What I read in 2016.
January 2016
- Unfinished Business, Anne-Marie Slaughter
- Fates and Furies, Lauren Groff
- Accidental Saints, Nadia Bolz-Weber
- Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
- Breath, Eyes, Memory, Edwidge Danticat
- Our Bodies, Ourselves, Boston Women’s Health Collective
- Basin and Range, John McPhee
- The Yeats Reader
- In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
- Spark Joy, Marie Kondo
- The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
- The Wallcreeper, Nell Zink
- Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson
- The Shawl, Cynthia Ozick
- Tar Baby, Toni Morrison
- Black Zodiac, Charles Wright
- The Ponder Heart, Eudora Welty
- The Journals of John Cheever
- Blow-Up and Other Stories, Julio Cortázar
February 2016
- Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
- Ironweed, William Kennedy
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
March 2016
- Bleak House, Charles Dickens
- Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
- The Father, Sharon Olds
- Birds of America, Lorrie Moore
- Global Cosmopolitans, Linda Brimm
- Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
- The Solace of Open Spaces, Gretel Ehrlich
- London: A Biography, Peter Ackroyd
- The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels
- Rose Mellie Rose, Marie Redonnet
- Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson
- Collected Poems, Czeslaw Milosz
April 2016
- The Unvanquished, William Faulkner
- How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are, Anne Berest
- Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Redress of Poetry, Seamus Heaney
- The Shepherd’s Life, James Rebanks
- Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean, ed. Adrian Blevins
- The Beginning of Spring, Penelope Fitzgerald
- New Selected Poems, Philip Levine
- Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney
- The Supper of the Lamb, Robert Farrar Capon
- The Go-Between, L.P. Hartley
May 2016
- Searches and Seizures, Stanley Elkin
- The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James
- Up from Slavery, Booker T. Washington
- Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
- My Struggle, Book 4, Karl Ove Knausgaard
- Troubling Love, Elena Ferrante
- The Way We Live Now, Anthony Trollope
- Hunger, Knut Hamsun
June 2016
- The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays, James Wood
- Some Prefer Nettles, Junichiro Tanizaki
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan
- The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington
- Summer, Edith Wharton
- The Seagull, Anton Chekhov
- The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
- Ursula, Honoré de Balzac
- The Book of Tea, Kazuko Okakura
July 2016
- Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
- In Defence of Dogs, John Bradshaw
- Proust’s Overcoat, Lorenza Foschini
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X and Alex Haley
- The Country of the Pointed Firs, Sarah Orne Jewett
- Persuasion, Jane Austen
- Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, Evan Osnos
- Dracula, Bram Stoker
- Swann’s Way, Marcel Proust, translated by Lydia Davis
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman
August 2016
- Loving, Henry Green
- Illness as Metaphor, Susan Sontag
- Slade House, David Mitchell
- The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois
- Not So Big House, Sarah Susanka
- The Visual Dictionary of American Domestic Architecture, Rachel Carley
- Creating a New Old House, Russell Versaci
- Renovating Old Houses, George Nash
- War Dances, Sherman Alexie
- A Field Guide to American Houses, ed. Virginia McAlester
- Origins: How Nine Months before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives, Annie Murphy Paul
- The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson
- Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, Liz Wiseman
- Taking Charge of Your Fertility, Toni Weschler
- The Association of Small Bombs, Karan Mahajan
- The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector
September 2016
- What Does It Mean to Be White? Developing White Racial Literacy, Robin DiAngelo
- Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS, Joby Warrick
- The Days of Abandonment, Elena Ferrante
- The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race, ed. Jesmyn Ward
- Habitat: The Field Guide to Decorating, Lauren Liess
- Swann’s Way: A Graphic Novel, Stéphane Heuet
- Losing It, Emma Rathbone
- Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War, Mary Roach
- Proust’s Way, Roger Shattuck
- CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, George Saunders
October 2016
- The End of the Story, Lydia Davis
- Pit Bull, Bronwen Dickey
- The Pillow Book, Sei Shonagon
- The Course of Love, Alain de Botton
- Notable American Women, Ben Marcus
- The Friendly Persuasion, Jessamyn West
- The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot, Robert Macfarlane
- Nicotine, Nell Zink
- Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
- On Writing, Eudora Welty
- Thrall, Natasha Trethewey
November 2016
- What We Talk about When We Talk about Love, Raymond Carver
- Falconer, John Cheever
- The Abundance, Annie Dillard
- The Elements of Content Strategy, Erin Kissane
- Wolf Willow, Wallace Stegner
- Frantumaglia, Elena Ferrante
- Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? Frans de Waal
- Content Strategy for Mobile, Karen McGrane
- The Leopard, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
- The Best American Essays 2015, ed. Ariel Levy
December 2016
- Swing Time, Zadie Smith
- Pond, Claire-Louise Bennett
- The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq, George Packer
- The Curated Closet, Anuschka Rees
- Bluets, Maggie Nelson