Well-Read Episode #42 - Favorite Books of 2016

It’s time for our year-end favorites list! Find out what books we enjoyed the most this year. As always, we’ll end with what we’re reading this week.

 

Books and other media mentioned in this episode:

Episode 16 – Favorite Reads of 2015
Goodreads

Ann’s Favorites of 2016:

• In the Woods by Tana French
  – Episode 29 – Tackling Our TBRs
  – Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
  – We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
• People Who Knew Me by Kim Hooper
  – Episode 31 – Books about the Lowcountry
• Skinwalkers by Tony Hillerman
• Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk
  – Episode 37 – What to Read Next
• Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
• A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
  – Episode 38 – Horror for the Brave and the Scaredy Cats
• The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
  – Episode 41 – Holiday Book Buying Guide
• The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
  – Episode 23 – Award Winners
• A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn
  – Detective Emmanuel Cooper series by Malla Nunn
• Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake by Sarah MacLean
  – Still Life by Louise Penny
  – Episode 18 – Out of Our Comfort Zones
  – Sarah MacLean books

Halle’s Favorites of 2016:

• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
  – Episode 17 – Reading Resolutions for 2016
• Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
  – Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  – The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan
  – Curtis Sittenfeld books
• Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
  – Episode 29 – Tackling Our TBRs
• One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  – Taylor Jenkins Reid books
  – Jojo Moyes books
  – Liane Moriarty books
• The Ship of Brides by Jojo Moyes
• Anything For You by Kristan Higgins
  – Blue Heron series by Kristan Higgins
  – On Second Thought by Kristan Higgins (releases January 31, 2017)
• March: Book One by John Lewis
  – March series by John Lewis
• The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis
• In the Country by Mia Alvar
  – Episode 26 – Short Stories
• My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodie Ashton, and Jodi Meadows
  – The Princess Bride (film)
  – As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales From the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes

What We’re Reading This Week:

• Ann: A Rumpole Christmas by John Mortimer
  – Rumpole of the Bailey (TV)
• Halle: The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner
  – John Green books