Bibliophile By the Sea: Books Read in 2016

Books Read in 2016 - 126 - (14) of these were non fiction (6) children's books and (32) were audio books.
Approximately 50% of the books read were sent to me by publishers as either eGalleys, eAudios or ARCs and, another 40% were library books. The remaining 10% were books that I purchased at one time or another.

Like Family; Paulo Giordano - 5/5 (arc) (Jan)
The Guest Room; Chris Bohjalian - 4.5/5 (eGalley) (Jan)
Between the World and Me; Coates - 4.5/5 (library) (Jan)
The Opposite of Everyone; Joshilyn Jackson - 3/5 (arc) (Jan)
My Name is Lucy Barton; Elizabeth Strout - 5/5 (eGalley & audio) (Jan)
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams: Stories; Stephen King - 4/5 (library) (Jan)
Under the Influence; Joyce Maynard - 4.5/5 (eGalley) (Jan)
Perfect Days; Raphael Montes - 4/5 (arc) (Jan)
A Banquet of Consequences; Elizabeth George - 3/5 (library) (Jan)
Remarkable Creatures; Tracy Chevalier - 4/5 (library) reread-book club (Jan)
Surf's Up; Kwame Alexander - 3.5/5 (review book) (Jan)
The Winter Girl; Matt Marinovich - 2/5 (eGalley) (Jan)
When Breath Becomes Air; Paul Kalanithi (NF/memoir) - 4.5/5 (audio) (Jan)
Looking Back: A Chronicle of Growing Up Old in the Sixties; Joyce Maynard - 5/5 (NF/memoir) (library) (Feb)
American Housewife: Stories; Helen Ellis - 2.5/5 (audio & eGalley) (Feb)
The Madwoman Upstairs; Catherine Lowell - 4/5 (eGalley) (Feb)
French Leave; Gavalda - 4/5 (print-my shelves) (Feb)
River Road; Carol Goodman - 4/5 (print-publisher) (Feb)
Love in Lowercase; Francesc Miralles - 4/5 (print-publisher) (Feb)
13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl; Mona Awad - 3.5/5 (print-publisher) (Feb)
The Bell Jar; Sylvia Plath - 5/5 (library-reread) (Feb)
Good to a Fault; Marina Endicott - 4/5 stars (print-my shelves) (Feb)
Eleanor; Justin Gurley - 4.5/5 (arc) (March)
In the Blood; Lisa Unger - 4/5 (audio) (March)
I See You Made the Effort; Annabelle Gurwitch (NF) - 4/5 (arc) (March)
The Vegetarian; Han Kang - 4/5 (arc) (March)
Miller's Valley; Anna Quindlen - 4.5/5 (eGalley) (March)
The Good Death; Ann Neumann (NF) - 4/5 (eGalley) (March)
He Will Be My Ruin; K.A. Tucker - 4.5/5 (eGalley) (March)
The Invaders; Karolina Waclawiak - 3.5/5 (library audio) (March)
Z: Zelda, a novel; Theresa Ann Fowler - 4.5/5 (bookgroup-library) (March)
Peppa Pig and the I Love You Game - 3.5/5 (library) (March)
Bear is Not Tired; Ciara Gavin - 4/5 (Library) (March)
Find Her; Lisa Gardner - 4.5/5 (eGalley) (March)
Spark Joy; Marie Kondo (NF) - 3/5 stars (library) (March)
The Little Tree That Would Not Share; Nicoletta Costa - 5/5 (library) (March)
All the Light We Cannot See; Anthony Doerr - (library audio) - 4.5/5 (March)
The Guise of Another; Allen Eskens - 3.5/5 (eGalley) (March)
Missoula: Rape & the Justice System in a Small Town; Jon Krakauer (NF-Audio) - 4.5/5 (April)
Shelter; Jung Yun - 4.5/5 (arc) (April)
The Duckling Gets a Cookie !?, Mo Willems - 4/5 (print) (April)
Beautiful Birds; Jean Roussen and Emmanuelle Walker - 5/5 (library) - 5/5 (April)
Turn of Mind; Alice Laplante - 4/5 (audio library) (April)
The One-in-a-Million Boy; Monica Wood - 4.5/5 (arc) (April)
The Children; Ann Leary - 3.5/5 (eGalley) (April)
Fool Me Once; Harlan Coben - 4/5 (audio) (April)
Family Man; Elinor Lipman - 3.5/5 (audio) (April)
Bull Mountain; Brian Panowich - 4/5 (audio) (April)
Orphan #8; Kim Van Alkemade - 3/5 (print) (April)
Spill, Simmer, Falter, Wither; Sara Baume - 4.5/5 (May)
The Passenger; Lisa Lutz - 4/5 (library) (May)
Two-Family House; Lynda Cohen Loigman - 4.5/5 (eGalley) (May)
Be Frank With Me; Julia Claiborne Johnson - 4/5 (review copy) (May)
Britt-Marie Was Here; Fredrik Backman - 4/5 (review copy) (May)
Forty Rooms; Olga Grushin - DNF (library audio) (May)
Orphan Train; Christina Baker Kline 4.5/5 (audio) (May)
Mothering Sunday; Graham Swift; 4.5/5 (eGalley) (May)
My Sunshine Away; M.O. Walsh - 5/5 (audio) (May)
Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep; Michael Schulman (3.5/5) (ARC) (May)
The Fireman; Joe Hill 4/5 (eGalley & audio) (June)
A Series of Catastrophes & Miracles; Mary Beth Williams (NF) - 4.5/5 (library) (June)
Nobody's Fool; Richard Russo - 4.5/5 (my shelves) (June)
The Weekenders; Mary Kay Andrews - 3.5/5 (audio) (June)
The Woman in Cabin 10; Ruth Ware - 4/5 (arc) (June)
The Stranger; Harlan Coben - 1.5/5 (audio) (June)
If You Left; Ashley Prentice Norton - 3.5/5 (arc) (June)
Founding Mothers; Cokie Roberts (NF) (DNF-bookgroup) (June)
What Was Mine; Helen Klein Ross - 4/5 (library) (June)
Wreck and Order; Hannah Tennant-Moore - 3/5 (audio) (June)
The Girls; Emma Cline - 4.5/5 (audio) (June)
The Nest; Cynthia D'Aprix-Sweeney - 3.5/5 (eGalley) (June)
Fates and Furies; Lauren Groff - 4.5/5 (library) (June)
Lily and the Octopus; Steven Rowley - 4/5 (eGalley) (July)
Vinegar Girl; Anne Tyler - 3.5/5 stars (audio) (July)
In a Dark Dark Wood; Ruth Ware - 4/5 (library) (July)
Ink and Bone; Lisa Unger - 4/5 (eGalley) (July)
Tuesday Nights in 1980; Molly Prentiss - 4/5 (arc) (July)
Before the Fall; Noah Hawley - 4.5/5 (eGalley & audio) (July)
The Dogs of Littlefield; Suzanne Berne - 4/5 (eGalley & Audio) (July)
Grief is a Thing With Feathers; Max Porter - 3.5/5 (eGalley) (July)
Wilde Lake; Laura Lippman - 3.5/5 (audio) (July)
The Good American; Alex George - 4.5/5 (library/bookgroup) (July)
Watching Edie; Camilla Way - 4/5 (arc) (August)
Bilgewater; Jane Gardam - 4/5 (library) (August)
Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter; Kate Clifford Larson - 5/5 (audio-library)(August)
End of Watch; Stephen King - 4/5 (eBook-library) (August)
Everybody's Fool; Richard Russo - 3/5 (library) (August)
Dear Mr. M.; Herman Koch - 4.5/5 (review copy) (August)
The Black Eyed Susans; Julia Heaberlin - 3.5/5 (library audio) (August)
The Couple Next Door; Shari Lapena - 4/5 (ARC) (August)
Ordinary Grace; William Kent Kruger - reread/bookgroup - 5/5 (August)
She's Not There; Joy Fielding (audio) 4/5 (August)
Homegoing; Yaa Gyassi - 4.5/5 (eGalley) (August)
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things; Bryn Greenwood - 5/5 (ARC) (August)
The Hopefuls; Jennifer Close - 4.5/5 (audio) (August)
They Left Us Everything; (memoir)Plum Johnson -4.5/5 (arc) (Sept)
Badlands; CJ Box - 4.5/5 (library audio) (Sept)
Winter at the Door; Sarah Graves 3.5/5 (library audio) (Sept)
Small Great Things; Jodi Picoult - 4/5 (ARC) (Sept)
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper; Phaedra Patrick - 4/5 (eGalley) (Sept)
The Notorious RBG; Cameron & Knizhnik - 5/5 (audio & HC) (Sept)
Hot Milk; Deborah Levy - 4/5 (library) (Sept)
Another Brooklyn; Jacqueline Woodson - 4/5 (audio) (Sept)
Bridge of Sighs; Richard Russo 4/5 (my shelves) (Sept)
The Wasp Factory; Iain Banks - 4/5 (my shelves) (Sept)
The Professor & the Madman; Simon Winchester (NF) - 2.5/5- book group - (Sept)
Wintering; Peter Geye (audio) - 4/5 (Oct)
Damaged; Lisa Scottoline (audio) - 4/5 (Oct)
They May Not Mean to But They Do; Cathleen Schine (audio) - 3.5/5 (Oct)
The Heavens May Fall; Allen Eskens - 5/5 (Arc) (October)
Leave Me; Gayle Forman - 3/5 (eGalley) (Oct)
Harmony; Carolyn Parkhurst - 4/5 (library) (October)
Pretty Girls; Karin Slaughter (audio) 2.5/5 (library) (October)
Someone; Alice McDermott-4.5/5 (library/bookgroup) (October)
The Girls She Left Behind; Sarah Graves (audio) 3.5/5 (library) (October)
The Book that Matters Most; Anne Hood - 4.5/5 (eGalley) (Nov)
Commonwealth; Ann Patchett - 3.5/5 (eGalley) (Nov)
Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair that Shaped a First Lady (NF); Susan Quinn - 5/5 (my shelves) (Nov)
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (NF); Bryan Stevenson - 5/5 (audio) (Nov)
Faithful; Alice Hoffman - 4/5 (ARC) (Nov)
My Own Words; Ruth Bader Ginsburg - 4/5 (library) (Nov)
The First True Lie; Marina Mander - 2/5 (personal copy) (Nov)
The Loner; Teddy Wayne - 4/5 (eGalley) (Dec)
The Premonition; Chris Bohjalian - 4/5 (eBook) (Dec)
The Sleepwalker; Chris Bohjalian - 3.5/5 (eGalley) (Dec)
The Christmas Town; Donna VanLiere - 4/5 (arc) (Dec)

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