I hope you've enjoyed these Top 10s of 2016 and found some new things to read. This is my last edition, but stay tuned later this week for a guest post. I've invited our Elementary Media Center Specialist, Sarah Foit, to share her favorite reads of 2016. If you missed the first two Top 10s of 2016, check out Part 1 featuring Picture Books, Lower Grade & Middle Grade Fiction, and Part 2 featuring Young Adult Fiction, Adult Fiction, Graphic Novels & Poetry. As mentioned previously, these blog posts are my top picks from what I read in 2016 to try and help others find books that look enticing. Unless otherwise noted, books may have been published in any year. Some books may appeal to multiple audiences, but I only allowed it in one of those levels' lists. I helped narrow down my choices by only allowing titles currently owned by the school's media centers where I work. (Because the ICS Bangkok community is the first audience I have in mind when I write these, and I want them to be able to snatch up any tempting title immediately.) In general, my absolute favorites appear on the top of the lists, and then somewhat in descending order of favoritism...but often consider everything just tied for second after that first one. In the interest of space, my summaries and reviews are not appearing here. Click on the book titles to see those. Enjoy!
Top 10 of Lower Grade & Middle Grade Biographies (published in 2016)
Some Writer: the Story of E.B. White by Melissa Sweet
Alamo All-Stars (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales) by Nathan Hale
Ada’s Violin: the Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay by Susan Hood, ill. by Sally Wern Comport
Dorothea’s Eyes: Dorothea Lange Photographs the Truth by Barb Rosenstock, ill. by Gerard duBois
Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea: Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor by Robert Burleigh, ill. by Raúl Colón
Ada’s Ideas: the Story of Ada Lovelace, the World’s First Computer Programmer by Fiona Robinson
Esquivel!: Space-Age Sound Artist by Susan Wood, ill. by Duncan Tonatiuh
Mountain Chef: How One Man Lost His Groceries, Changed His Plans, and Helped Cook up the National Park Service by Annette Bay Pimentel, ill. by Rich Lo
The Music in George’s Head: George Gershwin Creates Rhapsody in Blue by Suzanne Slade, ill. by Stacy Innerst
The Tree in the Courtyard: Looking through Anne Frank’s Window by Jeff Gottesfeld, ill. by Peter McCarty
Top 10 of Lower Grade & Middle Grade Nonfiction (published in 2015 or 2016)
Yaks Yak: Animal Word Pairs by Linda Sue Park, ill. by Jennifer Black Reinhardt
Flying Frogs and Walking Fish by Steve Jenkins & Robin Page
Head-to-Head Record Breaking Animals by Anna Brett
Animal Groups by Jill Esbaum, photos by Frans Lanting
The Inside-Outside Book of London by Roxie Munroe
My First Book of Indonesian Words: an ABC Rhyming Book of Indonesian Language and Culture by Linda Hibbs, ill. by Julia Laud
Inside Biosphere 2: Earth Science under Glass (Scientists in the Field) by Mary Kay Carson, photos by Tom Uhlman
A Nest Is Noisy by Dianne Hutts Aston, ill. by Sylvia Long
Squirrels Leap, Squirrels Sleep by April Pulley Sayre, ill. by Steve Jenkins
Pink Is for Blobfish: Discovering the World’s Perfectly Pink Animals by Jess Keating
Top 10 of Young Adult/Adult Biographies/Autobiographies
The Penguin Lessons by Tom Michell
The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum
Walking from East to West: God in the Shadows by Ravi Zacharias, with R.S.B. Sawyer
Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky
March: Book Three (March, #3) by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, ill. by Nate Powell
Samurai Rising: the Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune by Pamela S. Turner, ill. by Gareth Hinds
Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir by Margarita Engle, ill. by Edel Rodriguez
Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: a Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity by Nabeel Qureshi
We Will Not Be Silent: the White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler by Russell Freedman
Every Falling Star: the True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea by Sungju Lee, with Susan Elizabeth McClelland
Top 10 of Young Adult/Adult Nonfiction
The Elephant Whisperer by Lawrence Anthony, with Graham Spence
The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins by Kyle Idleman
The Perfect Horse: the Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis by Elizabeth Letts
Dead Wake: the Last Crossing of the Lisutania by Erik Larson
Isaac’s Storm: a Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson
The Best Yes: Making Wise Decisions in the Midst of Endless Demands by Lysa TerKeurst
Called: the Crisis and Promise of Following Jesus Today by Mark Labberton
Birds of Pandemonium by Michele Raffin
A Is for Arsenic: the Poisons of Agatha Christie by Kathryn Harkup
Creatures of the Night photography & text by Joe McDonald, photography by Mary Ann McDonald
Just a tiny sampling of what's on my to-read list for next year...
10 Fiction Books for Lower Grades & Middle Grades (includes Picture Books & Graphic Novels) I’m Looking Forward to Reading in 2017 (coming in 2017)
BE QUIET! by Ryan T. Higgins
The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors by Drew Daywalt, ill. by Adam Rex
The Great Art Caper (Pets on the Loose, #2) by Victoria Jamieson
Panda-monium (FunJungle, #4) by Stuart Gibbs
Saturdays at the Sea (Castle Glower, #5) by Jessica Day George
Fish Girl by Donna Jo Napoli, ill. by David Weisner
The Unbreakable Code (Book Scavenger, #2) by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
The Silver Mask (Magesterium, #4) by Holly Black & Cassandra Clare
Giant Trouble (Hamster Princess, #4) by Ursual Vernon
The Dark Lord’s Daughter by Patricia C. Wrede
10 Young Adult & Adult Fiction Books (includes Graphic Novels) I’m Looking Forward to Reading in 2017 (published late 2016 or coming in 2017)
Wires and Nerve, Vol. 1 by Marissa Meyer
A Crown of Wishes (The Star-Touched Queen, #2) by Roshani Chokshi
Murder on the Moor (Drew Farthering, #5) by Julianna Deering
The Ship Beyond Time (The Girl from Everywhere, #2) by Heidi Heilig
The Wish Granter (Ravenspire, #2) by C.J. Redwine
Arcanum Unbounded by Brandon Sanderson
Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth
Oathbringer (Stormlight Archive, #3) by Brandon Sanderson
King’s Cage (Red Queen, #3) by Victoria Aveyard
The Pearl Thief by Elizabeth Wein
10 Nonfiction Books I’m Looking Forward to Reading in 2017
Penguin Day by Nic Bishop
Moto and Me: My Year as a Wildcat’s Foster Mom by Suzi Eszterhas
Kate Warne, Pinkerton Detective by Marissa Moss, ill. by April Chu
Sweet Dreams, Sarah: from Slavery to Inventor by Vivian Kirkfield, ill. by Chris Ewald
Babylon’s Ark: the Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo by Anthony Lawrence, with Graham Spence
Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World by Nell Stevens
The Great Penguin Rescue: 40,000 Penguins, a Devastating Oil Spill, and the Inspiring Story of the World’s Largest Animal Rescue by Dyan deNapoli
Uninvited by Lysa TerKeurst
Irena’s Children: the Extraodrinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto by Tilar J. Mazzeo
Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
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