Well, I think everyone agrees with me on the fact that 2016 was a rough year. Great people died, weird things happened, horrible year for politics, the spaces between the Toblerone triangles got bigger... We didn't really have time to breathe. 
 But, luckily, I saw Muse and Iron Maiden in concert and, since we're on GR, I read some pretty amazing books. Yes, books do spare you from the suffering that's out there in the world and make you focus on the suffering of your fictional characters. 
 So, the best books (I'm excluding comics) that I read in 2016 are: 
 -It, The Shining, Misery, Dolores Claiborne and On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King 
 -Ubik by Philip K. Dick 
 -The Silmarillion and The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien 
 -A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston 
 -Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo 
 -Dune by Frank Herbert 
 -Foundation and Empire and Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov 
 -A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R.R. Martin 
 -The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan 
 -2001: A Space Odyssey, 2010: Odyssey Two and 2061: Odyssey Three by Arthur C. Clarke 
 My favourite short stories of 2016 were: 
 -The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft 
 -Those Eyes by David Brin 
 -The Mangler by Stephen King 
 -A Night at the Tarn House by George R.R. Martin 
 -Operation Haystack by Frank Herbert 
 I also had some disappointments, which I don't really feel the need to list, since I'm astonished that I have so many books that I enjoyed, which is news to me. 
 Well, see y'all in 2017 and let's hope these few days that are left from 2016 won't be suddenly fucked up by satan!