My Year In Reading — 2016

I wanted to share the books I read + loved in 2016.

Note: The books listed are not stack-ranked within their categories.

Top three!

• The Mothers by Brit Bennett
• The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
• The Fear Book by Cheri Huber

I loved these ones mega-town

• There Is No Right Way to Meditate by Yumi Sakugawa
• The Small Backs of Children by Lidia Yuknavitch
• Everything is Waiting for You by David Whyte
• I’ll Tell You in Person by Chloe Caldwell
• So Sad Today by Melissa Broder
• Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay Gibson

I learned something(s) important from these

• Communion by bell hooks
• Trusting You Are Loved by Lew Epstein
• Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit
• Waking the Tiger by Peter Levine
• The Hidden Value of Not Knowing by Sruti
• Notes on How to Live in the World and Still Be Happy by Hugh Prather
• Becoming Wise by Krista Tippett
• The Leader as Martial Artist by Arnold Mindell
• Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari

Would read again if I could go back in time and re-decide

• The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
• Room by Emma Donoghue
• Between the World and Me by Ta Nehisi Coates
• Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
• The Book of Speculation by Erica Swyler
• Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett
• Walks With Men by Ann Beattie
• Four Reincarnations by Max Ritvo