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Books I read in 2016

I managed to get through 32 of the 42 books I set myself at the beginning of the year. Good! Links to the individual posts are below:

White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s – Joe Boyd The Trial – Franz Kafka Paulina & Fran – Rachel B. Glaser Forgetting: Myths, Perils and Compensations – Douwe Draaisma Fates and Furies – Lauren Groff Kolymsky Heights – Lionel Davidson On Black Sisters’ Street – Chika Unigwe The Chimes – Anna Smaill The Lies of Locke Lamora – Scott Lynch Family Life – Akhil Sharma Another Great Day at Sea: Life aboard the USS George H. W. Bush – Geoff Dyer The Cherry Orchard – Anton Chekhov The Silkworm – Robert Galbraith The First Bad Man – Miranda July My Salinger Year – Joanna Smith Rakoff Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry A Death in the Family – Karl Ove Knausgaard My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink – Olivia Laing Down and Out in Paris and London – George Orwell Stasiland: Stories From Behind the Berlin Wall – Anna Funder Leaving the Atocha Station – Ben Lerner Meatspace – Nikesh Shukla H is for Hawk – Helen Macdonald Number 11 – Jonathan Coe Never Mind – Edward St Aubyn Sylvia – Leonard Michaels High-Rise – J. G. Ballard Three Novellas – Joseph Roth The Noise of Time – Julian Barnes

I also went ‘off-list’ for these 3:

Nomad – Alan Partridge Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body – Sara Pascoe Klingsor’s Last Summer – Herman Hesse

2017′s reading list coming soon! #excitement