Books for 2015 - List

[Sawyer]

If you don't read at least one book a month this year, ISIS has officially won.  Don't give them the satisfaction!


Completed:
The Path Between the Seas  by  David McCullough         10/10
What If?      by  Randall Munroe           9/10
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe   by Simon Singh         8/10
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1)   by Neal Stephenson        9/10
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania  by Erik Larson        8/10
Phantoms in the Brain  by V. S. Ramachandran         7/10
A Dance With Dragons (ASOIAF #5) by George R. R. Martin        9/10
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out  by Richard Feynman        7/10
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time  by Mark Haddon     9/10
The Alchemy of Air   by Thomas Hager              8/10
Spin (Spin #1)   by Robert Charles Wilson           7/10
The Ancestor's Tale    by Richard Dawkins             9/10
Axis (Spin #2)   by Robert Charles Wilson           6/10
The Physics of Imaginary Objects    by Tina May Hall         5/10
The Bully Pulpit        by Doris Kearns Goodwin             8/10
Scientific Feuds        by Joel Levy             6/10
Galapagos        by Kurt Vonnegut         6/10
Stiff        by Mary Roach                 8/10   
Americanah        by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie       9/10 
Spillover     by David Quammen         10/10
The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, #2)    by Neal Stephenson        9/10
Is That a Fact?: Frauds, Quacks ...    by Joe Schwarcz              6/10
The March of Folly    by Barbara Tuchman             8/10
The Wright Brothers    by David McCullough            7/10
Wonderful Life     by Stephen Jay Gould          10/10
Vortex (Spin #3)     by Robert Charles Wilson           7/10
So You've Been Publicly Shamed     by Jon Ronson            9/10
Collapse    by Jared Diamond            7/10
Big Science     by Michael Hiltzik          8/10
The Youngest Science     by Lewis Thomas         6/10
Trigger Warning      by Neil Gaiman                8/10
The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes      by Neil Gaiman        9/10
The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House      by Neil Gaiman           10/10
The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country      by Neil Gaiman           7/10
The Path to Power (Lyndon Johnson, #1)    by Robert Caro            10/10
The Sandman, Vol. 4: A Season of Mists      by Neil Gaiman          8/10
The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You        by Neil Gaiman          8/10
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat     by Oliver Sacks               7/10
Children of Dune (Dune Chronicles, #3)     by Frank Herbert            9/10
The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections     by Neil Gaimain          7/10
The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, #3)         by Neal Stephenson        8/10
Mountains Beyond Mountains      by Tracy Kidder       7/10
Mother Night     by Kurt Vonnegut                  9/10
God Emperor of Dune (Dune Chronicles, #4)     by Frank Herbert      7/10
Avenue of Mysteries    by John Irving        6/10
Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World      by Rachel Swaby       6/10
The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives      by Neil Gaiman             7/10
The Sandman, Vol. 8: World's End      by Neil Gaiman          8/10
The Means of Ascent (Lyndon Johnson, #2)    by Robert Caro      9/10
The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones      by Neil Gaiman    9/10



Final edit for 2015.  Fifty books if I'm counting all the graphic novels; otherwise 41.  A few clunkers in the mix but nothing that was out-and-out bad.

[DonA]

My goal is to be in the 30 books area by year end.  I typically only read for about 1hr a day during my morning commute on the train and a bit on the weekends.

Currently Reading

Lord of Chaos  Book 6 of The Wheel of Time series - Robert Jordan

Completed

The World According to Garp - John Irving - 6
Royal Assassin Book 2 of the Farseer Trilogy - Robin Hobb - 9
Unbroken: A World War II Story Of Survival, Resilience, And Redemption - Laura Hillenbrand - 8

In the Queue

Billions & Billions: Thoughts On Life And Death At The Brink Of The Millennium - Carl Sagan
Guns Germs And Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - Jared Diamond
Caliban's War Book 2 of the Expanse series - James S.A. Corey

[Caffiene]

Making a good start this year... Hopefully my list survives the year this time

Read
1. Republic of Thieves - Scott Lynch
2. Already Dead - Charlie Huston
3. On Basilisk Station - David Weber
4. What If? - Randall Munroe
5. The Slow Regard of Silent Things - Patrick Rothfuss
6. Tricked - Kevin Hearne
7. Trapped - Kevin Hearne
8. Hunted - Kevin Hearne
9. The Rook - Daniel O'Malley
10. The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
11. Dragonflight - Anne McCaffrey

Reading
The Broken Eye - Brent Weeks

[Grimner]

Good thing skeptics don't believe in jinxes, Caffiene...

1) By schism rent asunder - David Weber
2) To sail a darkling sea - John Ringo
3) A manual for creating atheists - Peter Boghossian
4) Departure - A. G. Riddle
5) Trail mix - Paulita Kincer
6) Reefer madness - Eric Schlosser
7) Warship - Joshua Dalzelle
8  Starship eternal - M. R. Forbes
9) 2d6 - Robert Bevan
10) Fimbulwinter - E. William Brown
11) Game night - Jonny Nexus
12) Ich bin kein Berliner - Wladimir Kaminer
13) A darker shade of magic - V.  E. Schwab
14) Undeniable: evolution and the science of creation - Bill Nye
15) RedCon 1 - Michael Smith
16) The engineer wizard - Glenn Michaels
17) Pines - Blake Crouch
18) Kate on a hot tin roof - Niall Teasdale
19) Take the star road - Peter Grant
20) The colour of magic - Terry Pratchett
21) Hitler Homer Bible Christ - Richard Carrier
22) Artifact - Gregory Benford
23) The light fantastic - Terry Pratchett
24) Equal rites - Terry Pratchett
25) 400 billion stars - Paul McAuley
26) Strong arm tactics - Jody Lynn Nye
27) What if? - Randall Munroe
28) Something coming through - Paul McAule
29) Dying for strangers - Brennan Morton
30) Titans - Edward W. Robertson
31) Mort - Terry Pratchett
32) Ghost fleet - P. W. Singer & August Cole
33) Trigger warning - Neil Gaiman
34) Armada - Ernest Cline
35) Midnight riot - Ben Aaronovitch
36) Moon over Soho - Ben Aaronovitch
37) Broken homes - Ben Aaronovitch
38) Foxglove summer - Ben Aaronovitch
39) Sourcery - Terry Pratchett
40) A madness of angles - Kate Griffin
41) Whispers under ground - Ben Aaronovitch
42) The Elfrida Goto trilogy - Felex R. Savage
43) Abandon - Blake Crouch
44) The girl with all the gifts - M. R. Carey
45) Hell's foundations quiver - David Weber
46) Dragon's Egg - Robert L. Forward
47) Thank you, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
48) The code of the Woosters - P.G. Wodehouse
49) Ancient peace - Tanya Huff
50) Made to kill - Adam Christopher
51) the long way to a small, angry planet - Becky Chambers
52) View from the Imperium - Jody Lynn Nye
53) The Bible unearthed - Isreal Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman
54) Carter & Lovecraft - Jonathan L. Howard
55) Midnight's daughter - Karen Chance


So ISIS is losing ground left and right - unfortunately, I started reading 'Counterinsurgency' by David Kilcullen.

[DaveTheReader]

I read between 100 and 150 books per year. Too many to list. I don't know the exact number because some are short, in other cases, I start a book, find it boring and set it aside. In some cases, such as Plutarch's Lives, they are reference books. 150/year is the number I have on Kindle. I occasionally read a printed book. I also have Nook.

[random poet]

I guess I should start posting this list again. Losing the old ones was a God damned disaster.

We also lost 2014, so this list will cover 2 years, but I'm sure I lost even some of those to the internet demons.

Finally got around to plugging in all the stuff from this year. I should be up to date now, and go back to adding them as I finish them.

1.  Handmaiden's Tale – Margaret Atwood – 8.5
2.  Testament – Vicky Gendreau – 9
3.  D'une main sauvage – Virginie Beauregard D. – 7
4.  Magic - Vallum, issue 10:1 – 8
5.  Full Circle: Poems in the next degree – Deanna Smith – 6
6.  The Gospel of X – George Elliot Clarke – 7
7.  The Adventures of a Black Girl in Searth of God – Djanet Sears – 9.5
8.  Camus : Carnets – George Kilogeris – 8
9.  Le fond de l'air est rouge – Stefan Christoff – 8.5
10. Lame crépuscule – Marie-Paule Grimaldi – 8.5
11. An Abundance of Catherines – John Green – 9
12. D'espoir de mourir maigre – Charles Dionne – 7.5
13. Correspondances barbares – Annie Lafleur et Isabelle Donnais – 8
14. Open Field: 30 contemporary Canadian poets – Sina Queyras – 8.5
15. Midi tapant – Moyen fakirs de Joliette – 7
16. Full-time Miseries – Marianne Verville – 7.5
17. Sur Walter Benjamin – Theodor W. Adorno – 8.5
18. À l'oreille, à l'oral – Claudine Vachon – 8.5
19. Ghost From the Grand Banks – Arthur C. Clarke – 9
20. On Fracking – C. Alexia Lane – 8
21. On s'en câlisse – Collectif de débrayage – 9
22. Tenir tête – Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois – 8
23. The Fault in Our Stars – John Green – 9.5
24. Un peuple à genoux : 115 raisons de s'indigner – Essai libre – 9
25. The Temple of Dawn – Yukio Mishima – 8
26. Walkups : Scènes de la vie montréalaise – 7.5
27. Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinairy Twins – Mark Twain – 7
28. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and other concerns) – Mindy Kaling – 6
29. Vampires in the Lemon Grove – Karen Russel – 8
30. Unless – Carol Shields – 9.5
31. Les chroniques d'une fille indigne – Caroline Allard et Francis Desharnais – 7
32. Friends of My Youth – Alice Munroe – 8
33. Saints and Sinners – Edna O'brien – 8.5
34. The Loving Dead – Amelia Beamer – 8
35. L'Île sous la mer – Isabelle Allende – 9
36. La vie en prose – Yolande Villemaire – 7.5
37. 3 Lives – Gertrude Stein – 7
38. D'une main sauvage – Virginie Beauregard D. - 8
39. Le ciel de Bay City – Catherine Mavrikakis – 8.5
40. Life Before Man – Margaret Atwood – 8.5
41. Isabelle Allende – Eva Luna – 7.5
42. A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines – Janna Levin – 9
43. Les filles en série : Des Barbies aux Pussy Riot – Martine Delvaux – 8.5
44. Four Minutes to Midnight (Issue 13) – 8
45. Insel – Mina Loy – 10
46. La pratique du bleu – Louise Warren – 6.5
47. Snif : Poème de single ladies – Daphnée Chéyenne – 9
48. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood – 9
49. Un peuple à genoux 2014 – 9
50. La force de l'âge – Simone de Beauvoir – 8
51. La maison des esprits – Isabelle Allende – 8
52. Paper Towns – John Green – 8
53. Will Grayson, Will Grayson – 8.5
54. Insel – Mina Loy – 10

[katlahr]

Wow, what an extensive list! I am a research, writer, and publisher and love to meet people that read!

Right on!

Recently I just published my 4th journal issue. Mind adding this to your list? Its a unique intersection of science and humanities. Certainly only for those with an open mind and 100% nonfiction.

Thought Notebook Journal: Parallelism Of Cyclicality.
http://thoughtnotebook.org/issue-4.html

Happy reading in 2015!

-Kat Lahr

[eaglevintage]

If you don't read at least one book a month this year, ISIS has officially won.  Don't give them the satisfaction!


Completed:
The Path Between the Seas  by  David McCullough         10/10
What If?      by  Randall Munroe           9/10
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe   by Simon Singh         8/10
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1)   by Neal Stephenson        9/10
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania  by Erik Larson        8/10
Phantoms in the Brain  by V. S. Ramachandran         7/10
A Dance With Dragons (ASOIAF #5) by George R. R. Martin        9/10
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out  by Richard Feynman        7/10
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time  by Mark Haddon     9/10
The Alchemy of Air   by Thomas Hager              8/10
Spin (Spin #1)   by Robert Charles Wilson           7/10
The Ancestor's Tale    by Richard Dawkins             9/10
Axis (Spin #2)   by Robert Charles Wilson           6/10
The Physics of Imaginary Objects    by Tina May Hall         5/10
The Bully Pulpit        by Doris Kearns Goodwin             8/10
Scientific Feuds        by Joel Levy             6/10
Galapagos        by Kurt Vonnegut         6/10
Stiff        by Mary Roach                 8/10   
Americanah        by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie       9/10 
Spillover     by David Quammen         10/10
The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, #2)    by Neal Stephenson        9/10
Is That a Fact?: Frauds, Quacks ...    by Joe Schwarcz              6/10
The March of Folly    by Barbara Tuchman             8/10
The Wright Brothers    by David McCullough            7/10
Wonderful Life     by Stephen Jay Gould          10/10
Vortex (Spin #3)     by Robert Charles Wilson           7/10
So You've Been Publicly Shamed     by Jon Ronson            9/10
Collapse    by Jared Diamond            7/10
Big Science     by Michael Hiltzik          8/10
The Youngest Science     by Lewis Thomas         6/10
Trigger Warning      by Neil Gaiman                8/10
The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes      by Neil Gaiman        9/10
The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House      by Neil Gaiman           10/10
The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country      by Neil Gaiman           7/10
The Path to Power (Lyndon Johnson, #1)    by Robert Caro            10/10
The Sandman, Vol. 4: A Season of Mists      by Neil Gaiman          8/10
The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You        by Neil Gaiman          8/10
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat     by Oliver Sacks               7/10
Children of Dune (Dune Chronicles, #3)     by Frank Herbert            9/10
The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections     by Neil Gaimain          7/10
The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, #3)         by Neal Stephenson        8/10
Mountains Beyond Mountains      by Tracy Kidder       7/10
Mother Night     by Kurt Vonnegut                  9/10
God Emperor of Dune (Dune Chronicles, #4)     by Frank Herbert      7/10
Avenue of Mysteries    by John Irving        6/10
Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World      by Rachel Swaby       6/10
The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives      by Neil Gaiman             7/10
The Sandman, Vol. 8: World's End      by Neil Gaiman          8/10
The Means of Ascent (Lyndon Johnson, #2)    by Robert Caro      9/10
The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones      by Neil Gaiman    9/10



Final edit for 2015.  Fifty books if I'm counting all the graphic novels; otherwise 41.  A few clunkers in the mix but nothing that was out-and-out bad.

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