2016 Books Update - October in Book Book

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
Good As Gone - Amy Gentry
You Will Know Me - Megan Abbott
The Couple Next Door - Shari Lapena
The Lost Girls - Heather Young
Broken Harbor - Tana French
The Perfect Girl - Gilly Macmillan
The Version of Us - Laura Barnett

October:

I didn’t read as many books in October. I have only been home 1 weekend so far this month so it’s been BUSY. And I’m tired. And it was the baseball post-season.

The Secret Place - Tana French

Another Tana French. It was good, like all the others but not my favourite. Some of the plot was so good and interesting and her character development is excellent but then all of one group of girls have this weird magic power which is arbitrary and doesn’t even figure in to the plot. Wait…what?

Commonwealth - Ann Patchett

One of the best of the year. I loved this book. I watched the pages dwindle away as I was reading it and I got SO sad. I could have read hundreds of more pages. The story is told in moments or vignettes. For instance when a character gets divorced, you don’t find out that they get divorced in real time in the story. It will be revealed somehow in one of the vignettes. It’s an interesting storytelling technique that enables the author to tell the stories of multiple characters without the story getting too bogged down. The reader becomes like a friend who visits in on the characters and is able to learn about other family members from that character’s perspective.

Find Her - Lisa Gardner

Not one of my fave Lisa Gardner books. It was like the Tana French. This book was recommended by some reading lists like “Broken Harbor” was but I liked a lot of their books better. Oh well, at least I was introduced to the authors.

2016 total: 61 books