The Review of Reviews -- books read in 2016

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Hey,

Not an outstanding, but a pretty good year for books. Here's everything I read:

 

 

 

Winter Holiday by Arthur Ransome (Audiobook)

Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard by Lawrence Schoen

Gold, Fame, Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins

Expendable by James Allen Gardner (Audiobook)

The Sellout by Paul Beatty

The House of War and Witness by Mark, Linda and Louise Carey (didn’t finish)

Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff

Inca Civilization in Cuzco by R. Tom Zuidema

Railroad Semantics 1 and 2 by Aaron Dactyl

Unsinkable: How to Build Plywood Pontoons & Longtail Boat Motors Out of Scrap by Robnoxious

Brotherhood of the Wheel by R. S. Belcher

Dream Whip #15 The Pedal Powered Movie Tour by Bill Brown

Shantyboat: A River Way of Life by Harlan Hubbard.

Low Town by Daniel Polansky

Coot Club by Arthur Ransome (Audiobook)

Railhead by Philip Reeve

The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 3 by Samuel Clemens

Pigeon Post by Arthur Ransome (Audiobook)

Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World by Noel Malcolm

The Everything Box by Richard Kadrey

Reminiscences of the "Filibuster" War in Nicaragua by Charles William Doubleday

Children of Earth and Sky by Guy Gaveriel Kay

Central Station by Lavie Tidhar

Sex with Shakespeare by Jillian Keenan

We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea by Arthur Ransome (Audiobook)

Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer

Enemy by K Easton

Dark Run by Mike Brooks

Making the Rounds by Allan Weiss

The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz

Los Nefilim by T. Frohock

Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign by Peter Cozzens

White Elephants by Katie Haegele

Outlaw by K. Eason

Hell Divers by Nicholas Sandsbury Smith

The Big Six by Arthur Ransome (Audiobook)

The North Water by Ian McGuire

Behind the Throne by K. B. Wagers

Four Roads Cross by Max Gladstone

Smokejumper by Jason A. Ramos

Secret Water by Arthur Ransome (Audiobook)

The War at the End of the World by Mario Vegas Llosa

The Fall of the House of Cabal by Jonathan L. Howard

Albina and the Dog-Men by Alejandro Jodorowsky

A Long Spoon by Jonathan L. Howard

Pirate Utopia by Bruce Sterling

Slaughtermatic by Steve Aylett

A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante

What to Do When I Get Stupid by Lewis Mandell

Roll Call to Destiny: The Soldier's Eye View of Civil War Battles by Brent Nosworthy

The Uskoks of Senj by Catherine Wendy Bracewell

The Earth is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West by Peter Cozzens

The Burning Isle by Will Panzo

Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection by Robert F Capon

Spiderlight by Adrian Tchaikovsky

After the Crown by K B Wagers

So that's around 56 books read/listened to. But you want to know what to add to your reading list.

Top Fiction books:

1.)  Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
2.)  Four Roads Cross by Max Gladstone
3.)  The Fall of the House of Cabal by Jonathan L. Howard
4.)  A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante

Top Non-fiction Books:
1.)  Supper of the Lamb by Robert F Capon
2.)  The Autobiography of Mark Twain Vol. 3 by Samuel Clemens
3.)  The Earth is Weeping by Peter Cozzens

Looking forward to some interesting books in 2017.

later
Tom