Here it is, my annual reading list, for 2016.
Far and away my favorite of the year was The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair. Never having read it until this year, I was surprised that it's a pro-socialism book, not an anti-food-packing-industry book. Said Sinclair about the novel after its publication: “I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.”
Elizabeth Gaskell†
Cranford (1853)G. K. Chesterton
The Innocence of Father Brown (1911)Oscar Wilde†
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)Anne Morrow Lindbergh†
Gift From the Sea (1955)Sir Arthur Conan Doyle†
A Study in Scarlet (1887)Charlie Jane Anders†
All the Birds in the Sky (2016)Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sign of the Four (1890)Herb Sutter and Andrei Alexandrescu†
C++ Coding Standards (2005)Upton Sinclair†
The Jungle (1906)H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds (1897)Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre‡ (1847)Theodore Sturgeon†
More Than Human (1953)Hugh Howey†
Wool (2012)Emily St. John Mandel†
Station Eleven (2014)
| † | First time to read author |
| ‡ | Reread |
