Books I’ve Read in 2015

It’s that time of year again folks; it’s when I list all the books that I’ve read in one year so you can see how much reading I do and how little I  actually parent my child. No-I don’t post this list to brag, in fact, I think many people actually see it as proof that I am as lame as they suspected. And no, I don’t get out much, but when I do, I try to sneak a book into my purse so I can get a bit of reading in wherever I am.

For those of you who are just seeing this list for the first time (you can check out my lists from 2013 and 2014 too), I’ll run down the rules quickly. This lists each book in the order I read it in, and I will link to my review of the book if I indeed wrote one. If I didn’t write a review, it’s not because I didn’t like it, I simply ran out of time. Keep in mind that many of the books I review I receive directly from publishers in return for an honest review (like many of my fellow book bloggers), but a small percentage of the books have been given to me by friends and family (for example, the Murder She Wrote books). No one would ever notice this, but I feel the need to mention something else; in some cases I will have read parts of one of these books previously for a book-related gig in the past, but I list the books here once I’ve read them completely. So, for instance I read parts of Matthew Thomas’s book We Are Not Ourselves in October of 2014 when I hosted the Wordfest gig he was in, but I wasn’t able to read it cover to cover until 2015.

Many of my reviews are positive, because I typically refuse to review books I know I won’t enjoy and I can usually find something good to say about almost everything I read. If you want to see me post more negative reviews, let me know in the comments section and I’ll consider upping my standards in 2016! Just kidding, don’t do that.

1. Indian Ernie by Ernie Louttit
2. Not the First Thing I’ve Missed by Fionncara MacEoin
3. Wildness Rushing In by dee Hobsbawn-Smith
4. A Crack in the Wall by Betty Jane Hegerat
5. The First Principles of Dreaming by Beth Goobie
6. Rose’s Run by Dawn Dumont
7. Wiseman’s Wager by Dave Margoshes
8. Between Clay & Dust by Musharraf Ali Farooqi
9. Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes
10. Bark by Lorrie Moore
11. We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas
12. The Forever Girl by Alexander McCall Smith
13. Neverhome by Laird Hunt
14. What I Meant to Say: The Privates Lives of Men-Edited by Ian Brown
15. No Man’s Nightingale by Ruth Rendell
16. 7 Ways to Sunday by Lee Kvern
17. The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling)
18. Landing Gear by Kate Pullinger
19. As Chimney Sweepers Came to Dust by Alan Bradley
20. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
21. A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride
22. If I Fall, If I Die by Michael Christie
23. Suitcase City by Sterling Watson
24. 12 Rose Street by Gail Bowen
25. Welcome to the Circus by Rhonda Douglas
26. A Beauty by Connie Gault
27. Delicious Foods by James Hannaham
28. A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
29. Time Will Say Nothing by Ramin Jahanbegloo
30. The Half Brother by Holly LeCraw
31. The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan
32. The Mountain Story by Lori Lansens
33. In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume
34. Where Did You Sleep Last Night by Lynn Crosbie
35. A Measure of Light by Beth Powning
36. The Incarnations by Susan Barker
37. Saint Mazie by Jami Attenberg
38. Wake the Stone Man by Carol McDougall
39. In Another Country by David Constantine
40. His Whole Life by Elizabeth Hay
41. Blackout by Sarah Hepola
42. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
43. Under Major Domo Minor by Patrick deWitt
44. Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum
45. Close to Hugh by Marina Endicott
46. Honeydew by Edith Pearlman
47. Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller
48. The Mystics of Mile End by Sigal Samuel
49. The Mountain Can Wait by Sarah Leipciger
50. The Wrong Cat by Lorna Crozier
51. Ghostly-Edited by Audrey Niffenegger
52. One Night Markovitch by Ayelet Gundar-Gostaven
53. Long Change by Don Gillmor
54. Sutterfeld, You are Not a Hero by Tom Stern
55. Nora Webster by Colm Toibin
56. The Big Disconnect by Catherine Steiner-Adair (this was a parenting book I read, and because I have no idea what I’m doing as a parent, I don’t feel comfortable writing reviews on parenting books quite yet)
57. Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
58. Manhattans & Murder by Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain
59. Yuletide Murder by Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain
60. The Winter War by Philip Teir (review to be posted shortly)
61. This is Happy by Camilla Gibb (review to be posted shortly)