Books Read 2016

• The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Modern Lovers by Emma Straub
• El Deafo by Cece Bell
• Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal
• My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
• Worst. President. Ever. by Robert Strauss
• Idaho by Emily Ruskovich
• The Santa Claus Man by Alex Palmer
• Leap by Tess Vigeland
• The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal by David E. Hoffman
• Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
• The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez
• The Great Detective by Zach Dundas
• New Life, No Instructions by Gail Caldwell
• The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott by Kelly O'Connor McNees
• Heartburn by Nora Ephron
• Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple
• Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides
• Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates
• The Muralist by B.A. Shapiro
• That Should Be a Word by Lizzie Skurnick
• Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
• Basin and Range by John McPhee
• The Personal History of Rachel DuPree by Ann Weisgarber
• Imbeciles by Adam Cohen
• The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
• Working Stiff by Judy Melinek
• The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs
• What Comes Next and How to Like It by Abigail Thomas
• Troublemaker by Leah Remini
• The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis
• On Folly Beach by Karen White
• Gumption by Nick Offerman
• My Lobotomy by Howard Dully
• The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel
• All the Winters After by Seré Prince Halverson
• Death in the Off-Season by Francine Mathews
• Shrill by Lindy West
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip by Kevin Brockmeier
• Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell
• Who Watcheth by Helene Tursten
• Evicted by Matthew Desmond
• The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson
• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
• Wobble To Death by Peter Lovesey
• Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
• Raising the Barre by Lauren Kessler
• On Looking by Alexandra Horowitz
• Make the Bread, Buy the Butter by Jennifer Reese
• The Clancys of Queens: A Memoir by Tara Clancy
• Dead Presidents by Brady Carlson
• August Snow by Stephen Mack Jones
• Unearthly Things by Michelle Gagnon
• The Summer of Beer and Whiskey by Edward Achorn
• Hellhound on His Trail by Hampton Sides
• The Book That Matters Most by Ann Hood
• Take the Cannoli by Sarah Vowell
• Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
• Never Look an American in the Eye by Okey Ndibe
• Lost Among the Birds by Neil Hayward
• Grunt by Mary Roach
• Jane and the Waterloo Map by Stephanie Barron
• Joe Gould's Teeth by Jill Lepore
• Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell
• The Last September by Nina de Gramont
• Poor Your Soul by Mira Ptacin
• Chocolate Wars by Deborah Cadbury
• My Sister Rosa by Justine Larbalestier
• Maud's Line by Margaret Verble
• The Secret Wisdom of the Earth by Christopher Scotton
• The Girls by Emma Cline
• Another One Goes Tonight by Peter Lovesey
• Murder on the Quai by Cara Black
• Behave by Andromeda Romano-Lax
• Ghettoside by Jill Leovy
• H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
• Mort[e] by Robert Repino
• Flight of Dreams by Ariel Lawhon
• The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
• The Work by Wes Moore
• Unforgettable by Scott Simon
• Son of a Gun: A Memoir by Justin St. Germain
• Pretending to Dance by Diane Chamberlain
• Landfall by Ellen Urbani
• Presence by Amy Cuddy
• Head Case by Cole Cohen
• The Defense by Steve Cavanagh
• One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
• The Richest Woman in America by Janet Wallach
• First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
• The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson
• The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street by Susan Jane Gilman
• Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth
• Hammer Head by Nina MacLaughlin
• Domestic Arrangements by Norma Klein (reread)
• Pedestrianism by Matthew Algeo
• Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League by Jonathan Odell
• Living and Dying in Brick City by Sampson Davis