Goodreads Blog's Most Popular Posts of the Year

Throughout the year, the Goodreads blog has brought you thousands of reading recommendations, deep thoughts, and everything else a fellow booklover could want. As 2016 draws to a close, here are some of our most popular posts—it's a also a great way to make sure you didn't miss some great books:

• 15 Highly Anticipated Books of 2016: Turns out, we're pretty good at predicting the most-loved books. Take a look at what we said would be the year's big hits.
  
  
• Shakespeare Week on Goodreads: In April, we observed the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death with six authors writing a 'deleted scene' from one of Shakespeare's plays.
  
  
• 21 Hottest Books of Summer: Beach-reads galore as we rounded up the best of the season.
  
  
• The Top 100 Children's Books on Goodreads: We looked for the best-reviewed children's books, all with average rating of 4.0 or above.
  
  
• 20 Books That Will Hook You From the Very First Page: Here we proved that everyone wants to fall in love at the very first page.
  
  
• 16 Underrated Books That Deserve Your Attention: We asked our community to tell us about an underrated book that everyone should read. Your answers did not disappoint!
  
  
• 20 Things All Book Lovers Wish Someone Would Say to Them: What do all book lovers wish someone would say to them? In our perfect world, we'd get to hear all of these.
  
  
• 25 Big Books of Fall: To help prepare readers for cozy reading sessions, we crunched the numbers to find the biggest, buzziest books of autumn.
  
  
• Announcing the Winners of the 2016 Goodreads Choice Awards: More than 3.5 million votes were cast in this year's 8th annual Goodreads Choice Awards, honoring 2016's best books as selected by the readers themselves.
  
  
• 17 Eagerly Anticipated Book-to-Movie Adaptations: Some of the biggest adaptions of early 2017 from some of your best-loved books!

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