Note: This does not include anything I reread. There weren’t a lot in that category, but this is just new books read in 2016.

  • The Pacific – Hugh Ambrose
  • Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition – Daniel Okrent
  • Alive – Scott Sigler
  • Still Alice – Lisa Genova
  • Star Wars: Aftermath – Chuck Wendig
  • A Nice Little Place On The North Side – George Will
  • Purity – Jonathan Franzen
  • Andrew’s Brain – E.L. Doctorow
  • All The Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
  • Command Authority – Tom Clancy
  • No Baggage – Clara Bensen
  • The Big Tiny – Dee Williams
  • Alexander Hamilton – Ron Chernow
  • Star Wars: Lords of the Sith – Paul S. Kemp
  • Brooklyn – Colm Toibin
  • In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin – Erik Larson
  • A Little Life – Hanya Yanagihara
  • The Episodic Career – Farai Chideya
  • Writing Down the Bones
  • A Farewell to Arms – Earnest Hemingway
  • To Have and Have Not – Earnest Hemingway
  • The Sun Also Rises – Earnest Hemingway
  • Daring Greatly – Brene Brown
  • Star Wars: Heir to the Jedi – Kevin Hearne
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls – Earnest Hemingway
  • Here I Am – Jonathan Sacramento Foer
  • Walden on Wheels – Ken Ilgunas
  • Paradox of Choice – Barry Schwartz
  • Augustine: From Conversion to Confessions – Robin Lane Fox
  • Star Wars: Lost Stars – Claudia Gray