Books Read – Wrapping up 2016

In 2016 I managed to beat 2015’s all-time-low but it came in at more than ten books less than the next closest year. 2016 was not as rough a year as 2015 but it remained a difficult one personally and professionally. Despite not getting much reading in I’ve continued to purchase books and my to-read list is becoming unwieldy. I’m hoping to knock off a significant number of titles in 2017. I don’t usually set goals but I’m going to try and read ten more than I did last year with my total somewhere in the 40s by end of year. I hope you’ll reach your reading goals this year as well.

For more lists of books read see: Books Read in 2015, Books Read in 2014, and Books Read in 2013.

Click through to see 2016’s list!

January (6):

• The Survival Game – Colin Kapp
• Comforting Thoughts about Death that have Nothing to do with God – Greta Christina
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J.K. Rowling
• The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J.K. Rowling

February (3):

• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling
• Razor’s Edge – W. Somerset Maugham

March (5):

• The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
• Deepest Dark Fears by Fran Krause
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman
• The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
• Hunting Monsters: Cryptozoology and the Reality Behind the Myths by Darren Naish

April (1):

• Gold, Fame, Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins

May (3):

• The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin
• Souls of Darkness by Gary Butterfield
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

June (2):

• American Youth by Phil LaMarche
• The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf

July (5):

• The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• How to Love by Thich Nhat Hanh
• Rivers in the Desert by Margaret Leslie Davis
• The Roman Revolution by Ronald Syme

August (1):

• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling

September (1):

• The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past by Shotaro Ishinomori

October (2):

• Astragal by Albertine Sarrazin
• There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

November (1):

• A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor

December (1):

• Kill Them All by Kyle Starks

2016 Total: 31

2015 Total: 23
2014 Total: 48
2013 Total: 42
2012 Total: 47
2011 Total: 50
2010 Total: 69