2016 reading

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I started reviewing books here fairly early in 2016, and started cross-posting the reviews to Goodreads later on in the year (around Easter, I think, though I can't remember exactly). You can see the reviews by clicking on the "2016 books” tag. I make it 83 books, which is a surprising increase even on last year's 50, especially when six of them were by Dorothy Dunnett.

Pawn in Frankincense - Dorothy Dunnett
Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage - Sydney Padua
The Ringed Castle - Dorothy Dunnett
Castle In The Air - Diana Wynne Jones
Dear Committee Members - Julie Schumacher
The Bone Clocks - David Mitchell
The Mask Of Apollo - Mary Renault
Men At Arms - Terry Pratchett
The Gifts of Imperfection - Brené Brown
The Silkworm - Robert Galbraith
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - Becky Chambers
The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow - Katherine Woodfine
Walking the Woods and the Water - Nick Hunt
A Small Person Far Away - Judith Kerr
The Summer Book - Tove Jansson
Speak Its Name - Kathleen Jowitt
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Sorcerer to the Crown - Zen Cho
Checkmate - Dorothy Dunnett
The House of Shattered Wings - Aliette de Bodard
Resorting to Murder - ed. Martin Edwards
Love and Romanpunk - Tansy Rayner Roberts
The Light Years - Elizabeth Jane Howard
A God In Ruins - Kate Atkinson
Framley Parsonage - Anthony Trollope
North Face - Mary Renault
Feet of Clay - Terry Pratchett
Ancillary Mercy - Ann Leckie
The Spellcoats - Diana Wynne Jones
The Crown of Dalemark - Diana Wynne Jones
Mr Standfast - John Buchan
The Marlows and the Traitor - Antonia Forest
The Case of the Gilded Fly - Edmund Crispin
The Atrocity Archive - Charles Stross
Five Red Herrings - Dorothy L Sayers
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms - NK Jemisin
The Penelopiad - Margaret Atwood
Jingo - Terry Pratchett
The Road to Oxiana - Robert Byron
The Towers of Trebizond - Rose Macauley
The Best Of All Possible Worlds - Karen Lord
Arsenic for Tea - Robin Stevens
Marking Time - Elizabeth Jane Howard
Pointed Roofs - Dorothy Richardson
Post Captain - Patrick O’Brien
The Second Mango - Shira Glassman
Lady Susan - Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey - Val McDermid
Living With Ghosts - Kari Sperring
A Swiftly Tilting Planet - Madeleine L’Engle
Landmarks - Robert MacFarlane
The Fifth Elephant - Terry Pratchett
Station Eleven - Emily St John Mandel
Dawn Wind - Rosemary Sutcliff
The Stone Book Quartet - Alan Garner
Niccolo Rising - Dorothy Dunnett
A Walk Along the Wall - Hunter Davies
Hild - Nicola Griffith
Castle Gay - John Buchan
SPQR - Mary Beard
Falconer’s Lure - Antonia Forest
We Have Always Lived In The Castle - Shirley Jackson
The Blue Sword - Robin McKinley
Walking Home - Simon Armitage
The Spring of the Ram - Dorothy Dunnett
A Very Long Way From Anywhere Else - Ursula Le Guin
The Baba Yaga - Una McCormack
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
Miss Phryne Fisher Investigates - Kerry Greenwood
Cordelia’s Honour - Lois McMaster Bujold
Night Watch - Terry Pratchett
Confusion - Elizabeth Jane Howard
Monstrous Little Voices - various
Race of Scorpions - Dorothy Dunnett
Bitter Lemons - Lawrence Durrell
Band of Gypsys - Gwyneth Jones
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
The Broken Road - Patrick Leigh Fermor
Hogfather - Terry Pratchett
Thus Was Adonis Murdered - Sarah Caudwell
The Invisible Library - Genevieve Cogman
The a Code of the Woosters - PG Wodehouse

I don't seem to have logged Did Not Finishes this year, but I know there were a couple; Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body, possibly Courtney Milan's The Duchess War, though that may have been last year (both of these were DNF basically for Too Much Sex, though in rather different ways) and Ellen Kushner's Swordspoint (much more whimsical than I was expecting it to be and not really what I was in the mood for at the time, but I might give it another try some other time).

And now it's New Year's Eve, possibly my least favourite daye of the year, and I'm trying to decide whether I should be polite and stay up and go with my parents to see the New Year in with lots of complete strangers in the second freezing Norfolk church in two days or just go to bed and read The Hanging Tree which I treated myself to on Kindle as no-one had bought me the hardback for Christmas and be sound asleep well before midnight. After all, 2016 was the first New Year I'd stayed up for in about 15 years and look how that turned out...