Books of 2016

Fiction: 

This House is Haunted by John Boyne

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Luis Zafon

The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware

The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

The American Lover & Other Stories by Rose Tremain

The Man in the Picture by Susan Hill

Aiding and Abetting by Muriel Spark

The Redemption of Galen Pike by Carys Davies

All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld

Ghosting by Jonathan Kemp

Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

The Darkness of Wallis Simpson by Rose Tremain

The Madwoman Upstairs by Catherine Lowell

The Unfinished World: And Other Stories by Amber Sparks

The Flood Girls by Richard Fifield

Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi

Hot Milk by Deborah Levy

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

Get in Trouble by Kelly Link

A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh

Death in a Black Tie by Ngaio Marsh

The Ghost Stories of Muriel Spark by Muriel Spark

Artists in Crime by Ngaio Marsh

The Collected Short Mysteries by Ngaoi Marsh

The Rook by Daniel O’Malley

The Twelve Days of Christmas by Jeanette Winterson

Stiletto by Daniel O’Malley

Nonfiction:

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman

On Mortality by Christopher Hitchens

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Poetry:

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur