Lunch. Geilston Bay. September 2016. So, as part of the 2016 Goodreads Challenge , it turns out that I read a total of 128 books In the interest of sharing good novels, here are the best books that I read in 2016! Absent without Leave , Heinrich Böll All the Pretty Horses , Cormac McCarthy Coraline , Neil Gaiman Days Without End , Sebastian Barry Grief Is the Thing with Feathers , Max Porter How I Escaped My Certain Fate , Stewart Lee Mothering Sunday , Graham Swift Pop. 1280 , Jim Thompson Roseanna , Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö The Dig , Cynan Jones The Iron Man , Ted Hughes The Man Who Went Up in Smoke , Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö The North Water , Ian McGuire The Search Warrant , Patrick Modiano