best novels Archives - Novel Visits https://novelvisits.com/tag/best-novels/ Sun, 23 Apr 2017 19:28:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 The Best Novels of 2016 | Review https://novelvisits.com/best-books-novels-2016-review/ https://novelvisits.com/best-books-novels-2016-review/#comments Tue, 27 Dec 2016 11:00:14 +0000 http://www.novelvisits.com/?p=1313 This was really hard to do! I’ve read so many wonderful novels this year that I struggled trying to narrow it down to my ten favorites. To do so, I had to go back to why I read. I read for pleasure. I read to be transported to another place. I read to get lost...

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]]> This was really hard to do! I’ve read so many wonderful novels this year that I struggled trying to narrow it down to my ten favorites. To do so, I had to go back to why I read. I read for pleasure. I read to be transported to another place. I read to get lost in a story. I read to reach the end and think to myself, “Wow! I need to tell people about this book.”

Best Novels of 2016 - A look back at the ten books, all novels, considered to be the best of 2016. Surprisingly, half of the books on this list are debuts!

Early in the process, I decided that my list would only include fiction since I read very little nonfiction. Reading a lot of debut novels, it’s no surprise that 50% of my picks are debuts. I also like historical fiction, but even I was surprised that six of my picks fall into that category. Only one of my top ten was written by a man, but I think that’s more of a fluke. Do I have a favorite book of 2016? Maybe, but I’m not even going to try to figure out what it is. They’re all wonderful!

All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage – This is one of three novels on my list that I read prior to starting Novel Visits. All Things Cease to Appear is a dark story about two families in a very small town in upstate New York. It opens with a husband finding his wife brutally murdered in their bedroom. From there Brundage moves back in time and weaves the stories of these two families around the murder. Brilliantly done and hard to put down!…

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