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Best of Books Read 2016
Book By Book
Finally! My 2016 book summary! Shouldn't there be trumpets or a drumroll or some kind of fanfare? It's not even February yet!
My lateness was not due to a lack of great books – 2016 was an excellent reading year! I read 75 books in 2016, and I have added all of them – with links to my reviews – to my Book Reviews tab. And you can see how I did on my 2016 Reading Challenges here.
Here are some summaries, fun facts, and my picks for Best Books Read in 2016:
Total Books Read = 75
Adult Fiction = 34
Adult Nonfiction = 7 (11 total nonfiction)
Adult Graphic Memoirs = 2
Teen/YA = 19
Middle-Grade = 13
Audiobooks = 28(there is overlap in some categories, in case you are checking my math!)
Book Written by Women Authors = 46 (61%)
Diverse Books (with characters or by authors who are not white European-derived heterosexuals) = 23 (31%)
Books from my own shelves (TBR) = 23 (31%)
Now, for some of my choices in several Best Of categories:
Best Nonfiction 
Best Memoir
Best Audiobook
Best Teen/YA
by Jenny Downham
Best Middle-Grade
The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez
- Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
LaRose by Louise Erdrich
- Marriage on the Street Corners of Tehran by Nadia Shahram
- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
The Summer Guest by Alison Anderson
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
How to Live Well with Chronic Pain and Illness: A Mindful Guide by Toni Bernhard
Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi-
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
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Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx by Sonia Manzano
- The Cage by Megan Shepherd
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The Memory of Light by Francisco X. Stork
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
Solitaire by Alice Oseman
Unbecoming by Jenny Downham
Vivian Apple At the End of the World by Katie Coyle
The Big Dark by Rodman Philbrick
The Lightning Queen by Laura Renau
The Marvels by Brian Selznick
My Name Is Not Friday by Jon Walter
A Night Divided by Jennifer Nielsen
Pax by Sara Pennypacker
This Side Of Wild by Gary Paulsen
Swing Sideways by Nanci Turner Steveson
What an amazing reading year! Here's to more great books in 2017!
What were your favorite books read in 2016? Do you agree with any of my picks?
Source: http://bookbybook.blogspot.com/2017/01/best-of-books-read-2016.html
