2016 in Review: Lisa Marie’s 20 Favorite Novels of 2016

Posted on January 13, 2017 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Right now, I’m in the process of taking a look back at some of my favorite things from the previous year. Yesterday, I posted a list of my favorite non-fiction books of 2016. Today, I post my 20 favorite novels!

All of these are worth reading and in fact, I insist that you do. Let’s enjoy the written word while we can because, sadly, the future holds only illiteracy and propaganda.

Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison
All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
Moonglow by Michael Chabon
Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
The Girls by Emma Cline
Ink and Bone by Lisa Unger
The Widow by Fiona Barton
My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
The Last Days of Jack Sparks by Jason Arnopp
The Empty Ones by Robert Brockway
The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales
Ways to Disappear by Idra Novey
The Gloaming by Melanie Finn

Tomorrow, it’s the list that you have all been waiting for: my picks for the best films of 2016!

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