Friday, January 1, 2016

Books I Read in 2015

My goal for 2015 was to read 60 books. I actually read 65.

Top 9 Personal Favorites I Have Read This Year (Fiction and Non-Fiction):
  1. All the Dresden Files books I've read so far - Jim Butcher
  2. All the Thursday Next books I've read so far - Jasper Fforde
  3. All the James Bond books I've read so far - Ian Fleming
  4. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
  5. Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
  6. The Martian - Andy Weir
  7. Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film - Patton Oswald
  8. Outlander (Outlander #1) - Diana Gabaldon
  9. Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
Each category is in order of when I read it...

Bold means I now own it in book form. Italics means I own it in Kindle ebook form.

Fiction Awesome:
  • Changes (Dresden Files #12) - Jim Butcher
  • A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
  • Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
  • The Martian - Andy Weir 
  • High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
  • Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron (Shades of Grey, #1) - Jasper Fforde
  • Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell- Susanna Clark
  • Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2) – Jasper Fforde
  • The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
  • Ghost Story (Dresden Files #13) - Jim Butcher
  • The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next #3) - Jasper Fforde
  • Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
  • Something Rotten (Thursday Next #4) - Jasper Fforde
  • The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Non-Fiction Awesome:
  • Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
  • The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right - Atul Gawande 
  • Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film - Patton Oswald 
  • The Art of Asking; or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help - Amanda Palmer
Fiction Recommended:
  • The Tale of Desperaux - Kate DiCamillo
  • Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
  • The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains  - Neil Gaiman
  • Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
  • Dreams of Gods and Monsters (Daughter of Smoke and Bone #3) - Laini Taylor 
  • Beautiful Ruins - Jess Walter
  • Love in the Time of Chlorea - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Short Story Audio Collection - Neil Gaiman
  • Moon Over Soho (Peter Grant #2) - Ben Aaronovitch
  • The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories- Tim Burton
  • Sunshine - Robin McKinley
  • Me, Earl and The Dying Girl - Jesse Andrews
  • MirrorMask - Neil Gaiman
  • David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
  • Whispers Underground (Peter Grant #3) - Ben Aaronovitch
  • Five by Fitzgerald: Classic Stories of the Jazz Age - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Casino Royale (James Bond #1) - Ian Fleming 
  • Live and Let Die  (James Bond #2) - Ian Fleming 
  • Moonraker (James Bond #3) - Ian Fleming 
  • Complete Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Diamond Are Forever (James Bond #4) - Ian Fleming 
  • Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances - Neil Gaiman
  • From Russia With Love (James Bond #5) - Ian Fleming 
  • Doctor No (James Bond #6) - Ian Fleming 
  • Armada - Ernest Cline
  • Goldfinger (James Bond #7) - Ian Fleming
Non-Fiction Recommended:
  • Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography - Neil Patrick Harris
  • And Furthermore - Judi Dench 
  • Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail - Cheryl Strayed 
  • Drama: An Actor's Education - John Lithgow  
  • In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette - Hampton Sides
  • If You Ask Me - Betty White
  • Zombie Spaceship Wasteland - Patton Oswalt 
Books I Re-Read
  • The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
  • World War Z- Max Brooks
Fiction NOT Recommended:
  • The Fall (The Strain Trilogy, #2) - Guillermo del Toro
  • Raging Heat (Nikki Heat #6) - Richard Castle
  • The Enchanted - Rene Denfield
  • Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng
  • Brooklyn - Colm Toibin
  • Middlemarch - George Eliot
  • Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom 
  • The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
  • All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr 
  • The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
Non-Fiction NOT Recommended:
  • The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America - Erik Larson
  • Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The Life of P.L. Travers - Valerie Lawson

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