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.