My reading goal for 2015 was to read 120 books. I completed my 120th book on November 17th and kept going. This year’s tally: 144 books. Here’s a cool look at all the books I read. Below are my favorites from the books I read this year.
Poetry
~ Redhead and the Slaughter King by Megan Falley
~ What the Night Demands by Miles Walser
~ Stag’s Leap by Sharon Olds
~ The Madness Vase by Andrea Gibson
~ Antarctica by Patti Sirens
~ Bad Girls, Honey by Megan Falley
~ Toward Desire by Linda Lee Harper
~ Precordial Thumb by Zoe Whittall
Fiction
~ The Martian by Andy Weir
~ Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
~ Call Me Zelda by Erika Robuck
~ Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
~ Hemingway’s Girl by Erika Robuck
~ Fallen Beauty by Erika Robuck
~ Fives and Twenty-Fives by Michael Pitre
~ The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets by Kathleen Alcott
~ The Bullet by Mary Louise Kelly
Nonfiction
~Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard by Laura Bates
~ The Glass Castle by Jeannette Wells
~ Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay
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How many books did you read in 2015? What were your favorites?
My favorite read of 2015 was Haruki Murakami’s “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.” In some ways, it felt very “Japanese,” but for the most part, I think it would resonate with anyone….especially if you spent any of your 20’s and 30’s trying to find your true self. I would highly recommend it!
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