Wow, I really do read a lot.
My year end count for 2015: I read 226 books.
If you discount the 18 that were rereads, I read 208 books.
That's a lot of books.
Here they are, in the order that I finished them:
January 2015
Trigger Warning - Neil Gaiman
Distrust That Particular Flavor - William Gibson
Falling in Love - Donna Leon
The Unquiet Dead - Ausma Zehanat Khan
Juliet, Naked - Nick Hornby (reread)
Bloodline - Mark Billingham
Leave the Grave Green - Deborah Crombie
Dreaming of the Bones - Deborah Crombie
Kissed a Sad Goodbye - Deborah Crombie
A Finer End - Deborah Crombie
And Justice There Is None - Deborah Crombie
In A Dark House - Deborah Crombie
Dragons at Crumbling Castle - Terry Pratchett
Inside the O'Briens - Lisa Genova
Water Like A Stone - Deborah Crombie
Hand Drawn Jokes for Smart Attractive People - Matthew Diffee
Find the Good - Heather Lende
The Sound of Broken Glass - Deborah Crombie (reread)
To Dwell in Darkness - Deborah Crombie (reread)
February 2015
The Spellman Files - Lisa Lutz
Backstrom: He Who Kills the Dragon - Leif GW Persson
A Share in Death - Deborah Crombie
Better Than Before - Gretchen Rubin
Mislaid - Nell Zink
Moab is My Washpot - Stephen Fry
Spook Country - William Gibson (reread)
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry - Fredrik Backman
Six and a Half Deadly Sins - Colin Cotterill
Fillets of Plaice - Gerald Durrell (reread)
Down Among the Dead Men - Peter Lovesey
Bloodhounds - Peter Lovesey
The Vault - Peter Lovesey
The Fatal Flame - Lyndsay Faye
The Art of Asking - Amanda Palmer
March 2015
Zero History - William Gibson (reread)
Little Black Lies - Sharon Bolton
King and Joker - Peter Dickinson
What Makes This Book So Great - Jo Walton
The Old English Peep Show - Peter Dickinson
Saint Mazie - Jamie Attenberg
Royal Wedding - Meg Cabot
The Missing and the Dead - Stuart MacBride
Flame Out - M. P. Cooley
Superfluous Women - Carola Dunn
Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers - Alexander McCall Smith
The Clothes They Stood Up In and The Lady in the Van - Alan Bennett
When the Sacred Ginmill Closes - Lawrence Block
Killing the Lawyers - Reginald Hill
Jinn and Juice - Nicole Peeler
In One Person - John Irving
Generation Loss - Elizabeth Hand
Hold Still - Sally Mann
Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively
Archer's Goon - Diana Wynne Jones (reread)
No Mark Upon Her - Deborah Crombie (reread)
Anger Is An Energy - John Lydon
Sewer, Gas and Electric - Matt Ruff
The Now Effect - Elisha Goldstein
April 2015
Fates and Furies - Lauren Groff
One Foot In The Grave - Peter Dickinson
The Seven Daughters of Eve - Brian Sykes
Little Brother - Cory Doctorow
City of the Mind - Penelope Lively
A Combat Medic's Escapes and Escapades - William J. Shier
The Ways of the World - Robert Goddard
The Merlin Conspiracy - Diana Wynne Jones
The Photograph - Penelope Lively
Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda - Becky Albertalli
A Curious Mind - Brian Grazer & Charles Fishman
After the Storm - Linda Castillo
Killing Pretty - Richard Kadrey
Hold Me Closer - David Levithan
Pray for Silence - Linda Castillo
In the Dark Places - Peter Robinson
Cleopatra's Sister - Penelope Lively
The Kill - Jane Casey
How to Start a Fire - Lisa Lutz
A Good Killing - Allison Leotta
Wonderland - Stacy D'Erasmo
May 2015
A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
The Forgotten Affairs of Youth - Alexander McCall Smith
The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
What Comes Next and How To Like It - Abigail Thomas
The Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss
Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson
Emma: A Modern Retelling - Alexander McCall Smith
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl - Jesse Andrews
The Job - Steve Osborne
Bad Kid - David Crabb
One Plus One - Jojo Moyes
House of Thieves - Charles Belfoure
The Swans of Fifth Avenue - Melanie Benjamin
How It All Began - Penelope Lively
Small Mercies - Eddie Joyce
The Nature of the Beast - Louise Penny
Paper Towns - John Green
Home is Burning - Dan Marshall
June 2015
Going Into the City - Robert Christgau
Available Dark - Elizabeth Hand
The First Bad Man - Miranda July
Luckiest Girl Alive - Jessica Knoll
The Ghost Fields - Elly Griffiths
A Banquet of Consequences - Elizabeth George
A Suitable Vengeance - Elizabeth George (reread)
A Great Deliverance - Elizabeth George (reread)
The Slow Regard of Silent Things - Patrick Rothfuss
Daring Greatly - Brene Brown
Well-Schooled in Murder - Elizabeth George (reread)
The Gates of Evangeline - Hester Young
All Shall Be Well - Deborah Crombie
How To Be Good - Nick Hornby
Humans of New York: Stories - Brandon Stanton
Sweet Caress - William Boyd
Sweet Forgiveness - Lori Nelson Spielman
Rubbernecker - Belinda Bauer
The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra - Vaseem Khan
July 2015
Eric - Terry Pratchett (reread)
Family Album - Penelope Lively
About a Boy - Nick Hornby
Mind Whispering - Tara Bennett-Goleman
Chapter and Verse - Bernard Sumner
Secondhand Souls - Christopher Moore
Corduroy Mansions - Alexander McCall Smith
City on Fire - Garth Risk Hallberg
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Tooth Tattoo - Peter Lovesey
Bull Mountain - Brian Panowich
Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better - Pema Chodron
Fiddlers - Ed McBain
A Beam of Light - Andrea Camilleri
The Stone Wife - Peter Lovesey
Passing On - Penelope Lively
The Last Detective - Peter Lovesey
Man In Profile: Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker - Thomas Kunkel
August 2015
The Lake House - Kate Morton
Our Kind - Kate Walbert
Me Before You - Jojo Moyes
The Soul of an Octopus - Sy Montgomery
Sorcerer to the Crown - Zen Cho
A Very Good Hater - Reginald Hill
Don't Suck, Don't Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt - Kristin Hersh
Find a Way - Diana Nyad
Art in the Blood: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure - Bonnie McBird
The Opposite of Everyone - Joshilyn Jackson
(Note: I only counted this once, but I read it twice, because it was SO FUCKING GOOD.)
The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams - Lawrence Block
Fun Home - Alison Bechdel
Sizzling Sixteen - Janet Evanovich
Splinter the Silence - Val McDermid
The Visitors - Simon Sylvester
Jigsaw Man - Elena Forbes
After You - Jojo Moyes
Wilberforce - H. S. Cross
Foul Matter - Martha Grimes
The Rest of Us Just Live Here - Patrick Ness
September 2015
On the Move - Oliver Sacks
Fat Cat Art - Svetlana Petrova
Girl Waits With Gun - Amy Stewart
Out On The Cutting Edge - Lawrence Block
The Shepherd's Crown - Terry Pratchett
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
In The Midst of Death - Lawrence Block
The Gun Seller - Hugh Laurie
Heat Wave - Penelope Lively
Let Me Explain You - Annie Leontas
Orphan X - Gregg Hurwitz
Kust & Wonder - Augusten Burroughs
The Past - Tessa Hadley
Be Frank With Me - Julia Claiborne Johnson
The Game - Diana Wynne Jones
Guards ! Guards! - Terry Pratchett (reread)
The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs - Matthew Dicks
Not That Kind of Girl - Mary Wesley (reread)
Some Deaths Before Dying - Peter Dickinson
The False Inspector Dew - Peter Lovesey
The Silkworm - Robert Galbraith (reread)
October 2015
The Code of the Woosters - P. G. Wodehouse
Rub out the Words: The Letters of William S Burroughs 1959-1974 - Bill Morgan, ed.
The One-in-a-Million Boy - Monica Wood
The Girl in the Ice - Lotte and Soren Hammer
The Passenger - Lisa Lutz
A Doubter's Almanac - Ethan Canin
The Imitation Game (graphic novel) - Jim Ottaviani
Good Night, Mr. Wodehouse - Faith Sullivan
*****leaving out one book title because I hate the author*****
Dear Committee Members - Julie Schumacher
Mosquitoland - David Arnold
The Martian - Andy Weir
A Son of the Circus - John Irving
The Girls - Emma Cline
Career of Evil - Robert Galbraith
Binge - Tyler Oakley
Carry On - Rainbow Rowell
Jane Steele - Lyndsay Faye
Detroit Hustle - Amy Haimerl
November 2015
When to Rob a Bank - Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Splitting an Order - Ted Kooser
The Everything Box - Richard Kadrey
Lovecraft Country - Matt Ruff
A Dubious Legacy - Mary Wesley (reread)
Men Explain Things to Me - Rebecca Solnit
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew - Mary Wesley (reread)
Sting Like A Bee - Jose Torres
Lord of the Wings - Donna Andrews
No Shred of Evidence - Charles Todd
Turning the Mind into an Ally - Sakyong Mipham
And Justice There Is None - Deborah Crombie (reread)
Montalbano's First Case - Andrea Camilleri
Noonday - Pat Barker
Remembrance - Meg Cabot
My Father, The Pornographer - Chris Offutt
No Cure For Love - Peter Robinson
Hidden Bodies - Caroline Kepnis
All the Winters After - Sere Prince Halverson
December 2015
M Train - Patti Smith
In Other Words - Jhumpa Lahiri
The Widow - Fiona Barton
The Waters of Eternal Youth - Donna Leon
The Nest - Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
Gonzo Girl - Cheryl Della Pietra
Year of Yes - Shonda Rhimes
Christodora - Tim Murphy
Easy Streets - Bill James
Rising Strong - Brene Brown
Lucia in London - E. F. Benson
Vexation Lullaby - Justin Tussing
Still Life - Louise Penny (reread)
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)
