In 2015 I read 144 books and I thought that was likely the most I would ever read in one year. 2016 proved just how wrong I was because I read 179 books! That’s an average of 3.4 books per week. The only reading goal I set for 2016 was to read 52 books of poetry, one for every week of the year. Happily, I achieved and then exceeded this, reading 54 books of poetry in 2016.
Below are my favorite reads of 2016. What were yours?
Poetry
~ Flying Out With the Wounded by Anne Caston
~ Disturbance by Ivy Alvarez
~ The Big Smoke by Adrian Matejka
~ Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey
~ Racing Hummingbirds by Jeanann Verlee
~ Said the Manic to the Muse by Jeanann Verlee
~ A Door With a Voice by Katie Manning (read it here)
~ The Children’s Wars by Shaindel Beers
~ Blessing the Boats by Lucille Clifton
~ Ligatures by Denise Miller
~ Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
Fiction
~ The Girl From Everywhere by Heidi Heilig
~ Bittersweet by Colleen McCollough
~ The Son by Jo Nesbo
~ All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
~ 11/22/63 by Stephen King
~ The Map of True Places by Brunonia Barry
~ Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
~ The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
~ The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
~ The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Non-Fiction
~ We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
~ My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem
~ Your Voice in My Head by Emma Forrest
~ While the City Slept by Eli Sanders
I find Brunonia Barry’s books really stick in my head, sometimes resurfacing years after I’ve read them. I’m looking forward to The Fifth Petal when it comes out later this month.
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