2016 | 55/53 Books Read 

Favorites from the year: The Royal We, You, The Night Circus, How It Went Down, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things, The Secret Life of Violet Grant, Valley of the Dolls, Tiny Little Thing, Ready Player One, The Swans of Fifth Avenue, Kitchen Confidential, The Humans

1. Bayou My Love | Lauren Faulkenberry

2. So You've Been Publicly Shamed | Jon Ronson

3. The Cartel | Don Winslow

4. The Royal We | Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan

5. The Fever | Meagan Abbott

6. You | Caroline Kepnes

7. The Good Nurse | Charles Graeber

8. Leaving Time | Jodi Picoult

9. Hidden Bodies | Caroline Kepnes

10. Cinder | Marissa Meyer

11. Scarlet | Marissa Meyer

12. Cress | Marissa Meyer

13. Winter | Marissa Meyer

14. Modern Romance | Aziz Ansari

15. Her | Harriet Lane

16. Before We Met | Lucie Whitehouse

17. The Night Circus | Erin Morgenstern

18. Negroland | Margo Jefferson

19. The Devil in the White City | Erik Larson

20. Magical Thinking | Augusten Burroughs

21. Lust & Wonder | Augusten Burroughs

22. How It Went Down | Kekla Magoon

23. The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up | Marie Kondo

24. The Girls | Emma Cline

25. Station Eleven | Emily St. John Mandel

26. The Light Between Oceans | M. L. Stedman

27. The Last One | Alexandra Oliva

28. Sweetbitter | Stephanie Danler

29. The Knockoff | Lucy Skyes, Jo Piazza

30. Pretty Baby | Mary Kubica

31. I Regret Nothing | Jen Lancaster

32. First Come Love | Emily Giffin

33. All the Ugly and Wonderful Things | Bryn Greenwood

34. Truly, Madly, Guiltily | Liane Moriarty

35. The Secret Life of Violet Grant | Beatriz Williams

36. Valley of the Dolls | Jacqueline Susann 

37. Don't You Cry | Mary Kubica

38. The Couple Next Door | Shari Lapena

39. Tiny Little Thing | Beatriz Williams

40. Ready Player One | Ernest Cline

41. Along the Infinite Sea | Beatriz Williams

42. The Swans of Fifth Avenue | Melanie Benjamin

43. The Hopefuls | Jennifer Close

44. Unwind | Neal Shusterman

45. The Girl With The Lower Back Tattoo | Amy Schumer

46. Before the Fall | Noah Hawley

47. Heartless | Marissa Meyer

48. Kitchen Confidential | Anthony Bourdain

49. You'll Grow Out of It | Jessi Klein

50. You Will Know Me | Megan Abbott

51. The Andy Cohen Diaries | Andy Cohen

52. The Humans | Matt Haig

53. The Woman in Cabin 10 | Ruth Ware

54. Pretty Girls | Karin Slaughter

55. The Nest | Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney