Given the sheer amount of research I did in 2016–Gold Open Access Journals 2011-2015 and Gray OA 2012-2016–it’s a miracle I managed to get through any books at all. But I did.
As usual, my goal was 39 books: three books for each 4-week library circulation period. As usual, I did better than that, although nowhere near as well as in 2015: Looks like I started 49 books and finished 45 of them. Abandoned, for various reasons: Reinhart & Rogoff: This Time is Different; Graydon Carter: Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers & Swells; Peter Carey: Amnesia.
Books I thoroughly enjoyed:
| The Days of Anna Madrigal | Armistead Maupin |
| When Christ and the Saints Slept | Sharon Kay Penman |
| The Truth According to Us | Annie Barrows |
| Strip Tease | Carl Hiaasen |
| School Days | Robert B. Parker |
| Sixkill | Robert B. Parker |
| Walking Shadow | Robert B. Parker |
| Ring of Fire III | Eric Flint |
| 1635: A Parcel of Rogues | Erik Flint &c. |
| 1636: The Viennese Waltz | Erik Flint &c. |
Books I enjoyed a lot but which weren’t quite as good:
| Saint Mazie | Jami Attenberg |
| Maybe the Moon | Armistead Maupin |
| The Devil’s Bones | Jefferson Bass |
| I Don’t Know How She Does It | Allison Pearson |
| All Our Yesterdays | Robert B. Parker |
| Lucky You | Carl Hiaasen |
| Time and Chance | Sharon Kay Penman |
| Sick Puppy | Carl Hiaasen |
| Thin Air | Robert B. Parker |
| Trouble in Paradise | Robert B. Parker |
| Small Vices | Robert B. Parker |
| Playmafes | Robert B. Parker |
| Hard Drive | James Wallace & Jim Erickson |
| Service Included | Phoebe Damrosch |
| 1635: The Dreeson Incident | Erik Flint &c. |
| Ring of Fire II | Eric Flint |
| 1635: The Papal Stakes | Erik Flint &c. |
| 1636: The Saxon Uprising | Eric Flint |
| 1636: The Kremlin Games | Erik Flint & c. |
Those are the “A” and “A-” grades; another nine were also enjoyable but B+ at best.
Of course, I also wrote three books, but that’s another story.
[If you looked at this and saw two identical tables: brief problem…]
