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2016 Reads
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert ★★
- Middlemarch by George Eliot ★★
- Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver ★★
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck ★
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin ★
- The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin ★
- No Man’s Land by Blexbolex
- Abecederia by Blexbolex
- A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder by Michael Pollan
- Into the War by Italo Calvino
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin ★
- My Life in France by Julia Child ★★
- The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
- The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine Aron
- Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan
- The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- The Mirror: A History by Sabine Melchior-Bonnet
- Gutenberg: How One Man Remade the World with Words by John Man ★
- Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin ★★
- Victory by Joseph Conrad ★
- Turning Point: 1997-2008 by Hayao Miyazaki
- How Music Works by David Byrne
- Stoner by John Williams ★
- The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
- A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
- The Last Interview and Other Conversations by David Foster Wallace
- The Last Interview and Other Conversations by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- A Little Book on the Human Shadow by Robert Bly
- Ballad by Blexbolex ★★
- Wabi-Sabi: For Artists, Designers, Poets, and Philosophers by Leonard Koren
- Wabi-Sabi: Further Thoughts by Leonard Koren
- The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin ★★
- The Walk by Robert Walser ★
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ★★
- Here by Richard McGuire
- How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read by Pierre Bayard
- A Room of One’s Own by Virgina Woolf ★
- J Dilla’s Donuts by Jordan Ferguson
- On Being Blue by William H. Gass
- The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Books v. Cigarettes by George Orwell
- On Solitude by Michel de Montaigne
- A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin ★★
- The Last Interview and Other Conversations by James Baldwin ★
- Starting Point: 1979-1996 by Hayao Miyazaki ★
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ★★
- Rising from the Plains by John McPhee ★
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov ★
- Jakob von Gunten by Robert Walser