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Book List 2015

It was a good year for reading! I made an effort to broaden my tastes and read from various different genres, or along certain themes. I had a goal to read 75 books and I made it just in the nick of time! I'll be getting more reviews of these books up and coming, once my routine for the new year settles in.

Here are all the books I completed* in 2015!

 *There are many more I started and did not finish. I did not count those


  1. Talking to Dragons - Patricia C. Wrede
  2. The Paper Magician - Charlie N. Holmberg
  3. The Glass Magician - Charlie N. Holmberg
  4. The Last Continent - Terry Pratchett
  5. Firefight - Brandon Sanderson
  6. A Night of Blacker Darkness - Dan Wells
  7. Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
  8. The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
  9. Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
  10. Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
  11. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? - Mindy Kaling
  12. Dreaming Spies - Laurie R. King
  13. A Darker Shade of Magic - V. E. Schwab
  14. Stardust - Neil Gaiman
  15. Sourcery - Terry Pratchett
  16. Lords and Ladies - Terry Pratchett
  17. The Girl On The Train - Paula Hawkins
  18. Maskerade - Terry Pratchett
  19. Carpe Jugulum - Terry Pratchett
  20. The Queen - Kiera Cass
  21. Isolation - Dan Wells
  22. Perfect State - Brandon Sanderson
  23. We Should All Be Feminists - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  24. Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng
  25. A Wicked Thing - Rhiannon Thomas
  26. Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore - Robin Sloan
  27. The Bookman's Tale - Charlie Lovett
  28. Texts with Jane Eyre - Mallory Ortberg
  29. Yes Please - Amy Poehler
  30. The Heir - Kiera Cass
  31. Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
  32. Magonia - Maria Dahvana Headley
  33. Red Queen - Victoria Aveyard
  34. Edenbrooke - Julianne Donaldson
  35. Blackmoore - Julianne Donaldson
  36. The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro
  37. Vicious - V. E. Schwab
  38. Midnight in Austenland - Shannon Hale
  39. Ungodly - Kendare Blake
  40. The Book of Unknown Americans - Cristina Henríquez
  41. All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
  42. Bring Up The Bodies - Hilary Mantel
  43. Girl At Midnight - Melissa Grey
  44. Half A King - Joe Abercrombie
  45. I've Got Your Number - Sophia Kinsella
  46. Paper Towns - John Green
  47. A God In Ruins - Kate Atkinson
  48. Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  49. At The Water's Edge - Sara Gruen
  50. Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie
  51. Go Set A Watchman - Harper Lee
  52. Uprooted - Naomi Novik
  53. Wedding Night - Sophia Kinsella
  54. An Ember In The Ashes - Sabaa Tahir
  55. Redshirts - John Scalzi
  56. The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
  57. The Heiress of Winterwood - Sarah E. Ladd
  58. Come, Tell Me How You Live - Agatha Christie
  59. Armada - Ernest Cline
  60. Shades of Milk and Honey - Mary Robinette Kowal
  61. The Martian - Andy Weir
  62. The Archived - Victoria Schwab
  63. Six Of Crows - Leigh Bardugo
  64. Curse Of The Pharaoh - Elizabeth Peters
  65. The Last Kingdom - Bernard Cornwell
  66. Shadows Of Self - Brandon Sanderson
  67. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves - Karen Joy Fowler
  68. Finding Audrey - Sophia Kinsella
  69. Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson
  70. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up - Marie Kondo
  71. Walk On Earth A Stranger - Rae Carson
  72. The Little Paris Bookshop - Nina George
  73. Fluent in 3 Months - Benny Lewis
  74. Graceling - Kristin Cashore
  75. The Wrath And The Dawn - Reneé Ahdieh

For 2016, one of my goals is to read 100 books! I look forward to writing more about the great stories I'm reading. 




Happy New Year!
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