Books Read in 2015

I read 53 books in 2015. Here they all are, in the order that I read them:

January

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

The Best Yes by Lysa Terkeurst

February

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown

Grace for the Good Girl by Emily Freeman

March

The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott

Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin

April

The Name of the World by Denis Johnson

You’re Not You by Michelle Wildgen

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler

Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar

May

 

The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli

Sea Creatures by Susanna Daniel

The Color of Water in July by Nora Carroll

That Summer by Sarah Dessen

June

Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows & Mary Ann Shaffer

The Land of Milk and Uncle Honey: Memories from the Farm of My Youth by Alan Guebert and Mary Grace Foxwell

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand

July

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr  

Nonfiction

Very Good Lives by J.K. Rowling

It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War by Lynsey Addario

Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari

August

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal

The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman

The Magicians Trilogy by Lev Grossman

Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori, Book 1) by Lian Hearn

September

The Martian by Andy Weir

The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway

Spirit of Steamboat: A Longmire Short Story by Craig Johnson

October

Stiltsville By Susanna Daniel

And Then There Were None By Agatha Christie

Inked by Eric Smith

 

November

These Are the Moments by Jenny Bravo

The Last Summer (of You and Me) by Ann Brashares

The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald

It Begins Here: An Anthology

The Charismatics by Ashley R. Carlson

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente

December

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J.K Rowling

Touching Wonder: Recapturing the Awe of Christmas by John Blase

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

Quidditch Through the Ages by J.K. Rowling