Books Read in 2016

* Books marked with an asterisk are audiobooks.

  1. Scarlet by Marissa Meyer *
  2. American Housewife: Stories by Helen Ellis
  3. Mort(e) by Robert Repino *
  4. Native: Dispatches from an Israeli-Palestinian Life by Sayed Kashua
  5. Burial Rites by Hannah Kent *
  6. Killing and Dying by Adrian Tomine
  7. In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri
  8. Asking for It by Lilah Pace
  9. Glorious by Bernice L. McFadden *
  10. 10% Human: How Your Body’s Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness by Alanna Collen
  11. The Undertaking of Lily Chen by Danica Novgorodoff
  12. The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan *
  13. No Sex in the City by Randa Abdel-Fattah
  14. The Mapmaker’s Children by Sarah McCoy
  15. Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larson *
  16. Get Out of My Crotch ed. by Kim Wyatt & Sari Botton
  17. Allegiant by Veronica Roth
  18. Wit by Margaret Edson
  19. Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal by J. Jack Halberstam
  20. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi *
  21. Terrible Virtue by Ellen Feldman
  22. A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin
  23. The Little Red Chairs by Edna O’Brien *
  24. Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck by Adam Cohen
  25. Mon amie americaine by Michèle Halberstadt
  26. A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley *
  27. Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary: Reflections by Women Writers ed. by Susan Morrison
  28. Rare Objects by Kathleen Tessaro
  29. The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
  30. Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll *
  31. So Sad Today by Melissa Broder
  32. Shelter by Jung Yun
  33. Dirty Millionaire by Meghan March *
  34. Heat & Light by Jennifer Haigh
  35. Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler *
  36. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer *
  37. When the Moon is Low by Nadia Hashimi
  38. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
  39. Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing by Anya von Bremzen
  40. Love, Loss, and What We Ate by Padma Lakshmi *
  41. That Other Me by Maha Gargash
  42. Beneath the Lion’s Gaze by Maaza Mengiste
  43. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
  44. LaRose by Louise Erdrich
  45. Dirty Pleasures by Meghan March
  46. Monkfish Moon by Romesh Gunesekera
  47. Malgudi Days by R.K. Narayan
  48. The Regional Office Is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales
  49. Frenched by Melanie Harlow
  50. The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race ed. by Jesmyn Ward
  51. Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West
  52. Excellent Daughters: The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World by Katherine Zoepf
  53. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien *
  54. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
  55. Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was by Sjón
  56. To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey
  57. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James *
  58. The Red Pencil by Andrea Davis Pinkney *
  59. The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen *
  60. Cress by Marissa Meyer *
  61. Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History by Sam Maggs
  62. Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening by Marjorie M. Liu
  63. Sex Object by Jessica Valenti
  64. Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl by Tracy Quan
  65. Children of the New World: Stories by Alexander Weinstein
  66. Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion *
  67. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway *
  68. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel *
  69. Winter by Marissa Meyer *
  70. Pregnant Butch by A. K. Summers
  71. The Mothers by Brit Bennett *
  72. Citizen by Claudia Rankine *
  73. Faithfully Feminist: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Feminists on Why We Stay ed. by Gina Messina-Dysert, Jennifer Zobair, and Amy Levin
  74. Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon *
  75. The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan *
  76. NOS4A2 by Joe Hill *
  77. Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich *
  78. Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel by Alice Walker
  79. The Shadow Hero #1: The Green Turtle Chronicles by Gene Luen Yang
  80. The Big Green Tent by Ludmila Ulitskaya
  81. The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
  82. Paper Girls, Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan; illustrated by Cliff Chiang & Matthew Wilson
  83. Butter: A Rich History by Elaine Khosrova
  84. Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie *
  85. The Gringo Champion by Aura Xilonen
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