So, what type of new<\/em> books did I read this year?<\/p>\n It was the year of British literature, it seems.<\/p>\n And women writers dominate, yet again. <\/p>\n Now for my favourites.<\/p>\n My Favourite Adult Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n My favourite novels this year included Breakfast with the Nikolides<\/em><\/a> by Rumer Godden, Olive Kitteridge<\/em><\/a> by Elizabeth Strout, Slade House<\/em><\/a> by David Mitchell and the latest installment of the Rivers of London<\/em> series, The Hanging Tree<\/em><\/a> by Ben Aaronovitch.<\/p>\n My Favourite Non-Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n It was non-fiction that really captured my interest this year. Favourites included The Genius of Birds<\/em><\/a> by Jennifer Ackerman, Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life<\/em><\/a> by Anne Lamott, Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists<\/em><\/a> by David Aaronovitch, and two of Bill Bryson\u2019s books, At Home: A Short History of Private Life<\/em><\/a> and The Road to Little Dribbling<\/em>. I\u2019m only halfway through Stalin Ate My Homework<\/em><\/a> by Alexei Sayle, but I\u2019m really enjoying it so far. However, my absolute favourite of the year was Cordelia Fine<\/a>\u2019s Delusions of Gender<\/em>, a brilliantly incisive yet accessible discussion of neurocognitive research into sex differences, which I realise I didn\u2019t actually review on this blog because I was too busy writing assignments at the time. I will try to remedy that at some stage in the near future, but in the meantime, here\u2019s a good review<\/a>.<\/p>\n My Favourite Books for Children and Teenagers<\/strong><\/p>\n I loved Iris and the Tiger<\/em><\/a> by Leanne Hall and Howl\u2019s Moving Castle<\/em><\/a> by Diana Wynne Jones. I was also beguiled by the first book in Antonia Forest\u2019s Marlow series, Autumn Term<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n My Favourite Picture Books and Graphic Novels<\/strong><\/p>\n I was entertained (and occasionally enraged) by a collection of First Dog on the Moon\u2019s political cartoons, A Treasury of Cartoons<\/em><\/a>. I also enjoyed Night Witch<\/em><\/a>, a graphic novel in the Rivers of London<\/em> series, by Ben Aaronovitch, Andrew Cartmel, Lee Sullivan and others (although it wasn\u2019t as good as the prose novels).<\/p>\n Thank you to everyone who contributed to Memoranda in 2016. I hope you\u2019ve all had a good reading year and that 2017 brings you lots of inspiring, informative and entertaining books. Happy holidays!<\/p>\n More favourite books:<\/p>\n Favourite Books of 2010<\/a> It\u2019s not quite the end of the year, but here are the books I’ve read in 2016 (so far) that I loved the most. But first, some statistics. I only read 46 new books this year (new to me, that is), fewer than I usually read. This was partly because I was studying for most … Continue reading My Favourite Books of 2016<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,6,18,20,8,11],"tags":[241,37,25,23,38,240,29,35,28,239,39,27,41,34,30],"class_list":["post-5070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-books","category-my-favourite-books","category-science","category-this-writing-life","category-young-adult","tag-alexei-sayle","tag-anne-lamott","tag-antonia-forest","tag-ben-aaronovitch","tag-bill-bryson","tag-cordelia-fine","tag-david-aaronovitch","tag-david-mitchell","tag-diana-wynne-jones","tag-elizabeth-strout","tag-first-dog-on-the-moon","tag-jennifer-ackerman","tag-leanne-hall","tag-rumer-godden","tag-ruth-prawer-jhabvala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5070"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5090,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070\/revisions\/5090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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\nFavourite Books of 2011<\/a>
\nFavourite Books of 2012<\/a>
\nFavourite Books of 2013<\/a>
\nFavourite Books of 2014<\/a>
\nFavourite Books of 2015<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"