In 2016 I challenged myself to read 50 books. I was happily able to finish 55 in the course of the year. As I made a list of every book I read I also marked the ones that I would recommend. So here it is, my top books from 2016 in the order in which they were read,
A Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russel
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Modern Romance by Aziz Anzari
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Good Spy by Kai Bird
Neverwhere by Niel Gaiman
Khirbet Khizeh by S. Yizhar
Desert Flower by Waris Dirie
In the Garden of the Beast by Erik Larson
So You've been Publicly Shammed by Jon Ronson
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
Belgravia by Julian Fellowes
The Seven Good Years by Etgar Keret
My Last Continent by Midge Raymond
The Other Daughter by Lauren Willig
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
Girl at War by Sara Nović
The Version of Us by Laura Barnett
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Headscarves and Hymens by Mona Eltahawy
Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard H. Thaler
This year I am setting the same goal for myself. 50 books over 12 months. First on my list is Yes Please by Amy Poehler. Other books I am looking forward to reading this year are,
Talking as Fast as I can by Lauren Graham, Rise of the Rocket Girls by Nathalia Holt, The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis, and A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women by Siri Hustvedt