2016

January

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet (Becky Chambers) ★★★★★
Farmer Giles of Ham/ The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (J. R. R. Tolkien) ★★★☆☆
The Fellowship of the Ring (J. R. R. Tolkien) ★★★★☆
A Portable Shelter (Kirsty Logan) ★★☆☆☆
The Two Towers (J. R. R. Tolkien) ★★★☆☆
Seven Brief Lessons in Physics (Calvo Rovelli) ★☆☆☆☆

February

I Hate Fairyland #1 (Skottie Young & Jean-Francois Beaulieu) ★★★☆☆
Illuminae (Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff) ★★★★☆
All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr) ★★★★☆
The Toaster Project (Thomas Thwaites) ★★★☆☆
Peter & Max (Bill Willingham) ★★★★☆
I Hate Fairyland #2 (Skottie Young & Jean-Francois Beaulieu) ★★★★☆
Compton Valance – The Time-Travelling Sandwich Bites Back (Matt Brown) ★★★☆☆
I Hate Fairyland #3 (Skottie Young & Jean-Francois Beaulieu) ★★★★☆

March

I Hate Fairyland #4 (Skottie Young & Jean-Francois Beaulieu) ★★☆☆☆
I Hate Fairyland #5 (Skottie Young & Jean-Francois Beaulieu) ★★★★☆
City of Bones (Cassandra Clare) ★★★☆☆
An Exclusive Love: A Memoir (Johanna Adorján) ★★☆☆☆
The Reader on the 6.27 (Jean-Paul Didierlaurent) ★★★★☆
Me Before You (Jojo Moyes) ★★★★☆
The Adventures of Luna the Vampire #1 (Yasmin Sheikh) ★☆☆☆☆

April

The Red Notebook (Antoine Laurain) ★★★☆☆
The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux) ★★★☆☆
Rogues (edited by George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozois) ★★★☆☆
The Last Animal (Abby Geni) ★★☆☆☆
Moon Over Soho (Ben Aaronovitch) ★★★☆☆
Saga Volume 1 (Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples) ★★★☆☆
Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops (Jen Campbell) ★★★★☆
Wrinkles (Paco Roca) ★★★☆☆
The Herring in the Library (L. C. Tyler) ★★☆☆☆

May

Between the Lines (Jodi Picoult & Samantha van Leer) ★★☆☆☆
Anthropology (Dan Rhodes) ★★☆☆☆
The Story of My Teeth (Valeria Luiselli) ★★★☆☆
Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them (J. K. Rowling) ★★★☆☆
Sleeping Giants (Sylvain Neuvel) ★★★★★
We Should All Be Feminists (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) ★★★☆☆
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Lewis Carroll) ★★★☆☆
Wise Man’s Fear (Patrick Rothfuss) ★★★★☆

June

Nimona (Noelle Stevenson) ★★★★★
It’s Not Me It’s You (Mhairi McFarlane) ★★★★☆
This Is How You Lose Her (Junot Diaz) ★★☆☆☆
Life After Life (Kate Atkinson) ★★★★☆

July

The View From the Cheap Seats (Neil Gaiman) ★★★★★
The Year of Living Danishly (Helen Russell) ★★★★☆
After You (Jojo Moyes) ★★★☆☆
A-Force Presents Volume 1 ★★★★☆
I Hate Fairyland #6 (Skottie Young & Jean-Francois Beaulieu) ★★☆☆☆
I Hate Fairyland #7 (Skottie Young & Jean-Francois Beaulieu) ★★★★☆
Hog in the Fog (Julia Copus & Eunyoung Seo) ★★★★☆
The Hog, The Shrew and the Hullabaloo (Julia Copus & Eunyoung Seo) ★★★★☆
The Shrew that Flew (Julia Copus & Eunyoung Seo) ★★★★☆

August

Herland (Charlotte Perkins Gilman) ★★★★☆
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany & Jack Thorne) ★☆☆☆☆
The Slow Regard of Silent Things (Patrick Rothfuss) ★★★☆☆
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows) ★★★☆☆
So Long, And Thanks to All the Fish (Douglas Adams) ★★★★☆
Doctor Strange Volume 1: The Way of the Weird (Jason Aaron & Chris Bachalo) ★★★★☆
I Hate Fairyland #8 (Skottie Young & Jean-Francois Beaulieu) ★★☆☆☆
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt (Aimee Bender) ★★★★☆
Flatland (Edwin A. Abbott) ★☆☆☆☆
The Worst Witch (Jill Murphy) ★★★☆☆

September

Dietland (Sarai Walker) ★★★☆☆
Zed Volume 1 (Michael Gagne) ★☆☆☆☆
Bread & Butter #1 (Liz Mayorga) ★★★☆☆
Animal (Sara Pascoe) ★★★☆☆
Spectacles (Sue Perkins) ★★★☆☆
I Am China (Xiaolu Guo) ★★★★★
Bilbo’s Last Song (J. R. R. Tolkien) ★★☆☆☆
Journey to Jo’Burg (Beverley Naidoo) ★★★☆☆
A Fish in Foreign Waters (Laura Caputo-Wickham) ★★☆☆☆
Mostly Harmless (Douglas Adams) ★★★★☆
The Book Thief (Markus Zusak) ★★★★☆
The Essex Serpent (Sarah Perry) ★★☆☆☆
I Hate Fairyland #9 (Skottie Young & Jean-Francois Beaulieu) ★★★★★
Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card) ★★★★☆
Happy People Read & Drink Coffee (Agnes Martin-Lugand) ★★☆☆☆

October

Sultana’s Dream (Roquia Sakhawat Hussain) ★★★☆☆
Adolescent’s Only (Irving Cox) ★★☆☆☆
Grief is a Thing with Feathers (Max Porter) ★★★☆☆
The Reason I Jump (Naoki Higashida) ★★★☆☆
One (Sarah Crossan) ★★☆☆☆
The Pied Piper of Hamelin (Russell Brand) ★★★☆☆
Dashing Through the Snow (Debbie Macomber) ★★☆☆☆
Can You Keep A Secret? (Sophie Kinsella) ★★★★☆
The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella) ★★★☆☆

November

A Boy Called Christmas (Matt Haig) ★★★★★
Reader, I Married Him (edited by Tracy Chevalier) ★★★☆☆
Shopaholic Abroad (Sophie Kinsella) ★★★☆☆
Shopaholic Ties the Knot (Sophie Kinsella) ★★★☆☆
Shopaholic on Honeymoon (Sophie Kinsella) ★☆☆☆☆
Seconds (Bryan Lee O’Malley) ★★★★☆
Piece of Cake (Trisha Ashley) ★★☆☆☆

December

Scrappy Little Nobody (Anna Kendrick) ★★★☆☆

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