My Top Ten Books of
2016
And, here it is. My list of the top ten books I read in
2016. If you follow my blog, you’ll know that I do this annually and that my
list is based on the books I read that year, regardless of the year in which a
book was published. Interestingly, 2016 saw me read more recently published
books (mostly 2015 and 2016) than I usually do. This year also drew me towards
reading more non-fiction books as well.
What gets a book on my top ten is the following criteria:
whether it changed a part of me or my life or how I look at life, the book’s
emotional impact on me, how unique and creative I though the book was. Each
book’s level of entertainment, education and ‘page turnability’ also determines
if it makse the list or not. And, again, as I say every year, this is purely my
subjective list. You may not like it and some of the books may be the kinds of
books that don’t normally draw you to them but they called to me and I gladly
shared a good part of my 2016 with them.
So, without further ado, here they are.
1. The Latinos of
Asia: How Filipinos Break The Rules of Race by Anthony Christian Ocampo,
Ph.D. Stanford University Press, 2016.
2. The Wild Robot
by Peter Brown. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2016.
3. Incensed by Ed
Lin. Soho Crime, 2016.
4. Arsene Wenger by
John Cross. Simon & Schuster (UK), 2015.
5. Dog Man by Dav
Pilkey. GRAPHIX, 2016.
6. The Sandwich Thief
by Andre Marois, Patrick Doyon (illustrator). Chronicle Books, 2016.
7. Descender, Volume
One: Tin Stars by Jeff Lemire, Dustin Nguyen (illustrator). Image Comics,
2015.
8. Two Years Eight
Months and Twenty-Eight Nights: A Novel by Salman Rushdie. Random House,
2016.
9. Futuristic Violence
and Fancy Suits by David Wong (Jason Pargin). Thomas Dunne Books, 2015.
10. The Thank You Book
(Elephant & Piggie #25) by Mo Willems. Disney-Hyperion, 2016.
Honourable mentions:
One-Punch Man, Volume
One by One, Yusuke Murata (illustrator). VIZ Media, 2015
Captain Awesome and
the New Kid (Captain Awesome #3) by Jim Kirby, George O’Connor
(illustrator). Little Simon, 2012.
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