These are my fun friends of the past year:

1. Police by Jo Nesbo
2. Unusual Creatures by Michael Hearst
3. 19 Trandafiri by Mircea Eliade
4. Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado
5. Persuasion by Jane Austen
6. Detroit by Charlie LeDuff
7. Calatorie in Romania by Sacheverell Sitwell
8. Conversations with Maya Angelou by Jeffrey M. Elliot (Editor), Maya Angelou
9. The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone–Especially Ourselves by Dan Ariely
10. The Orenda by Joseph Boyden
11. L S Lowry by Michael Leber
12. Legende, sau Basmele Romanilor by Petre Ispirescu
13. Curtezana si Samuraiul by Leslie Downer
14. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
15. Sotia doctorului by Sawako Ariyoshi
16. La felicidad es un té contigo by Mamen Sánchez
17. Gog by Giovanni Papini
18. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
19. O istorie sinceră a poporului român by Florin Constantiniu
20. Books v. Cigarettes by George Orwell
21. The Bird Artist by Howard Norman
22. Excellent Women by Barbara Pym

Some lovely children’s books:

1. Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French, Bruce Whatley (Illustrator)
2. Where Bear? by Sophy Henn
3. White Snow, Bright Snow by Alvin Tresselt, Roger Duvoisin (Illustrator)
4. Petunia’s Christmas (Petunia) by Roger Duvoisin

Let 2016 bring more fun readings!