Okay.
I have many favorites. For the most part, I embrace every book that I read. Yet many stand out as unforgettable (that’s what they are…) In 2016 I read 83 books, 14 of which were Children’s that I enjoyed reading with students.
For foreign/target language readings, I did not fare too well. Unfortunately, I did not manage to fit in Spanish and Italian for 2016.
*In French:
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Chaque automne j’ai envie de mourir
by Véronique Côté, Steve Gagnon -
Fugitive Suns: Selected Poetry: A Bilingual Edition
by Andrée Chedid, Jon Wagner (Introduction), Lynne Goodhart (Translator )
(Read both the French and English translations for comparison and joy.)
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Le sixième jour
by Andrée Chedid -
Le Chef-D’Œuvre Inconnu
by Honoré de Balzac -
Vu du ciel
by Christine Angot -
Le Violon noir
by Maxence Fermine (Merci bien, Zuzana :)) -
Rien ne s’oppose à la nuit
by Delphine de Vigan -
L’été
by Albert Camus -
L’envers et l’endroit
by Albert Camus -
La Honte
by Annie Ernaux -
La Preference Nationale
by Fatou Diome -
Enfin chez moi ! (Mondes en VF)
by Kidi Bebey
*In Korean:
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채식주의자
by 한강 -
Convalescence (Bi-lingual Edition Modern Korean Literature, #24)
by 한강
(I read both the Korean and English translation. Hey, I was into 한강 before the Man Booker Prize ;p ) -
Five Meters of Time/5미터의 시간: Children’s Picture Book English-Korean (Bilingual Edition/Dual Language) by Philipp Winterberg (Goodreads Author), Joo Yeon Kang (Translator), Christina Riesenweber (Translator), Japhet Johnstone (Translator)
*In Chinese:
Chinese books for children: The Apple Tree: (Bilingual English and Mandarin Chinese books for kids) Dual language Edition (book 1)
by Jane Thai
My favorite books *in English (and those translated into English) for 2016 were,
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Eating Animals
by Jonathan Safran Foer -
My Year of Meats
by Ruth Ozeki -
The Face: A Time Code
by Ruth Ozeki -
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga
by Benjamin Lorr -
The Disappearance of Childhood
by Neil Postman -
Revenge
by Yōko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder (Translator) -
Salad Anniversary
by Machi Tawara, Juliet Winters Carpenter (Translator) -
The Tosa Diary
by Ki No Tsurayuki, William N. Porter (Translator) -
No Death, No Fear
by Thich Nhat Hanh, Pritam Singh (Foreword by)
Actually I hadn’t heard of it before. Should be interesting.
“Showing some Dunkirk spirit” has kind of entered our vernacular as a phrase meaning to cobble things together to keep going after taking a total kick in the Donalds!
It’s probably a uniquely UK thing, though? I doubt whether Uncle Sam talks about the “Pearl Harbour spirit”? 
what did you read Rusya Tarihi in? im Turkish so im just curious
I want to read The Liberty Amendements by Mark Levin
The two that I most note were 1.) El alquimista de Paulo Coelho, and 2.) The 4 Hour Workweek - Tim Ferris (Still reading)
These two books were very entertaining and interesting to read, which usually I find hard to find in books.
I don`t usually read books, but for 2017 I made it a goal to read more books.
What or Why? I answered the both questions.
The relations between the Russian and Turkic states are very interestig. The Mongol hegemony over the Russian cities, the era of Ivan the Terrible and the power struggle, Boyars, wars against the Sweden-Turkish armies and the participation of Poland. I am very curious how the nomads had ruled the Russian, Chinese or Roman cities and how they had managed the economy, what they had been thinking, how they had crossed the endless steppes and what kind of logistic geniuses they were. I realized that Russia is a slavic country but at the same time there is a considerable influence of Turkic, Fin-Ugor and Scandinavian tribes over Russia.
I love history. I’d like to study history, especially work on the nomads and their worlds. If I have a chance I want to study history in Hungary and work on the Huns and Roman Empire. I want to learn Hungarian and Latin. These kind of plans and imagery run in my head. 
No, sorry. I’ve not been reading full novels for very long, and finding that next book is a challenge. I’m taking @TamL’s recommendation above and have just bought and downloaded “Пикник на льду” by Андрей Курков and will now find out what @TamL’s reading level is.
Getting any sort of language training?
I do not have favorite books, I just started read in English.
I read sci-fi and later I tried autobiography book. Sci-fi is harder.
The book “I Think Therefore I Play - Pirlo, Andrea” I can read faster, than “The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”.
That all I want to say.
I hope, that in this year I will get more reading experience.
Recently I have been motivated to pick Spanish back up and put French on the back burner because I started reading the Harry Potter series in Spanish. Currently I’m only on the first book, Harry Potter y la Piedra Filosofal, which I am reading on LingQ while listening to an audiobook version I found on youtube. I’m hoping to finish the first book in about a week (I’m on chapter 4 of 17, reading about 2 a day) and then hopefully quickly move on to the second.
My previous method for learning Spanish was pretty weak to say the least. I didn’t do very much extensive reading, and definitely didn’t do enough listening. But now, I am reading a book I’ve been very attached to since childhood, I know the story well, and it’s easy to read two chapters a day because it’s actually INTERESTING. Crazy right?
Hoping to read about 20 books in Spanish in 2017 of varying lengths while listening to the accompanying audiobook for the majority, starting with the Harry Potter series and moving my way to more and more complicated texts.
A Monster Calls - perhaps the only book i actually had time to read in 2016 but still brilliant nonetheless.
Towards the end of the year I started to read Ian Fleming’s Bond books, four of them Casino Royale, Live and let die, Moonraker and From russia with love. I plan to read the rest during this year, as well as books written by Ken Follett. The Bond books that I read inspired me to look around for spy fiction.
As for least favorite book of the year it would easily be El modelo Eibar, it is about a Spanish football club that has defied the odds and reach the top division (this season is there second in the topflight). I had high expectations of the book but after the first couple of chapters it felt like it was written from the perspective of an accountant or a marketing team.
i read two book called one was l’habitacion de ybars et louisania both books are set in new orleans when it was still a colony of france
My favourite author is an American writer Daniel Silva. I have read some of his books in English and recently started to read others in Spanish.
I’ve just finished this excellent book (in English) about translation. Recommended.
How did you come across Silva’s books in Spanish?
I’m currently reading Ready Player One by Ernest Kline in Spanish. It’s such an amazingly entertaining story. The movie is being made by Stephen Spielberg out in 2018. I read it in English in 2012 and thankfully I forgot a lot of the story, so it’s almost like reading it for the first time. I’m probably going to read Harry Potter 1 in Spanish next, mainly because I have the audiobook (the real one, not the bad quality YouTube) for it so I can read and listen. It’s a bit of hard work finding the Spanish translation of books that I like that also has a spanish audiobook 