From the Top 10 Archives - Jen's 10 Favorite Books of 2016

Ever since I began this blog, I have been periodically looking back at one of my old top 10 favorite book lists.  As a reminder, these are lists I made contemporaneously at the end of the respective years, made up of books I read in that particular year, not necessarily books published that year.  And with today's post looking back at my favorite books of 2016, I've now got all my top 10 lists on this blog in some form, since one of my very first posts on this blog was my ten favorite books of 2017.  Stay tuned for a future post with a special look back at 20 years of my lists!

Here's my list from 2016, in alphabetical order by author's last name:

Black Rabbit Hall - Eve Chase
The City of Mirrors - Justin Cronin
The Trespasser - Tana French
Monsters - Liz Kay
The Expatriates - Janice Y.K. Lee
The Last One - Alexandra Oliva
Harmony - Carolyn Parkhurst
Missing, Presumed - Susie Steiner
Kitchens of the Great Midwest - J. Ryan Stradal
Modern Lovers - Emma Straub


For more random details about these books, keep reading!

Anticipated books of fall

Even though I have a to-read list that could keep me busy for years, for some reason I also absolutely love looking ahead to new books coming out that I want to read!  Thank goodness there are less books announced so far for fall that I am dying to read than there were for summer - when there were so many books I had to break them into two posts, one for May and June and one for July and August.  Though I did a pretty amazing job getting through those lists - of the 24 books I listed between those two posts which I hadn't read yet, I've read all but 2!  Go me!  And most of them were very good.

Anyway, here are some of the books announced as coming out this fall which I'm most excited about.