Books of 2016
Books I read last year, in order of when I read them:
Victoria: A Life by A. N. Wilson
The Thread by Victoria Hislop
Burial Rights by Hannah Kent
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safron Foer
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
The Signature of all Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
My Sunshine Away by M.O. Walsh
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
Cooked by Michael Pollan
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
A Confederacy of Dunces by Jon Kennedy Toole
The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
The Story of my Boyhood and Youth by John Muir
The Yosemite by John Muir
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life by Roald Dahl
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Top 5 (in no particular order and excluding the LOTR trilogy!): Americanah, Fates and Furies, A Good Man is Hard to Find, The Story of my Boyhood and Youth, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves