Books I Read in 2015

Once again, I’m sharing a list of everything I read this year. Books are rated on a totally subjective scale of 1-5 stars. In short, here’s what each rating means:

• * I couldn’t finish reading it, I hated it so much
• ** I finished the book, but I wish I had the hours back I spent on it
• *** It was about as expected, glad I read it but I wouldn’t recommend it
• **** I really enjoyed reading the book, and would definitely recommend it to others
• **** I MUST OWN THIS NOW! I want to reread it over and over and over

Obviously this means that very few books score 1 or 5 stars.

Highs and Lows

This year the winners were Words of Radiance (unsurprising, since Sanderson is my favorite fantasy author), Sophie’s Choice, and In the Unlikely Event – a new book by Judy Blume. There were also a few rereads of favorite books from childhood (Walk Two Moons and Starring Sally J Freedman as Herself) which also scored five stars.

There were no one star reviews this year, and overall just a fun year of reading. On to 2016!

But first, here are the books I read in 2015. (And, if you’re interested, 2014, 2013, and 2012.)

Books I Read in 2015

• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark****
• The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger***
  
• Words of Radiance, by Brandon Sanderson*****
  
• Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie****
  
• Wild Girls, by Mary Steward Atwell**
  
• The Confessions of Nat Turner, by William Styron***
• Breasts, a natural and unnatural history, by Florence Williams**
• W is for Wasted, by Sue Grafton***
• I Know this Much is True, by Wally Lamb****
• As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of the Princess Brice, by Cary Elwes and Joe Layden***
  
• The Ten Year Nap, by Meg Wolitzer**
• Anathem, by Neal Stephenson***
• Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson***
• The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen**
• High Fidelity, by Nick Hornby****
• The Crying of Lot 49, by Thomas Pynchon**
• Sophie’s Choice, by William Styron*****
• The Dante Club, by Matthew Pearl***
• The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, by Michael Chabon***
• Brain on Fire, by Susannah Cahalan****
• Freakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner****
• Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman****
• Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert****
• Choose Your Own Autobiography, by Neil Patrick Harris***
• Starring Sally J Freedman as Herself, by Judy Bloom*****
• Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech*****
• Child of the Owl, by Lawrence Yep****
• Steelheart, by Brandon Sanderson****
• Firefight, by Brandon Sanderson ****
• The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffrey Eugenides***
• Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe****
• The Queen of the Tearling, by Erika Johansen*****
• The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kid****
• The Dive at Clausen’s Peer, by Ann Packer***
• Loitering without Intent, by Muriel Spark***
• Invasion of the Tearling, by Erika Johansen*****
• Wild, by Cheryl Strayed***
• Paper Towns, by John Green****
• Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte****
• The Optimist’s Daughter, by Eudora Welty***
• In the Unlikely Event, by Judy Bloom*****
• Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson**
• Bel Canto, by Ann Pratchett***
• Nickle and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich****
• Daisy Miller, by Henry James***