My Top Reads of 2015

Happy New Year, everyone! Today I’m posting my top reads in 2015. I narrowed it down to 12, in no specific order:

1. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
2. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
3. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
4. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
5. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
6. How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
7. Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson
8. Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed edited by Meghan Daum
9. Redeployment by Phil Klay
10. Us by David Nicholls
11. A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
12. Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver

And because I always need a few honorary mentions: Plainsong by Kent Haruf, Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout, The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi, Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood, Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer and The Martian by Andy Weir

Here’s to a fantastic 2016, one that’s full of good reads and literary adventures.