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Read in 2016

Description: A list of books read in 2016 by anyone who chooses to use the list.
Members: 7 participating members
Edward, KimarieBee, ahef1963, bestem, christin.schroeder, dajashby

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Rank Title Author Added

1

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

by Susanna Clarke

25,802 members

738 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dajashby, ahef1963

2

by Seamus Heaney

23,588 members

320 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Edward, ahef1963

3

Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore

8,116 members

683 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Edward, ahef1963

4

The Dark Is Rising

by Susan Cooper

7,939 members

216 reviews

4.1

2 Members: Edward, ahef1963

5

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

by Cheryl Strayed

7,910 members

494 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Edward, ahef1963

6

Life After Life

by Kate Atkinson

7,735 members

569 reviews

4

2 Members: Edward, ahef1963

7

The Rosie Project

by Graeme Simsion

7,252 members

522 reviews

4

2 Members: dajashby, ahef1963

8

by Stephen King

5,657 members

327 reviews

3.9

2 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963

9

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

by Rachel Joyce

4,974 members

448 reviews

4

2 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963

10

What Alice Forgot

by Liane Moriarty

4,035 members

250 reviews

3.9

2 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963

11

by Suzanne Collins

44,544 members

1,745 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

12

All the Light We Cannot See

by Anthony Doerr

15,964 members

805 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: KimarieBee

13

A Dance With Dragons

by George R. R. Martin

15,330 members

438 reviews

4

Member: KimarieBee

14

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

by J. K. Rowling

12,989 members

535 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: Edward

15

by Stephen King

12,212 members

716 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

16

The Lies of Locke Lamora

9,204 members

415 reviews

4.2

Member: bestem

17

Invisible Cities

by Italo Calvino

8,722 members

191 reviews

4.1

Member: Edward

18

Gardens of the Moon

by Steven Erikson

6,229 members

186 reviews

3.8

Member: bestem

19

by Isaac Asimov

5,890 members

95 reviews

3.9

Member: christin.schroeder

20

5,382 members

400 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: christin.schroeder

21

Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End

by Atul Gawande

4,610 members

256 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: KimarieBee

22

Red Seas Under Red Skies

4,563 members

176 reviews

4.1

Member: bestem

23

4,180 members

287 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

24

by Robert Galbraith

3,951 members

227 reviews

4

Member: KimarieBee

25

My Struggle: Book 1

by Karl Ove Knausgård

2,559 members

100 reviews

3.9

Member: christin.schroeder

26

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

2,249 members

35 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Edward

27

by Michael Crichton

2,167 members

75 reviews

3.2

Member: christin.schroeder

28

The Lais of Marie de France

by de France Marie

2,088 members

20 reviews

3.9

Member: Edward

29

Stalking Darkness

by Lynn Flewelling

1,799 members

37 reviews

4.1

Member: bestem

30

Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

by Brandon Sanderson

1,675 members

128 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: bestem

31

by Kerry Greenwood

1,666 members

125 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: KimarieBee

32

by Lynn Flewelling

1,596 members

25 reviews

4

Member: bestem

33

The Ambassador's Mission

by Trudi Canavan

1,211 members

30 reviews

3.8

Member: bestem

34

Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss, Revised Edition

by Joel Fuhrman

1,089 members

18 reviews

4

Member: christin.schroeder

35

The Other Side of Dawn

by John Marsden

1,023 members

21 reviews

4.1

Member: KimarieBee

36

The Oxford Guide to Library Research

867 members

9 reviews

4.2

Member: Edward

37

In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language

by Arika Okrent

785 members

29 reviews

4

Member: Edward

38

The Scrivener's Bones

by Brandon Sanderson

632 members

33 reviews

3.9

Member: bestem

39

The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

by Ursula K. Le Guin

616 members

8 reviews

4.1

Member: dajashby

40

The Natural Way of Things

by Charlotte Wood

467 members

29 reviews

3.8

Member: KimarieBee

41

The Knights of Crystallia

by Brandon Sanderson

439 members

14 reviews

3.9

Member: bestem

42

The Shattered Lens

by Brandon Sanderson

385 members

15 reviews

3.9

Member: bestem

43

by Michael Robotham

306 members

18 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: KimarieBee

44

Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard

by Russell Miller

233 members

8 reviews

3.9

Member: Edward

45

Daughters of the Storm

214 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: KimarieBee

46

165 members

4 reviews

4.1

Member: Edward

47

Brand New Ancients

153 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: Edward

48

Euthydemus [Translation]

113 members

1 review

½ 3.4

Member: Edward

49

The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women

by Alex Dally Macfarlane

106 members

4 reviews

3.1

Member: Edward

50

97 members

5 reviews

4

Member: KimarieBee

51

78 members

3 reviews

3.9

Member: dajashby

52

by Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger

69 members

1 review

½ 4.3

Member: Edward

53

The French Promise

by Fiona McIntosh

69 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: KimarieBee

54

Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes

by Ella Cheever Thayer

61 members

9 reviews

3.8

Member: Edward

55

Collins Easy Learning Spanish Grammar

57 members

2.8

Member: Edward

56

Landmarks in French Literature

by Lytton Strachey

54 members

½ 4.3

Member: Edward

57

by Jane R. Goodall

52 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: KimarieBee

58

Mad men, bad girls and the Guerilla Knitters Institute

by Maggie Groff

43 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: KimarieBee

59

43 members

6 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: KimarieBee

60

Don't Look, Don't Touch, Don't Eat: The Science Behind Revulsion

by Valerie Curtis

30 members

1 review

3.8

Member: Edward

61

Barbed wire and roses

by Peter Yeldham

27 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: KimarieBee

62

Travel: A Literary History

by Peter Whitfield

26 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: Edward

63

Palace of tears

by Julian Leatherdale

23 members

1 review

3.8

Member: KimarieBee

64

19 members

5 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: KimarieBee

65

FRBR, before and after : a look at our bibliographic models

19 members

3

Member: Edward

66

Gravity: Inside the PM's Office During Her Last Year and Final Days

by Mary Delahunty

17 members

1 review

3

Member: dajashby

67

The Bird's Child

by Sandra Leigh Price

15 members

4

Member: KimarieBee

68

Portal 2: Lab Rat

11 members

4

Member: Edward

69

O/S Map Reading (Point of Sale)

by Ordnance Survey

10 members

4

Member: Edward

70

The Exotic Rissole

by Tanveer Ahmed

9 members

½ 3.5

Member: KimarieBee

71

8 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: KimarieBee

72

The Best of Matt 2016

by Matthew Pritchett

8 members

½ 3.3

Member: Edward

73

Library and information sciences : trends and research

by Chuanfu Chen

6 members

2

Member: Edward

74

by Alli Sinclair

5 members

½ 3.5

Member: KimarieBee

75

Verification handbook : an ultimate guideline on digital age sourcing for emergency coverage

by Craig Silverman

4 members

½ 3.5

Member: Edward

76

Introducing China : the world's oldest great power charts its next comeback

by Ronald Huisken

4 members

3

Member: Edward

77

Brexit: What Happens Next?

by Vaughne Miller

2 members

2

Member: Edward

78

Battle of the centuries

by Ruth S. Freitag

1 member

4

Member: Edward

79

Monsal Trail : a totally green day out in the Peak District : how to get to the Monsal Trail by bus from Sheffield

by Peak District National Park Authority

1 member

3

Member: Edward

80

E-petitions 114003 and 114907 relating to the exclusion of Donald Trump from the UK

by Danny Rogers

1 member

3

Member: Edward

81

Israel and the Palestinians : no through road?

1 member

3

Member: Edward

82

The EU institutions : a brief guide

1 member

3

Member: Edward

83

Norwegian : Bokmål vs. Nynorsk

by Lars S Vikør

1 member

3

Member: Edward

84

Supstrukcije Dioklecijanove palače = Substructions of Diocletian's Palace

by Muzej grada Splita

1 member

3

Member: Edward

85

Highlights of the Bodleian Library's map collection

by Bodleian Libraries

1 member

3

Member: Edward

86

Public libraries in England

by John Woodhouse

1 member

3

Member: Edward

87

The annals of the Parrigues

1 member

3

Member: Edward

88

A cross comparison and efficacy study of Duolingo and an entry-level German 1A course

by Niklas James Ratzlaff

1 member

3

Member: Edward

89

Computer security : a layperson's guide, from the bottom up

by Karen Spärck Jones

1 member

2

Member: Edward

90

Keeping schtum? : what students think of free speech : wave 2 of the HEPI/YouthSight monitor

by Nick Hillman

1 member

2

Member: Edward

91

How to survive in and even enjoy Croatia : a guide for smart foreigners

by Jakov Buljan

1 member

2

Member: Edward

92

The government inspector by Nikolai Gogol : 21 to 24 September [theatre programme]

by Studio Theatre Club

1 member

Member: Edward

93

Waddesdon : map and information

by The National Trust

1 member

Member: Edward

94

The cat, the mouse and the weasel : from the Dialogus creaturarum

1 member

Member: Edward

95

Hamlet : directed by Helen Tennison, with Helen Millar in the title role : Fort Lovrijenac, Dubrovnik, 21st June-7th July 2016 at 9.30 pm [theatre programme]

by Midsummer Scene

1 member

Member: Edward

96

South of the Border, West of the Sun

by Haruki Murakami

5,595 members

115 reviews

3.8

97

Fables, Vol. 08: Wolves

by Bill Willingham

1,514 members

45 reviews

4.2

98

One-Punch Man, Vol. 1

by One

708 members

13 reviews

4.2

99

Jack of Fables Vol. 1: The (Nearly) Great Escape

by Bill Willingham

678 members

23 reviews

½ 3.6

100

Sex Criminals, Vol. 2: Two Worlds, One Cop

by Matt Fraction

581 members

21 reviews

3.9

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January 2016
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