I started this blog in June 2016 as my helper in keeping track and better organizing the books I read or I would like to read sometime in the future and I was also hoping to find, in time, other people to chat with about books. Back in 2015 I have read 52 books, one book per week. I wasn’t able to read that many books in 2016, but I had the chance to learn a lot about blogging in general (mostly by reading books about blogging), a very enjoyable and also challenging activity that kept me busy for days.

Here is a short list with my favourite books read (or re-read) in 2016:

Fiction

• My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante (the first Neapolitan volume)
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog – Muriel Barbery
• The Cather in the Rye – J.D. Salinger (a classic re-read book)
• Husband and Wife – Zeruya Shalev
• Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant – Anne Tyler
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry – Rachel Joyce (inspiring for my upcoming Camino journey)
• The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy – Rachel Joyce
• What the Psychic Told the Pligrim – Jane Christmas
• milk and honey – Rupi Kaur

Nonfiction

• On the Move: A Life – Oliver Sacks (the best Autobiography I read in a long time)
• Open: An Autobiography – Andre Agassi (another 5-star Autobiography)
• When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi