2015

December 31, 2015

2015

Looking back through my notes, here are all the books I read in 2015:

January 2015

  • The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green
  • Archie Meets KISS (graphic)
  • More Baths Less Talking, by Nick Hornby
  • The Second Confession, by Rex Stout
  • J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography, by Humphrey Carpenter - I really liked this one.
  • The Phantom Tollbooth (family read), by Norton Juster
  • North! Or Be Eaten (family read), by Andrew Peterson
  • Dragon Rider (audio, on the drive to Kansas for Aunt Mary's funeral), by Cornelia Funke

February 2015

  • Both Flesh and Not, by David Foster Wallace - mostly skimmed

March 2015

  • Playing the Piano for Pleasure, by Charles Cooke
  • Sideways Stories From Wayside School (family read), by Louis Sachar

April 2015

  • Wolf in White Van, by John Darnielle
  • Fortunately, the Milk (family read), by Neil Gaiman

May 2015

  • Bubbles & Gondola (graphic), by Renaud Dillies
  • Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy

June 2015

  • One More Thing (audio), by B. J. Novak
  • The Deathworms of Kratos, by Richard Avery
  • The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet, by Reif Larsen - read on our road trip to Milwaukee
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (audio on the road trip), by J. K. Rowling
  • The Little House in the Big Woods (audio on the road trip), by Laura Ingalls Wilder

July 2015

  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (audio on the return trip to Texas), by J. K. Rowling
  • The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing To Our Brains (audio), by Nicholas Carr
  • The Piano Shop on the Left Bank, by Thad Carhart
  • I Am Not Afraid: Demon Possession and Spiritual Warfare, by Robert H. Bennett

August 2015

  • VALIS, by Philip K. Dick - super weird
  • The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, by Bill Bryson
  • The Circle, by Dave Eggers
  • Seveneves (audio), by Neal Stephenson

September 2015

  • Armada (audio), by Ernest Cline
  • The Disappearance of Childhood (audio), by Neal Postman

October 2015

  • How Not To Be Wrong, by Jordan Ellenberg
  • Genius at Play (audio), by Siobhan Roberts - about John Conway
  • Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
  • This is when I started reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

November 2015

  • Tales Designed to Thrizzle Vol. 1 (graphic), by Michael Kupperman
  • Mr. Mercedes (audio), by Stephen King

December 2015

  • Lexicon (audio), by Max Barry
  • Ghost in the Wires (audio), by Kevin Mitnick

Summary:

37 total books: 13 audio, 24 print; 26 fiction, 11 non-fiction.