Favorite Books in the Last Year

I'm posting an early list of favorite books for 2016 because things get busy over here as the year comes to a close and my memory gets holier than the Pope!


I read a lot. If I'm not writing, I'm reading or I'm thinking about reading. As I say in an old bio, I live inside my head a good deal of my waking hours. Especially in the rainy months in Seattle, which is about 9 months out of the year. In the last year I finished almost 70 books. I started about as many and couldn't continue for various reasons.
If you are a writer about to ask me to read and review, I don't do horror, graphic torture, blood, animal cruelty, YA, Inspirational, Non-Fiction, or most Contemporary Romance. My interest is in Suspense, Thriller, Mysteries, Historicals, and Supernatural.
I don't agree to read most of what is sent to me, FYI because so much is sent.

Here's what I read this year and loved/liked/enjoyed:

I am Having so much Fun Here Without You - Courtney Maum
The Couple Next Door - Sheri Lapena
The Woman Next Door - Cass Green
We're All Damaged - Matthew Norman
Halfway Home - Hugh Howey
Guns - Steven King
Follow You Home - Mark Edwards
Write Your Way out of Depression - Rayne Hall
The Good Neighbor - A.J. Banner
Timber Rose - Janet Oakley
The Girl Who Lied - Sue Fortin
The Game You Played - Anni Taylor
All Fired Up - Carmine Valentine
Ghost Camera - Darcy Coates
Devil's Promenade - Alicia Dean
The Girl in the Ice - Robert Bryndza
Invasion - Johnny B. Truant
Twenty-Nine and a Half Reasons - Denise Grover Swank
The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
The Illegal Gardener - Sara Alexi
Inheritance - Thomas Wymark
Dead Lake - Darcy Coates
The Grownup - Gillian Flynn
The Jossing Affair - Janet Oakley
The Crowbox - Nikki Rae
Lie Catchers - Rolynn Anderson
Silent Witness - Rebecca Forster                                             GRACE - Samantha Kaye
By Royal Command - Laura Navarre
Ever Faithful to his Lead - Kathleen Pooler
Keep Quiet - Lisa Scottoline
Double Duplicity - Patty Jager
The Valley of Amazement - Amy Tan
The Day I Washed my Face in the Toilet - Brenda Kearns
Synergy - Jodi Ashland
There's Something About Marty - Wendy Delaney
Silent Witness - Rebecca Forster
The Good Girl- Mary Kubica
The Girl With No Past - Kathryn Croft
The Forgotten Girls - Alexa Steele
Tea and Travels - Kate R Mathieson
Torn Roots - Scott Bury
The Benson - Karina Halle
Pretty Baby - Mary Kubica
Virtually Love - Lawrence Ambrose
My Favorite Life - Lawrence Ambrose
Viking Warrior Rising - Asa Maria Bradley
Rushed - Brian Harmon
Blackwater Lake - Maggie James
dOG Backwards - Guy A Johnson
Seventh Heaven - Alice Hoffman
Hostile Witness - Rebecca Forster
Courage - Samantha Kaye
Memory House - Betty Lee Crosby
Coconut Island - J.L. Oakley
Hoaka Moonshine - Laurie Hanan
Ash - Jason Brandt
Madness - Jason Brandt
The Visitant - Megan Chance
Jackrabbit Junction Jitters - Ann Charles
The Russian Obsession - Nikki Navarre
Chasing Justice - H. Terrel Griffin
A Wild Fright in Deadwood - Ann Charles
All of us Were Sophie - Resa Nelson
The Yoga of Max's Discontent - Karan Bajaj
My Journey Through War and Peace - Melissa Burch
Summer Blowout - Claire Cook
The Perfect Match - Pat White
Bone Hook - Toby Neal
Marriage Under Fire - Jacki Delecki
Somewhere in St. Thomas - Toby Neal
The Girl Who Wrote in Silk - Kelli Estes
Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
Luckiest Girl Alive - Jessica Knoll
The Day of the Wave- Becky Wicks
The Third Angel - Alice Hoffman
The Ghosts of Tsavo - Vered Ehsani

Find my reviews for these on Amazon over here!

Kim Hornsby is the Author of Award-Winning The Dream Jumper's Promise available on Amazon Books. She is a Bestselling Supernatural Suspense Author who lives in the Seattle area where she writes during the rainy months.