2016 Books Update - September in Book Book

I am SO behind on this.

January:
You - Caroline Kepnes
Her - Harriet Lane
We Were Liars - E. Lockhart
Luckiest Girl Alive - Jessica Knoll
A Dark and Twisted Tide - Sharon Bolton
The Memory Box - Eva Lesko Natiello
Night Film - Marisha Pessl
In The Woods - Tan French

February:
The Likeness - Tana French
The Longest Night - Andria Williams
All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
Me Before You - Jojo Moyes
Hidden Bodies - Caroline Kepnes

March:
After You - Jojo Moyes
The Widow - Fiona Barton
Gone Tomorrow - Lee Child
61 Hours - Lee Child
Worth Dying For - Lee Child

April:
Alone - Lisa Gardner
Hide - Lisa Gardner
The Neighbor - Lisa Gardner
Live To Tell - Lisa Gardner
Love You More - Lisa Gardner
Catch Me - Lisa Gardner
Fear Nothing - Lisa Gardner
The Nest - Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney

May:
Touch & Go - Lisa Gardner
Crash & Burn - Lisa Gardner
The Perfect Husband - Lisa Gardner
The Third Victim - Lisa Gardner
The Next Accident - Lisa Gardner

June:
The Killing Hour – Lisa Gardner
Gone – Lisa Gardner
Say Goodbye – Lisa Gardner
The Passenger – Lisa Lutz (recommended by Jeanine)
I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You – Courtney Maum (recommended by Caty Shark)

July:
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar - Cheryl Strayed (recommended by Pandora)
The Kind Worth Killing - Peter Swanson
Rich and Pretty - Alam Rumaan
The Girls - Emma Cline
The Girl in the Ice - Robert Bryndza
Before the Fall - Noah Hawley

August:

The Good Girl - Mary Kubica
All the Missing Girls - Megan Miranda
Redemption Road - John Hart
Still Mine - Amy Stuart
Where They Found Her - Kimberly McCreight
The Girl in 6E - Deanna Madden
Do Not Disturb -Deanna Madden
If You Dare - Deanna Madden

September

Faithful Place - Tana French

This is my third book in the series and I have liked each one more and more. You don’t have to read them in any kind of order. There is some overlap of characters and it is kind of neat to revisit characters that have only been peripheral in previous books.

Good As Gone - Amy Gentry

Touted as similar to “Gone Girl” and “Girl on a Train.” It was good and it had an interesting writing technique where you have 2 parallel story lines going on at the same time and they both meet at the climax. One is a present story line and the other one occurs in the past.

You Will Know Me - Megan Abbott

Another SUSPENSE novel. This one was interesting because it takes you inside the world of gymnastics. Also, you feel like you are (figuratively) underwater when you are reading the story. The author does a really good job of telling the story from the mom’s viewpoint. She is so out of the loop so you as the reader feel that same way. Everything is murky and unclear.

The Couple Next Door - Shari Lapena

Worst nightmare: very young baby gets kidnapped. I guess not my worst nightmare. Mine is more, one of my cats gets kidnapped and 3000 spiders move in.

The Lost Girls - Heather Young

This one was REALLY good. But devastating. It’s one of those books that when you figure out what is going on, you are not surprised. However, the payoff is still there because the seeds were planted throughout the book. It would be more disappointing if it didn’t happen the way you knew it was going to happen. Make sense?

Broken Harbor - Tana French

Another Tana French. I actually read the first 3 just to get to this book which had an excellent review. Even though they do not have to be read in order or even at all, I would recommend any of them. Enjoyed this one too but I think I liked the 2 before it even better.

The Perfect Girl - Gilly Macmillan

Good suspense. Likened to “Gone Girl” and “Girl on a Train” although I think they’ll say that about any suspenseful novel written by a woman.

The Version of Us - Laura Barnett

This book. It reminded me a bit of “Life After Life” but instead of the reincarnation motif it uses a parallel lives technique. It was good but I was so confused trying to remember the intricacies of every story line. Also, you have to be aware of the chapter titles because sometimes they story lines are presented in order and sometimes it jumps around. I would recommend the book but you need to keep a pictograph of all the characters and their relationships. Or you could read them linearly but the book might not be as effective. It’s kind of neat to compare the lives to one another. I don’t know. Keep notes!

2016 total: 58 books