brewbooks 100 in 2016

January
1. Every second counts : the race to transplant the first human heart by Donald McRae 4.0 1 January 2016
2. Spirit of Steamboat: A Longmire Story by Craig Johnson 3.5 3 January 2016
3. Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor by Tren Griffin 3.5 13 January 2016
4. Crux: Nexus Arc Book 2 by Ramez Naam 4.5 15 January 2016
5. The Mighty Mars Rovers: The Incredible Adventures of Spirit and Opportunity by Elizabeth Rusch 4.0 18 January 2016
6. Grandma Gatewood's Walk by Ben Montgomery 3.5 21 January 2016
7. Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe 4.5 24 January 2016
8. Body of secrets : anatomy of the ultra-secret National Security Agency by James Bamford 4.0 26 January 2016

February (it's been slow progress this month, as I'm taking a full load of courses at University of Washington.
9. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick 4.0 14 February 2016
10. Forever Young by John Young 5.0 20 February 2016 - my favorite book of 2016 so far.

March
11. The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda by Ali H. Soufan, Daniel Freedman 4.5 3 March
12. The Brain Electric: The Dramatic High-Tech Race to Merge Minds and Machines by Malcolm Gay 4.5 5 March
13. Reagan: The Life by H. W. Brands 3.5 5 March - as audio, took me a long time to finish
14. Older, Faster, Stronger: What Women Runners Can Teach Us … by Margaret Webb 3.5 6 March
15. One Year After: A Novel by William R. Forstchen 2.5 11 March
16. The Door into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein 3.5 16 March
17. Biochemistry by Reginald H. Garrett 4.0 16 March 2016
18. Cell and molecular biology : concepts and experiments by Gerald Karp, James G. Patton 4.0 18 March 2016
19. Brain Storms: The Race to Unlock the Mysteries of Parkinson's Disease by Jon Palfreman 3.5 22 March 2016
20. Rosalind Franklin and the Structure of Life by Jane Polcovar 4.0 25 March 2016
21. Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor by James M. Scott 4.5 27 March 2016
22. RedDevil 4 by Eric C. Leuthardt 2.0 28 March 2016

April
23. The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us by Joshua Cooper Ramo 3.5 1 April 2016
24. The lifelong learner by Ronald Gross 3.5 4 April 2016
25. Saturn run by John Sandford and Ctein 4.5 6 April 2016
26. Sackett (The Sacketts, No 4) by Louis L'Amour 4.0 10 April 2016
27. Ignorance: How It Drives Science by Stuart Firestein 4.0 15 April 2016
28. An Irish doctor in love and at sea by Patrick Taylor 4.5 16 April 2016
29. The House of Twenty Thousand Books by Sasha Abramsky 3.5 18 April 2016
30. Field of Prey by John Sandford 3.5 20 April 2016
31. Gandhi: A Manga Biography by Kazuki Ebine 3.5 21 April 2016
32. Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space by Janna Levin 4.5 27 April 2016
33. The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn't Have to Be Complicated by Helaine Olen and Harold Pollack 3.0 27 April 2016
34. Map: Exploring the World by Victoria Clarke 4.0 30 April 2016

May
35. The Cicada Prophecy by J. R. McLeay 3.5 1 May 2016
36. Natural born heroes by Christopher McDougall Christopher McDougall 3.5 6 May 2016
37. Jonas Salk: A Life by Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs 4.5 10 May 2016
38. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel 4.0 18 May 2016
39. The Accidental Terrorist: Confessions of a Reluctant Missionary by William Shunn 4.0 23 May 2016
40. Leviathan wakes by James S. A. Corey 3.5 26 May 2016

June
41. Lab girl by Hope Jahren 4.0 7 June 2016
42. The laws of medicine : field notes from an uncertain science by Siddhartha Mukherjee 4.0 13 June 2016
43. Sally Ride: A Photobiography of America's Pioneering Woman in Space by Tam O'Shaughnessy 5.0 17 June 2016
another favorite of 2016, it's funny that my two favorite books this year are astronaut biographies.
44. Fire and Steel, Volume 2: The Storm Descends by Gerald N. Lund 3.5 18 June 2016
45. The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45 by Stephen E. Ambrose 3.5 30 June 2016

July
46. An Irish country Christmas : a novel by Patrick Taylor 4.0 1 July 2016
47. Gray Mountain: A Novel by John Grisham 3.0 10 July 2016
48. Martin Marten: A Novel by Brian Doyle 4.5 11 July 2016
49. The Valley: A Novel by John Renehan 4.0 13 July 2016
50. A Season In Hell by Robert Fowler 4.0 15 July 2016 (HALF WAY)
51. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari 4.0 29 July 2016

August
52. Beyond: Our Future in Space by Chris Impey 3.5 4 August 2016
53. Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns 4.0 5 August 2016
54. The Lost Book of Mormon by Avi Steinberg 3.0 8 August 2016
55. Area 51 : an uncensored history of America's top secret military base by Annie Jacobsen 3.5 11 August 2016
56. Training Essentials for Ultrarunning: How to Train Smarter, Race Faster,… by Jason Koop, Jim Rutberg 3.5 29 August 2016
57. Ghosts Of The Abyss: A Journey Into The Heart Of The Titanic by Don Lynch 4.0 30 August 2016
58. The Bridges at Toko-Ri: A Novel by James A. Michener 5.0 31 August 2016

September
59. The Jazz of Physics by Stephon Alexander 4.5 2 September 2016
60. Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh 5.0 3 September 2016
61. Hansons Marathon Method: A Renegade Path to Your Fastest Marathon by Luke Humphrey 4.0 7 September 2016
62. Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a 100-Year-Old Author by Herman Wouk 4.5 11 September 2016
63. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson 4.0 12 September 2016
64. Training for the New Alpinism: A Manual for the Climber as Athlete by Steve House and Scott Johnston 4.5 15 Sept 2016
65. We Stand on Guard by Brian K Vaughan, Matt Hollingsworth, Steve Skroce 3.5 15 Sept 2016
66. The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare… by Jeremy Scahill 2.5 19 September 2016
67. Hal Koerner's Field Guide to Ultrarunning ... by Hal Koerner 4.0 20 September 2016
68. Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble by Dan Lyons 4.0 24 September 2016
69. Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History by Gregory A Prince 4.5 25 September 2016
70. Triumphs of Experience: The Men of the Harvard Grant Study by George E. Vaillant 4.0 27 September 2016
71. Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror by Michael V. Hayden 4.5 30 September 2016

October
72. Cell by Robin Cook 3.0 2 October 2016
73. Damn Few: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior by Rorke Denver 4.5 3 October 2016
74. Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad by Peter L. Bergen 4.0 4 October 2016
75. Worth Dying For: A Navy Seal's Call to a Nation by Rorke Denver 4.0 15 October 2016
76. Martian Summer: My Ninety Days with Interplanetary Pioneers, … by Andrew Kessler 3.5 16 October 2016

November
77. Rick Steves Mediterranean Cruise Ports by Rick Steves 4.0 4 November 2016
78. Exodus by Leon Uris 4.5 8 November 2016
79. Tender Warrior: Every Man's Purpose,... by Stu Weber 4.0 10 November 2016
80. Entreleadership : 20 years of practical business wisdom from the trenches by Dave Ramsey 4.0 11 November 2016
81. The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body by Frances Ashcroft 4.5 13 November 2016
82. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain 4.0 15 November 2016
83. How to Make Your Money Last: The Indispensable Retirement Guide by Jane Bryant Quinn 3.5 16 November 2016
84. Cathedral of the sea by Ildefonso Falcones de Sierra 4.5 21 November 2016
85. Lonely Planet Discover New York City (Travel Guide) 3.0 22 November 2016
86. Critical Reaction: a novel by Todd M. Johnson 3.5 27 November 2016
87. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe 3.5 27 November 2016
88. Code warriors : NSA's codebreakers and the secret intelligence war ... by Stephen Budiansky 4.5 30 November 2016

December
89. The God upgrade : finding your 21st-century spirituality in Judaism by Jamie S. Korngold 4.5 2 December 2016
90. A sailor of Austria : a novel by John Biggins 4.0 4 December 2016
91. The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows by Brian Castner 4.0 5 December 2016
92. Into the Black: The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle ,,,by Rowland White 4.5 7 Dec 2016
93. Marathon: You Can Do It! by Jeff Galloway 3.5 11 December 2016
94. Red Rising by Pierce Brown 4.5 12 Dec 2016
95. Epic Survival: Extreme Adventure, Stone Age Wisdom, and Lessons in Living… by Matt Graham 4.0 14 December 2016
96. Running Man: A Memoir by Charlie Engle 4.0 14 December 2016
97. Extreme ownership : how the U.S. Navy SEALs lead and win by Jocko Willink, Leif Babin 4.0 21 December 2016
98. The World as 100 People: A Visual Guide to 7 Billion Humans by Aileen Lord 3.5 22 December 2016
99. Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath by Ted Koppel 3.5 22 December 2016
100. Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn by Daniel Gordis 4.5 23 December 2016
101. You Are an Ironman: How Six Weekend Warriors Chased Their Dream of… by Jacques Steinberg 4.0 24 December 2016
102. The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction by Linda Greenhouse 4.5 25 December 2016
103. The Crash Detectives: Investigating the World's Most Mysterious Air… by Christine Negroni 3.5 26 December 2016
104. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma 4.0 27 December 2016
105. Trailhead: The Dirt on All Things Trail Running by Lisa Jhung 3.5 29 December 2016

Books that I started in 2016 and did not finish

1. The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places ... by Eric Weiner 2.5 17 Feb 2016
2. Who Designed the Designer?: A Rediscovered Path to God's Existence by Michael Augros 2.5 4 April 2016
3, The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter 2.0 18 April 2016
4. Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All Paul A. Offit M.D. 3.0 18 April 2016
5. Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing by Joe Domanick 2.5 27 April 2016
6. Choose the Life You Want: The Mindful Way to Happiness by Tal Ben-Shahar PhD 2.5 8 August 2016
7. The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule the Earth by Robin Hanson 2.5 23 August 2016
8. The 5th Wave: The First Book of the 5th Wave Series by Rick Yancey 2.5 29 August 2016
9. The Kill Switch: A Tucker Wayne Novel by James Rollins 2.5 4 September 2016
10. The Auschwitz Escape by Joel C. Rosenberg 2.5 7 September 2016
11. The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's… by Clint Willis 2.5 17 September 2016
12. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden by Steve Coll 2.5 11 October 2016
13. The God Wave: A Novel (The God Wave Trilogy) by Patrick Hemstreet 2.5 22 December 2016
14. Join by Steve Toutonghi 3.0 27 December 2016
15. Puppet Master by Dale Brown and Jim De Felice 2.5 28 December 2016

Favorite books of 2016
10. Forever Young by John Young 5.0 20 February 2016
43. Sally Ride: A Photobiography of America's Pioneering Woman in Space by Tam O'Shaughnessy 5.0 17 June 2016
58. The Bridges at Toko-Ri: A Novel by James A. Michener 5.0 31 August 2016
60. Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh 5.0 3 September 2016

I ended 2016 with 105 books read; it was a pretty interesting ensemble. This was a nice challenge for the year.