Goodreads Book Reading Challenge

2016 I did the Goodreads Reading Challenge. It was fun to keep track of
200 books (well to record most of the books I read this year). There are about 30
I started but either lost under the nightstand, left out on the porch or couldn't struggle
through emotionally. Some books take a great deal of time - all year I worked on Roland
Barthes Empire of Signs. Sentences spun in my head as I weeded in the garden.
Other books were literary, poetry, thrillers, comic books, new releases for friends and
wild and crazy.

Here is list of books, I owe a few reviews, when will I have time?


https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/5010900/


I'm going to do the challenge again with same number count goal.
Writers should ALWAYS be reading, listening to spoken word readings and
writing. Long form, poems, short stories, notes, letters, handwritten and
online... Put on your writing hat, mask, costume, superstitious mask but
just write.

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Peeling Back the Trees... by Erik Anderson Img ruler 3xSHORTEST BOOK12 pagesPeeling Back the Trees...by Erik AndersonLONGEST BOOK733 pagesThe Collected Storiesby Lydia Davis The Collected Stories by Lydia Davis
AVERAGE LENGTH235 pages
MOST POPULAR480,801people also readAll the Light We Cannot Seeby Anthony Doerr All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Peeling Back the Trees... by Erik Anderson Img temp desktop 2xLEAST POPULAR1person also readPeeling Back the Trees...by Erik Anderson
Stone Boats by Elizabeth Taddonio HIGHEST RATED ON GOODREADSStone Boatsby Elizabeth Taddonioit was amazing
5.00 averageImg ratingribbon@2xMY 2016 BOOKS
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now by Maya Angelou The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou Aimless Love by Billy Collins Catherine of Siena by Catherine of Siena

Post Meridian by Mary Ruefle St Catherine of Siena by Pope John Paul II Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver it was amazing

Burning Bright by Ron Rash Peeling Back the Trees... by Erik Anderson

Her book by Eireann Lorsung Cry Me a River by T.R. Pearson The House of Sleep by Jonathan Coe Gweilo by Martin Booth

Transubstantiate by Richard Thomas it was amazing The End of the Alphabet by Claudia Rankine Nine Gates by Jane Hirshfield

Bone by Bone by Carol O'Connell The Year of Living Dangerously by Christopher J. Koch

New Collected Poems by George Oppen Paris Trance by Geoff Dyer it was amazing At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom by Amy Hempel

Debt by Mark Levine The Gallery by John Horne Burns

The Rain Before it Falls by Jonathan Coe Lorine Niedecker by Lorine Niedecker The Wilds by Mark Levine Dora by Lidia Yuknavitch

The Dwarves of Death by Jonathan Coe The Essential Rumi by Coleman Barks I Want Burning by Coleman Barks A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver

One Foot in Eden by Ron Rash How We Became Human by Joy Harjo The Killer in Me by Margot Harrison really liked it

Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb Mallory's Oracle by Carol O'Connell

This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff it was amazing Commons by Myung Mi Kim Cry Father by Benjamin Whitmer

Too Good to Be True by Benjamin Anastas The Good Lieutenant by Whitney Terrell

Incarnadine by Mary Szybist Kaputt by Curzio Malaparte Hummingbird Sleep by Coleman Barks People on a Bridge by Wisława Szymborska

The Shell Collector by Anthony Doerr Horoscopes for the Dead by Billy Collins Into That Darkness by Steven Price The Tin Horse by Janice Steinberg

Brother's Keeper by Glen R. Krisch Cold Quiet Country by Clayton Lindemuth it was amazing And Her Soul Out Of Nothing by Olena Kalytiak Davis

Tampa by Alissa Nutting Tender Hooks by Beth Ann Fennelly

The Wings of Joy by Sri Chinmoy Hollywood Car Wash by Lori Culwell The Hand of Poetry by Coleman Barks The Wisdom Of Sri Chinmoy by Sri Chinmoy

Omens in the Year of the Ox by Steven Price His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik Karmic Traces by Eliot Weinberger it was amazing

Dura by Myung Mi Kim Granted by Mary Szybist

Five Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers by Alyssa Wong Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith

The Second Life of Samuel Tyne by Esi Edugyan The 3 Mistakes of My Life by Chetan Bhagat

Secure the Shadow by Claudia Emerson Dancing on the Edge of the Roof by Sheila Williams Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey Silent Hall by N.S. Dolkart

View With a Grain of Sand by Wisława Szymborska I'm the Man Who Loves You by Amy King Commentaries on the Vedas, the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita by Sri Chinmoy

Citizen by Claudia Rankine Don’t Let Me Be Lonely by Claudia Rankine

Peace Is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh Bellocq's Ophelia by Natasha Trethewey Robert B. Parker's Lullaby by Ace Atkins Anatomy of Keys by Steven Price

The Return of the Prodigal Son by Henri J.M. Nouwen What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe The Shade of My Own Tree by Sheila Williams Uncanny Magazine Issue 10 by Lynne M. Thomas

A Book of Luminous Things by Czesław Miłosz Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins it was amazing Gourd Seed by Coleman Barks

Great with Child by Beth Ann Fennelly If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting by Anna Journey

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin Vulgar Remedies by Anna Journey The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate by Ted Chiang

Uprooted by Naomi Novik She by Michelle Latiolais

Fools Crow by James Welch Almost No Memory by Lydia Davis Falling Awake by Alice Oswald Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

The Cows by Lydia Davis An Arrangement of Skin by Anna Journey Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock The Door by Magda Szabó

The Sandman by Neil Gaiman The Year We Left Home by Jean Thompson Above the Waterfall by Ron Rash it was amazing

The Indian Lawyer by James Welch The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart by Robert Bly

Flying Higher by Michael Damian Thomas Wanderlust by Rebecca Solnit Scarlet Tanager by Bernadette Mayer My Lovesick Zombie Boy Band by Damien Walter

In the Devil's Territory by Kyle Minor it was amazing As Long As Trees Last by Hoa Nguyen The Industry of Souls by Martin Booth

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The Collected Stories by Lydia Davis

Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara Why I Am Not a Painter and Other Poems by Frank O'Hara The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock it was amazing

Haunted Houses by Lynne Tillman The Beauty by Jane Hirshfield

Red Juice by Hoa Nguyen Commonwealth by Ann Patchett Dispatches by Michael Herr Upstream by Mary Oliver

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain it was amazing All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Madness, Rack, and Honey by Mary Ruefle

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead 'Til the Well Runs Dry by Lauren Francis-Sharma

Landscaping for Wildlife by Jen Karetnick Late Wife by Claudia Emerson Staring Into the Abyss by Richard Thomas The Gallery of Vanished Husbands by Natasha Solomons

Midwinter Day by Bernadette Mayer Crave by Laurie Jean Cannady it was amazing Vistas of Many Worlds by Erik Anderson

A Little White Shadow by Mary Ruefle The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

Leonard by William Shatner Exigencies by Richard Thomas The Wallcreeper by Nell Zink A Confession by William F. Aicher

think tank for human beings in general by Jordan Castro Dart by Alice Oswald Scattered at Sea by Amy Gerstler Join by Steve Toutonghi

Into the Heart of the Country by Pauline Holdstock A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara it was amazing The Thunder Mutters by Alice Oswald

Butcher's Crossing by John Williams Only by Blood and Suffering by LaVoy Finicum

More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo it was amazing Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente

Unmarked by Peggy Phelan Walk Through Walls by Marina Abramović

The Trouble With Being God by William F. Aicher Come, Thief by Jane Hirshfield Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal Garments Against Women by Anne Boyer

Here, Bullet by Brian Turner The Dancers Inherit The Party by Ian Hamilton Finlay really liked it Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

Grit by Angela Duckworth Extensions by Myrna Dey

You Are the Message by Roger Ailes Glory over Everything by Kathleen Grissom Thunderbird by Dorothea Lasky The Land Where Lemons Grow by Helena Attlee

The Sellout by Paul Beatty Edna Poems by Laura Theobald The House Girl by Tara Conklin She Had Some Horses by Joy Harjo

The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Forty Stories by Donald Barthelme it was amazing

What My Hair Says About You by Laura Theobald American Genius by Lynne Tillman

Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel The Heavenly Table by Donald Ray Pollock Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

Voluptuous Dream During an Eclipse by Elaine Kahn it was amazing The Spy by Paulo Coelho A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny

Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen The Motion of Puppets by Keith Donohue

A White Trail by Diana Cohen Krantz Women in Public by Elaine Kahn Young Americans by Jordan Castro

The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman I'll Tell You in Person by Chloe Caldwell

Maria Lassnig by Kasia Redzisz Stone Boats by Elizabeth Taddonio The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward Marlene by C.W. Gortner

The Black Hour by Lori Rader-Day The Gunslinger by Stephen King
MISSING BOOKS?You can easily add books to this list by setting the Date Read for each book to any time in 2016.
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You read 200 out of 199 books.101%
101%Congratulations! You're really good at reading, and probably a lot of other things, too!

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