Readings 2015

This was an usual year for me in my reading habits. I still read about the same number of books overall but it appears I mostly read fiction this year with on only eight non-fiction books and just one biography. Forty books this year and thirty of them were novels. Normally I read a more balanced selection between those three categories.  Fourteen books were in the science fiction or dystopian genres and seven in the crime/detective/spy genres which is also a little unusual for me.

Several of my favorite authors were on my reading list this year including David Mitchell, Neal Stephenson, James Ellroy, Nick Hornby, Tana French, Philip Kerr, Margaret Atwood and William Gibson, 

I also read a lot of and about William Burroughs this year which was a little different for me,

Non-fiction

1. The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World - Andrea Wulf, 2015
2. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania - Erik Larson, 2015
3. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate - Naomi Klein, 2014
4. Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the First Age of Terror - Bryan Burrough, 2015
5. The Day of Battle: The War in Sicly and Italy, 1943-1944, 2007
6. Call Me Burroughs: A Life - Barry Miles, 2013
7. Vintage Beer: A Taster's Guide to Brews That Improve over Time - Patrick Dawson, 2014
8. The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?, 2012
9. Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan, 2012

Fiction

1. Seveneves - Neal Stephenson, 2015
2. The Bone Clocks - David Mitchell, 2014
3. The Martian - Andy Weir, 2014
4. Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel, 2014
5. The Peripheral - William Gibson, 2014
6. Perfidia - James Ellroy, 2014
7. God's Pocket - Pete Dexter, 1983
8. Redeployment - Phil Klay, 2014
9. An American Spy - Olen Steinhauer, 2012
10. Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader - William S. Burroughs, 1998
11. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage - Haruki Murakami, 2013
12. The Secret Place - Tana French, 2014
13. The Time Regulation Institute - Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, 1961
14. Funny Girl - Nick Hornby. 2014
15. Unmanned - Dan Fesperman, 2014
16. The Word Exchange - Alena Graedon, 2014
17. The Heart Goes Last - Margaret Atwood, 2015
18. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn, 2012
19. The Lady From Zagreb - Philip Kerr, 2015
20. The Girl in the Spider's Web - David Lagercrantz, 2015
21. Vulture Peak: A Royal Thai Detective Novel - John Burdett, 2011
22. Dust - Hugh Howey, 2013
23. Shift - Hugh Howey, 2013
24. Rain Falls Like Mercy - Jack Todd, 2011
25. Ready Player One - Ernest Cline, 2011
26. The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce - Michael Newton, Ed., 1984
27. The Book of Strange New Things - Michel Faber, 2014
28. Of Beasts and Beings - Ian Holding, 2010
29. The Book of Life - Deborah Harkness, 2014
30. Doors Open - Ian Rankin, 2007
31. Notes from the Internet Apocalypse - Wayne Gladstone, 2014