books of 2016
I read 65 books in 2016. Some random numbers:
At least 1 female author: 54%
At least 1 PoC author: 18% (Yikes – I’ll have to do better about that)
Nonfiction: 29% (this is way higher than normal and I am v proud!)
Fantasy: 20%
Comic books: 14%
YA: 11%
Mystery: 11%
Sci-Fi: 8%
Literary: 8%
Best fiction: Dark Orbit by Carolyn Ives Gilman (review), Fifth Season by NK Jemisin
Best non-fiction: Unspeakable Things by Laurie Penny (review)
Most beautiful language: Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Most thought-provoking: Utopia of Rules by David Graeber (review)
Most useful: Don’t Think of an Elephant by George Lakoff
Most enraging: How To Suppress Women’s Writing by Joanna Russ
Most sheer fun: Raven and the Reindeer by T. Kingfisher
Best comic: Saga by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples
Best follow-up in a series: The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater
Most disappointing: Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller (I like unreliable narrators but the nature of the reveal here was just, ugh.)
Most overrated: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
Worst read: The Unhappenings by Edward Aubry (review)