Here is a list of the books I read in 2016:
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
Members of the Pickwick club report on their travels.
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
Sagan describes the universal mysteries science has solved.
Variations On Night And Day by Abdelrahman Munif
The final novel in the Cities Of Salt trilogy.
The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
Renzo survives famine, war and pestilence to marry Lucia.
Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
A vision of the human future in space.
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Stowe describes the evils of slavery.
Waverley by Walter Scott
Edward travels to Scotland, fights battles and marries Rose.
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Scarlett O'Hara does whatever necessary to provide for her family and save her beloved home.
Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
Renzo survives famine, war and pestilence to marry Lucia.
Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
A vision of the human future in space.
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Stowe describes the evils of slavery.
Waverley by Walter Scott
Edward travels to Scotland, fights battles and marries Rose.
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Scarlett O'Hara does whatever necessary to provide for her family and save her beloved home.
Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
Phillip Marlowe investigates a jewelry theft and murder.
One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Solzhenitsyn desribes the brutal conditions of life in a Russian prison camp.
Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost
A scandalous couple cons their way across two continents.
Voss by Patrick White
A German explorer leads an expedition to map the continent of Australia.
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
A lonely artist shares his experiences.
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
I listened to the audio version of the author's only book set in Coketown.
New Grub Street by George Gissing
A social circle of writers have varying degrees of success.
The Force Awakens by Alan Dean Foster
The novelization of the movie.
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
A Jewish man unburdens his worries on a psychiatrist.
The Bridge On The Drina by Ivo Andrić
The construction of a stalwart bridge near a small town in Bosnia and its importance to multi-generations.
Henry IV Parts One And Two by William Shakespeare
Henry matures and becomes Henry V.
The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
Carroll's classic characters are reimagined in an action-adventure, fantasy novel.
Man's Fate by André Malraux
Terrorists attempt to overthrow the government in Shanghai.
Seeing Redd by Frank Beddor
The Looking Glass Wars continue in book two of the trilogy.
Justine by Lawrence Durrell
Justine is introduced in the first book of the Alexandria quartet.
Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
A compilation of nine stories by J.D. Salinger.
Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The author of The Little Prince flies mail routes across oceans and deserts. In places, it reaches the poetic and magical heights of his classic children's tale.
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Noir is born in this progenitor of the hard-boiled detective story.
ArchEnemy by Frank Beddor
Beddor concludes The Looking Glass Wars trilogy.
Wildwood by Colin Meloy
Prue's baby brother is abducted by a murder of crows and she must explore the fantastic land of Wildwood to rescue him.
A Wodehouse Miscellany by P.G. Wodehouse
A collection of essays and short stories.
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The little prince travels to many planets, including Earth, befriends a fox and an aviator and pines over his far away rose before returning to the stars.
Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis
A Brazilian man avoids becoming a priest to marry his childhood sweetheart.
Harry Potter And The Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling
The next generation of Potters, Weasleys and Grangers must defeat an enemy in the past to protect the future.
Six Memos For The Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
Five lectures on literature from one of its masters.
Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee
Jean-Louise Finch visits Maycomb county and is disillusioned by her childhood hero.
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The classic children's book with new illustrations by Anna Bond.
Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell
The second book in the Alexandria quartet.
Origins by Neil deGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith
Astrophysicists explore cosmology.
The Mysteries Of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
Melancholy tears fill every page of this gothic novel.
The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
Irene travels to alternate worlds and steals books for The Library.
The Remains Of The Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
An aging butler ponders his life of service and unrealized love.
A Charlie Brown Christmas by Charles M. Schulz
Charlie Brown learns what Christmas is all about.
Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane
Infidelity ends the marriage between a young woman and a much older man.
The Masked City by Genevieve Cogman
Irene must rescue her abducted partner in the second Invisible Library novel.
