What I read in 2015

It's time to look back over what I read in the last year, and I have to say it was a good year for reading! That's probably completely down to making time for reading in the evening not just the morning.
For whatever reason I think the books that especially stood out to me this year were The Encyclopedia of Early Earth, The Paying Guests, No More Dirty Looks, Beloved, The Table Comes First, At Home, The First Bad Man & How To Be Both, those last two are probably tied for my favorite books I read this year (surprisingly because I keep thinking I'm over Miranda July, and then she makes something so good!).
I finally read Willa Cather and loved her, discovered Sarah Waters who I will definitely be reading more of, and discovered a few "cozy armchair mystery" series' that got me though some stressful times. You'll see I don't count audiobooks with other books, this is a personal thing because I think the experience is different, but I did want to record them because I listened to quite a few this year.
I got recommendations from my parents, my parents' friends, my friends, youtube, and a guy at Powells who I sold some books to. A few of these were read for my book club.


• Dragonfish by Vu Tran
• Purity by Jonathan Franzen
• The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
• H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
• M Train by Patti Smith
• How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits by Anne Berest
• Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times by Jennifer Worth
• A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
• Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
• Plumdog by Emma Chichester Clark
• Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling
• The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• The Scarlet Letter and Other Tales of the Puritans by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
• The First Bad Man by Miranda July
• The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan (Enola Holmes Mysteries, #4) by Nancy Springer
• Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
• Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1) by Frank Herbert
• The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets (Enola Holmes Mysteries, #3) by Nancy Springer
• The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce, #6) by Alan Bradley
• Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
• Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• The Case of the Left-Handed Lady (Enola Holmes Mysteries, #2) by Nancy Springer
• Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures by Mary Ruefle
• Euphoria by Lily King
• The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
• O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
• Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent: The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin's Lost Notebooks by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
• Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia de Luce, #5 ) by Alan Bradley
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• Countdown City (The Last Policeman, #2) by Ben H. Winters
• World of Trouble (The Last Policeman, #3) by Ben H. Winters
• The Last Policeman (Last Policeman, #1) by Ben H. Winters
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing by Christiane Northrup
• I Am Half-Sick of Shadows (Flavia De Luce, #4) by Alan Bradley
• The Turnip Princess and other newly discovered fairy tales by Franz Xaver von Schönwerth
• The Lost Estate by Alain-Fournier
• The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
• The Vet's Daughter by Barbara Comyns
• A Red Herring Without Mustard (Flavia de Luce, #3) by Alan Bradley
• The Case of the Missing Marquess (Enola Holmes Mysteries, #1) by Nancy Springer
• My Ántonia by Willa Cather
• The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag (Flavia de Luce, #2) by Alan Bradley
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller (My Artwork is on the cover)
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1) by Alan Bradley
• Skin Cleanse: The Simple, All-Natural Program for Clear, Calm, Happy Skin by Adina Grigore
• How To Be Both by Ali Smith
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Essence and Alchemy: A Natural History of Perfume by Mandy Aftel
• The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison
• No More Dirty Looks: The Truth About Your Beauty Products and the Ultimate Guide to Safe and Clean Cosmetics by Siobhan O'Connor
• The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
• How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
• The New Moon With the Old by Dodie Smith
• The Town in Bloom by Dodie Smith
• The Encyclopedia of Early Earth by Isabel Greenberg
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
• Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
• The Professor by Charlotte Brontë
• In Praise of Slowness: How A Worldwide Movement Is Challenging the Cult of Speed by Carl Honoré
• Delancey: A Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage by Molly Wizenberg
• Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway (a re-read for me)

Audiobooks:
• The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
• The Table Comes First: Family, France and the Meaning of Food by Adam Gopnik
• Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
• A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
• Yes Please by Amy Poehler
• At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
• The Tipping Point : How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
• The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert

Also, here is my "Year In Books" on Goodreads.

Here is what I read in 2014

What was your favorite book you read (or listened to) this year?