Published on 29 December 2015
I read a lot of this books. This year was no exception. Not including a few books which I gave away and can’t remember reading, and a few books that I read on my computer (mostly code books), here is my list of books I read this year, in alphabetical order by first author. I love talking about books; if you’ve read any of these, drop me a line and let’s chat! I’ve bolded the ones I found particularly good.
The most influential books I read this year were: My Struggle by Karl-Ove Knausgård, and Of Walking in Ice by Werner Herzog. They’ve redefined what I thought was possible with writing.
- Amanda Palmer - The Art of Asking
- Amy Tan - World on Fire
- Andy Weir - The Martian
- Bill Waterson - Calvin and Hobbes
- Bill Waterson - Scientific Progress Goes Boink!
- Bill Waterson - Something Under the Bed is Drooling
- Bill Waterson - Weirdos from Another Planet
- Bill Waterson - Yukon Ho!
- Brandon Sanderson - Mistborn
- Brandon Sanderson - The Hero of Ages
- Brandon Sanderson - The Well of Ascension
- Brandon Sanderson - The Way of Kings
- Brandon Sanderson - Words of Radiance
- David Deida - The Way of the Superior Man
- David Troupes - Parsimony
- David Troupes - Renaming of the Birds
- David Troupes - The Simple Men
- Democracy, A Very Short Introduction
- Donald Hall - Essays After Eighty
- Douglas Adams - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
- Elie Wiesel - Night
- Elizabeth Speare - The Sign of the Beaver
- Frank Herbert - Dune Messiah
- Gary Snyder - The Back Country
- Gary Snyder - This Present Moment
- Gary Synder - Riprap & Cold Mountain Poems
- Gene Wolfe - A Cabin on the Coast
- Gene Wolfe - The Ziggurat
- Haruki Murakami - What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
- Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha
- James C. Richards - Better is Better
- James D. Watson - Avoid Boring People
- Josh Waitzkin - The Art of Learning
- JRR Tolkien - The Book of Lost Tales 1
- JRR Tolkien - The Book of Lost Tales 2
- JRR Tolkien - The Fall of Arthur
- JRR Tolkien - The Hobbit
- JRR Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings
- Karl Ove Knausgård - My Struggle, vol. 1
- Karl Ove Knausgård - My Struggle, vol. 2
- Karuho Shiina - Kimi no todoke
- Ken Follett - The Pillars of the Earth
- Kenji Yoshino - A Thousand Times More Fair
- Leo Babauta - Zen to Done
- Leo Tolstoy - What Men Live By
- Mark Salzman - Iron and Silk
- Matthew Inman - How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You
- Neil Gaimain - American Gods
- Neil Gaiman - The Ocean at the End of the Lane
- Pablo Neruda - The Sea and the Bells
- Pablo Neruda - Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
- Patrick Rothfuss - The Name of the Wind
- Patrick Rothfuss - The Wise Man’s Fear
- Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
- Raymond Fiest - Magician: Apprentice
- Rebecca West - The Return of the Soldier
- Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Robin Hobb - Assassin’s Apprentice
- Robin Hobb - Assassin’s Quest
- Robin Hobb - Royal Assassin
- Robin Sloan - Mr Penumbras 24 Hour Bookshop
- Ryan North - Poor Yorick
- Ryan North - To Be or Not To Be
- Seth Grahame-Smith - Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
- Seth Grahame-Smith - Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies
- Terry Pratchett - Making Money
- Thomas Aquinas - On Being and Essence
- To-ru Zekuu - Shiki Tsukai
- Ursula le Guin - Searoad
- Various - As You Were, Punx Comics
- Walter Isaacson - Benjamin Franklin
- Werner Herzog - Of Walking in Ice
- WB Yeats - The Tower
- William Carlos Williams - Selected Poems