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Books of 2016

  • adriellejoy
  • Jan 5, 2017
  • 3 min read

I like to keep track of my reading, this is 2016 list.

January:

  • W;t - Margaret Edson

  • Piano Man's Daughter - Timothy Findley

  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf - Edward Albee

  • Comedians - Graham Greene

  • In Praise of Older Women - Stephen Vizinczey

  • 120 Days of Sodom - Marquis de Sade

February:

  • Bear - Marian Engel

  • 2001: a Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke

  • Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller

  • I, a Woman - Siv Holm

  • Extra(Ordinary) People - Joanna Russ

  • Halfling - Leigh Brackett

March:

  • Starry Rift - James Tiptree Jr.

  • Tom Jones - Henry Fielding

  • Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

  • Erewhon - Samuel Beckett

  • Science Fiction 101 - Anthology

  • Night clerk - Stephen Schneck

  • Dara - Anonymous

  • The Telling of Lies - Timothy Findley

  • The Nun of Monza - Marlo Mazzuchelli

April:

  • Dream Story - Arthur Schnitzler

  • The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Gertrude Stein

  • Awakening - Alice Chopin

  • Boating for Beginners - Jeanette Winterson

  • Among Women Only - Cesare Pavese

  • Return to the Chateau - Pauline Reage (questionable)

  • The Adventures of Alyx - Joanna Russ

  • Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence

  • Faggots - Larry Kramer

  • Priyas Shakti - Ram Devineni

  • The Story of the Eye - George Bataille

May:

  • Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • Rubyfruit Jungle - Rita Mae Brown

  • The Colour Purple - Alice Walker

  • King Solomon's Mine - H. Rider Haggard

  • Women of the Green Cafe - Anonymous

  • The Innocent Libertine - Colette

  • Hunger - Knut Hamsun

  • Trilogy - H.D.

  • Gigi and the Cat - Colette

  • Lady Susan - Jane Austen

June:

  • Our Lady of the Flowers - Jean Genet

  • Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson

  • Regiment of Women - Thomas Berger

  • Night Wood - Djuna Barnes

  • Desert of the Heart - Jane Rule

  • Broke Back Mountain - Annie Proulx

  • Wisdom's Daughter - H. Rider Haggard

  • Wanting women - Anthology

July:

  • Dancer from the Dance - Andrew Holleran

  • Zanouba - Out El Kouloub

  • The Abortion - Richard Brautigan

  • The Blacks - Jean Genet

  • Oh Calcutta - Kenneth Tynan

  • The Libertines - Anonymous

  • Dahl's History of the Book - Dahl

  • Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats - T. S. Elliot

  • Strange News From Another Star - Herman Hesse

  • The Magic Toyshop - Angela Carter

August:

  • Vox - Nicholson Baker

  • Starmen of Llyrdis - Leigh Brackett

  • Bitch Planet Vol. 1 - Kelly Sue DeConnick

  • We Who are About to - Joanna Russ

  • Monstress vol 1 - Majorie Liu

  • The Sentinel - Jeffrey Konvitz

  • Monsieur D'eon - Mark Browne

  • Les Liaisons Dangereuses - Choderlos de Laclos

  • Saga vol. 6 - Brian K. Vaughan

  • Truffles for Toy - Patricia Clapton

  • Love - Angela Carter

September:

  • Malinche - Laura Esquivel

  • A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara

  • Swimming-Pool Library - Alan Hollinghurst

  • Les Liaisons Dangereuses (play) - Chistopher Hampton

  • The Confidential Agent - Graham Greene

  • Cock-Sure - Mordecai Richler

  • A Universal History of Infamy - Jorge Luis Borges

  • To a God Unknown - John Steinbeck

  • The October Country - Ray Bradbury

October:

  • Dreamsnake - Vonda N. McIntyre

  • Female Man - Joanna Russ

  • Fear of Flying - Erica Jong

November:​

  • The Seeds of Time - John Wyndham

  • Thinner - Stephen King

  • Black Spring - Henry Miller

  • The End of Alice - A. M. Homes

  • Dr Tin - Tom Walmsley

  • Techniques of a Love Affair - Gentlewoman

  • School Life in Paris - Anonymous

  • Claudine At School- Colette

  • Ali Smith's Supersonic 70s - Ali Smith

  • Objects in Vases - Alina Stefanescu

  • Jaws - Peter Benchley

December:

  • Cave Girl - Edgar Rice Burroughs

  • The Mad King - Edgar Rice Burroughs

  • Heteroglossia - Lindsay Illich

  • We - Yevgeny Zamyatin

  • Natural State and other Stories - Damon Knight

  • The Ginger Star - Leigh Bracket

  • The Hounds of Skaith - Leigh Bracket

  • The Reavers of Skaith - Leigh Bracket

  • Venus USA- William Iversen

  • Angel Catbird - Margaret Atwood

  • Lesbian Interludes -Dallas Mayo

  • Hells Pavement - Damon Knight

 
 
 

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