My Favorite Books of 2016

Many of my blog readers already know that 2016 was a shit-show for my family (as well as for quite a few people that I know.) 2017 is here and we're determined on focusing on the here and now...

In the art department in my home, however, it was stellar. It was a year to find solace, comfort and refuge in art (that includes books and film.) Several hospital stays, long waiting room visits and being a caretaker (yay for David sleeping a lot!) gave me some added time to read. 

Thanks to my family and friends, local used bookstores (yay for trade-in credit) and gift certificates, David and I were kept sane with books last year. 

These are my favorites from 2016 (in no particular order.)

Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth: Inside the Creation of a Modern Fairy Tale

Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters: Inside His Films, Notebooks, and Collections (not shown)

Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova

Maria Lassnig: The Pen Is the Sister of the Brush: Diaries 1943-1997

The Keeper

Seeing Ourselves: Women's Self-Portraits

The Woman Who Says No: Françoise Gilot on Her Life With and Without Picasso - Rebel, Muse, Artist

Cloth Lullaby: The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois 

Enough Astronaut Blood to Last the Winter

The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Provence

Art and Mourning: The role of creativity in healing trauma and loss

Barron Storey's Bob

Dave McKean's Postcards from Prague

Dave McKean's Postcards from Bilbao

The Devil’s Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth: Studies in the Horror Film

LOVF: An Illustrated Diary Of A Man Literally Losing His Mind

Lou Ann Granger's With Love for the Journey

Frank Elgar's Van Gogh 

Suite for Barbara Loden 

Charlotte: A Novel  

Audra Auclair sketchbook

Memoir of Vincent Van Gogh

What were your favorites from 2016?