For the past number of years, my children and I have voted on our favorite read-aloud books of the year (that is, of those we enjoyed together in the course of the calendar year). I'm not sure we'll be able to do that anymore, since I've been reading to several different groupings of the children in addition to the reading that I do for myself. So, for this year, at any rate, I'm simply offering the following list of the (fictional) books that I most enjoyed in 2016. Some of these I read to myself, others I read to my children. For the most part, I've not included isolated books from ongoing series that we've read (and listed) in the past, since it's difficult to evaluate those individual installments. In some cases, though, where a book or a couple of books from a series have stood alone and stood out, I've identified those where pertinent.
With that preamble, here are the fifteen (fictional) books (or series of books) that I most enjoyed in 2016, listed here in proximate order, beginning with my most favorite:
Infinite Regress & Past Tense (Schooled in Magic, #9 & 10)
by Christopher Nuttall
Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)
by Robert Galbraith
The Kronos Chronicles (trilogy)
by Marie Rutkoski
The Diabolic
by S.J. Kincaid
The Heir Chronicles (five books)
by Cinda Williams Chima
The Nethergrim series (two books so far)
by Matthew Jobin
The Books of Beginning (trilogy)
by John Stephens
Ramona series (eight books)
by Beverly Cleary
Split the Party & Going Rogue (Spells, Swords, & Stealth, #2 & 3)
by Drew Hayes
Dodger
by Terry Pratchett
Bookworm series (four books)
by Christopher Nuttall
The Twistrose Key & Thornghost
by Tone Almhjell
Switch (Savvy, #3)
by Ingrid Law
Henry Reed series (five books)
by Keith Robertson
The Toymaker’s Apprentice
by Sherri L. Smith
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