Top eBook Reads of 2016!

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Ever wondered what type of books are popular as eBooks? Here are the top ten most borrowed eBooks of 2016.

Adult Fiction

  1. The Girl of the train -Paula Hawkins
  2. To kill a mockingbird – Harper Lee
  3. Mine to share – Jenesi Ash et al.
  4. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
  5. Worth dying for – Lee Child
  6. The hard way – Lee Child
  7. All the light we cannot see – Anthony Doerr
  8. A game of thrones – George R.R. Martin
  9. Any duchess will do – Tessa Dare
  10. The alchemist – Paulo Coelho

Adult Non Fiction

  1. Eat, pray, love – Elizabeth Gilbert
  2. Wild: a journey from lost to found – Cheryl Strayed
  3. People can’t drive you crazy if you don’t give them the keys – Mike Bechtle
  4. The power of now: a guide to spiritual enlightenment – Eckhart Tolle
  5. International Students’ Survival Guide – Collins (Publishing)
  6. Think and grow rich – Napoleon Hill
  7. Success: the best of Napoleon Hill – Napoleon Hill
  8. Twelve years a slave – Solomon Northup
  9. Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There – Cheryl Strayed
  10. Last woman hanged – Caroline Overington

For Young Adults

  1. Harry Potter and the cursed child – parts one and two – Jack Thorne, J.K. Rowling and John Tiffany
  2. Divergent – Veronica Roth
  3. Looking for Alaska – John Green
  4. The hunger games – Suzanne Collins
  5. The maze runner – James Dashner
  6. The city of bones – Cassandra Clare
  7. The icebound land – John Flanagan
  8. The hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
  9. The selection – Kiera Cass
  10. Animal farm – George Orwell

For Children

  1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – J.K. Rowling
  2. Little women – Louisa May Alcott
  3. The curious incident of the dog in the night-time – Mark Haddon
  4. Percy Jackson and the lightning thief – Rick Riordan
  5. WeirDo–  Ahn Do
  6. Billie B. Brown: the second best friend – Sally Rippin
  7. I love you book – Libby Hathorn
  8. The adventures of super diaper baby – Dav Pilkey
  9. Skulduggery Pleasant – Derek Landy
  10. The 78-storey treehouse – Andy Griffiths

Dymocks – Best Books of 2016

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Looking for reading inspiration over Christmas? Why not take a look at the best books of 2016 from Dymocks.

 

The Dry – Jane Harper
Commonwealth – Ann PatchettGoodwood – Holly Throsby
The Toymaker – Liam Pieper
Who’s that girl – Mhairi McFarlane
Talking to my country – Stan Grant
The Fireman – Joe Hill
Eligible – Curtis Sittenfeld
The Nest – Cynthia D’Apriz Sweeney
My sister Rosa – Justine Larbalestier
King’s Rising – C.S. Pacat
The girl with the lower back tattoo – Amy Schumer
Before the Fall – Noah Hawley
The Atomic Weight of Love – Elizabeth J. Church
Breathing Under Water – Sophie Hardcastle
The Mothers – Brit Bennett
The Chocolate Tin – Fiona McIntosh
A Kiss from Mr Fiztgerald – Natasha Lester
Lady Helen and the Dark Days Club – Alison Goodman
The Locksmith’s Daughter – Karen Brooks
The Star-Touched Queen – Roshani Chokshi
The Hatching – Ezekiel Boone
The Silence Between Breaths – Cath Staincliffe
Our Chemical Hearts – Krystal Sutherland
Hillbilly Elegy – J.D. Vance
The Things I Didn’t Say – Kylie Fornasier
You Know Me Well – David Levithan
Frankie – Shivaun Plozza
The High Places – Fiona McFarlane
The Summer That Melted Everything – Tiffany McDaniel
The Road to Ruin – Niki Savva
The View from the Cheap Seats – Neil Gaiman
The Hanging Tree – Ben Aaronovitch
Pig the Elf – Aaron Blabey
Ruby Red Shoes Goes to London – Kate Knapp
A Child of Books – Oliver Jeffers
The Tales of Mrs Mancini – Natalie Jane Prior
Oi Dog! Oi Dog! – Kes Gray

Information provided – https://www.dymocks.com.au/books/all/recommend-Best-Books-of-2016#

Book Review: Thornwood House by Anna Romer

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Thornwood House – Anna Romer

When Audrey Kepler inherits an abandoned homestead in rural Queensland, she jumps at the chance to escape her loveless existence in the city and make a fresh start. In a dusty back room of the old house, she discovers the crumbling photo of a handsome World War Two medic – Samuel Riordan, the homestead’s former occupant – and soon finds herself becoming obsessed with him. But as Audrey digs deeper into Samuel’s story, she discovers he was accused of bashing to death a young woman on his return from the war in 1946.
When she learns about other unexplained deaths in recent years – one of them a young woman with injuries echoing those of the first victim – she begins to suspect that the killer is still very much alive. And now Audrey, thanks to her need to uncover the past, has provided him with good reason to want to kill again.

Comments

This was a great book.  Beautifully written that generated lots of discussion amongst our group for good reasons this time.  On the whole we all enjoyed the book.  It drew us in very quickly as it weaved its web of intrigue and deceit.  However, during our discussions we found a lot of holes in the storyline.  What were the characters motives?  Just why was the murderer so obsessed with the mother and daughter?

We also felt the book needed a little editing.  There were large sections of the book, lengthy descriptions about weather and plants, and characters that seemed to be introduced unnecessarily, that our readers skimmed over.

Overall, it was a great read that we definitely recommend, scoring a solid 8 from our group.  Everyone especially enjoyed the letters between Samuel and Aylish, taking us back to a time before technology and text messaging!

8/10

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