2016 Book Wrap Up

So my posting got bricked in 2016 because I was sick for most of the year, but I did manage to hit my GoodReads goal of 52 books. Barely. The last two I was finishing up on NYE. I even came really close to finishing the BookRiot Read Harder Challenge too. I got through 20 of 24 tasks on the list. Here’s what I read last year. Bolded titles were my top books for the year.

1. Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer
2. Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic by Meghan Ciana Doidge
3. Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler and Maira Kalman
4. Normal Gets You Nowhere by Kelly Cutrone
5. Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
6. The StoneKeeper (Amulet #1) by Kazu Kibuishi
7. This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
8. Illusions of Fate by Kiersten White
9. Anatomy of A Misfit by Andrea Portes
10. Trinkets, Treasures, and Other Bloody Magic by Meghan Ciana Doidge
11. Me Before You by JoJo Moyes
12. Fuck Love by Tarryn Fisher
13. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
14. Rebel Belle by Rachel Hawkins
15. Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
16. Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman
17. Curio by Evangeline Denmark
18. The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma
19. The Good Luck Girls of Shipwreck Lane by Kelly Harms
20. Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
21. One of those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies by Sonya Sones
22. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
23. Used & Rare: Travels in the Book World by Lawrence Goldstone
24. The Fireman by Joe Hill
25. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
26. The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
27. The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan
28. The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
29. Unbreakable by Kami Garcia
30. The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
31. Every Heart A Doorway by Seanan McGuire
32. Church of Marvels by Leslie Parry
33. All Involved by Ryan Gattis
34. Side Effects May Vary by Julie Murphy
35. Heroine Complex by Sarah Kuhn
36. Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
37. Love, Loss, and What We Ate by Padma Lakshmi
38. Everyone Leaves by Wendy Guerra
39. The Moment of Everything by Shelly King
40. Spinster by Kate Bolick
41. Since You’ve Been Gone by Morgan Matson
42. The Disappearance of Melody Dean by Alexis Sugden
43. A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
44. A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
45. The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness
46. Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova
47. This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab
48. The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland by Rebekah Crane
49. Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey
50. My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga
51. The Dark Days Club by Alison Goodman
52. Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay