I’m unlikely to finish anything else before 2016 ends (writing, currently, is taking up a lot my scheduled reading time), so here’s what I read this year. It’s, er, down from last year, and considering last year was less than I wanted it to be too . . . well, hell with it, it’s what I got.

(Comics are italicized and non-fiction books are bolded. You’ll notice there’s a serious, serious lack of non-fiction books.)

• Bone Gap – Laura Ruby
• The Rest of Us Just Live Here – Patrick Ness
• Star Wars: Before the Awakening – Greg Rucka
• The Girl From the Well – Rin Chupeco
• The Devourers – Indra Das
• Courtney Crumin: The Night Things, Vol. 1 – Ted Naifeh
• Broken Homes – Ben Aaronovitch
• Sex Criminals, Volume 1: One Weird Trick – Matt Fraction
• Sex Criminals, Volume 2: Two Worlds, One Cop – Matt Fraction
• Cuckoo Song – Frances Hardinge
• Six of Crows – Leigh Bardugo
• Silver on the Road – Laura Ann Gilman
• Every Heart a Doorway – Seanan McGuire
• Nimona – Noelle Stevenson
• Borderline – Mishell Baker
• The Killing Joke – Alan Moore
• Batgirl, Vol. 1 – The Darkest Reflection – Gail Simone
• A Darker Shade of Magic – V.E. Schwab
• Birds of Prey, Vol. 1 – Chuck Dixon
• The Wicked and the Divine: Year 1 – Gillen McKelvie
• The Ballad of Black Tom – Victor LaValle
• Half-Resurrection Blues – Daniel José Older
• Lumberjanes, Vol. 2: Friendship to the Max – Noelle Stevenson
• The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School – Kim Newman
• Injustice: Gods Among Us -Year 2, Vol. 2 – Tom Taylor
• Shards of Honor – Lois McMaster Bujold
• The Girls at the Kingfisher Club – Genevieve Valentine
• I Hate Fairyland: Vol. 1 Madly Ever After – Skottie Young
• An Inheritance of Ashes – Leah Bobet
• Lumberjanes, Vol. 3: A Terrible Plan – Noelle Stevenson & Shannon Watters
• The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 1: Squirrel Power – Ryan North
• The Long Way to A Small, Angry Planet – Becky Chambers
• Manners & Mutiny – Gail Carriger
• The Conclave of Shadows – Alyc Helms
• Fallout – Gwenda Bond
• The Steep and Thorny Way – Cat Winters
• The Star-Touched Queen – Roshani Chokshi
• Heroine Complex – Sarah Kuhn
• Bitch Planet: Extraordinary Machine – Kelly Sue DeConnick
• Ascension – Jacqueline Koyanagi
• All the Birds in the Sky – Charlie Jane Anders
• Not Your Sidekick – C.B. Lee
• Crooked Kingdom – Leigh Bardugo
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
• A Monster Calls – Patrick Ness
• Romeo And/Or Juliet – Ryan North
• Labyrinth Lost – Zoraida Córdova
• Devil in a Blue Dress – Walter Mosley
• The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World – David Jaher
• Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
• The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-Time – Mark Haddon
• A History of Glitter and Blood – Hannah Moskowitz
• Vigil – Angela Slatter

As always, I’ll save the Big Conclusions for when I post my Book Superlatives. But to note a few things:

The majority of my favorite books, once again, were YA. Because YA is the best.

I won’t have time to do a Comic Book/Graphic Novel Superlatives (some day, I’m going to be organized and it’s going to happen, damn it), but highlights include Nimona, The Wicked and the Divine, Courtney Crumin: The Night Things, Injustice: Gods Among Us, and Lumberjanes (particularly Vol. 2, which I liked considerably more than Vol. 3.) I also discovered that I hated The Killing Joke for so, so many reasons. #BatmanFanFail

I remain a contrary bastard. Some of the books that everyone seemed to love and that I desperately wanted to love . . . I didn’t love.

Books Written By Women: 25
Books Written By Men: 14

Comic Books Written By Women: 5
Comic Books Written By Men: 9

Unlike last year, where I heavily gravitated towards fairy tale stories, I’m not convinced this year has a particular theme. But I did read a couple of Shakespeare retellings! (Well, of a sort.) And it’s the first year in a very long time that I’ve read a tie-in novel!

2016, like 2015, was a very good year for reading. I’m wrestling with my Top Ten Favorites of the Year right now, and it’s a monumental pain in the ass.