Books of 2016






Key:

SS         Short Stories
NF        Non-Fiction
GF         General Fiction
LF          'Literary' Fiction
SPECF    Speculative Fiction
C/M/T    Crime/Mystery/Thriller





1
Corduroy Mansions
Alexander McCall Smith
**

GF
2
The Bone Clocks
David Mitchell
*****
LF
3
Wrongful Death
Lynda La Plante
*
C/M/T 
4
House of the Rising Sun
James Lee Burke
***

GF
5
Moving
Jenny Eclair
***
GF
6
Runaway
Peter May
***
C/M/T
7
The Magicians
Lev Grossman
****
SPECF
8
Dark Corners
Ruth Rendell
*
C/M/T
9
Coffin Road
Peter May
****
C/M/T
10
The Rest of Us Just Live Here
Patrick Ness
****

SPECF
11
The Sacrifice
S. J. Bolton
****
C/M/T 
12
Dying Light
Stuart MacBride
**
C/M/T
13
The Dying Light
Henry Porter
***
C/M/T
14
Like This, For Ever
S. J. Bolton
****
C/M/T
15
The Lake House
Kate Morton
**
LF
16
Wolf Winter
Cecilia Ekback
**
LF
17
The White Road
Edmund De Waal
****
NF
18
The Life of Elves
Muriel Barbery
**
SPECF
19
The Heat of Betrayal
Douglas Kennedy
**
GF
20
Slade House
David Mitchell
****
LF
21
The Sound of Broken Glass
Deborah Crombie
****

C/M/T 
22
Fool's Assassin
Robin Hobb
****
SPECF
23
The Green Road
Anne Enright
***
LF
24
Dead Scared
S. J. Bolton
***
C/M/T
25
Wild
Cheryl Strayed
***
NF
26
Up Against the Night
Justin Cartwright
***
LF
27
Fool's Quest
Robin Hobb
****
SPECF
28
Number 9 Dream
David Mitchell

LF
29
Hide and Seek
Ian Rankin
**
C/M/T
30
Boundaries
Brian Turner
***
NF
31
Gods and Beasts
Denise Mina
***
C/M/T 
32
The Missing and The Dead
Stuart MacBride
***

C/M/T 
33
Sunshine on Scotland Street
Alexander McCall Smith
***

GF
34
The Good Doctor
Lance O'Sullivan
***
NF
35
Balancing Act
Joanna Trollope
***
GF
36
No Mark Upon Her
Deborah Crombie
****

C/M/T 
37
Mobile Library
David Whitehouse
**
LF
38
A Place Called Winter
Patrick Gale
*****
LF
39
American Housewife
Helen Ellis
**
SS
40
The Name of The Wind
Patrick Rothfuss
****

SPECF
41
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters...
J. D. Salinger
****

LF
42
Franny and Zooey
J. D. Salinger
****
LF
43
Flight of the Nighthawks
Raymond E. Feist
*

SPECF
44
Stories from Other Places
Nicholas Shakespeare
***

SS
45
The Revolving Door of Life
Alexander McCall Smith
***

GF
46
The Travelers
Chris Pavone
****
C/M/T 
47
Nocturne
Graham Hurley
**
C/M/T
48
Orkney Twilight
Clare Carson
*
GF
49
A Change in Altitude
Anita Shreeve
***
GF
50
LaRose
Louise Erdrich
***
LF
51
Case Histories
Kate Atkinson
***
C/M/T
52
The Betrayal of Trust
Susan Hill
****
C/M/T
53
Happy Days
Graham Hurley
**
C/M/T
54
Wild by Nature
Sarah Marquis

NF
55
Life After Life
Kate Atkinson
****
C/M/T
56
Shtum
Jem Lester
*****
LF
57
The Sudden Appearance of Hope
Claire North
*****

SPECF
58
The Carrier
Sophie Hannah
****
C/M/T
59
Most Wanted
Lisa Scottoline

C/M/T
60
The Forever Girl
Alexander McCall Smith
***

GF
61
Exposure
Helen Dunmore
*****
LF
62
All Day at the Movies
Fiona Kidman
***
LF
63
This Must Be the Place
Maggie O'Farrell
*****
LF
64
Barkskins
Annie Proulx
****
LF
65
Too Much Happiness
Alice Munro
***
SS
66
The Road to Little Dribbling
Bill Bryson
****

NF
67
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
Dominic Smith
****

LF
68
Children of Earth and Sky
Guy Gavriel Kay
****

SPECF
69
The Hand That First Held Mine
Maggie O'Farrell
****

LF
70
Saturday Requiem
Nicci French
****
C/M/T
71
The Good Father
Noah Hawley
**
C/M/T
72
The Orphan Choir
Sophie Hannah
**
C/M/T
73
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet
David Mitchell
***



LF
74
The Book of Phoenix
Nnedi Okorafor
***
SPECF
75
The Whispering Swarm
Michael Moorcock
**

SPECF
76
The Many Selves of Katherine North
Emma Geen
****

SPECF
77
A God in Ruins
Kate Atkinson
*****
LF
78
The Order of Things
Graham Hurley
***
C/M/T 
79
Friday on My Mind
Nicci French
****
C/M/T 
80
A Question of Identity
Susan Hill
****

C/M/T 
81
The Pigeon Tunnel
John le Carré
*****
NF
82
This House Is Haunted
John Boyne
***
LF
83
Kind of Cruel
Sophie Hannah
***
C/M/T 
84
The Jealous Kind
James Lee Burke

GF
85
The Moth Catcher
Ann Cleeves
***
C/M/T
86
The Dead House
Harry Bingham
****
C/M/T
87
The Heavenly Table
Donald Ray Pollock

  
LF
88
What Remains of Me
Alison Gaylin

C/M/T
89
Invincible Summer
Alice Adams
***
GF
90
Blue Monday
Nicci French
****
C/M/T
91
A Game for All the Family
Sophie Hannah
**

C/M/T 
92
Talking to the Dead
Harry Bingham
****
C/M/T
93
The Hanging Tree
Ben Aaronovitch
****
SPECF
94
Rather Be the Devil
Ian Rankin
***
C/M/T
95
Commonwealth
Ann Patchett
*****
LF
96
To the Bright Edge of The World
Eowyn Ivey
*****

LF
97
The Fate of the Tearling
Erika Johansen
****

SPECF
98
Real Modern
Bronwyn Labrum
***
NF
 





No comments:

Post a Comment

It's great when you leave a note!