Books in 2016
Being an only child, my growing up comprised mostly of days with my head stuck in a book, which carried on until my late teens. All of a sudden I started reading less and less, perhaps because I felt there were better things to do, but now, as I approach my late 20s, I cannot think of anything better to do (that isn’t related to my PhD, ha). As a wise man once said, there is a light that never goes out — this is mine.
January
The Ocean at the End of the Lane — Neil Gaiman
The Bees — Laline Paull (read in the final week of 2015/first week of 2016)
And the Mountains Echoed — Khaled Hosseini
The Organized Mind — Daniel Levitin
Stardust — Neil Gaiman
February
The Silkworm — Robert Galbraith
Introducing Sociology — Richard Osborne & Borin van Loon
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
March
The Girl on the Train — Paula Hawkins
Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
April
And Then There Were None — Agatha Christie
The Checklist Manifesto — Atul Gawande
The Reluctant Fundamentalist — Mohsin Hamid
May
High-Rise — J.G. Ballard
June
A Strangeness in My Mind — Orhan Pamuk
July
Career of Evil — Robert Galbraith
Room — Emma Donoghue
August
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet — Becky Chambers
The Girl in the Ice — Robert Bryndza
The Night Manager — John Le Carré
September
A Little Life — Hanya Yanigahara
October
The Defenceless – Kati Heikkapelto
Things We Have in Common – Tasha Kavanagh
November/December
The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
There you have it, the 26 books I’ve read this year. I figured this list wasn’t as informative as I wanted it to be, nonetheless, I found this a pretty useful exercise. I’m looking forward to Books in 2017!
Feel free to follow me on Twitter @rycaquino to make book recommendations/chat about what I’ve been reading so far!
