Books Read in 2015

86 titles

Congratulations, by the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness
George Saunders
★★☆☆☆
The House of Wigs
Joshua Allen
★★★☆☆
1Q84
Haruki Murakami
★★★★☆
Killing and Dying: Stories
Adrian Tomine
★★★☆☆
H is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald
★★★★☆
Hannah Arendt: A Life in Dark Times
Anne Heller
★★★☆☆
What We See When We Read
Peter Mendelsund
★★★★☆
The Book of Strange New Things
Michel Faber
★★★☆☆
Dylan, Disc by Disc
Jon Bream
★★☆☆☆
Terra Firma Triptych
J.M. Ledgard
★★★☆☆
The Stockholm Octavo
Karen Engelmann
★★★★☆
A Double Sorrow: a Version of Troilus and Criseyde
Lavinia Greenlaw
★★★☆☆
The Woman Upstairs
Claire Messud
★★★☆☆
Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
Michael Lopp
★★★☆☆
Snow Falling on Cedars
David Guterson
★★★★★
The Braindead Megaphone
George Saunders
★★★☆☆
A Load of Hooey
Bob Odenkirk
★★☆☆☆
The Night of the Gun
David Carr
★★★★☆
Victory: An Island Tale
Joseph Conrad
★★☆☆☆
Washington Schlepped Here: Walking in the Nation’s Capital
Christopher Buckley
★★★★☆
Washington, D.C.
Gore Vidal
★★★☆☆
Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life
Steve Martin
★★★☆☆
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
★★★★☆
Johnny Carson
Henry Bushkin
★★☆☆☆
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations
Mary Beard
★★★☆☆
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon
Crystal Zevon
★★★☆☆
David Crockett: The Lion of the West
Michael Wallis
★★★☆☆
Andre the Giant: Life and Legend
Box Brown
★★☆☆☆
The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc.
Jonathan Lethem
★★☆☆☆
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Ashlee Vance
★★★☆☆
Moriarty
Anthony Horowitz
★★★☆☆
A Small Place
Jamaica Kincaid
★★★★☆
We Live in Water: Stories
Jess Walter
★★★★☆
The Sisters Brothers
Patrick DeWitt
★★★★☆
The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel
Anthony Horowitz
★★★★☆
Madame Bovary (trans. Lydia Davis)
Gustave Flaubert
★★★☆☆
Seattle and the Demons of Ambition: A Love Story
Fred Moody
★★★☆☆
Cunning Plans
Warren Ellis
★★☆☆☆
Seveneves
Neal Stephenson
★★★★★
It’s All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels
Robert Penn
★★★☆☆
Farewell, My Lovely
Raymond Chandler
★★★★☆
Can’t and Won’t: Stories
Lydia Davis
★★★★★
The Road to Character
David Brooks
★★☆☆☆
10:04
Ben Lerner
★★★★☆
Rational Ritual: Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge
Michael Suk-Young Chwe
★★☆☆☆
Displacement: A Travelogue
Lucy Knisley
★★★☆☆
An Age of License: A Travelogue
Lucy Knisley
★★☆☆☆
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
David Graeber
★★★★☆
Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books
Wendy Lesser
★★★☆☆
Graphic Design
Milton Glaser
★★★☆☆
Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie
★★★☆☆
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
Oliver Sacks
★★☆☆☆
The Sculptor
Scott McCloud
★★★★★
The Writing Life
Annie Dillard
★★★☆☆
Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting: Poems
Kevin Powers
★★★★☆
Thoughts on Design
Paul Rand
★★☆☆☆
The Circle
Dave Eggers
★★★☆☆
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
Brent Schlender & Rick Tetzeli
★★★☆☆
Dog Sense: How the New Science of Dog Behavior Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet
John Bradshaw
★★★☆☆
A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade
Kevin Brockmeier
★★★☆☆
The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood
★★★★☆
Sometimes an Art: Nine Essays on History
Bernard Bailyn
★★★☆☆
The Queen’s Gambit
Walter Tevis
★★★☆☆
No One Belongs Here More Than You
Miranda July
★★☆☆☆
The Letters of William James, Vol. 2
William James (ed. Henry James Jr.)
★★★★☆
Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino
★★★☆☆
My First Summer in the Sierra
John Muir
★★☆☆☆
The Other Wind
Ursula K. Le Guin
★★★☆☆
Dard Hunter: The Graphic Works
Lawrence Kreisman
★★☆☆☆
Tales from Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin
★★★☆☆
Tehanu
Ursula K. Le Guin
★★★★☆
Bad Feminist: Essays
Roxane Gay
★★★★☆
The Farthest Shore
Ursula K. Le Guin
★★★☆☆
Relish: My Life in the Kitchen
Lucy Knisley
★★★★★
How to Be Black
Baratunde Thurston
★★★☆☆
The Tombs of Atuan
Ursula K. Le Guin
★★★☆☆
French Milk
Lucy Knisley
★★★☆☆
Intertwingled: Information Changes Everything
Peter Morville
★★☆☆☆
A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin
★★★☆☆
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Dee Brown
★★★☆☆
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Marie Kondo
★★★☆☆
The Letters of William James, Vol. 1
William James (ed. Henry James Jr.)
★★★★☆
The Strange Library
Haruki Murakami
★★☆☆☆
Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft
Paul Allen
★★☆☆☆
Why We Fail: Learning from Experience Design Failures
Victor Lombardi
★★★☆☆
The Martian
Andy Weir
★★★★☆