Hemlokgang's Hundred Books in 2016

Last year brought some difficult surprises which cut my reading significantly. 2016 brings a fresh chapter, so to speak, and fresh determination and anticipation. Here's to the hundred!

welcome back ... and may 2016 be more surpise-free than 2015!

Welcome back hemlok! I hope 2016 lacks all difficult surprises.

Good luck!

I'm sorry to hear about your difficult surprises last year. I hope you make it to 100 this year. :)

#1 - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman - ****

Good luck Hemlokgang! I hope 2016 is surprise free for you.

#2 - Heart Earth by Ivan Doig - ****

#3 - The Sandman: The Dream Hunters by Neil Gaiman

#4 - A Duty to the Dead by Charles Todd - ****
#5 - Wake by Anna Hope - ***

#6 - Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie - ****

#7 - Musical Moment and Other Stories by Yehoshua Kenaz - ****

#8 - Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans - ***

#9 - Fury by Salman Rushdie - *****

#10 - Marvel and A Wonder by Joe Meno - *****

#11 - Love Among The Haystacks and Other Stories by D.H. Lawrence - ***

#12 - I Am No One by Patrick Flanery - ****

#13 - Pretty Baby by Mary Kubica - **

#14 - Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks - ****

#15 - My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout - ****

#15 - Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words by Malka Marom - ****

#16 - To The Nines by Janet Evanovich - ****

#17 - A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde - *****

#18 - An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde - ***

#18 - Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde - ****

#19 - The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde - *****

#20 - Memoirs of a Porcupine by Alain Mabanckou - ****

#21 - The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - ****

#22 - Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee - *****

#23 - The Whip by Karen Kondazian - ****
#24 - Ten Big Ones by Janet Evanovich - ****

#25 - Be Frank With Me by Julia Claiborne Johnson - ****

#26 - Journey to Munich by Jacqueline Winspear - ***

#27 - Spandau Phoenix by Greg Iles - ***

#28 - The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant - ***

#29 - Five Spice Street by Can Xue - **

#30 - When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi - ****

#31 - The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah - ****

#32 - Emotional Options: How to Use the Option Method by Mandy Evans - ****
#33 - Travelling Free: How To Recover From The Past by Mandy Evans - ****

#34 - The Zafarani Files by Gamal al-Ghitani - ****

#35 - The Early Stories of Truman Capote by Truman Capote - ****

#36 - Summer Crossing by Truman Capote - ****
#37 - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, narrated by Scarlett Johansson - *****

#38 - Eleven On Top by Janet Evanovich - ***
#39 - The Cure for Dreaming by Cat Winters - ***

#40 - The Violet Hour: Great Writers At The End by Sara Baume - *****

#41 - Shylock Is My Name by Howard Jacobson - *****

#42 - A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler - ****

#43 - The North Water by Ian McGuire - ****

#44 - The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk - *****
#45 - New and Collected Poems: 1975-2015 by Jay Parini - ****
#46 - Spill, Simmer, Falter, Wither by Sara Baume - *****

#47 - Our Souls At Night by Kent Haruf - *****

#48 - Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates - *****

#49 - The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss by Anderson Cooper - ****

#50 - Euphoria by Lily King - ****

#51 - The Wright Brothers by David McCullough - ***

#52 - Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury - *****

#53 - Alive On the Andrea Doria!: The Greatest Sea Rescue In History by Pierette Domenica Simpson

#54 - As Good As Gone by Larry Watson - *****

#55 - Britt-Marie Was Here: A Novel by Fredrik Backman - ****

#56 - Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant - ***

#57 - Buddhaland Brooklyn by Richard C. Morais - ****

#58 - LaRose by Louise Erdrich - ***

#59 - 1Q84: Volume 1 by Haruki Murakami

#60 - My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry - by Fredrik Backman ****

#61 - A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny ****

#62 - Sweet Caress by William Boyd ****

#63 - Bardo Or Not Bardo by Antoine Volodine - ****

#64 - The Stories of the Steppe by Maxim Gorky - *****

#65 - The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad - ****

#66 - The Forgotten Seamstress by Liz Trenow - ***

#67 - The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo - ***

#68 - Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices From The Afghanistan War by ((Svetlana Alexievich - ****

#69 - Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff by Pappy Pariah - *****

#70 - Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple - **

#71 - To The Bright Edge of The World by Eowyn Ivey - ****

#72 - Mountain Time by Ivan Doig - ****

#73 - Lean Mean Thirteen by Janet Evanovich - ****

#74 - A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement by Anthony Powell - ****
#75 - The Arsonist by Sue Miller - ****