While most people are posting their favorite books they read during the year or providing a mathematical breakdown of their reading, I neither have the energy or the inclination to do that. Instead, here is a list of all of the books I finished in 2015. Some were excellent. Some were boring. Others were just mediocre. All of them helped me learn a bit more about myself and about the big wide world. After all, isn’t that why we read?
Just for fun, here are my lists for the last five years:
Do you spy any of your favorites on this list?
- The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgwick
- After the War is Over by Jennifer Robson
- All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
- The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi
- As You Wish by Cary Elwes
- The Deep by Nick Cutter
- Choose Your Own Autobiography by Neil Patrick Harris
- The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
- Food: A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan
- The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen
- The Undertaker’s Daughter by Kate Mayfield
- The Last American Vampire by Seth Grahame-Smith
- Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper
- Inked by Eric Smith
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
- My Sunshine Away by M. O. Walsh
- Beautiful Oblivion by Jamie McGuire
- Seeker by Arwen Elys Dayton
- A Touch of Stardust by Kate Alcott
- Cut Me Free by J. R. Johansson
- The Jaguar’s Children by John Vaillant
- A Memory of Violets by Hazel Gaynor
- The Siege Winter by Ariana Franklin
- Dark Rooms by Lili Anolik
- The Mermaid’s Child by Jo Baker
- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
- Pet Sematary by Stephen King
- And One Last Thing… by Molly Harper
- Liars, Inc. by Paula Stokes
- The Damned by Andrew Pyper
- The Cemetery Boys by Heather Brewer
- At the Water’s Edge by Sara Gruen
- Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
- The Witch of Painted Sorrows by M. J. Rose
- All the Rage by Courtney Summers
- The Remedy by Suzanne Young
- Conspiracy of Blood and Smoke by Anne Blankman
- The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma
- The Replaced by Kimberly Derting
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- Inside the O’Briens by Lisa Genova
- The Dead Lands by Benjamin Percy
- The Eternity Key by Bree Despain
- House of Echoes by Brendan Duffy
- When We Were Animals by Joshua Gaylord
- The House of Hawthorne by Erika Robuck
- Ghost Story by Jim Butcher
- The Silver Witch by Paula Brackston
- The Dangers of Dating a Rebound Vampire by Molly Harper
- Boo by Neil Smith
- The Cage by Megan Shepherd
- Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Dave
- The Knockoff by Lucy Sykes and Jo Piazza
- Revival by Stephen King
- The Daylight Marriage by Heidi Pitlor
- Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone
- Misery by Stephen King
- Things You Won’t Say by Sarah Pekkanen
- The Ice Twins by S. K. Tremayne
- The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler
- Tiny Little Thing by Beatriz Williams
- Those Girls by Chevy Stevens
- Pretty Baby by Mary Kubica
- The Fifth House of the Heart by Ben Tripp
- Divergent by Veronica Roth
- Insurgent by Veronica Roth
- The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson
- Allegiant by Veronica Roth
- Mother of Eden by Chris Beckett
- The Book of Blood and Shadow by Robin Wasserman
- The Fold by Peter Clines
- The Night Sister by Jennifer McMahon
- Armada by Ernest Cline
- The Creeping by Alexandra Sirowy
- Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
- Alive by Scott Sigler
- Cracked Up to Be by Courtney Summers
- The Secrets She Keeps by Deb Caletti
- Second Life by S. J. Watson
- The Gates of Evangeline by Hester Young
- Good Enough to Eat by Stacey Ballis
- Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
- Stranger by Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith
- The Admissions by Meg Mitchell Moore
- Glass Houses by Rachel Caine
- The Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow
- Feed by Mira Grant
- The Fall of Princes by Robert Goolrick
- Love is Red by Sophie Jaff
- Zeroes by Scott Westerfeld
- House of Thieves by Charles Belfoure
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- What If? by Randall Munroe
- City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg
- ‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
- Lock In by John Scalzi
- Prince of Darkness by Shane White
- The Passage by Justin Cronin
- Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
- These Shallow Graves by Jennifer Donnelly
- Stars of Fortune by Nora Roberts
- Hotel Ruby by Suzanne Young
- Dangerous Lies by Becca Fitzpatrick
- The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown
- The Lake House by Kate Morton
- On Immunity by Eula Bliss
- The Witches by Stacy Schiff
- Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell
- The Guest Room by Chris Bohjalian
- The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
- The Winter Girl by Matt Marinovich
- The Captive Condition by Kevin P. Keating
- After the Crash by Michel Bussi
- The Lady of Misrule by Suzannah Dunn
- The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin
