Three World War II novels, two modern classics, and one newish post civilisation novel (I can never get enough utopia/dystopia/post-apocalypse) rounded out my list of favourite not so new books read in 2016.
Life After Life and A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
(Kinokuniya)
California by Edan Lepucki
(Readings)
Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans
(Public Library)
High-Rise by J. G. Ballard
(Public Library)
Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith
(Public Library)
Girl in Library 
Just found your blog and I am loving it!!!! I LOVED California. Really want to read High-Rise now! I’m totally with you, I can never get enough post-apocalypse/dystopia books!
Thanks Ellen! Have you read Station Eleven yet? I read it and California around the same time, and really enjoyed both (after a long period when I thought no one was going to write a good dystopian novel ever again!)
I haven’t!!!! I need to!