Books read in 2016 (includes audio books) - Organized by date read.*
*(notes about type of book and/or book club selections)
January:
1. Goodbye Stranger by Rebecca Stead (YA/MG; Audio)
2. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (SOTH #1)
3. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinna Rawlings
1. Goodbye Stranger by Rebecca Stead (YA/MG; Audio)
2. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (SOTH #1)
3. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinna Rawlings
4. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (audio)
5. Enchanted Air by Margarite Engle (MG/YA/memoir/verse)
6. A Bride's Story, Vol 7 by Kaoru Mori (Graphic novel)
7. Felicity by Mary Oliver (Poems)
8. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (audio)
9. Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez (YA)
February:
10. Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena (Picture book)
11. Nice Recovery by Susan Juby (memoir)
12. The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George (Audio)
13. Flight by Sherman Alexie (audio)
14. The Illuminated Rumi by Rumi (poetry)
15. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (RHS BC #2; audio)
16. Sanditon and The Watsons, Jane Austen's unfinished novels by Jane Austen
17. War Dances by Sherman Alexie (audio) (SOTH BC #4)
18. Scottsboro, Alabama: a story in linoleum cuts
19. Linda Brown You Are Not Alone: Brown vs the Board of Education Decision edited by Joyce Carol Thomas
20. Ten Poems to Change Your Life by Roger Housden
21. Enormous Smallness: A Story of E.E. Cummings by Matthew Burgess (Children's book)
March:
22. A Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman (Junior)
23. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Won't Stop Talking by Susan Cain (SOTH #3, audio)
24. The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner (memoir, audio)
25. Teaching with Fire: Poetry that Sustains the Courage to Teach edited by Sam Intrator and Megan Scribner
26. Heath Ledger by Brian Robb
27. Poems from the Book of Hours by Rainer Maria Rilke
28. Another America by Barbara Kingsolver
29. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
30. Shipwrecked! by Rhoda Blumberg
31. Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron (RHS BC #3)
32. Genocide in Rwanda by Frank Spalding (nonfiction)
33. Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot (Poetry)
34. Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart (RHS BC #4)
April:
35: Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina (YA, Audio)
36. The Mystery of Hollow Places by Rebecca Podos (YA, Audio)
37. The Porcupine of Truth by Bill Konigsberg (YA)
38. Teaching with Heart: Poetry that Speaks to the Courage to Teach edited by Sam Intrator and Megan Scribner
39. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
40. Ballistics by Billy Collins (Poetry)
41. The Steep and Thorny Way by Cat Winters (YA)
42. The Memory of Light by Francisco X. Stork (YA, audio)
43. All the Things We Never Knew by Sheila Hamilton (memoir)
44. Jackaby by William Ritter (YA)
45. Blizzard: The Storm that Changed America by Jim Murphy (Junior, nonfiction)
46. Sailing Around the Room: New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins
47. The Golden Boys by Sonya Harnett (YA, audio)
48. Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriel Savit (YA, audio)
May:
49. We Are All Made of Molecules by Susin Nielsen (YA)
50. My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout (RHS BC #5)
51. The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater (YA, audio)
52. The Bitter Side of Sweet by Tara Sullivan (YA, audio)
53. Exit, Pursued by Bear by E.K. Johnston (YA, audio)
54. Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys (YA)
55. Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune by Pamela Turner (YA, nonfiction)
56. The Art of X-Ray Reading by Roy Peter Clark
57. Delilah Dirk and the King's Shilling by Tony Cliff (Graphic novel)
58. The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry (YA, audio)
59. Lit Up: One Reporter, Three Schools, Twenty-Four Books that Can Save Lives by David Denby (Nonfiction)
June:
60. Highly Illogical Behavior by John Corey Whaley (YA)
61. Circling the Sun by Paula McLain (RHS Book Club #6)
62. The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner (YA, Audio)
63. And Then There Were None by Agatha Chrisite (Audio, SOTH Book Club #7)
64. Jazz Day by Roxanne Orgill (Chilren's)
65. The Lie Tree by Frances Hardine (YA)
66. West With the Night by Beryl Markham
67. Character Driver by David Lubar (YA)
68. Ask Me How I Got Here by Christine Heppermann (YA)
July:
69. Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (Audio)
70. A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
71. Unbecoming by Jenny Downham (YA, Audio)
72. The Secrets of Mary Bowser by Lois Leveen (RHS Book Club #7)
73. Places No One Knows by Brenna Yovanoff (YA)
74. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson (SOTH BC #8)
75. We Will Not Be Silent by Russell Freedman (Junior, nonfiction)
76. Bubonic Panic by Gail Jarrow (Junior, nonfiction)
77. Splendid Outcast: African Stories by Beryl Markham
78. Steeplejack by AJ Hartley (YA)
79. The Great American Whatever by Tim Federle (YA, Audio)
80. We are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson (YA, Audio)
August:
81. Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton (YA)
82. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald (RHS BC #8)
83. My Name Is Not Friday by Jon Walter (YA, Audio)
84. Draw the Line by Laurent Linn (YA, part graphic novel)
85. The Memory Book by Laura Avery (YA)
86. American Girls by Alison Umminger (YA)
87. Essential Maps for the Lost by Db Caletti (YA)
September:
88. When We Was Fierce by Charlton E. E. Trujillo (YA, audio)
89. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling, et al
90. The Sympathizer by Viet Nguyen (RHS BC #9)
91. Flannery by Lisa Moore (YA, Audio)
92. The Last Boy and Girl in the World by Siobhan Vivian (YA, audio)
93. The Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse (YA, audio)
October:
94. Cracks in the Kingdom by Jaclyn Moriarty (YA, audio)
95. On the Edge of Gone by Corinne Duyvis (YA, audio)
96. The Reader by Traci Chee (YA)
97. Leading from Within by Sam Intrator, editor (Poetry)
98. Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
99. Winter by Marissa Meyer (YA, audio)
100. Railhead by Philip Reeve (YA)
November:
101. Still Life with Tornado by A.S. King (YA)
102. Lucy and Linh by Alice Pung (YA, audio)
103. In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner (SOTH BC #11)
104. March, Book Three by John Lewis, et al (Graphic biography)
105. Vassa in the Night by Sarah Porter (YA)
106. Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford (audio; SOTH BC #12)
107. John Ball's In the Heat of the Night by David Pelfrey (Drama)
108. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
109. The Singing Bones by Shaun Tan
December:
110. Girl at War by Sara Novic (RHS BC #11-12)
111. When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore (YA)
112. Snow White: a graphic novel by Matt Phelan
113. The Twelve Days of Dash and Lily by Cohen and Levithan (YA)
114. My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, et al (YA, Audio)
115. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanathi
116. A Tangle of Gold by Jaclyn Moriarty (YA, Audio)
117. The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens
118. Hondo by Louis L'Amour (read in October)
5. Enchanted Air by Margarite Engle (MG/YA/memoir/verse)
6. A Bride's Story, Vol 7 by Kaoru Mori (Graphic novel)
7. Felicity by Mary Oliver (Poems)
8. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (audio)
9. Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez (YA)
February:
10. Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena (Picture book)
11. Nice Recovery by Susan Juby (memoir)
12. The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George (Audio)
13. Flight by Sherman Alexie (audio)
14. The Illuminated Rumi by Rumi (poetry)
15. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (RHS BC #2; audio)
16. Sanditon and The Watsons, Jane Austen's unfinished novels by Jane Austen
17. War Dances by Sherman Alexie (audio) (SOTH BC #4)
18. Scottsboro, Alabama: a story in linoleum cuts
19. Linda Brown You Are Not Alone: Brown vs the Board of Education Decision edited by Joyce Carol Thomas
20. Ten Poems to Change Your Life by Roger Housden
21. Enormous Smallness: A Story of E.E. Cummings by Matthew Burgess (Children's book)
March:
22. A Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman (Junior)
23. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Won't Stop Talking by Susan Cain (SOTH #3, audio)
24. The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner (memoir, audio)
25. Teaching with Fire: Poetry that Sustains the Courage to Teach edited by Sam Intrator and Megan Scribner
26. Heath Ledger by Brian Robb
27. Poems from the Book of Hours by Rainer Maria Rilke
28. Another America by Barbara Kingsolver
29. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
30. Shipwrecked! by Rhoda Blumberg
31. Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron (RHS BC #3)
32. Genocide in Rwanda by Frank Spalding (nonfiction)
33. Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot (Poetry)
34. Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart (RHS BC #4)
April:
35: Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina (YA, Audio)
36. The Mystery of Hollow Places by Rebecca Podos (YA, Audio)
37. The Porcupine of Truth by Bill Konigsberg (YA)
38. Teaching with Heart: Poetry that Speaks to the Courage to Teach edited by Sam Intrator and Megan Scribner
39. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
40. Ballistics by Billy Collins (Poetry)
41. The Steep and Thorny Way by Cat Winters (YA)
42. The Memory of Light by Francisco X. Stork (YA, audio)
43. All the Things We Never Knew by Sheila Hamilton (memoir)
44. Jackaby by William Ritter (YA)
45. Blizzard: The Storm that Changed America by Jim Murphy (Junior, nonfiction)
46. Sailing Around the Room: New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins
47. The Golden Boys by Sonya Harnett (YA, audio)
48. Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriel Savit (YA, audio)
May:
49. We Are All Made of Molecules by Susin Nielsen (YA)
50. My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout (RHS BC #5)
51. The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater (YA, audio)
52. The Bitter Side of Sweet by Tara Sullivan (YA, audio)
53. Exit, Pursued by Bear by E.K. Johnston (YA, audio)
54. Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys (YA)
55. Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune by Pamela Turner (YA, nonfiction)
56. The Art of X-Ray Reading by Roy Peter Clark
57. Delilah Dirk and the King's Shilling by Tony Cliff (Graphic novel)
58. The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry (YA, audio)
59. Lit Up: One Reporter, Three Schools, Twenty-Four Books that Can Save Lives by David Denby (Nonfiction)
June:
60. Highly Illogical Behavior by John Corey Whaley (YA)
61. Circling the Sun by Paula McLain (RHS Book Club #6)
62. The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner (YA, Audio)
63. And Then There Were None by Agatha Chrisite (Audio, SOTH Book Club #7)
64. Jazz Day by Roxanne Orgill (Chilren's)
65. The Lie Tree by Frances Hardine (YA)
66. West With the Night by Beryl Markham
67. Character Driver by David Lubar (YA)
68. Ask Me How I Got Here by Christine Heppermann (YA)
July:
69. Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (Audio)
70. A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
71. Unbecoming by Jenny Downham (YA, Audio)
72. The Secrets of Mary Bowser by Lois Leveen (RHS Book Club #7)
73. Places No One Knows by Brenna Yovanoff (YA)
74. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson (SOTH BC #8)
75. We Will Not Be Silent by Russell Freedman (Junior, nonfiction)
76. Bubonic Panic by Gail Jarrow (Junior, nonfiction)
77. Splendid Outcast: African Stories by Beryl Markham
78. Steeplejack by AJ Hartley (YA)
79. The Great American Whatever by Tim Federle (YA, Audio)
80. We are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson (YA, Audio)
August:
81. Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton (YA)
82. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald (RHS BC #8)
83. My Name Is Not Friday by Jon Walter (YA, Audio)
84. Draw the Line by Laurent Linn (YA, part graphic novel)
85. The Memory Book by Laura Avery (YA)
86. American Girls by Alison Umminger (YA)
87. Essential Maps for the Lost by Db Caletti (YA)
September:
88. When We Was Fierce by Charlton E. E. Trujillo (YA, audio)
89. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling, et al
90. The Sympathizer by Viet Nguyen (RHS BC #9)
91. Flannery by Lisa Moore (YA, Audio)
92. The Last Boy and Girl in the World by Siobhan Vivian (YA, audio)
93. The Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse (YA, audio)
October:
94. Cracks in the Kingdom by Jaclyn Moriarty (YA, audio)
95. On the Edge of Gone by Corinne Duyvis (YA, audio)
96. The Reader by Traci Chee (YA)
97. Leading from Within by Sam Intrator, editor (Poetry)
98. Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
99. Winter by Marissa Meyer (YA, audio)
100. Railhead by Philip Reeve (YA)
November:
101. Still Life with Tornado by A.S. King (YA)
102. Lucy and Linh by Alice Pung (YA, audio)
103. In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner (SOTH BC #11)
104. March, Book Three by John Lewis, et al (Graphic biography)
105. Vassa in the Night by Sarah Porter (YA)
106. Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford (audio; SOTH BC #12)
107. John Ball's In the Heat of the Night by David Pelfrey (Drama)
108. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
109. The Singing Bones by Shaun Tan
December:
110. Girl at War by Sara Novic (RHS BC #11-12)
111. When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore (YA)
112. Snow White: a graphic novel by Matt Phelan
113. The Twelve Days of Dash and Lily by Cohen and Levithan (YA)
114. My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, et al (YA, Audio)
115. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanathi
116. A Tangle of Gold by Jaclyn Moriarty (YA, Audio)
117. The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens
118. Hondo by Louis L'Amour (read in October)
