Night Circus
The Calligrapher’s Daughter
The boy in the suitcase

Some Useless Statistics:
Total Books read in 2016 – 157
Bookcrossing Books: 96 (61.1%) Non-BC Books: 61
Fiction: 98 Non Fiction: 59 (37.5%)

On BookObsessed, I’ve set my goal for 160 books.  Blame it on Pokemon, I find myself lagging behind in my reading.  Especially when for a while I could not even listen to audio books while catching pokemons. I tried to play catch up in December.  On New Year’s Eve, my husband picked me up to go to a friend’s house for a party in another city 5 hours away.  I didn’t factor in that it’s winter so the sun set pretty early, and I didn’t get to read as much as I’d like.  I did manage to finish an audio book.  We arrived at the party at around 9’ish, but short of declaring a diarrhea emergency, I couldn’t think of a way to lock myself up to read.  But I wasn’t ready to make myself anitsocial the rest of the night, so I just have to live with  the knowledge that I *could have* completed my goal, but I didn’t.