I second Choucette22 having just finished A Little Life. I found it a fully absorbing, multi emotion, at times quite confronting, eye opening and beautifully written masterpiece. A story that travels the complex lives of a group of four male friends and all of their trials and tribulations through the decades. I didn't want it to end! A favourite read of 2016, and one of my top five for this decade, five stars.

I just finished Miss Peregrine's School for Peculiar Children and H is for Hawk (which I loved: my secret self is a falconer and T.H. White's Once and Future King was a favorite of my preteen years). Now, I'm about halfway through a memoir called Lab Girl about a scientist (the subject matter is better than the writing but it's still quite compelling). I've got my eyes open for the next novel though, so I'm reading this list with interest. Maybe A Little Life?

I was riveted by Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Addiction by Sam Quinones. On a wildly different note, I also loved Station Eleven, a post-flu-apocalypse novel by Emily St. John Mandel.

I'm one disc in on McCall Smith's Emma in audiobook thanks to this thread - so far a bit slow going but he is great at skewering upper-class British pretensions.

If anyone's interested in the topic of depression, I just finished The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic, by Jonathan Rottenberg. Really thoughtful yet accessible, and I bought his argument for replacing the deficit model with a mood science approach.

I will definitely put A Little Life on my list based on the great praise.

I'm in the middle of Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld. It's a modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice, set in Cincinnati. I'm really enjoying it. It's very funny!