This might just be the most meta list ever. A list of lists. I KNOW! Gasp.
I’ve really not read as much as I’d hoped this year, so I’m keen to add to my To-Read pile. There’s something reassuring about a decent recommendation that goes a long way to taking the risk out of committing to a book.
Here’s what a bunch of clever types thought were SOME of the best picks of the year.
Add your own recommendations in the comments and before you know it, something amazing will be happening, book-wise. (If you want to!)
Ace Book Lists To Help Fuel Your Summer Reading
Barnes and Noble’s Best Young Adult Books of 2016 : here
Readings’ Books That Made Us Laugh In 2016 : here
NPR’s Best Books of 2016 : here
Slate’s Best Audiobooks of 2016 : here
The New Yorker’s Books We Loved in 2016 list : here
Readings Staff Books They Would Not Have Read Without A Recommendation : here
Brain Pickings’ Best Children’s Books of 2016 : here
The Age’s Writer’s Choice Best Reads of 2016 : here
The New York Times Top Books of 2016 : here
The Times Best Books of 2016 : here
Brain Pickings’ Best Science Books of 2016 : here
The New York Times Notable Childrens’ Books of 2016 : here
Readings’ Best Crime Books of 2016 : here
Bust’s Best Books of Winter (they haven’t done their 2016 list yet!) : here
The Guardian’s Best History Books of 2016 : here
What would you put on your very own Best of 2016 book list?
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I’ve really enjoyed Wolf Hall and Caitlin Moran’s latest one (Moranifesto) this year. Both presents from rellies who must know me well!
In addition to The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke (mentioned above and SUCH an important, eye-opening book), I absolutely loved What a Way to Go by Julia Forster and How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran – both books about funny, quirky girls coming of age and figuring things out in the 80s and 90s respectively.
My stand out non-fiction reads have been Reckoning by Magda Szubanski and The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke. I think,in combination, they really brought home to me the importance of the representation of diversity in the media. And just how cruel people can be about difference and the destructive effect that has. The fiction work I loved is The Eye of the Sheep by Sofie Laguna. Just exquisite.
Oh my goodness without a shadow of a doubt I just adored Ruth Park’s Playing Beatie Bow, recommended to me by my mother in law and I just adore it! Such a sweet, wonderful book I wished I’d read as a teen but there’s deeper themes to get into as an adult too.
I also found Austin Kleon’s ‘Steel Like An Artist’ and ‘Show Your Work’ – Love them both! Really changed my way of thinking about things creatively.
I am reading a lot! I have a pile of 9 books next to my bed right now! The ones I’ve liked the most this year are-
Goodwood by Holly Throsby
Skylarking by Kate Middenhall
A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenburg
Silent Inhertiance by Joy Dettman
The Husbands Secret by Liane Moriarty
Mercy Street by Tess Evans
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
I have only read ‘A Homemade Life’ and ‘The Signature of All Things’ on that list, so I am going to make a note of the others! Thanks Reannon-face!!! xx
I have just realised that all bar the 2 we have both read are Australian writers so that’s pretty awesome 🙂
And i really think you will LOVE Skylarking- its a cross between The Strays & The Light Between Oceans & those are two of my most favourite books !