read and reviewed in 2016

Here is a list of all of the books that I read in 2016! 

Rating is out of five, in parenthesis. Re-reads will be marked with a * and those that are reviewed will be bolded and linked! 

January

1. Ten Thousand Skies Above You (Firebird #2) – Claudia Gray (5) 
2. Steel Scars (Red Queen 0.2) – Victoria Aveyard (3.5) 
3. Truthwitch (The Witchlands #1) – Susan Dennard (5) 
4. Passenger (Passenger #1) – Alexandra Bracken (5) 
5. The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller (5)*
6. A Good Man is Hard to Find – Flannery O'Connor (3)
7. Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman (5) 
8. I'll Meet You There – Heather Demetrios (4.5)
9. Washington Square – Henry James (3)     

February 

1. November 9 – Colleen Hoover (4.5) 
2. The Coquette – Hannah Webster Foster (3)  
3. Me Before You – JoJo Moyes (5) 
4. City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments #1) – Cassandra Clare (5)*
5. Reign of Shadows – Sophie Jordan (4) (link to GR review)
6. City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments #2) – Cassandra Clare (5)* 
7. Captive Prince (Captive Prince #1) – C.S. Pacat (4.5) 
8. Prince's Gambit (Captive Prince #2) – C.S. Pacat (5)
9. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl – Harriet Jacobs (4) 
10. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston (4) 
11. Kings Rising (Captive Prince #3) – C.S. Pacat (5+)  
12. Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner – (2.5) 
13. City of Glass (The Mortal Instruments #3) – Cassandra Clare (5)*  
14. Learning to Swim – Annie Cosby (3) 

March

1. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë (4) 
2. Some Kind of Happiness – Claire Legrand (4.5)  
3. The Crown and the Arrow (The Wrath and the Dawn #0.5) – Renée Ahdieh (3) 
4. Anna and the French Kiss – Stephanie Perkins (5+)* 
5. A Study in Charlotte (Charlotte Holmes #1) – Brittany Cavallaro (4.5)
6. The Word For Yes – Claire Needell (2)  
7. Ivy – Sarah Oleksyk (2) 
8. Rebel of the Sands – Alwyn Hamilton (5)  
9. Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices #1) – Cassandra Clare (5)*
10. Devil and the Bluebird – Jennifer Mason-Black (4)
11. A Fierce and Subtle Poison – Samantha Mabry (3) 
12. Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda – Becky Albertalli (5)*
13. Wink Poppy Midnight – April Genevieve Tucholke (3) (link to GR review)
14. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon (2) 
15. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys (3) 

April 

1.  City of Fallen Angels – Cassandra Clare (4)*
2. Citizen – Claudia Rankine
3. When We Collided – Emery Lord (5) 
4. Housekeeping – Marilynne Robinson (3) 
5. Enter Title Here – Rahul Kanakia  (3)
6. Double Down (Lois Lane #2) – Gwenda Bond (4) 
7. The Handmaid's Tale – Margaret Atwood (3)  
8. Uprooted – Naomi Novik (4)
9. The Loose Ends List – Carrie Firestone (5)
10. The Great American Whatever – Tim Federle (3.5)

May 

1. The Start of Me and You – Emery Lord (5)*
2. The Wrath and the Dawn – Renée Ahdieh (5)*
3. The Rose and the Dagger – Renée Ahdieh (5)
4. And I Darken – Kiersten White (5)
5. The Unexpected Everything – Morgan Matson (5)
6. Since You've Been Gone – Morgan Matson (5)*
7. The Heir (The Selection #4) – Kiera Cass (4)*
8. The Crown (The Selection #5) – Kiera Cass (5) 
9. The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo #1) – Rick Riordan (4)
10. Summer Days and Summer Nights – edited by Stephanie Perkins (4) 
11. The Museum of Heartbreak – Meg Leder (4) 

June

1. One Paris Summer – Denise Grover Swank (3.5)
2. Brightwood – Tania Unsworth (3.5)
3. The BFG – Roald Dahl (4) 
4. Wanderlost – Jen Malone (4) (link to GR review)
5. Love and Gelato – Jenna Evans Welch (5) 
6. Little Black Dresses, Little White Lies – Laura Stampler (4)
7. Sing – Vivi Greene (3)
8. Finnikin of the Rock (Lumatere Chronicles #1) – Melina Marchetta (5)
9. Tiny Pretty Things – Dhonielle Clayton and Sona Charaipotra (4)*
10. Eleanor and Park – Rainbow Rowell (5)*
11. More Happy Than Not – Adam Silvera (4) 

July 

1. My Lady Jane – Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton and Jodi Meadows (4) 
2. The Goose Girl (The Books of Bayern #1) – Shannon Hale (5)*
3. This Savage Song (Monsters of Verity #1) – Victoria Schwab (5)
4. Court of Fives (Court of Fives #1) – Kate Elliot (3.5)
5. Listening for Lions – Gloria Whelan (4) 
6. The Girl Who Drank the Moon – Kelly Barnhill (3.5) 
7. Howl's Moving Castle – Diana Wynne Jones (4)
8. The Graces (The Graces #1) – Laure Eve (3) 
9. The Lovely Reckless – Kami Garcia (3.5)
10. Shiny Broken Pieces (Tiny Pretty Things #2) – Dhonielle Clayton and Sona Charaipotra (4)
11. An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes #1) – Sabaa Tahir (5)*
12. A Torch Against the Night (An Ember in the Ashes #2) – Sabaa Tahir (5)

August 

1. Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters #1) – Juliet Marillier (4)
2. Lunch Poems – Frank O'Hara (5)
3. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen (5)* 
4. Saving Francesca – Melina Marchetta (4)
5. Princess Academy (Princess Academy #1) – Shannon Hale (5)* 
6. I'll Love You When You're More Like Me – M.E. Kerr (3) 
7. As You Like It – William Shakespeare (3) 
8. Nevernight – Jay Kristoff (4) 
9. Along For the Ride – Sarah Dessen (4)*
10. And This is Laura – Ellen Conford (2)
11.  Lock and Key – Sarah Dessen (3) 

September

1. Walt Disney: An American Original – Bob Thomas (4)
2. Nobody's Family is Going to Change – Louise Fitzhugh (2) 
3. The Movie Version – Emma Wunsch (3) 
4. Ludell – Brenda Wilkinson (2.5) 
5. A Room of One's Own – Virginia Woolf (3) 
6. Furthermore – Tahereh Mafi (4)
7. The Assassin's Blade (Throne of Glass .1-.5) – Sarah J Maas (5)* 
8. Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass #1) – Sarah J Maas (5)*
9. Heyday –  Ben Wilson (3)  
10. Secret Lives – Berthe Amoss (2) 
11. Three Years in Wonderland – Todd James Pierce
12. Kids of Appetite – David Arnold (4) 

October

1. More All-Of-A-Kind Family – Sydney Taylor (3)
2. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott (5)*
3. Happy Endings Are All Alike – Sandra Scoppettone (3)
4. When the Moon Was Ours – Anna-Marie McLemore (4)
5. Six of Crows (Six of Crows #1) – Leigh Bardugo (5)*
6. Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows #2) – Leigh Bardugo (5) 
7. Iron Cast – Destiny Soria (3.5)
8. Me and Fat Glenda – Lila Perl (2)  
9. Milk and Honey – Rupi Kaur (5)
10. Taking Terri Mueller– Norma Fox Mazer (3) 

November 

1. Here's To You, Zeb Pike – Johanna Parkhurst (3) 
2. Been Here All Along – Sandy Hall (3) 
3. The Female of the Species – Mindy McGinnis (5) 
4. Three Dark Crowns – Kendare Blake (DNF) 
5. Him (Him #1) – Sabrina Bowen and Elle Kennedy (4)
6. Us (Him #2) – Sabrina Bowen and Elle Kennedy (4)
7. Illuminae (The Illuminae Files #1) – Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (4)*
8. Constance: A Story of Early Plymouth – Patricia Clapp (3)
9. Disneywar – James B Stewart (3)
10. Gemina (The Illuminae Files #2) – Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (4)
11. The Sun is Also A Star – Nicola Yoon (4) 
12. This Adventure Ends – Emma Mills (4)
13. Lisa and Lottie – Erich Kästner (2)
14. The Jolly Regina: The Unintentional Adventures of the Bland Sisters – Kara LaReau (3.5)  
15. Alterations – Stephanie Scott (4)  

December

1.  Maresi – Marie Turtschaninoff (4)
2. Heartless – Marissa Meyer (4)
3.  Scythe – Neil Shusterman (3.5) 
4. Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores – Bob Eckstein (4) 
5. Of Fire and Stars – Audrey Coulthurst (4) 
6. Intermission – Serena Chase (3.5)