Books I Read in 2016

My goal for 2016 was to read 70 books. I actually read 87.

Each category is in order of when I read it...

Bold means I now own it in book form. Italics means I own it in Kindle ebook form.
 
Top 10 Personal Favorites I Have Read This Year (Fiction and Non-Fiction):

• All the Dresden Files books I've read so far - Jim Butcher
• All the Thursday Next books I've read so far - Jasper Fforde
• All the James Bond books I've read - Ian Fleming

1. Room - Emma Donoghue
2. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry - Gabrielle Zevin
3. The Wise Wan's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle #2) - Patrick Rothfuss
4. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
5. The Rook (The Checquy Files #1) - Daniel O'Malley
   
6. City on Fire - Garth Hallberg
7. Lily and the Octopus - Steven Rowley
8. Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things - Jenny Lawson
9. Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir - Jenny Lawson
10.  Arcadia - Iain Pears

Fiction Awesome:

• Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
• For Your Eyes Only (James Bond #8) - Ian Fleming
• Thunderball (James Bond #9) - Ian Fleming
• The Spy Who Loved Me (James Bond, #10) - Ian Fleming
• First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5) - Jasper Fforde
• In a Dark, Dark Wood - Ruth Ware
• On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond, #11) - Ian Fleming
• You Only Live Twice (James Bond, #12) - Ian Fleming
• Cold Days (The Dresden Files, #14) - Jim Butcher
• The Man With the Golden Gun (James Bond, #13) - Ian Fleming
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, #1) - Ian Fleming
• Room - Emma Donoghue
• Octopussy and the Living Daylights (James Bond, #14) - Ian Fleming
• Skin Game (The Dresden Files, #15) - Jim Butcher 
• One of Our Thursdays is Missing (Thursday Next, #6) - Jasper Fforde
• The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry - Gabrielle Zevin 
• Broken Homes (Peter Grant #4) - Ben Aaronovitch
• The Book Thief - Markus Zasak
• The Wise Wan's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle #2) - Patrick Rothfuss 
• The Road - Cormac McCarthy 
• The Prince Bride - William Goldman 
• The Rook (The Checquy Files #1) - Daniel O'Malley 
• Working for Bigfoot (Dresden Files #15.5) - Jim Butcher 
• Three Men in a Boat - Jerome Jerome
• Lily and the Octopus - Steven Rowley
• The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle #2.5)
• City on Fire - Garth Hallberg
• Foxglove Summer (Peter Grant #5) - Ben Aaronovitch
• Arcadia - Iain Pears

Non-Fiction Awesome:

• Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear - Elizabeth Gilbert
• Listful Thinking: Using Lists to Be More Productive - Paula Rizzo 
• The Confidence Game: Why We Fall For It Every Time -Maria Konnikova
  
• Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things - Jenny Lawson
• Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir - Jenny Lawson
• The Upside of Stress: Why Stress is Good for You and How to Get Good at It - Kelly McGonigal
• But What if We're Wrong? Thinking about the Present as if it were the Past - Chuck Klosterman
  

Fiction Recommended:

• The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah 
• Dune - Frank Herbert
• The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
• A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry 
• Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1) - Kerry Greenwood
• Flying Too High (Phryne Fisher, #2) - Kerry Greenwood
• Murder on the Ballarat Train (Phryne Fisher, #3) - Kerry Greenwood
• Death at Victoria Dock (Phryne Fisher, #4) - Kerry Greenwood 
• The Green Mill Murder (Phryne Fisher, #5) - Kerry Greenwood
• Blood and Circuses (Phryne Fisher, #6) - Kerry Greenwood 
• Ruddy Gore (Phryne Fisher, #7) - Kerry Greenwood
• Urn Burial (Phryne Fisher, #8) - Kerry Greenwood 
• The Three Musketeers - Alexander Dumas
• Slade House - David Mitchell
• Fool - Christopher Moore
• Raylan - Elmore Leonard 
• Still Alice - Lisa Genova
• Raisins and Almonds (Phryne Fisher, #9) - Kerry Greenwood 
• Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
• Rogues (short stories) - Multiple Authors
• The Woman Who Died a Lot (Thursday Next #7) - Jasper Fforde
• Death Before Wicket (Phryne Fisher, #10) - Kerry Greenwood
• Strangers on a Train - Patricia Highsmith 
• Kitchens of the Great Midwest - J. Ryan Stradal
• Away with the Fairies (Phryne Fisher, #11) - Kerry Greenwood
• Bleak House - Charles Dickens

Non-Fiction Recommended:

• Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard - Chip Heath
• You Are A Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life - Jen Sincero 
• Nerd Do Well - Simon Pegg
• H is for Hawk - Helen Macdonald

Books I Re-Read: 

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) - J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2) - J.K. Rowling 
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3) - J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4) - J.K. Rowling 
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5) - J.K. Rowling 
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6) - J.K. Rowling  
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7) - J.K. Rowling

Fiction NOT Recommended:

• Driving Heat (Nikki Heat #7) - Richard Castle
• InterWorld - Neil Gaiman
• Moby-Dick; or, The Whale - Herman Melville
• Fates and Furies – Lauren Groff 
• The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
• A Spool of Blue Thread - Ane Tyler 
• Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
• The Book of Strange New Things - Michel Faber
• Ulysses - James Joyce
• Germinal - Emile Zola
• High Heat (Nikki Heat, #8) - Richard Castle
• The Girl in the Spider's Web - David Lagercrantz

Non-Fiction NOT Recommended:

• Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink - Elvis Costello