This tends to be a very long and boring post for me to write but I feel the need to publish it anyway, simply because I’m proud of all the books I read in a year. It’s also nice to look back and see what I’ve been thinking about, because the topics raised in my reading material usually find their way into my daily conversations with friends and family. You can check out my lists for 2013, 2014, and 2015 should you feel the need.
I’m wondering if people would be interested in seeing a ‘best of’ post from the past few years, highlighting some of my favourite books. Would that be fun? Comment below if you’d like to see it.
I should mention that I’ve been reading parenting books throughout the year that I don’t post reviews on, and I won’t include them in this list. Quite frankly I’m embarrassed that I read these kinds of books. I always told myself I wouldn’t do that before I had my daughter, but that went out the window pretty quick, along with old insistence on ‘showering daily’.
- A Whole Life-Robert Seethaler
- Sleep-Nino Ricci
- The Outside Circle-Patti LaBoucane-Benson & Kelly Mellings
- Let’s Pretend This Never Happened-Jenny Lawson
- Furiously Happy-Jenny Lawson
- Punishment-Linden MacIntyre
- Captive-Claudine Dumont
- Milk and Honey-Rupi Kaur
- Purity-Jonathan Franzen
- Dear Emma-Katie Heaney
- Broken Promise-Linwood Barclay
- Clarence Olgibee-Alan S. Kessler
- 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl-Mona Awad
- Glory Over Everything-Kathleen Grissom
- Fire and Air-Erik Vlaminck
- Everything I Never Told You-Celeste Ng
- The Hero’s Walk-Anita Rau Badami
- Salt to the Sea-Ruta Sepetys
- The Happiness Equation-Neil Pasricha
- Edge of Wild-D.K. Stone
- How Can I Help?-David Goldbloom & Pier Bryden
- The Heart Goes Last-Margaret Atwood
- The Loss of All Lost Things-Amina Gautier
- Kalyna-Pam Clark
- Black Apple-Joan Crate
- Carry Me-Peter Behrens
- The Crooked Heart of Mercy-Billie Livingston
- Pen and Palate-Lucy Madison & Tram Nguyen
- Still Mine-Amy Stuart
- White Elephant-Catherine Cooper
- The Butcher’s Hook-Janet Ellis
- 13 Shells-Nadia Bozak
- The Pain Tree-Olive Senior
- Fishbowl-Bradley Somer
- Night Moves-Richard Van Camp
- Birdie-Tracey Lindberg
- Before the Fall-Noah Hawley
- In a Dark, Dark Wood-Ruth Ware
- I’m Your Biggest Fan-Kate Coyne
- Poles Apart-Terry Fallis
- The Genius Asylum-Arlene F. Marks
- A Mother’s Reckoning-Sue Klebold
- Year of Yes-Shonda Rhimes
- Children of Earth and Sky-Guy Gavriel Kay
- Flannery-Lisa Moore
- Rise the Dark-Michael Koryta
- After James-Michael Helm
- In-Between Days-Teva Harrison
- Waste-Andrew F. Sullivan
- Mischling-Affinity Konar
- Three Years With the Rat-Jay Hosking
- Harmless Like You-Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
- The Girls-Emma Cline
- Suicide Stitch-Sarah L. Johnson
- The Witches of New York-Ami McKay
- All the Missing Girls-Megan Miranda
- The Best Kind of People-Zoe Whittall
- Teardown-Clea Young
- The Wildings-Nilanjana Roy
- The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo-Amy Schumer
- Fifteen Lanes-S.J. Laidlaw
- Conclave-Robert Harris
- The Power of When-Michael Braus, PhD
- American Female-Emily Carpenter
- How to Pick up a Maid in Statue Square-Rea Tarvydas
- The Woman in Cabin 10-Ruth Ware
- Nutshell-Ian McEwan (review to come)
- Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew’d-Alan Bradley
- Smarter Faster Better-Charles Duhigg (review to come)
I enjoy your blog Anne. Congrats on all the books you have read. A “best of” list would be great!
Thank you for your interest in my blog, and glad to hear a best of list is a good idea! I should get started on it right away…
No shame in parenting books! Parenting is really hard! 🙂 Awesome list. I say write a Best Of post. I always enjoy reading them!
People seem to be wanting this best of list-turns out I’ve got my work cut out for me!
Absolutely, I vote for a Best list!
You did well! Yes, please – I love ‘best of’ lists! 🙂
I was always embarrassed that I didn’t read very many parenting books – I felt like it was something I *should* have been doing as a parent. So, it all depends how you look at it! 🙂
I struggle with similar guilt all the time-shouldn’t I be doing (blank, blank and blank)? Hopefully it’s something I will grow out of, although I doubt it!
At 42, I really feel like I might be making some headway in the guilt-sloughing department. Feels good. 🙂
Awesome work! And I agree a best of list would be amazing 🙂
69 books you listed and I’ve only read one of them! It’s Broken Promise by Linwood Barclay. Impressive list and some very interesting titles too. There are definitely some books I’d love to read!
This is what is so fun about posting this list-it gives us good ideas about what to read the next year!
Thanks for following my blog! I am so impressed with your reading list – will you add one of my books to your list for 2017? I always love the feedback. Stop by for a visit any time and keep reading! I’ve only read one of the books on your list – your taste is very eclectic. Check out Rosie Amber’s Book Review Team for book critiques (I’m one of the reviewers).
Thanks so much for your interest in my blog Noelle! Good luck with your writing this year 🙂
Wow what a list 😊
thank you for stopping by!