Happy New Year 2017! It is time for both my favorite books read in 2016 and some statistics for last year. First, my top 17 books!
Plainsong-Kent Haruf
The Revenant-Michael Punke
Big Magic-Elizabeth Gilbert
Eventide-Kent Haruf: very good
The Signature of All Things-Elizabeth Gilbert
Memory-Philippi Grimbert
Benediction-Kent Haruf
My Name Is Lucy Barton-Elizabeth Strout
The Green Road-Anne Enright
Always outnumbered, always outgunned-Walter Mosley
These is my Words-Nancy Turner
Fates and Furies-Lauren Groff
The Underground Railroad-Colson Whitehead
Wintering-Peter Geye
Safe From the Sea-Peter Geye
The Lighthouse Road-Peter Geye
To Kill A Mockingbird-Harper Lee
Now, of course, I need to narrow this list down First of all, I have two clumps of books by the same authors, so they will be counted as only two books, instead of six. Also, I had re-read To Kill A Mockingbird last month, and since it is always my number one book, it is out of the running!
So now to narrow this list to my top 8:
Plainsong-Kent Haruf
Eventide-Kent Haruf
Benediction-Kent Haruf
The Signature of All Things-Elizabeth Gilbert
Memory-Philippi Grimbert
My Name Is Lucy Barton-Elizabeth Strout
The Green Road-Anne Enright
Fates and Furies-Lauren Groff
The Underground Railroad-Colson Whitehead
Wintering-Peter Geye
Safe From the Sea-Peter Geye
The Lighthouse Road-Peter Geye
As much as I really loved the six books that I have clumped together, I am taking them out for the next round. But make no mistake, I really loved those books!
Top 6 books of 2016 that I read:
The Signature of All Things-Elizabeth Gilbert
Memory-Philippi Grimbert
My Name Is Lucy Barton-Elizabeth Strout
The Green Road-Anne Enright
Fates and Furies-Lauren Groff
The Underground Railroad-Colson Whitehead
I love that four of the six are written by women. But now the narrowing down continues:
My top 3 books:
Memory-Philippi Grimbert
My Name Is Lucy Barton-Elizabeth Strout
The Green Road-Anne Enright
And my favorite book read in 2016:
Memory by Philippi Grimbert
It is interesting that two of the top three are older books that I came across on my bookshelf while looking for something to read. I had read them long enough ago that I did not remember them, so it was fun to re-read them and again remember why I had kept them all this time!
Statistics: I read 72 books in 2016, and 18 of them were non-fiction. I am sure that the non-fiction number is my highest ever, so I am pleased with that! Of course, I want to go over my 72 read this year, so I am thinking that I need more beach time for reading!!!
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