Rubina Reads Awards 2016
2016 was a superb reading year for me. I broke my own personal record and read 41 books.
And here are the nominees are –
– The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
– The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
– The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
– Rage of Angels by Sidney Sheldon
– The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald
– Mind Games by T.J.Moore
– The Night Manager by John le Carré
– Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
– Monogram Murders by Sophie Hannah
– Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll
– Never Go Back by Lee Child
– On Writing by Stephen King
– The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
– The Secret by Rhoda Byrne
– Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
– The Gift by Dannielle Steel
– The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith
– The Good Guy by Dean Koontz
– After the Crash by Michel Bussi
– A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
– Cross Kill by James Patterson
– Nemesis by Jo Nesbø
– The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan
– The Murder of Sonia Raikkonen by Salil Desai
– How to Make a Living as a Writer by James Scott Bell
– 5 Secrets of Story Structure by K.M.Weiland
– Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
– Successful Self-Publishing by Joanna Penn
– An Accidental Woman by Barbara Delinsky
– You Belong to Me by Mary Higgins Clark
– Promise Me by Harlan Coben
– Goodbye Girl by Sheeja Jose
– Let’s Get Digital by David Gaughran
– Lady Killer by Meryl Sawyer
– Visions in Death by J.D.Robb
– All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
– The Trap by Melanie Raabe
– Don’t You Cry by Mary Kubica
– Unfinished Portrait by Agatha Christie
– The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
– Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Winnners –
- Best Book (Fiction) – Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
- Best Book (Non-Fiction) – On Writing by Stephen King
- Author of the Year – Jeffrey Archer
- Promising Author – Mary Higgins Clark and Jo Nesbo
- Best Protagonist (Male) – Kane and Abel (from Kane and Abel, Jeffrey Archer)
- Best Protagonist (Female) – Susan Chandler (from You Belong To Me, Mary Higgins Clark) and Marie-Laure (from All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr)
- Best Antagonist – Krait (Hitman from The Good Guy, Dean Koontz)
- Best Plot – Rage of Angels by Sidney Sheldon
- Re-Read Worthy Book – Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
- Best Writing – All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- Most Surprising Book – Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
- Best Buy – And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
- Best Gift – Harry Potter series (from Mum); Kindle (from Bro)
- Must Follow Bookstagrammer – Crime By The Book; Clues and Reviews
- Best Movie – Fantastic Beasts; Doctor Strange
- Precious One – Mind Games by T.J. Moore
- Fictional Buddy – Newt Scamander (from Fantastic Beasts)
- Wish I Was There Book – All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- Best Kindle Read – How to Make a Living as a Writer by James Scott Bell
- Best Cover – The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan
