2015 was a good year for reading. I discovered new authors whose work I enjoyed: Willa Cather, Tom Drury, Edward St. Aubyn, and Jane Gardam. I continued my affection for authors with whom I had already been acquainted: Jane Austen, Elena Ferrante, Colm Tóibín, Richard Ford, and Elizabeth Hay. I also wrote short reviews of each book I read this past year and posted them on LibraryThing, a few of which I re-posted here on this blog. I’m already looking forward to another great year of reading ahead.
Stats from my 2015 reading list:
- 29 were borrowed from our public library
- 15 have Canadian authors
- 12 were chosen due to personal recommendations from friends
- 13 are by authors who appear more than once on the 2015 list
- 3 were being reread
- 1 was read aloud by my wife and me
- 11 are non-fiction
- 0 are ebooks
Books read in 2015 (80):
- Birkerts, Sven. My Sky Blue Trades
- Bausch, Richard. Peace
- Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice: An Annotated Edition edited by Patricia Meyer Spacks
- Koch, Herman. The Dinner
- Snyder, Carrie. Girl Runner
- Modiano, Patrick. Suspended Sentences
- Ferris, Joshua. To Rise Again At A Decent Hour
- Mandel, Emily St. John. Station Eleven
- Smith, Ali. How to be Both
- Herbert, Frank. Dune
- Crummey, Michael. Sweetland
- Bechtel, Greg. Boundary Problems
- Modiano, Patrick. Dora Bruder
- Howe, Gordie. Mr. Hockey: My Story
- Tóibín, Colm. Nora Webster
- Nabokov, Vladimir. Laughter in the Dark
- Veronesi, Sandro. Quiet Chaos
- Sedaris, David. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
- Petterson, Per. Out Stealing Horses
- Smith, Ali. There but for the
- Ware, Chris. Building Stories
- Li, Yiyun. Kinder Than Solitude
- Ford, Richard. Wildlife
- Davis, Lydia. Can’t and Won’t
- Chast, Roz. Can’t we talk about something more Pleasant?
- Grossman, Lev. The Magician’s Land
- Drury, Tom. The End of Vandalism
- Ayoade, Richard. Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey
- McCracken, Elizabeth. Niagara Falls All Over Again
- Franzen, Jonathan. Freedom: a novel
- St Aubyn, Edward. Lost for Words
- Flanagan, Richard. The Narrow Road to the Deep North
- Gardam, Jane. Old Filth
- Oyeyemi, Helen. The Icarus Girl
- Modiano, Patrick. Missing Person
- Szabó, Magda. The Door
- Baxter, Greg. Munich Airport
- Smith, Ali. The First Person and other stories
- Daoud, Kamel. The Meursault Investigation
- Grant, Rickford with Phil Bull. Ubuntu Made Easy: A Project-Based Introduction to Linux
- Blum, Richard and Christine Bresnahan. Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting Bible
- Bradbury, Ray. Driving Blind: Stories
- Gibb, Camilla. The Beauty of Humanity Movement
- King, Stephen. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
- Gardam, Jane. The Man in the Wooden Hat
- Helm, Michael. In the Place of Last Things
- Gardam, Jane. The People on Privilege Hill
- Gardam, Jane. Last Friends
- Bernhard, Thomas. Correction
- Murakami, Haruki. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
- Tyler, Anne. A Spool of Blue Thread
- St. Aubyn, Edward. A Clue to the Exit
- July, Miranda. The First Bad Man
- Ferrante, Elena. The Story of the Lost Child
- Eisenberg, Jesse. Bream Gives Me Hiccups and other stories
- Cotterill, Colin. The Coroner’s Lunch
- Oyeyemi, Helen. Mr. Fox
- Egan, Jennifer (ed.) The Best American Short Stories 2014
- Schofield, Anakana. Martin John
- DeWitt, Patrick. Undermajordomo Minor
- De Sa, Anthony (compiler), Rideout, Tanis (compiler), and Snyder, Carrie (compiler). The Journey Prize Stories 27
- Bostridge, Ian. Schubert’s Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession
- Oyeyemi, Helen. Boy, Snow, Bird
- Wood, James. The Nearest Thing To Life
- Rachman, Tom. The Rise and Fall of Great Powers
- St. Aubyn, Edward. On The Edge
- Zentner, Alexi. The Lobster Kings
- Hay, Elizabeth. His Whole Life
- Cather, Willa. My Ántonia
- Drury, Tom. Hunts in Dreams
- Cather, Willa. Death Comes for the Archbishop
- Drury, Tom. Pacific
- Hardcastle, Kevin. Debris
- Bicknell, Jeanette. Philosophy of Song and Singing: An Introduction
- Fitzgerald, Penelope. Innocence
- Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility: An Annotated Edition edited by Patricia Meyer Spacks
- Cather, Willa. The Professor’s House
- Berger, John. A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor