I’m still reading but I am going through a slow phase with too much happening to allow for much peaceful book time. But I will still keep making myself (and you) a book list each month because winter is coming and curling up in a chair and reading are favorite winter activities of mine. I have compiled a list that includes four sources: Amazon, Independent Booksellers, Publishers Weekly, and the New York Times. Each of these sources makes its list a bit differently, with Independent Booksellers being the most different (they do not base their list on what is being published, they base it on what their readers are buying).
AMAZON
Moonglow: A Novel by Michael Chabon
Saving Time by Zadie Smith
The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
You Will Not Have My Hate by Antoine Lewis
Walk Through Walls: A Memoir by Marina Abramovic
The Earth is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West by Peter Cozzens
Night School by Lee Child (Jack Reacher)
Bear: The Life and Times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III (member of the Grateful Dead) (Bio) by Robert Greenfield
Victoria: A Novel of a Young Queen by Daisy Goodwin
The Education of Dixie Dupree by Donna Everhart
Literature and Fiction
Valiant Gentlemen: A Novel by Sabina Murray
Judas by Amos Oz and translated by Nicholas de Lange
The Terranauts: A Novel by T. C. Boyle
Moonglow by Michael Chabon
Faithful: A Novel by Alice Hoffman
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
Orphan of the Carnival: A Novel by Carol Birch
The Survivor’s Guide to Family Happiness by Maddie Dawson
Victoria: A Novel of a Young Queen by Daisy Goodwin
The Spy: A Novel by Paulo Coelho
The Education of Dixie Dupree by Donna Everhart
Mystery and Thriller
Night Watch by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen
Conclave: A Novel by Robert Harris
The Chemist by Stephanie Meyer
The Whistler by John Grisham
The Wrong Side of Goodbye by Michael Connelly
Night School (Jack Reacher) by Lee Child
Moral Defense (Samantha Brinkman) by Marcia Clark
Livia Lone by Barry Eisler
INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLERS
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
The Whistler by John Grisham
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
Today Will be Different by Maria Semple
The Trespasser by Tana French
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Order to Kill by Vince Flynn
Razor Girl by Carl Hiaasen
Nutshell by Ian McEwan
The Mothers by Brit Bennett
Mister Monkey by Francine Prose
Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer
Home by Harlan Coben
The Rain in Portugal by Billy Collins
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
The Girl from Venice by Martin Cruz Smith
The Terranauts by T. C. Boyle
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
The Nix by Nathan Hill
Precious and Grace by Alexander McCall Smith
Winter Storms by Elin Hilderbrand
Escape Clause by John Sanford
Float by Anne Carson
A Gambler’s Anatomy by Jonathan Lethem
The Blood Mirror by Brent Weeks
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
The Obsidian Chamber by Douglas Preston
By Gaslight by Steven Price
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
Envelope Poems by Emily Dickinson
Felicity by Mary Oliver
The German Girl by Armando Lucas Correa
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Before, the Fall by Noah Hawley
NEW YORK TIMES
A Gambler’s Anatomy by Jonathan Lethem
The Guineveres by Sarah Domet
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
Shelter in Place by Alexander Mahsik
Jerusalem by Alan Moore
Crime
IQ by Joe Ide
The Trespasser by Tana French
No Echo by Anne Holt
Female Protagonists
The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living by Louise Miller
All the Time in the World by Caroline Angell
Nine Women, One Dress by Jane L. Rosen
The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
Mister Monkey by Francine Prose
The Red Car by Marcy Dermansky
The Chosen Ones by Steve Sem-Sandburg
Bridget Jones’s Baby by Helen Fielding
Nine Island by Jane Alison
The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride
Napoleon’s Last Island by Thomas Keneally
The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike
Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood (The Tempest)
Night School (Jack Reacher) by Lee Child
The Long Room by Francesca Kay
The Fall Guy by James Lasdun
The Girl from Venice by Martin Cruz Smith
The Vanishing Year by Kate Moretti
Livia Lone by Barry Eisler
Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey by Elena Ferrante (NF)
The Mothers by Burt Bennett
The Whistler by John Grisham
The Mortifications by Derek Palacio
Serious Sweet by A. L. Kennedy
The Blind Astronomer’s Daughter by Joh Pipkin
The Wrong Side of Goodbye by Michael Connelly
Black Widow by Christopher Brookmyre
Precious and Grace by Alexander McCall Smith
PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY
Under the Midnight Sun by Keigo Higashino
The Man Who Wanted to Know Everything by D. A. Mishani
These are the Names by Tommy Wieringa
Walk Through Walls: A Memoir by Marina Abramovic (NF)
The Sick Bag Song by Nick Cave
Field Where They Lay by Timothy Hallinan
Story of Love in Solitude by Roger Lewinter
Glitter by Aprilynne Pike
Best Books of 2016
Ph Death by James P. Carse
Goliath by Shawn Corridan and Gary Waid
The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon
The Long Room by Francesca Kay
Bestiary by Donika Kelly (Poetry)
Thus Bad Begins by Javier Marias
Valiant Gentlemen by Sabrina Murray
Fish in Exile by Vi Khi Nao
Bodys by Vanessa Roveto (Prose poems)
The Hermit by Thomas Rydahl
The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
So Many Books, Choose Wisely 