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(@anlyri)](https://listium.com/@anlyri) 557 views · 2 likes Published 29 November 2016 · Updated 27 December 2016 Category: books & literature A list of books I read during the year, which should have been started before I forgot all of them. Photo from uglydogbooks.com ## Items ### 1. [The Devil in the White City](https://listium.com/@anlyri/4544/books-read-2016/1/the-devil-in-the-white-city) Item ID: `1` - Author: Erik Larson - Year Published: 2002 - Genre: History - Date Started: - - Date Finished: - - First Reading: true - Recommended: Yes - Plot Summary: The book is set in Chicago in 1893, intertwining the true tales of Daniel H. Burnham, the architect behind the 1893 World's Fair, and Dr. H. H. Holmes, the serial killer who lured his victims to their deaths in his elaborately constructed "Murder Castle." ### 2. [Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar](https://listium.com/@anlyri/4544/books-read-2016/3/tiny-beautiful-things-advice-on-love-and-life-from-dear-sugar) Item ID: `3` - Author: Cheryl Strayed - Year Published: 2012 - Genre: Self-help - Date Started: - - Date Finished: - - First Reading: false - Recommended: Yes - Plot Summary: iny Beautiful Things is a collection of essays compiled from Strayed's "Dear Sugar" advice column, which she wrote anonymously, on The Rumpus online literary magazine. ### 3. [On the Road](https://listium.com/@anlyri/4544/books-read-2016/4/on-the-road) Item ID: `4` - Author: Jack Kerouac - Year Published: 1957 - Genre: Fiction - Date Started: - - Date Finished: - - First Reading: false - Recommended: Yes - Plot Summary: On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across America. It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations, with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and drug use. ### 4. [Bali & Lombok Lonely Planet](https://listium.com/@anlyri/4544/books-read-2016/5/bali--lombok-lonely-planet) Item ID: `5` - Author: Ryan Ver Berkmoes, Adam Skolnick - Year Published: 2013 - Genre: Guidebook - Date Started: - - Date Finished: - - First Reading: true - Recommended: Yes - Plot Summary: - ### 5. [Not Without My Sister](https://listium.com/@anlyri/4544/books-read-2016/8/not-without-my-sister) Item ID: `8` - Author: Juliana Buhring - Year Published: 2007 - Genre: Memoir - Date Started: - - Date Finished: - - First Reading: true - Recommended: Yes - Plot Summary: The bestselling, devastating account of three sisters torn apart, abused and exploited at the hands of a community that robbed them of their childhood. It reveals three lives, separate but entwined, that have experienced unspeakable horror, unrelenting loyalty and unforgettable courage. ### 6. [The Bone Clocks](https://listium.com/@anlyri/4544/books-read-2016/9/the-bone-clocks) Item ID: `9` - Author: David Mitchell - Year Published: 2014 - Genre: Fiction - Date Started: - - Date Finished: - - First Reading: true - Recommended: Yes - Plot Summary: > Following a scalding row with her mother, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old life. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: a sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as “the radio people,” Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena. Now, as she wanders deeper into the English countryside, visions and coincidences reorder her reality until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life. > > For Holly has caught the attention of a cabal of dangerous mystics—and their enemies. But her lost weekend is merely the prelude to a shocking disappearance that leaves her family irrevocably scarred. This unsolved mystery will echo through every decade of Holly’s life, affecting all the people Holly loves—even the ones who are not yet born. > > A Cambridge scholarship boy grooming himself for wealth and influence, a conflicted father who feels alive only while reporting from occupied Iraq, a middle-aged writer mourning his exile from the bestseller list—all have a part to play in this surreal, invisible war on the margins of our world. From the medieval Swiss Alps to the nineteenth-century Australian bush, from a hotel in Shanghai to a Manhattan townhouse in the near future, their stories come together in moments of everyday grace and extraordinary wonder. ### 7. [The Rum Diary](https://listium.com/@anlyri/4544/books-read-2016/10/the-rum-diary) Item ID: `10` - Author: Hunter S. Thompson - Year Published: 1998 - Genre: Fiction - Date Started: 3 Dec 2016 - Date Finished: 5 Dec 2016 - First Reading: true - Recommended: Yes - Plot Summary: Begun in 1959 by a twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. The narrator, freelance journalist Paul Kemp, irresistibly drawn to a sexy, mysterious woman, is soon thrust into a world where corruption and get-rich-quick schemes rule and anything (including murder) is permissible. Exuberant and mad, youthful and energetic, this dazzling comedic romp provides a fictional excursion as riveting and outrageous as Thompson’s Fear and Loathing books. ### 8. [Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member](https://listium.com/@anlyri/4544/books-read-2016/11/monster-the-autobiography-of-an-la-gang-member) Item ID: `11` - Author: Sanyika Shakur - Year Published: 2004 - Genre: Memoir - Date Started: 21 Dec 2016 - Date Finished: 24 Dec 2016 - First Reading: true - Recommended: Yes - Plot Summary: After pumping eight blasts from a sawed-off shotgun at a group of rival gang members, twelve-year-old Kody Scott was initiated into the L.A. gang the Crips. He quickly matured into one of the most formidable Crip combat soldiers, earning the name “Monster” for committing acts of brutality and violence that repulsed even his fellow gang members. When the inevitable jail term confined him to a maximum-security cell, a complete political and personal transformation followed: from Monster to Sanyika Shakur, black nationalist, member of the New Afrikan Independence Movement, and crusader against the causes of gangsterism. In a document that has been compared to The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Eldridge Cleaver’s Soul on Ice, Shakur makes palpable the despair and decay of America’s inner cities and gives eloquent voice to one aspect of the black ghetto experience today. ### 9. [Tell-All](https://listium.com/@anlyri/4544/books-read-2016/2/tell-all) Item ID: `2` - Author: Chuck Palahniuk - Year Published: 2010 - Genre: Fiction - Date Started: - - Date Finished: - - First Reading: true - Recommended: Unsure - Plot Summary: > The novel, an homage to the Golden Age of Hollywood, is narrated by Hazel "Hazie" Coogan, a lifelong employee and caretaker of aging actress Katherine "Miss Kathie" Kenton. > > When a suitor named Webster Carlton Westward III manages to weasel his way into Miss Kathie’s heart (and bed), Hazie is suspicious. Upon discovering that Westward has already written a celebrity tell-all memoir foretelling Miss Kathie’s death in a forthcoming Lillian Hellman–penned musical extravaganza, Hazie worries that Westward's intentions may be less than honorable, and may even be deadly. ### 10. [Hey Nostradamus!](https://listium.com/@anlyri/4544/books-read-2016/6/hey-nostradamus) Item ID: `6` - Author: Douglas Copeland - Year Published: 2003 - Genre: Fiction - Date Started: - - Date Finished: - - First Reading: true - Recommended: Unsure - Plot Summary: Hey Nostradamus! is a novel by Douglas Coupland centred on a fictional 1988 school shooting in suburban Vancouver, British Columbia and its aftermath. This is Coupland's most critically acclaimed novel. It was first published by Random House of Canada in 2003. The novel comprises four first-person narratives, each from the perspective of a character directly or indirectly affected by the shooting. The novel intertwines substantial themes, including adolescent love, sex, religion, prayer and grief. ### 11. [Al Capone Does My Shirts](https://listium.com/@anlyri/4544/books-read-2016/7/al-capone-does-my-shirts) Item ID: `7` - Author: Gennifer Choldenko - Year Published: 2004 - Genre: Children's lit - Date Started: - - Date Finished: - - First Reading: true - Recommended: Unsure - Plot Summary: Al Capone Does My Shirts is a historical fiction novel for young adults by author Gennifer Choldenko. In this story, Moose Flanagan and his family move from Santa Monica to Alcatraz Island. The move was caused by the father's new job positions as an electrician and as a guard in the well known Alcatraz prison. ### 12. [Propeller One-Way Night Coach](https://listium.com/@anlyri/4544/books-read-2016/0/propeller-one-way-night-coach) Item ID: `0` - Author: John Travolta - Year Published: 1997 - Genre: Fiction - Date Started: - - Date Finished: - - First Reading: true - Recommended: No - Plot Summary: When his actress mother decides to move to Hollywood, Jeff, an eight-year-old boy who dreams of flying in a plane, begins his journey with connecting flights, airline food, stopovers, and time spent in first class.