Monday, July 2, 2018

Pages Read in 2016

And here are the books I read in 2016. Ratings are in parentheses after the author, with 1 being a complete waste of ink and 10 being amazing.


  • Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (10) (read it if you want to pleasurably hurt your brain)
  • The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (10)
  • Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard by Lawrence Schoen (7)
  • The Gospel of Loki by Joanne Harris (5)
  • The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (9)
  • The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon (8)
  • The Mime Order by Samantha Shannon (7)
  • The Awakening of Miss Prim by Natalia Finollera (10)
  • Lock In by John Scalzi (5)
  • The Bronte Plot by Katherine Reay (6)
  • Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Watkins (9)
  • Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Ed Tarkington (6)
  • Mrs. Bennett Has Her Say by Jane Juska (4)
  • The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald (8)
  • The Relic Master by Christopher Buckley (8)
  • Snuff by Terry Pratchett (9)
  • The Ludwig Conspiracy by Oliver Potzsch (6)
  • The Dogs of Littlefield by Suzanne Berne (1)
  • Chocolat by Joanne Harris (10)
  • A Gathering of Shadows by V. E. Schwab (8)
  • Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death by James Runcie (8)
  • Sidney Chambers and the Forgiveness of Sins by James Runcie (8)
  • The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan (8) 
  • Unprocessed: My City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food by Megan Kimble (8) 
  • The Pigeon Pie Mystery by Julia Stuart (9)
  • The Last Days of Magic by Mark Tomkins (3)
  • Bell Weather by Dennis Mahoney (8)
  • Rooms by Lauren Oliver (6)
  • Death in the Vines by M. L. Longworth (8)
  • The Hundred-Year House by Rebecca Makkai (7)
  • Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapa (9)
  • Fallen Land by Taylor Brown (9)
  • The Wild Robot by Peter Brown (10)
  • Is Everyone Hanging Out without Me by Mindy Kaling (3)
  • Incarceron by Catherine Fisher (6)
  • Kingfisher by Patricia McKillip (10)
  • Jane and the Waterloo Map by Stephanie Barron (7)
  • Language Arts by Stephanie Kallos (7)
  • The Lost Boy by Greg Ruth (9)
  • Be Frank with Me by Julia Johnson (10)
  • The Gardener of Versailles by Alain Baraton (6)
  • Everyone Brave Is Forgiven by Chris Cleave (10)
  • The Quick by Lauren Owen (8)
  • Syndrome E by Franck Thilliez (7)
  • The Changeling Sea by Patricia McKillip (8)
  • City of Dark Magic by Magnus Flyte (7)
  • City of Lost Dreams by Magnus Flyte (7)
  • The Ashford Affair by Lauren Willig (5)
  • Longbourn by Jo Baker (10)
  • Pax by Sara Pennypacker (10)
  • Solstice Wood by Patricia McKillip (10)
  • Britt-Marie Was Here by Frederik Backman (10)
  • The Bell at Sealey Head by Patricia McKillip (10) (one of my favorite authors; I have read these books many times)
  • The Bards of Bone Plain by Patricia McKillip (10)
  • Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia McKillip (10)
  • In the Forests of Serre by Patricia McKillip (10)
  • The Tower at Stony Wood by Patricia McKillip (10)
  • Od Magic by Patricia McKillip (10)
  • The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick (6)
  • A Man Called Ove by Frederik Backman (10)
  • Harrowing the Dragon by Patricia McKillip (10)
  • The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins by Antonia Hodgson (7)
  • The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains by Neil Gaiman (7)
  • Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (9)
  • Deerskin by Robin McKinley (9)
  • The Centurion's Empire by Sean McMullen (1)
  • The Mangle Street Murders by M. R. C. Kasasian (8)
  • The Curse of the House of Foskett by M. R. C. Kasasian (7)
  • Archipelago by Monique Roffey (7)
  • The Bookstore by Deborah Meyler (8)
  • The Apprentices by Maile Meloy (8)
  • Charlotte Markham and the House of Darkling by Michael Boccacino (8)
  • Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel (8)
  • The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out a Window and Disappeared by Jonah Jonasson (10)
  • The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro (4)
  • The Lightkeepers by Abby Geni (6)
  • Time Siege by Wesley Chu (6)
  • Roses and Rot by Kat Howard (7)
  • The Hemingway Thief by Shaun Harris (7)
  • The Invoice by Jonas Karlsson (7)
  • The Lola Quartet by Emily St. John Mandel (9)
  • Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J. K. Rowling (kind of) (4)
  • How to Party with an Infant by Kaui Hemmings (7)
  • The Secret of Raven Point by Jennifer Vanderbes (9)
  • Red Rising by Pierce Brown (9)
  • Golden Son by Pierce Brown (9)
  • Morning Star by Pierce Brown (9)
  • The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan (9)
  • Invincible Summer by Alice Adams (5)
  • Life of Pi by Yann Martel (9)
  • Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (10)
  • Menagerie Manor by Gerald Durrell (8)
  • A Zoo in My Luggage by Gerald Durrell (8)
  • Night of the Animals by Bill Broun (7)
  • It's Your Life, Harriet Chance by Jonathan Evison (4)
  • The Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood (9)
  • Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery (10)
  • The Light between Oceans by M. L. Stedman (10)
  • The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper (10)
  • The Grey King by Susan Cooper (9)
  • Silver on the Tree by Susan Cooper (9)
  • The River of No Return by Bee Ridgway (8)
  • American Gods by Neil Gaiman (9)
  • Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (10) (yep, read it again)
  • The Shipping News by Annie Proulx (10)
  • My Grandmother Told Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Frederik Backman (9)
  • The Awakening of Miss Prim by Natalia Fenollera (10) (yep, read this one again too)
  • What a Plant Knows by Daniel Chamovitz (8)
  • The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (9)

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