Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Top Ten Best Books Of 2016.
According to Goodreads, I gave a 5-star rating to 44 books in 2016. So how to narrow down my top books to just 10? Here are the books I consider the best of the best from my 2016 reading — not necessarily books published in 2016; simply the books I read this past year that I loved the most. (And okay, I cheated a bit and snuck in more than 10!)
Note: If you want to know more about any of the books mentioned here, click on the links to see my reviews.
1) Dark Matter by Blake Crouch (review)
2) The Fireman by Joe Hill (review)
3) All the Winters After by Seré Prince Halverson (review)
4) Blue Asylum by Kathy Hepinstall (review)
5) The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett (review)
6) Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart (review)
7) Every Heart A Doorway by Seanan McGuire (review)
8) Agent To the Stars/The Android’s Dream/Lock In by John Scalzi
(reviews here, here, and here)
9) Potterworld books: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (review) and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (screenplay)
10) Flight by Sherman Alexie (review)
What were your favorite reads of 2016? Please leave me your link!
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I loved Fantastic Beasts… it looks like you’ve had a really interesting reading year with lots of great books. I hope that it continues into 2017!
Thanks! Wishing you a great 2017 as well!
The cover of All The Winters After is so visually pleasing! I have The Versions of Us on my unread shelf, and I’m keen to get round to it in the new year. I’ve heard so good things about Every Heart A Doorway and have my eye on that title.
Happy reading in 2017!
I think you’ll love them both! Happy New Year!
I loved The Cursed Child-I was actually surprised how much I liked it! I plan to read The Fireman at some point but I’m not sure when I’ll find time for it.
I loved The Cursed Child too! And I’m super excited, because I have tickets to the show in June. 🙂 The Fireman is terrific — highly recommended!
Great list, Lisa! Girl Waits with Gun and Every Heart a Doorway are both on my TBR, and Blue Asylum looks really interesting. =)
Blue Asylum is a bit older, but so, so good!
Excellent picks! I need to read quite a few of these, especially THE FIREMAN (it’ll be next, or next after the next read for me).
Oh, I loved The Fireman! Joe Hill is just always amazing.
Dark Matter and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child made my Top Ten Tuesday list as well!
Awesome! It’s always nice to meet folks with similar tastes in books. 🙂
I loved Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, so I really want to read Flight. It looks so good. And I’ve seen a lot of people talk about Dark Matter.
Dark Matter was such a great read! Sherman Alexie is so talented. I want to read more by him in 2017.
Did you read Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian? I know it’s been optioned and they’re going to do an all Native American cast, so that may be a good one to read before the movie is made. 🙂
Oh yes, I thought it was marvelous. 🙂 I read it several years ago, and want to re-read it — maybe the audio version this time. I didn’t know there was going to be a movie!
I didn’t either until my sister shared an article on Facebook. I’m SOO excited for it!
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/part-time-indian-movie-first-native-american-lead-a-studio-film-953449
Awesome! Thanks!
I very much enjoyed Girl Waits with Gun, although it didn’t make my final list. I just bought Dark Matter with one of my Christmas gift cards–looking forward to getting into that one soon! Here’s my list: http://wp.me/pg3go-In.
Lucky you! Christmas gift cards (especially for books) are so much fun. Enjoy! 🙂
Yay for the Potterworld books!! 😀 They also made it onto my list. I’ve seen Dark Matter on a few lists… I think I’ve been on hold for it for over 3 months so here’s hoping I get a chance to read it in 2017. lol
I lucked into an almost-new copy of Dark Matter at our library’s 2nd hand store — such a great find! I hope your hold request comes through soon. 🙂
Everyone is talking about Dark Matter. I really want to pick it up to find out what all the fuss is about. I’m really drawn to that Girl Waits With Gun cover, will have to check it out!
They’re both so good! I hope you enjoy. 🙂
Dark Matter and Every Heart a Doorway are two I have heard so many good things about but am yet to read. My favourite this year was A Closed and Common Orbit, although Laura Lam’s False Hearts made it a close-run thing.
A Closed and Common Orbit is the 2nd book in the series, right? I have a copy of the 1st book and still need to read it. I’m glad to hear that you enjoyed book 2!
It is, although they all stand alone – which is either refreshing or frustrating depending on how attached you get.
It’s always fun to have some Potter on a list like this! 🙂
Always!