Friday, January 01, 2016

Books Read in 2016

Cumulative Reading List

Here's where I'll be tracking my reading in 2016.

Last year, for the first time in several years, I reached my annual reading goal of 50 books. (Actually, I read 51 books!) This year, I'm hoping to do a little better than that -- but officially, I'll still aim for 50.


JANUARY

1. Mrs. Malory and the Lilies That Fester (#11 in series). Hazel Holt (2000; fiction; 243 pages)
2. The Last September. Nina de Gramont (2015; fiction; 320 pages)


FEBRUARY

3. The Children's Home. Charles Lambert (2016; fiction; 224 pages, ARC)
4. The People in the Photo. Hélène Gestern; translated by Emily Boyce and Ros Schwartz (2011; fiction; 273 pages)
5. Dreaming Spies (Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes #13). Laurie R. King (2015; fiction; 368 pages)


MARCH

6. My Name Is Lucy Barton. Elizabeth Strout (2016; fiction; 208 pages, ARC)
7. A Christmas Escape. Anne Perry (2015; fiction; 160 pages)
8. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures. Kate DiCamillo; illus. by K.G. Campbell (2013; fiction; 233 pages)
9. Beanie and Tough Enough. Ruth and Latrobe Carroll (2015; fiction; 192 pages)


APRIL

10. Daisy Miller. Henry James (1878; fiction; 118 pages)
11. Far From True (Promise Falls Trilogy, #2). Linwood Barclay (2016; fiction; 464 pages, ARC)
12. Miller's Valley. Anna Quindlen (2016; fiction; 273 pages, ARC)


MAY

13. Picture Miss Seeton (Miss Seeton #1). Heron Carvic (1968; fiction; 176 pages)
14. Villa Triste. Patrick Modiano (1975; fiction; 176 pages)
15. The Disappearance of Signora Giulia. Piero Chiara; trans. by Jill Foulston (1970; fiction; 128 pages)
16. A Fine Imitation. Amber Brock (2016; fiction; 304 pages ARC)


JUNE

17. This Too Shall Pass. Milena Busquets; trans. by Valerie Miles (2015; fiction; 169 pages)
18. Lovely In Her Bones. Sharyn McCrumb (1985; fiction; 221 pages)
19. To Have and Have Not. Ernest Hemingway (1937; fiction; 272 pages)
20. Inkheart. Cornelia Funke (2003; fiction; 563 pages)
21. The Swimmer: Poems. John Koethe (2016; poetry; 96 pages)


JULY

22. Walter the Lazy Mouse. Marjorie Flack (1937; children's fiction; 96 pages)
23. I Am No One. Patrick Flanery (2016; fiction; 343 pages, ARC)


AUGUST

24. The Port-Wine Stain. Norman Lock (2016; fiction; 224 pages, ARC)
25. The Invoice. Jonas Karlsson (2011/2016; fiction; 208 pages, ARC)


SEPTEMBER

26. Vinegar Girl. Anne Tyler (2016; fiction; 224 pages ARC)
27. Dark Matter. Blake Crouch (2016; fiction; 354 pages ARC)
28. Tainted Tokay (Winemaker Detective #11). Jean-Pierre Alaux & Noël Balen (2006/2016; fiction; 181 pages)


OCTOBER

29. The Book That Matters Most. Ann Hood (2016; fiction; 288 pages ARC)
30. The Girls. Emma Cline (2016; fiction; 368 pages ARC)
31. The Vanishment. Jonathan Aycliffe (1994; fiction; 227 pages) [finished in 2017]



NOVEMBER

32. The Nightwalker. Sebastian Fitzek; trans. by Jamie Lee Searle (2011/2016; fiction; 272 pages)
33. Knots and Crosses (Inspector Rebus #1). Ian Rankin (1987; fiction; 241 pages)
34. The Clocks (Hercule Poirot #34). Agatha Christie (1963; fiction; 272 pages)
35. Curtain: Poirot's Last Case (Hercule Poirot #39). Agatha Christie (1975; fiction; 224 pages)



DECEMBER

To read in December:
...Faithful. Alice Hoffman (2016; fiction)
...Cruel Beautiful World. Caroline Leavitt (2016; fiction)

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