2016 LibraryReads (Awarded by LibraryReads)

Awards List

Starred Review

Missing, Presumed
(*)
Susie Steiner

13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
(*)
Mona Awad

Be Frank with Me
(*)
Julia Claiborne Johnson

Black Rabbit Hall
(*)
Eve Chase

Fighting Dirty
(*)
Lori Foster

Find Her
(*)
Lisa Gardner

Flight of Dreams
(*)
Ariel Lawhon

Fool Me Once
(*)
Harlan Coben

The Girl in the Red Coat
(*)
Kate Hamer

A Girl's Guide to Moving On
(*)
Debbie Macomber

The Opposite of Everyone
(*)
Joshilyn Jackson

Salt to the Sea
(*)
Ruta Sepetys

All Things Cease to Appear
(*)
Elizabeth Brundage

Jane Steele
(*)
Lyndsay Faye

The Madwoman Upstairs
(*)
Catherine Lowell

Marked in Flesh
(*)
Anne Bishop

The Nest
(*)
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

The Passenger
(*)
Lisa Lutz

The Summer Before the War
(*)
Helen Simonson

Because of Miss Bridgerton
(*)
Julia Quinn

Eligible
(*)
Curtis Sittenfeld

Every Heart a Doorway
(*)
Seanan McGuire

Lilac Girls
(*)
Martha Hall Kelly

A Murder in Time
(*)
Julie McElwain

The Murder of Mary Russell
(*)
Laurie R. King

The Obsession
(*)
Nora Roberts

Til Death Do Us Part
(*)
Amanda Quick

Tuesday Nights in 1980
(*)
Molly Prentiss

Best of My Love
(*)
Susan Mallery

Britt-Marie Was Here
(*)
Fredrik Backman

City of the Lost
(*)
Kelley Armstrong

Everyone Brave Is Forgiven
(*)
Chris Cleave

The Fireman
(*)
Joe Hill

I Let You Go
(*)
Clare Mackintosh

Redemption Road
(*)
John Hart

Smoke
(*)
Dan Vyleta

Sweet Lamb of Heaven
(*)
Lydia Millet

Sweetbitter
(*)
Stephanie Danler

Wilde Lake
(*)
Laura Lippman

Homegoing
(*)
Yaa Gyasi

The Invisible Library
(*)
Genevieve Cogman

Lily and the Octopus
(*)
Steven Rowley

Stiletto
(*)
Daniel O'Malley

Under the Harrow
(*)
Flynn Berry

Vinegar Girl
(*)
Anne Tyler

Widowmaker
(*)
Paul Doiron

All Is Not Forgotten
(*)
Wendy Walker

Among the Wicked
(*)
Linda Castillo

The Hopefuls
(*)
Jennifer Close

The Last One
(*)
Alexandra Oliva

Nine Women, One Dress
(*)
Jane L. Rosen

Siracusa
(*)
Delia Ephron

We Could Be Beautiful
(*)
Swan Huntley

The Woman in Cabin 10
(*)
Ruth Ware

Arrowood
(*)
Laura McHugh

Behind Closed Doors
(*)
B.A. Paris

The Book That Matters Most
(*)
Ann Hood

The City Baker's Guide to Country Living
(*)
Louise Miller

The Couple Next Door
(*)
Shari Lapena

Daisy in Chains
(*)
Sharon Bolton

Dark Matter
(*)
Blake Crouch

Die Like an Eagle
(*)
Donna Andrews

The Dollhouse
(*)
Fiona Davis

First Star I See Tonight
(*)
Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Truly Madly Guilty
(*)
Liane Moriarty

The Unseen World
(*)
Liz Moore

Watching Edie
(*)
Camilla Way

The Bookshop on the Corner
(*)
Jenny Colgan

Commonwealth
(*)
Ann Patchett

Darktown
(*)
Thomas Mullen

A Great Reckoning
(*)
Louise Penny

Leave Me
(*)
Gayle Forman

The Masked City
(*)
Genevieve Cogman

The Secrets of Wishtide
(*)
Kate Saunders

The Tea Planter's Wife
(*)
Dinah Jefferies

Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd
(*)
Alan Bradley

All the Little Liars
(*)
Charlaine Harris

CrossTalk
(*)
Connie Willis

The Mothers
(*)
Brit Bennett

The Motion of Puppets
(*)
Keith Donohue

News of the World
(*)
Paulette Jiles

The Other Einstein
(*)
Marie Benedict

Small Great Things
(*)
Jodi Picoult

Smoke and Mirrors
(*)
Elly Griffiths

Today Will Be Different
(*)
Maria Semple

The Trespasser
(*)
Tana French

Faithful
(*)
Alice Hoffman

I'll Take You There
(*)
Wally Lamb

Moonglow
(*)
Michael Chabon

Night School
(*)
Lee Child

Orphans of the Carnival
(*)
Carol Birch

Swing Time
(*)
Zadie Smith

When All the Girls Have Gone
(*)
Jayne Ann Krentz

The Fate of the Tearling
(*)
Erika Johansen

Normal
(*)
Warren Ellis

Year-End Favorite

My Name Is Lucy Barton
(*)
Elizabeth Strout

The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
(*)
Katarina Bivald; Alice Menzies

Salt to the Sea
(*)
Ruta Sepetys

The Nest
(*)
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

The Summer Before the War
(*)
Helen Simonson

Lilac Girls
(*)
Martha Hall Kelly

The Woman in Cabin 10
(*)
Ruth Ware

Truly Madly Guilty
(*)
Liane Moriarty

Commonwealth
(*)
Ann Patchett

A Great Reckoning
(*)
Louise Penny

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