2016 reading roundup!

I've done it! I met my goal of reading 100 books this year.  It's hard to do a "top 10" so instead, I've listed my favorites by category. 

Favorite autobiographies/memoirs/essays:

Find a Way - Diana Nyad

Walk through Walls - Marina Abramovic

The Hidden Wound - Wendell Berry

The Journey Home - Edward Abbey

Frantumaglia - Elena Ferrante

Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs - Wallace Stegner

Favorite re-reads:
The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Favorite debut novels:

Behold the Dreamers - Imbolo Mbue

Border of Paradise - Esme Weijun Wang

Best Short Stories:

The Splendid Outcast - Beryl Markham

The Magic Barrel - Bernard Malamud

Favorite books by established authors new to me this year:

Medicine Walk - Richard Wagamese

The Temporary Gentleman - Sebastian Barry

The Sea - John Banville

Creepiest:

Eileen - Ottessa Moshfegh

Best survival story:

After the Wind - Lou Kasischke

Best Southern ambience:

The Risen - Ron Rash

Best non-fiction:

Are Prisons Obsolete? - Angela Davis

The Fire This Time - ed. by Jesmyn Ward

The Hour of Land - Terry Tempest Williams

Best engrossing reads (dare I say "beach reads?"):

House of Thieves - Charles Belfoure

The After Party - Anton DiScalfani

Sweet Caress - William Boyd

Best letters:

The Collected Letters of Wallace Stegner (real letters)

To the Bright Edge of the World - Eowyn Ivey (fictional letters)

Best books from the 1930s:

My Sister Eileen - Ruth McKenney

Remembering Laughter - Wallace Stegner