So here is the full list of all the books I read in 2016! I thought I’d start with a top five if you’d rather not read the whole list.

Top 5 (in no order):

1. Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller
2. Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
3. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
4. The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett
5. Hitman Anders and the Meaning of it All by Jonas Jonasson

And here’s the full list!

1. The Heart of Church and Mission by Bryan Knell
2. After You by Jojo Moyes

3. A Guide to the Beasts of East Africa by Nicholas Drayson

4. Life Is… by Judah Smith

5. The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

6. Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller

7. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

8. Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig

9. Night Music by Jojo Moyes

10. Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

11. The Girl at the Lion d’Or by Sebastian Faulks

12. When Will There be Good News? by Kate Atkinson

13. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

14. Hector and the Search for Happiness by Francois Lelord

15. Sandcastle Kings by Rich Wilkerson Jr

16. The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett

17. How to Be Here by Rob Bell

18. A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson

19. The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly by Sun-mi Hwang

20. The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild

21. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
22. Garden City by John Mark Comer
23. Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
24. Out of Sorts by Sarah Bessey 
25. The Horse Dancer by Jojo Moyes
26. Where my heart used to beat by Sebastian Faulks
27. The Children Act by Ian McEwan
28. The Penguin Lessons by Tom Michell
29. Soulfulness by Brian Draper
30. Hitman Anders and the Meaning of it All by Jonas Jonasson
31. The Love Song of Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce
32. The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue
33. Christ in You by Eric Johnson
34. Heartbreak Hotel by Deborah Moggach 
35. The Shadows in the Street by Susan Hill 
36. How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry 
37. For one more day by Mitch Albom 
38. Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton 
39. The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan
40. The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert 
41. Various Pets Alive and Dead by Marina Lewycka 
42. Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick 
43. Simplify by Bill Hybels 
44. All the Light we Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
45. The Boy who Taught the Beekeeper to Read by Susan Hill
46. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins 
47. The Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith
48. Soul Cravings by Erwin Raphael McManus
49. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber 
50. Facedown by Matt Redman