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Carol's 2016 Reads

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Carol's 2016 Reads

Here you will find what we think is a complete listing of the books that Carol Fitzgerald, the president and co-founder of The Book Report Network, has read in 2016, along with their publication dates. Be sure to click on the title links to learn more about them. Carol has talked about many of these books in the openers of our Weekly Update newsletters, and some are Bookreporter.com Bets On selections, so we've included those links as well. Carol hopes you'll be inspired to add a few of these titles to your own reading lists!

 

December 19, 2015

DARK MONEY: A Jack Bryant Thriller by Larry D. Thompson
- See Carol's newsletter mention here.
 

January 5th

AFTER THE CRASH by Michel Bussi
- See Carol's newsletter mention here and her Bets On commentary here.

THE GUEST ROOM by Chris Bohjalian
- See Carol's newsletter mention here and her Bets On commentary here.

THE SOUND OF GRAVEL: A Memoir (audiobook) written and read by Ruth Wariner
- See Carol's newsletter mention here and her Bets On commentary here.
 

January 12th

MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON by Elizabeth Strout
- See Carol's newsletter mention here.

WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR by Dr. Paul Kalanithi
- See Carol's newsletter mention here.
 

January 19th

ORPHAN X by Gregg Hurwitz
- See Carol's newsletter mention here and her Bets On commentary here.

RIVER ROAD by Carol Goodman
- See Carol's newsletter mention here.

THE THINGS WE KEEP by Sally Hepworth
- See Carol's newsletter mention here and her Bets On commentary here.
 

January 26th

THE MEMORY OF LIGHT by Francisco X. Stork
- See Carol's newsletter mention here.

THE SWANS OF FIFTH AVENUE by Melanie Benjamin
- See Carol's newsletter mention here and her Bets On commentary here.
 

February 2nd

MISSING PIECES by Heather Gudenkauf
- See Carol's newsletter mention here and her Bets On commentary here.
 

February 9th

GEORGIA: A Novel of Georgia O’Keeffe by Dawn Tripp
- See Carol's newsletter mention here and her Bets On commentary here.
 

February 15th

A MOTHER’S RECKONING: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy (audiobook) written and read by Sue Klebold
- See Carol's newsletter mention here and her Bets On commentary here.
 

February 16th

THE GIRL IN THE RED COAT by Kate Hamer
- See Carol's newsletter mention here.

HIDE by Matthew Griffin
- See Carol's newsletter mention here.

THE WIDOW by Fiona Barton
- See Carol's newsletter mention here and her Bets On commentary here.
 

February 23rd

FLIGHT OF DREAMS by Ariel Lawhon
- See Carol's newsletter mention here.

A GIRL’S GUIDE TO MOVING ON by Debbie Macomber
- See Carol's newsletter mention here.

THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF SISTERS by Luanne Rice
- See Carol's newsletter mention here.

UNDER THE INFLUENCE by Joyce Maynard
- See Carol's newsletter mention here and her Bets On commentary here.
 

March 8th

ALL THINGS CEASE TO APPEAR by Elizabeth Brundage
- See Carol's newsletter mention here and her Bets On commentary here.

FAR FROM TRUE: A Promise Falls Novel by Linwood Barclay
- See Carol's newsletter mention here and her Bets On commentary here.
 

March 22nd

THE CHARM BRACELET by Viola Shipman
- See Carol's newsletter mention here.

THE NEST by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
- See Carol's newsletter mention here and her Bets On commentary here.

NO ONE KNOWS (audiobook) written by J. T. Ellison, read by Teri Schnaubelt and Nick Podehl
- See Carol's newsletter mention here

THE SUMMER BEFORE THE WAR by Helen Simonson
- See Carol's newsletter mention here and her Bets On commentary here.
 

April 5th

GIRL IN THE BLUE COAT by Monica Hesse
- See Carol's newsletter mention here.

GLORY OVER EVERYTHING: Beyond The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
- See Carol's newsletter mention here and her Bets On commentary here.

LILAC GIRLS by Martha Hall Kelly
- See Carol's newsletter mention here and her Bets On commentary here.

THE RAINBOW COMES AND GOES: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss (audiobook) written and read by Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt
- See Carol's newsletter mention here.

THE THIRD WAVE: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future (audiobook) written and read by Steve Case
- See Carol's newsletter mention here.
 

April 12th

MOST WANTED by Lisa Scottoline
- See Carol's newsletter mention here.
 

May 3rd

THE ATOMIC WEIGHT OF LOVE by Elizabeth J. Church
- See Carol's newsletter mention here and her Bets On commentary here.

EVERYONE BRAVE IS FORGIVEN by Chris Cleave
- See Carol's newsletter mention here and her Bets On commentary here.

I LET YOU GO by Clare Mackintosh
- See Carol's newsletter mention here and her Bets On commentary here.

THE SHIFT: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives by Theresa Brown, RN
- See Carol's newsletter mention here.

THE VERSIONS OF US by Laura Barnett
- See Carol's newsletter mention here.
 

May 10th

HAMILTON: THE REVOLUTION written by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter, read by Mariska Hargitay, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter
-See Carol's newsletter mention here.
 

May 17th

IN THE CLEARING by Robert Dugoni
-See Carol's newsletter mention here.

THE WEEKENDERS by Mary Kay Andrews
- See Carol's newsletter mention here.
 

May 24th

SWEETBITTER by Stephanie Danler (reading now)
- See Carol's newsletter mention here.

TRIBE: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger
- See Carol's newsletter mention here.
 

May 31st

BEFORE THE FALL by Noah Hawley
- See Carol's newsletter mention here and her Bets On commentary here.

BEWARE THAT GIRL by Teresa Toten

EVERY EXQUISITE THING by Matthew Quick
- See Carol's newsletter mention here.

MODERN LOVERS by Emma Straub
- See Carol's newsletter mention here and her Bets On commentary here.
 

June 7th

THE GIRLS IN THE GARDEN by Lisa Jewell

UNTETHERED
by Julie Lawson Timmer

 

June 14th

THE GIRLS by Emma Cline
- See Carol's newsletter mention here and her Bets On commentary here.

I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS by Ian Reid.

MARKED FOR LIFE by Emelie Schepp 
- See Carol's newsletter mention here

THE TUMBLING TURNER SISTERS by Juliette Fay 
- See Carol's newsletter mention here.

UNDER THE HARROW by Flynn Berry
- See Carol's newsletter mention here.
 

June 28th

A CERTAIN AGE by Beatriz Williams
- See Carol's newsletter mention here.

FIRST COMES LOVE by Emily Giffin
-See Carol's newsletter mention and interview with Emily here.
 

July 12th

ALL IS NOT FORGOTTEN by Wendy Walker
- See Carol's newsletter mention here and here.
 

July 19th

THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 by Ruth Ware
-See Carol's newsletter mention here.
 

July 26th

AGE OF CONSENT by Marti Leimbach
- See Carol's newsletter mention here.

DARK MATTER by Blake Crouch
-See Carol's newsletter mention here.

GOOD AS GONE by Amy Gentry

TRULY MADLY GUILTY by Liane Moriarty
-See Carol's newsletter mention here and here.

YOU WILL KNOW ME by Megan Abbott
 

August 9th

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS by B. A. Paris
- See Carol's newsletter mention here.

I WILL SEND RAIN by Rae Meadows
- See Carol's newsletter mention here.

August 23rd

BEHOLD THE DREAMERS by Imbolo Mbue
-See Carol's newsletter mentions here and here

THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR by Shari Lapena
- See Carol's newsletter mention here

THE DOLLHOUSE by Fiona Davis    
 

August 30th

GIRL IN PIECES by Kathleen Glasgow 
See Carol's newsletter mention here

THE NIX by Nathan Hill
- See Carol's newsletter mention here
 

September 6th

A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW by Amor Towles (reading now)
 

September 13th

DARKTOWN by Thomas Mullen
- See Carol's newsletter mention here

GHOSTS written and illustrated by Raina Telgemeier
 

October 4th

ANOTHER DAY IN THE DEATH OF AMERICA: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives by Gary Younge
- See Carol's newsletter mention here.
 

October 11th

SMALL GREAT THINGS by Jodi Picoult
- See Carol's newsletter mention here.

THE MOTHERS by Brit Bennett
- See Carol's newsletter mention here

THE TWENTY-THREE: A Promise Falls Novel by Linwood Barclay

 

October 18th

THE OTHER EINSTEIN by Marie Benedict

 

 2017 Releases

January 

THE GIRL BEFORE by J.P. Delaney
- See Carol's newsletter mention here

January 5, 2017

HISTORY OF WOLVES by Emily Fridlund
- See Carol's newsletter mention here
 

January 17, 2017

LITTLE DEATHS by Emma Flint
- See Carol's newsletter mention here.

April 4, 2017

I FOUND YOU by Lisa Jewell

May 2, 2017

THE IMPROBABLE FLIGHT OF GINNY MOON by Benjamin Ludwig
- See Carol's newsletter mention here