Favorite Books of 2016

In 2016 I read some really fantastic books! And although there were slumps in my reading life, there were months where most of the books were home runs. I tried to limit this list to my top 10 favorites, but I simply could not do it. So without further ado, here are my 25 favorite books of 2016, including links to the post where I reviewed each of them if you’d like to read more about what I thought about them and go to Amazon and purchase them.

1. A Brief History of Montmaray by Michelle Cooper (What I Read January 2016)
2. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (What I Read January 2016)
3. After the War is Over by Jennifer Robson (What I Read January 2016)
4. The Magician’s Lie by Greer Macallister (What I Read February 2016)
5. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (What I Read February 2016)
6. The FitzOsbornes in Exile by Michelle Cooper (What I Read Cayman Islands)
7. Moonlight Over Paris by Jennifer Robson (What I Read Cayman Islands)
8. The Apostle by John Pollock (What I Read March 2016)
9. The FitzOsbornes at War by Michelle Cooper (What I Read March 2016)
10. Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson (What I Read Bonne Terre)
11. Dear Mr. Knightley by Katherine Reay (What I Read April 2016)
12. In Cold Storage by James W. Hewitt (What I Read June 2016)
13. The Big Short by Michael Lewis (What I Read June 2016)
14. The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison (What I Read June 2016)
15. Wreckage by Emily Bleeker (What I Read July 2016)
16. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Frederick Stonehouse (What I Read Northern Michigan)
17. David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell (What I Read August 2016)
18. Petty: The Biography by Warren Zanes (What I Read September 2016)
19. The Scent of Lilacs by Ann Gabhart (What I Read September 2016)
20. The Cello Suites by Eric Siblin (What I Read September 2016)
21. The Road by Cormac McCarthy (What I Read October 2016)
22. The Black Violin by Maxence Fermine (What I Read October 2016)
23. The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland by Rebekah Crane (What I Read Guadeloupe)
24. The Last Dive by Bernie Chowdhury (What I Read December 2016)
25. Things that Matter by Charles Krauthammer (What I Read December 2016)