Books that blew me away in 2016, in no particular order:
Eileen by Otessa Mosfegh
Being Grace by Antony Doer
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
Dying in the First Person by Nike Sulway
Arcadia by Lauren Groff
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Where the Trees Were by Inga Simpson
The Toy Maker by Liam Pieper
The Promise Seed by Cass Moriarty
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
Mullumbimby by Melissa Lukashenko
Love and Louis XIV by Antonia Fraser
Madness by Kate Richards
Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp
Wasted by Elispeth Muir
Blackout by Sarah Hepola
The Blindfold by Siri Hustvelt
Under the Ivy: A Biography of Kate Bush by Graeme Thomson
Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
A Thousand Orange Trees by Kathryn Harrison
Speak, Memory by Vlamdir Nobakov
The Hazards by Sarah Holland-Batt
The Inheritance of Loss by Anita Dessai
Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton
Wonder Tales Ed. Marina Warner
Loud in the House of Myself by Staci Pershall
A Mood Apart: The Thinker’s Guide to Emotions and its Disorders by Peter C. Whybrow
The Biology of Desire by Marc Lewis
The Wallcreeper by Nell Zink
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
The Quiet Room: A Journey out of the Torment of Madness by Lori Schiller
The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
Wasted by Myra Hornbach
Madness by Myra Hornbach
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