2016 Reading Challenge

A few years ago I signed up with a website called Goodreads.  I didn't use it much initially, but the past few years I've really used to it to start tracking the books that I am reading and that I want to read.  Each year you can set-up a challenge with how many books you want to read in the year.  I think is 2015 I set my goal as 12 books, figuring I would at least be reading my monthly book club book...in 2016 I decided to up the goal to 15 books. 

Well, I rocked it in 2016!  I read 63 books and I'm pretty proud of that!  Some were excellent, some were not.  I read a wide variety of books and a few series.  This year I am setting my goal at 35 books.  I'm not sure I can top 63 again!  Anyways, below is the list of the books I read in 2016 and the ones with an * are ones I'd most likely recommend first.

The Cuckoo’s Calling--Robert Galbrath

The Story Hour--Thrity Umrigar

Food: A Love Story--Jim Gaffigan

Dad is Fat--Jim Gaffigam

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up--Marie Kondo

The Rosie Project--Graeme Simsion

Why Not Me--Mindy Kaling

The Nazi Officer’s Wife--Edith Hahn Beer

House Rules--Jodi Picoult

Go Set a Watchman--Harper Lee

Walking in the Truth: Lies Women Believe Study Guide--Nancy DeMoss

Lies Women Believe: Bible Study--Nancy DeMoss

Life Drawing--Robin Black

The Rosie Effect--Grame Simsion

Mary Poppins--PL Travers

*The Secrets of Midwives--Sally Hepworth

I Heart my Little A-Holes--Karen Alpert

Bringing up Bebe--Pamela Druckerman

*All the Light we Cannot See--Anthony Doerr

Year of Yes--Shonda Rhimes

Winter Street--Elin Hilderbrand

Winter Stroll--Elin Hilderbrand

*The Nightingale--Kristin Hannah

Red Kayak--Priscilla Cummings

The Japanese Lover--Isabel Allende

The Accidental Book Club--Jennifer Scott

The 5 Love Languages of Children--Gary Chapman

Spending the Holidays with People I want to Punch in the Throat--Jen Mann

Farmer Boy--Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Bridge--Karen Kingsbury

On the Banks of Plum Creek--Laura Ingalls Wilder

Mama’s Big Book of Little Lifesavers--Kerry Colburn

By the Shores of Silver Lake--Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Long Winter--Laura Ingalls Wilder

Little Town on the Prairie--Laura Ingalls Wilder

These Happy Golden Years--Laura Ingalls Wilder

The First Four Years--Laura Ingalls Wilder

*The Dressmaker’s War---Mary Chamberlin

Adulting: How to become a grown up in 468 easy(ish) steps--Kelly Williams Brown

Everything we keep--Kerry Lonsdale

Winnie the Pooh--AA Milne

Me Before You--Jojo Moyes

The Kite Runner--Khaled Hosseini

Brooklyn--Colm Toiibn

*Fervent--Priscilla Shirer

My So -Called Life as a Proverbs 31 Wife--Sara Horn

The Secret Keeper--Kate Morton

Oh Crap!  Potty Training--Jamie Glowacki

Orphan Train--Christina Baker Kline

Love for Scale--Michaela Greene

Sacred Marriage: Bible Study--Gary Thomas

Sacred Marriage--Gary Thomas

*Harry Potter and the Scorcerer’s Stone--JK Rowling

Christmas Jars--Jason Wright

The Reader--Bernhard Schlink

The Book of Unknown Americans--Cristina Henriquez

Hikikomori and the Rental Sister--Jeff Backhaus

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl--Jesse Andrews

A Spool of Blue Thread--Anny Tyler

A Bear Called Paddington--Michael Bond

Evelyn, After--Victoria Helen Stone

*The Charm Bracelet--Viola Shipman

Mary Poppins Comes Back--PL Travers

The Lifeboat--Charlotte Rogan