Books Read in 2015

2015 January-December

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, novel)
• 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/Isak Dinesen (7 short stories)

Total Finished: 7 books

July

• Seven Gothic Tales by Karen Blixen/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