#709 Reading 2016

According to Business Insider, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the most famous book set in Missouri.

Having already read that one some time ago, I opted to read these more recent Missouri books and loved each one.

• Mrs Grant and Madame Jule (2015) by Jennifer Chiaverini. 
• Bettyville (2015) by George Hodgman.  
• The Whole Town’s Talking (2016) by Fannie Flagg. 

 
In addition to books about Missouri, I also find myself reading literary adventures, books about books and booksellers.  According to Katarina Bivald, "you've got to be something of a dreamer to enjoy books."  She may be right.  These are my favorite literary adventures in 2016.

• The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry (2014) by Gabrielle Zevin 
  
• 84 Charing Cross Road (1970) by Helene Hanff  
• The Little Paris Bookshop (2013) by Nina George 
• The Red Notebook (2014) by Antoine Laurain
• The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend (2013) by Katarina Bivald
• The Bookman’s Tale (2013) by Charlie Lovett
• First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen (2014) by Charlie Lovett
  

Some books aren't categorized so easily, but I love them all the same.  Well, maybe I love that last one just a little bit more.   

• The Revolving Door of Life (2016) by Alexander McCall Smith. 
• Underneath the Lintel (2001) by Glen Berger.
• An Ideal Husband (1895) by Oscar Wilde.
• Love and Friendship: in Which Jane Austen’s Lady Susan Vernon is Entirely Vindicated (2016) by Whit Stillman.
• Eligible (2016) by Curtis Sittenfeld, a modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice, Book #4 of the Austen Project.
• Enormous Smallness: A Story of E. E. Cummings (2015) by Matthew Burgess.
• Britt-Marie Was Here (2016) by Fredrik Backman.
• The President’s Hat (2012) by Antoine Laurain.  
• All the Light We Cannot See (2014) by Anthony Doerr - my 2016 favorite!

Yours in reading,
Mary