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All the books I read in 2016

I have been meaning to do some new reviews etc in the last few weeks but
a. I've been super busy, and
b. I've been really lazy.

So here is a lazy post, and I will try to gather some energy and post some more exciting things this year.

Every year I aim to read 52 books. One per week. It hasn't happened yet, but that goal helps me to read more than I otherwise would. This year I got halfway, with a grand total of 26. Just for my own curiosity, I wrote a list of them all. Here it is, chronologically:


BOOKS READ IN 2016

  1. The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion
  2. Sick in the Head by Judd Apatow
  3. Making It Up As I Go Along by Marian Keyes
  4. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
  5. Wildflower by Drew Barrymore
  6. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
  7. All Over the Map by Laura Fraser
  8. Poking a Dead Frog by Mike Sacks
  9. Sisterhood Everlasting by Ann Brashares
  10. Can I Say by Travis Barker
  11. Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
  12. Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson by Jeff Guinn
  13. Why We Write by Meredith Maran
  14. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
  15. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
  16. You’ll Be Sorry When I’m Dead by Marieke Hardy
  17. Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story by Jerry Lee Lewis and Rick Bragg
  18. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by JK Rowling
  19. Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler
  20. The Dirt by Motley Crue
  21. The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
  22. Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
  23. The Family Law by Benjamin Law
  24. I am by Brian Wilson
  25. Bream Gives me Hiccups by Jesse Eisenberg
  26. Scrappy little Nobody by Anna Kendrick



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