Resolutions and Book List 2016

Okay, here were my resolutions for 2016:

1. Go to the gym at least 3 times a week (to make sure we get our money's worth).
2. Finish blog books for 2014 and 2015 (Then I'll be all caught up!)
3. Read 30 books
4. Go through every cabinet/cupboard/box in the house and get rid of things we don't need or no longer use.

I did #1 to the best of my ability. I went three times a week unless I absolutely couldn't get there (vacation, sick kids, etc.)
#2 I finished as well! So glad I got those books done. Now I just need to stay on top of it and do 2016.
3. I went way overboard. I read A LOT last year. I'll put my list of books at the end. I'm trying to scale it back this year and really only read a few books each month.
4. I didn't do this. Well, I didn't do the whole house. I did about 1/4, maybe? It was a nice goal, though. I'm currently working on clearing out old kids' clothes, so it's a work in progress.

This year I didn't really make any resolutions other than to read less. I still want to go to the gym at least three times per week.

Here's my book list for 2016 in (mostly) chronological order:
1. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
2. Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot by Bill O'Reilly
3. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
4. Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina by Misty Copeland
5. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
6. Magic Hour by Kristin Hannah
7. For the Love: Finding Grace in a World of Impossible Standards by Jen Hatmaker
8. The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
9. The Light of the World by Elizabeth Alexander
10. Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
11. My Story by Elizabeth Smart
12. The Rent Collector by Camron Wright
13. I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella
14. This Is What Happy Looks Like by Jennifer E. Smith
15. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
16. Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
17. What She Left Behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman
18. The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
19. The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Phillip Sendker
20. The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg
21. David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
22. Harry Potter #1
23. Harry Potter #2
24. Harry Potter #3
25. Harry Potter #4
26. Harry Potter #5
27. Harry Potter #6
28 Harry Potter #7 (These were all re-reads)
29. The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra by Helen Rappaport
30. Year of No Sugar by Eve Schaub
31. Ten Girls to Watch by Charity Shumway
32. Still Life by Louise Penny
33. Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
34. When Breathe Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
35. My Name Used to be Muhammad by Tito Momen
36. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
37. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
38. Holes by Louis Sachar
39. No One Knows by J.T. Ellison
40. My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
41. A Fatal Grace by Louis Penny
42. Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope by Wendy Holden
43. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
44. The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery
45. All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
46. Enchanted Islands by Allison Amend
47. Necessary Lies by Diane Chamberlain
48. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling
49. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
50. Where the Light Gets In by Kimberly Williams Paisley
51. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (re-read)
52. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
53. Unstuffed: Decluttering your Home, Mind, and Soul by Ruth Soukup
54. The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
55. So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
56. The Orphan Keeper by Camron Wright
57. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
58. Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
59. Where Am I Now? By Mara Wilson
60. Daddy Long-legs by Jean Webster
61. Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum

I read some pretty lame books this year and some pretty great books. Top of my list is 100% All the Light We Cannot See. I also really enjoyed Counting by 7s, Fish in a Tree, The Rent Collector, The Crossover, and A Monster Calls. 44 or so fiction, the rest non-fiction. I read more young adult novels this year to see if there were any books I thought Sam would like, but he's pretty good at finding his own series to read.