BEST NOVELS AND NOVELLAS of 2016

I read 71 books in 2016, a great many of them were 2016 releases. Many of those 2016 stories were fantastic. I also squeezed in a few these first couple weeks of January. Making my Top 10 was hard as hell, so I’m putting up my Top 20 2016 novels and my Top 10 2016 novellas.

Let’s get to it.

TOP 10 NOVELLAS of 2016:

1. ODD MAN OUT by James Newman
2. WHERE THE DEAD GO TO DIE by Aaron Dries and Mark Allan Gunnells
3. JEDI SUMMER  by John Boden
4. WOMAN IN WHITE by Kristin Dearborn
5. OF FOSTER HOMES AND FLIES by Chad Lurtzke
6. VICKI BEAUTIFUL by Somer Canon
7. MANIA by Lucas Mangum
8. THE WINTER BOX by Tim Waggoner
9. THE NIGHT CYCLIST by Stephen Graham Jones
10. WHERE WOLVES RUN by Jason Parent

TOP 20 NOVELS of 2016:

1. MONGRELS by Stephen Graham Jones
2. THE RIB FROM WHICH I REMAKE THE WORLD by Ed Kurtz
3. STRANDED by Bracken MacLeod
4. DESOLATION by Kristopher Rufty
5. THE NIGHT PARADE by Ronald Malfi
6. NORTHWOODS by Bill Schweigart
7. PRINCE OF NIGHTMARES by John McNee
8. THE EIGHTH by Stephanie Wytovich
9. THEY RISE by Hunter Shea
10. THE SUICIDE MOTOR CLUB by Christopher Buehlman
11. MAYAN BLUE by Michele Garza and Melissa Lason
12. THE COMPLEX by Brian Keene
13. CHILDREN OF THE DARK by Jonathan Janz
14. SALVAGE by Duncan Ralston
15. DREAM WOODS by Patrick Lacey
16. EAT THE NIGHT by Tim Waggoner
17. ZERO LIVES REMAINING by Adam Cesare
18. THE NIGHTLY DISEASE by Max Booth III
19. THE JERSEY DEVIL by Hunter Shea
20. THE MONSTER UNDERNEATH by Matthew Franks

My favorite non-horror releases: EVERY ANXIOUS WAVE by Mo Daviau and THE POISON ARTIST by Jonathan Moore

Favorite collections: SLEEP PARALYSIS by Patrick Lacey and A MIXED BAG OF BLOOD by David Bernstein.

All of my reviews and the entire list of books I read for 2016 can be found HERE

Check out some of my 2016 works: