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2016
My Year in Books
9,928
pages read
sarah semark
35
books read
sarah semark
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This is my journey in books for 2016!
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Shortest Book
64
pages
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Longest Book
553
pages
Average book length in 2016
283
pages
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Most Shelved
10,482,659
people also shelved
Designing Interface Animation by Val Head
Least Shelved
593
people also shelved
sarah’s average rating for 2016
3.9
3.9
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.42 average
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

sarah’s first review of the year

really liked it
Generally a great essay collection about different issues (not just "mansplaining") related to modern feminism. It starts out quite strong—the argument about marriage equality bein particularly good. It felt like it got off track as I read further: long meanderings about Virginia Woolf and continual callbacks to other books she'd written. Some of the essays touch on intersectional feminism issues, which was great, but they get a bit heavy-handed ...more
SARAH’S 2016 BOOKS
Razzle Dazzle Unicorn by Dana Simpson
Pain, Parties, Work by Elizabeth Winder
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
it was amazing
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
A Book for Her by Bridget Christie
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
The Baby by Abigail Barnette
Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
The Cypress Tree by Kamin Mohammadi
Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart
Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson
it was amazing
Shrill by Lindy West
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Designing Interface Animation by Val Head
really liked it
Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti
Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi
Unicorn vs. Goblins by Dana Simpson
Unicorn on a Roll by Dana Simpson
A Spy in the House of Love by Anaïs Nin
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
Chicken with Plums by Marjane Satrapi
Fishnet by Kirstin Innes
You Can't Touch My Hair by Phoebe Robinson
The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya
it was amazing
Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood
Z by Therese Anne Fowler
The Locusts Have No King by Dawn Powell
Talking as Fast as I Can by Lauren Graham
The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Olga Grushin
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Olga Grushin

sarah’s last review of the year

it was amazing
Lyrical, beautiful, and strange. I'm so glad I came across Grushin. ...more
2016 Reading Challenge Img rccompleted
2016 READING
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sarah semark read 35 out of 27 books.
 
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