I might try to fill in micro-reviews at some point, but right now this is just a list, in approximately descending order of how important the book was to me.

I had a lot of fun doing this thing a couple of years ago, so I thought I'd go ahead and give up the pretense of this being a tech blog and do it again. I don't drink now so it wasn't as fun as last time, but if I convince one person to read Suttree or The Little Friend (or to skip Lincoln on the Bardo) it'll have been worth it.

At least as far as my reading went, 2016 wasn't a great year for fiction, but I did have more time for reading fiction than I've had since I was a grad student and that was my job. This isn't the usual kind of thing I do with this blog, but here are thirty or so one-or-two-sentence reviews of some of the novels that I read for the first time this year (sorted roughly in decreasing order of importance they had for me).