2016 Top 5 Reads

I did this on my own post and got many positive comments that perhaps we could this for the entire group. I thought it was nice to reflect after 3-4 months. What was your top 5 reads for 2016?

2016 was a lean reading year for me but these were the best of them:

His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet

The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth L Ozeki

Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekbäck

1Q84 (1-3) by Haruki Murakami

1Q84 was started at the very end of 2016 and finished in early January 2017, before I started ROOTing. I didn't so much enjoy it as see it as a feat of endurance.

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (Actually going to lump all her books here together)

The Red Rooster by Michael Wallace

Afton of Margate Castle by Angela Elwell Hunt

The Righteous (Righteous Series #1) by Michael Wallace

Midwife's Revolt by Jodi Daynard

In no particular order:

Among Islands by Jim Crumley

Never Mind the Balkans, Here's Romania by Mike Ormsby

A Country Doctor's Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov

Nort Atlantik Drift by Robert Alan Jamieson

Rain: Four Walks in English Weather by Melissa Harrison

I also want to include The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon, but I'm not sure which one of the above I'd evict to include it!

All 5 of mine were ROOTS!

1. Rosalia's Bittersweet Pastry Shop
2. The Deep End (The Country Club Murders)
3. Murder in the Paperback Parlor
4. Foreign Éclairs: A White House Chef Mystery
5. The Champagne Conspiracy

This has been an instructive exercise, so many books had already slipped my mind. The ones that stayed and I enjoyed most were:

Der Verrückte des Zaren by Jaan Kross
Samarcande by Amin Maalouf
The last chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
The small house at Allington by Anthony Trollope
Trade in the Eastern Seas by C. Northcote Parkinson

ETC

Love this post & starred for BB purposes ;D

My top 5 from 2016 (not in any order):
1. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
2. The Grownup by Gillian Flynn
3. The Invoice by Jonas Karlsson
4. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
5. The Mirage by Matt Ruff

My top 5 for 2016

2 Books with ***** stars

David Mitchell - Tijdmeters - ROOT
Kate Morton - Aan de rand van het meer - ROOT

Several books with ****1/2 stars

Naomi Novik - Ontworteld
David Mitchell - De Geestverwantschap - ROOT
Kate Atkinson - Achter de schermen - ROOT

There were many more but this is my selection of 4,5 star books.

I couldn't possibly put these in order, but -
We Who Are About To by Joanna Russ
My Sister Rosa by Justine Larbalestier
Disappearance at Devil's Rock by Paul Tremblay
Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente
Show Your Work by Austin Kleon

Oh dear, that's only the last half of the year. I had a good reading year, I guess!

Bump!