Best Books Read in 2016

Of the 38 books I finished in 2016, below are the top five in four categories, fiction, non-fiction, biography/autobiography and honorable mention.  I would love to know your 2016 favorites, so please leave a comment. 

FICTION

A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel by Amor Towles

The Girls: A Novel by Emma Cline

The Sport of Kings: A Novel by C. E. Morgan

The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan

Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

(Click on Read More Below for Non-Fiction, Biography/Autobiography & Honorable Mention)

NON-FICTION

This Is Your Brain on Parasites by Kathleen McAuliffe

A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts by Andrew Chaikin

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst by Jeffrey Toobin

Pirate Hunters by Robert Kurson

BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan

Ghost Boy by Martin Pistorius

The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer

Badluck Way - A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West by Bryce Andrews

HONORABLE MENTION

A Love Letter to Texas Women by Sarah Bird

The Doctor's Wife by Myra Hargrave McIlvain

Grunt by Mary Roach

Loner: A Novel by Teddy Wayne

Eruption – the Untold Story by Steve Olson