Published on 08 February 2017
Here is my list of books I read last year, in order of when read. I love talking about books; if you’ve read any of these, drop me a line and let’s chat!
Here is my list of books read in 2015.
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin.
- This was a good book to read while travelling between Svalbard, Oslo, and Iceland, seeing as how it is set on a winter world.
- Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card.
- After reading this, I plan to insist that that someone is a Speaker at my funeral. Incredibly moving.
- Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson.
- I Could Pee On This (And Other Poems by Cats), I Knead My Mommy: And Other Poems by Kittens, and I Could Chew On This: And Other Poems By Dogs by Francesco Marciuliano.
- Scott Pilgrim Vol I-VI by Bryan Lee O’Malley.
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline.
- This was the most AWESOME book EVER. I immediately started listening to it again. I have now read it twice.
- Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez.
- This was a beautiful little tale.
- A Geologist’s View of Cape Cod by Arthur Strahler.
- Welcome to the NHK (Vol I) by Tatsuhiko Takimoto, Kendi Oiwa.
- Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.
- An extraordinary book, which rarely bored, was constantly illuminating, and showed the brilliance and breadth of Darwin’s mind.
- Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham.
- Saga (Vol I) by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples.
- Put the Book Back on the Shelf: A Belle & Sebastian Anthology
- Origin: The True Story of Wolverine
- Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson.
- Endgame: Bobby Fischer’s Remarkable Rise and Fall - from America’s Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness by Frank Brady.
- Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card.
- This kept me up until 4am. OSC is incredible.
- Sylverhawk by Geoff Gilson.
- The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch.
- What an incredible tale. I loved it.
- Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman.
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card.
- I love this. Everytime I start it I can’t stop for 4 hours.
- I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert.
- Have Space Suit, Will Travel by Robert Heinlein.
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield.
- Incredible. Disregard the Christian mysticism, though.
- Xenocide by Orson Scott Card.
- Lock In by John Scalzi.
- The Horse and his Boy by C.S. Lewis.
- The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell.
- A good book, if you want to see how an aristocrat sees the world.
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.
- Big Sur by Jack Kerouac.
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
- I read this book every year or so; one of the best long poems we have. I absolutely love it. Also, I am writing this in front of my campfire in a state park near Santa Cruz. So, you know, that’s pretty awesome.
- The Knight by Gene Wolfe.
- I read this around once a year. Pretty much all I’ve ever wanted or needed in a story.
- The Crossroads of Time by Andre Norton.
- My God this book was awful. It wasn’t even proofread.
- What Do You Care What Other People Think? by Richard Feynman.
- Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
- The Pearl by John Steinbeck.
- The Pet Dragon by Christoph Niemann.
- Zits by Jerry Scott, Prue Scott, Jim Borgman.
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami.
- What a weird and beautiful book.
- 1984 by George Orwell.
- First time reading this. Was even more depressing than I expected.
- Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes by Robert Louis Stevenson.
- The Once and Future King by T.H. White.
- I can’t believe it took me so long to read this book. Incredible.
- Solaris by Stanisław Lem.
- I was excited to finally read this, as I’ve loved the newer film for years, and recently saw the Tarkovsky film. It was worth the read.
- The Anatomy of Restlessness by Bruce Chatwin.
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt.
- The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson.
- Habibi by Craig Thompson.
- The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl by Ryan North and Erica Henderson.
- A Borrowed Man by Gene Wolfe.
- Storm Front by Jim Butcher.
- REAMDE by Neal Stephenson.
- Small Memories by José Saramago.
- Mayakovsky’s Revolver by Matthew Dickman.
- Wake Up Before It Is Too Late: Trade and Environment Review 2013 by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
- A very sobering read, especially as it is a few years old and, to my knowledge, things have only changed for the worst.
- Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami.
- A strange book. Not as well done as his others, and with some unresolved narratives that I am not sure were better for it.
- Orsinian Tales by Ursula K. Le Guin.
- These were beautiful, finely crafted short stories. Rarely for me, I read a few of them immediately after I finished them, to make sure that I got the more subtle details. The writing was absolutely exquisite.
- The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.
- This book is great. Lots of fun. Almost as good as Mating Habits of the Common Draccus.
- The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss.
- Too short, at a little over 1000 pages. Where is Doors of Stone?
- As Colours in a Rainbow: Poems and Songs by the Legend of Hornby Island by Sammy Sammy
- Easily the worst book I read this year.
- Shaking Hands With Death by Terry Pratchett.