Books Read in 2015
The website where I originally shared these reading logs is beginning to phase out old posts, so I'm archiving them here! This is a list of everything I read in 2015, with tallies by month and for the entire year.
A ⌛︎ before a title indicates that I have not finished reading it.
January
- Friday Night in West Ealing #22 (zine)
- Needful Creatures (zine)
- ⌛︎ Greek Folk Religion by Martin P. Nilsson (academic book)
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (novel)
- The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner (reread)
- Xenogenesis / Lilith's Brood trilogy (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Imago) by Octavia Butler (reread, 3 novels)
- ⌛︎ People & Permaculture by Looby Macnamara (nonfiction book)
- Paper Teeth #5 (zine)
- Balm Digest Issue 1: Mushrooms (zine)
- Balm Digest Issue 2: Anti-Capitalism (zine)
- Sliver by Ira Levine (novel)
- ⌛︎ Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delaney (novel)
- Slingshot #117 (quarterly newspaper)
- New Hearts New Bones #17 (zine)
Total finished: 6 books, 7 other
February
- Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delaney (novel)
- Balm Digest Issue 3: Medium-Sized Dogs (zine)
- ⌛︎ Shin Sekai Yori by Kishi Yusuke (novel, ongoing fan translation)
- ⌛︎ Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (novel)
Total Finished: 1 book, 1 other
March
- Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (novel)
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (novel)
- The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer (reread)
- Balm Digest Issue 4: Aprons (zine)
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith (novel)
- The Dead Zone by Stephen King (novel)
- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (novel)
- ⌛︎ Shin Sekai Yori by Kishi Yusuke (novel, ongoing fan translation)
- The Neverending Story* by Michael Ende (novel)
- The World of Bruegel, c. 1525-1569 by Timothy Foote (nonfiction book)
Total finished: 8 books, 1 other
April
- ⌛︎ Shin Sekai Yori by Kishi Yusuke (novel, ongoing fan translation)
- The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie (22 short stories)
- The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (reread)
- Four Ways to Forgiveness by Ursula K. Le Guin (short stories/novellas/story-suite: “Betrayals”, “Forgiveness Day”, “A Man of the People”, “A Woman's Liberation”.)
- A Fisherman of the Inland Sea by Ursula K. Le Guin (short stories/novellas: “The First Contact with the Gorgonids”, “Newton's Sleep”, “The Ascent of the North Face”, “The Rock That Changed Things”, “The Kerastion”, The Shobies' Story, “Dancing to Ganam”, “Another Story OR A Fisherman of the Inland Sea”.)
- Nibbled to Death by Ducks by Robert Campbell (novel)
- The Book of Light by Chaim Potok (novel)
- Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift (novel)
Total Finished: 7 books (including 34 short stories/novellas)
May
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (novel)
- ⌛︎ The Hours by Michael Cunningham (novel)
Total Finished: 1 book
June
- The Hours by Michael Cunningham (novel)
- Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt (novel)
- 'Tis by Frank McCourt (novel)
- Teacher Man by Frank McCourt (novel)
- Against the Fall of Night by Arthur C. Clarke (novel)
- The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke (novel)
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (novel)
- Hickory Dickory Dock by Agatha Christie (novel)
- ⌛︎ Seven Gothic Tales by Karen Blixen as Isak Dinesen (7 short stories)
Total Finished: 7 books
July
- Seven Gothic Tales by Karen Blixen as Isak Dinesen (7 short stories)
- Hyperion by Dan Simmons (novel)
- The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons (novel)
- ⌛︎ A Handmade Life by William Coperthwaite (reread, essays)
- ⌛︎ Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson (novel)
Total Finished: 3 books (includ. 7 novellas)
August
- Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson (novel)
- ⌛︎ Shin Sekai Yori by Kishi Yusuke (novel, ongoing fan translation)
- The Confusion by Neal Stephenson (novel)
- The Hollow Man by Dan Simmons (novel)
- ⌛︎ The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye (novel)
- Carry On, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse (novel)
Total Finished: 4 books
September
- Jeeves and the Tie That Binds / Much Obliged, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse (novel)
- Thinking in an Emergency by Elaine Scarry (nonfiction book)
- The Cat-nappers / Aunts Aren't Gentlemen by P.G. Wodehouse (novel)
- Summer Lightning by P.G Wodehouse (novel)
- Song of Sorcery by Elizabeth Scarborough (novel)
- The Unicorn Creed by Elizabeth Scarborough (novel)
- Browyn's Bane by Elizabeth Scarborough (novel)
- ⌛︎ The Christening Quest by Elizabeth Scarborough (novel)
- “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin (short story)
- “Climate Change Is a Crisis We Can Only Solve Together” by Naomi Klein (speech)
- “The Day Before the Revolution” by Ursula K. Le Guin (short story)
- “Objections to Objectivity” by Howard Zinn (essay from Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian)
Total Finished: 7 books, 4 short works
October
- The Christening Quest by Elizabeth Scarborough (novel)
- “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare (play)
- ⌛︎ Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano (academic book)
- ⌛︎ Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici (academic book)
- “Exit the King” by Eugène Ionesco (play)
- The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (novel)
- ⌛︎ Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture by Arthur Scott Evans (academic book)
- ⌛︎ Winter's Tales by Isak Denisen / Karen Blixen (short stories)
Total Finished: 2 books, 2 plays, 1 short story
November
- Winter's Tales by Isak Denisen / Karen Blixen (short stories)
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (novel)
- Greek Folk Religion by Martin P. Nilsson (academic book)
- Rocannon's World by Ursula K. Le Guin (novel)
- ⌛︎ Eye in the Sky by Philip K. Dick (novel)
Total Finished: 5 books (includ. 16 short stories)
December
- Eye in the Sky by Philip K. Dick (novel)
- Foundation by Issac Asimov (novel)
- The Lost Years of Merlin by T. A. Barron (novel, reread)
- The Seven Songs of Merlin by T. A. Barron (novel, reread)
- The Fires of Merlin by T. A. Barron (novel, reread)
- The Mirror of Merlin by T. A. Barron (novel, reread)
- The Wings of Merlin by T. A. Barron (novel, reread)
- I Sing the Body Electric by Ray Bradbury (14 short stories)
- “The Coalition Against Sexual Violence Zine”, Spring 2015 by TESC CASV (zine)
- [Disorientation], TESC 2015 by The Black Cottonwood Collective (zine)
- “The Road to Either Or” by Jimmy T. Hand (zine)
- The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story by Lemony Snicket (reread, kids book)
- “Self As Other: Reflections on Self-Care” by CrimethInc. (zine)
- “The Art of Politics (A Primer for Community Self-Defense)” by CrimethInc. (zine)
- “Yuppies With Spears” (originally “Beating Around the Blackbush”) by Gerald Edmonson / Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness (zine)
- “Lawful Ain't Good” by Anonymous & Anarcho-Geek Review (zine)
- “To Our Friends” by the Invisible Committee (zine)
- Wabi Sabi by Mark Reibstein & Ed Young (reread, kids book)
- “The Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde (reread)
- Just After Sunset by Stephen King (13 short stories)
- “No Gods. No Dungeon Masters.” by Ion O'Clast & Rachel Dukes (comic zine)
- “Salomé” by Oscar Wilde (play)
- ⌛︎ “Lady Windermere's Fan” by Oscar Wilde (play)
Total: 11 books, 2 plays, 9 zines
Year Total:
- 89 books
- 4 plays
- 23 other