This is less of an update and more of a masterpost. Here's everything I bought in 2016 that I still haven't read, updated with books I bought in 2017 that fall in the same categories and books from before 2016 as well. So this is everything I own and need to get around to reading.
From chain bookstores:
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Way Things Work by David Macaulay, Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink, The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Here by Richard McGuire, The Royal We by Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
From BookSale, a secondhand bookstore chain:
From other secondhand bookstores in the mall:The Runner by Cynthia Voigt, Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary, The Nautical Chart by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Penguin Little Black Classics hoarding:The Fall of Icarus by Ovid, Come Close by Sappho, Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun by Emily Dickinson
Part of my efforts to buy more Filipino books:Macarthur by Bob Ong, Mythspace by Paolo Chikiamco, Mga Tala sa Dagat ni Annette Acacio Flores, Si Diwayen ni Augie Rivera, Ito ang Diktadura ni Equipo Plantel, Isang Harding Papel ni Augie Rivera,
Random campus secondhand bookstore buys:The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, A Place of My Own by Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett
From Yumi Thrift Shop:Hardcover of How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez (duplicate, I have a paperback)
From my beloved Little Free Library, which I feed with romance paperbacks from my aunt's collection:A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (currently reading)
Books I won in a giveaway:My Invented Country by Isabel Allende, The Accidental by Ali Smith, The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino, There is No Dog by Meg Rosoff
Have you read any of these books? Would you recommend that I read any of them first?