Mari’s Must-Reads of 2016
(in no particular order)
1. Spindle’s End by Robin McKinley
2. Snow White, Blood Red, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
3. Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor
4. Fire Study by Maria V. Snyder
5. The Diviners by Libba Bray
6. Snow Like Ashes by Sara Raasch
7. The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities edited by Ann VanderMeer
8. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
9. Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas
10. Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
11. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time by Yasutaka Tsutsui
12. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon Ruiz *DNF 50%
13. Nobody’s Princess by Esther M. Friesner
14. The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
15. Kings and Assassins by Lane Robins
16. Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
17. Scarlet by Marissa Meyer
18. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
19. Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb
20. Cast in Shadow by Michelle Sagara
21. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard, Henry Popkin
22. Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
23. An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
24. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
25. City of a Thousand Dolls by Miriam Forster
I carried most of my challenge books of 2015 over to the 2016 list, because hey, I really do intend to read them. The rest is a mixture of new releases as well as a bunch I pulled out of my book jar, because I needed to whittle the list inside the jar down somehow…
Story and Somnomancy 