My favourite books of 2016

I've read American Gods I didn't especially love I liked it but I found it just weird and I didn't find it that engaging from the first like it took me a long time to get into it

barchester Towers has definitely been my favorite one so far it basically looks at church politics in the town of barchester and follows the various conflicts between High church and low Church which doesn't sound that exciting but the way that Chet represents these two schools of thought in different opposing characters it's just wonderful

so jesser remedies is a Hardy novel that is quite a lot less well known but I was really surprised by and really loved I'd never heard of it before but it is brilliant really dramatic

it's so good it's so well written it's so powerful and moving and just as always John McGregor writes incredibly and this is definitely worth a read

I read this basically in one sitting and it was such a thoroughly engaging experience such a good book it follows the character of Lilia's parents get divorced when she is about three

this is a th thoroughly enjoyable book I think the best word for Miss petus for a day is just enjoyable it's so utterly fun

it's not a happy cheerful book but it's absolutely brilliant so wonderful so fascinatingly written so powerful so raw

I love the short story collection it's absolutely beautiful so well written so engaging all of the characters and the stories and the plots are so well done

there are so many things I love about this collection one it is just wonderfully written very cleverly done and so dark in all of the creepiest but yet most brilliant ways

it's so moving so poignant sad yes not the most cheerful but so well written so beautiful and just so well done so po poignant and so well written

I love station 11 it's very good but all the rest of her books are just as good as station 11

it is so dramatic like so exciting there is so much drama and complicatedness here there is so much danger and violence and pressure and dramatic occurrences in some ways it feels like a thriller but it's also beautifully written with wonderful characters with fascinating relationships

I thoroughly enjoyed this it is a science fiction novel of just the kind that I like I like science fiction a lot but what I'm interested in science fiction is alien cultures and the way that different societies might operate in the future

I love that it's so beautifully written and that she takes such care with all of her characters with her sentences that she writes in a really accessible enjoyable way but also very powerfully

I think Patrick rothos writes beautifully just incredibly and his world and the cultures he creates are just wonderful

it's just an incredibly engaging brilliantly written book like his writing is so beautiful and I knew from the moment I started listening to her that I was going to love it

there's a bit in the wise man sphere which is just like male wish fulfillment for like a few chapters and it's just silly and annoying and unnecessary Patrick rothus unnecessary but the book is so good both books are so good that I can kind of forgive it

the woodlanders by Thomas Hardy which may be my new favorite Hardy novel I haven't quite decided whether it beats duw the Obscure and far from the Madden crowd but I think it might

it's just wonderful it's just awesome it's so good and I highly recommend it but maybe only if you're someone who knows already that you like Victorian literature and is willing to put up with a little bit of tricky language

I do not understand why this book is out of print I just don't I just don't it's so good the half sisters is a mid Victorian novel which looks at the relationship and lives of Two Sisters Bianca and Alice

the handle of Ethel Berta a bit like desert remedies is a very exciting gripping Thomas Hardy novel and a lot happens a lot of plot points like it's not actually that long but as I was reading it I couldn't believe how much had happened at every stage

it is a thoroughly brilliant book so amazing one of those books that has such wonderful writing and such wonderful characterization and you're reading it and you think it's a very good book and then suddenly you get to one page and one thing happens which switches things around