A small Marge Piercy paperback and a grande coffee, wrapped in a crocheted cozy.
Past editions of this list: 2016, 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! Twenty-five books finished. I’m a slow reader who likes long books; and this year my time for leisure reading changed with more carework responsibilities. I’m still working on how to fit more reading into the new routine. 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. REV=Reviewed for an academic journal. 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: 17/8 (counting Angel Catbird for Atwood); Fiction/nonfiction ratio: 19/6 (counting Rouse Up, O Young Men of the New Age! as fiction, though a lot of it isn’t).
These are numbered in chronological order, from January to December.
1. Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed
2. Josh Malerman, Bird Box
3. Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry
4. Marjorie Harper, ed., Migration and Mental Health, Past and Present REV
5. Claire Vaye Watkins, Gold Fame Citrus
6. Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August BG
7. Matt Haig, The Humans BG
8. Margaret Atwood/Johnnie Christmas/Tamra Bonvillain, Angel Catbird #1
9. Angela Carter, Wise Children
10. Dawn French, Oh Dear Sylvia
11. Jenny Lawson, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened BG
12. Reyna Grande, The Distance Between Us BG
13. Jeff Vandermeer, Borne
14. Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
15. Lauren Slater, Welcome to my Country BG
16. Sarah Waters, Fingersmith BG
17. Penelope Lively, How It All Began BG
18. Michael Berube, Life as Jamie Knows It BG
19. Kenzaburo Oe, Rouse Up, O Young Men of the New Age! BG
20. Tana French, The Trespasser BG
21. Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
22. Maria Semple, Today Will Be Different BG
23. Ben H. Winters, Underground Airlines
24. Kamran Nazeer, Send in the Idiots BG
25. Ann Patchett, Commonwealth BG
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