At left, photo of The Windup Girl, a book set in Thailand, next to fried rice at a Thai restaurant (Bamboo); because every once in a while my reading matches my eating.
Past editions of this list: 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008. This list is also available in pictorial format at Pinterest.
It was a good year for reading here! Thirty-three books finished, including books read at the Grand Canyon and in London on family trips, and at least one I read in the hospital (kidney stones). I’m a slow reader who likes long books, so anything over 30 books finished is a pretty good year for me. Also, I stop reading books without guilt; so assume I also didn’t finish a dozen or so titles.
BG=Book Group selection. I’m in two book groups, so a lot of my reading is driven by that. Just because I read a book and listed it here doesn’t mean I liked it or would recommend it. Female author/male author ratio: 19/14; Fiction/nonfiction ratio: 28:5.
These are numbered in chronological order, from January to December.
1. Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You
2. Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
3. Rachel Adams, Raising Henry BG
4. Barry Unsworth, Morality Play
5. Kimberly Elkins, What is Visible BG
6. Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins
7. Magnus Flyte, City of Dark Magic
8. M. R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts
9. Scarlett Thomas, Our Tragic Universe
10. Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project BG
11. Angela Carter, Heroes and Villains
12. Laline Paull, The Bees
13. Maria Semple, Where’d You Go, Bernadette BG
14. Julie Schumacher, Dear Committee Members
15. Lisa See, China Dolls
16. David Finch, Journal of Best Practices BG
17. Laila Lalami, The Moor’s Account
18. Hannah Kent, Burial Rites BG
19. Gregory Sherl, The Future for Curious People
20. Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Liebowitz
21. Margaret Atwood, Lady Oracle
22. Kate Atkinson, Started Early, Took my Dog
23. Sam Kean, Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons BG
24. Siri Hustvedt, The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves BG
25. Carol Rivka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I’m Home
26. Paolo Bacigalupi, Windup Girl
27. Yangsze Choo, The Ghost Bride BG
28. Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
29. Tommy Wallach, We All Looked Up BG
30. Kit Reed, Where
31. Ashok Rajamani, The Day My Brain Exploded BG
32. Mark Salzman, The Soloist
33. Sylvain Neuvel, Sleeping Giants BG
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