My favorite (only?!) resolution for the past six new years has been to read a least 1 book each month.  I’ve always loved to read, but keeping track has been a great addition because it lets me look back and fondly remember my favorites.  Here were 2015 and 2014‘s lists.

Books I Read in 2016 –

The list is in chronological order.  F = fiction, NF = nonfiction, and M = memoir.  I bolded the year’s top five favorites.

1. Depraved Heart – Patricia Cornwell (f)
2. I See Rude People; One woman’s battle to beat some manners into impolite society – Amy Alkon (m/nf)
3.  Why Not Me? – Mindy Kaling (m)
4. A Girl Walks Into a Bar… Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle – Rachel Dratch (m)
5. The Skeleton Cupboard, The Makings of a Clinical Psychologist – Tanya Byron (m)
6.  The Death Class, A True Story About Life – Erika Hayasaki (nf/m)
7. Bonk, The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex – Mary Roach (nf)
8. Find Her – Lisa Gardner (f)
9. Nancy Drew and the Triple Hoax – Carolyn Keene (f)
10. Egg and Spoon – Gregory Maguire (f)
11. The Checklist Manifesto, How to Get Things Right – Atul Gawande (nf)
12. My Fat Dad, a Memoir of Food, Love, and Family, with Recipes – Dawn Lerman (m)
13. Life from Scratch, a Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness – Sasha Martin (m)
14. Less Medicine, More Health; 7 Assumptions that Drive too Much Medical Care – Dr. H Gilbert Welch (nf)
15. White Walls; a Memoir about Motherhood, Daughterhood, and the Mess In between – Judy Batalion (m)
16. Bastards – Mary Anna King (m)
17. Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good, A memoir of food and love from an American Midwest family – Kathleen Flinn (m)
18. Autumn Balloons – Kenny Porpora (m)
19. Stir; My broken brain and the meals that brought me home – Jessica Fechtor (m)
20. Final Jeopardy – Linda Fairstein (f)
21. Cooking as Fast as I Can; A Chef’s Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness – Cat Cora (m)
22. Night – Elie Wiesel (m) {reread}
23. The Point of Vanishing, a memoir of two years in solitude – Howard Axelrod (m)
24. One More Thing, Stories and Other Stories – B.J. Novak (f)
25. Likely to Die – Linda Fairstein (f)
26. Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, a mostly true memoir – Jenny Lawson (m)
27. Cold Hit – Lisa Fairstein (f)
28. After Alice – Gregory Maguire (f)
29. Lust and Wonder – Augusten Burroughs (m)
30. January First, a child’s descent into madness and her father’s struggle to save her – Michael Schofield (m)

What was your favorite book you read this year?  Do you make any NYE resolutions?