Books Read in 2016

January

Heidi Heilig, The Girl from Everywhere
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

February

Susan Wittig Albert, Loving Eleanor

March

Eva Flynn, The Renegade Queen

April

Diane Eickhoff, Clarina Nichols
Lyndsay Faye, Jane Steele
Rita Maria Martinez, The Jane and Bertha in Me
Sylvain Neuvel, Sleeping Giants

May

Mary Robinette Kowal, Glamour in Glass
Mary Robinette Kowal, Shades of Milk and Honey
Catherine Lowell, The Madwoman Upstairs
Patricia Park, Re Jane

June

Helen Ellis, American Housewife
Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic
N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season
Mary Robinette Kowal, Without a Summer
Michelle Moran, Mata Hari's Last Dance
Ryan North, Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable-Path Adventure

July

Genevieve Cogman, The Invisible Library
Mary Robinette Kowal, Ghost Talkers
Rena Olsen, The Girl Before
Katherine Ozment, Grace Without God

August

Julie Eshbaugh, Ivory and Bone
Mary Robinette Kowal, Valour and Vanity
Robin Coste Lewis, Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems
Imogen Robertson, The Paris Winter
Mary Sharratt, The Dark Lady's Mask
Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

September

N.K. Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate
Kim McLarin, Jump at the Sun

October

Anne Boileau, Katharina Luther: Nun, Rebel, Wife
Kent Haruf, Our Souls at Night
Julie K. Rose, Dido's Crown
Various, A Song of War

November

Richard McGuire, Here
Cherie Priest, The Family Plot
Cherie Priest, Maplecroft

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