My Favorite Books of 2015

Hi

Some of you asked me about my favorite books of the year and that really got me thinking. I find a question like that always very difficult to answer. I read 124 books in 2015 (as you can see here). How can anyone expect me to pick the three books I loved the most?

It took me three days to come up with this list. Three days! Literally! I’m really not good at this.

Apparently it’s ‘not done’ for blogs and booktube to include rereads and multiple books by the same author so that made it a lot easier for me (Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, Richard Yates, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell and Muriel Barbery had to go) to narrow down my first list (26 books) to this one.

Lesson learned; in 2016 I will add a star rating to my reviews and to my Goodreads page.

So, here’s the list for those of you who are interested. I couldn't get it any smaller.
If you click on the title you will automatically be directed to the review.

• Jim Butcher: Summer Knight
• Michael Cunningham: The Snow Queen
• Joe Hill: NOS4R2
• Hugh Howey: Dust
• Shirley Jackson: We Have Always Lived in theCastle
• Stephen King: The Green Mile
• Ira Levin: The Boys from Brazil
• Richard Matheson: I Am Legend
• Terry Pratchett: Thud!
• Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter: The Long Mars
• Brandon Sanderson: The Hero of Ages
• José Saramago: Blindness
• John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
• Junichirõ Tanizaki: Some Prefer Nettles
• Evelyn Waugh: The Loved One
• Andy Weir: The Martian

What were your favorites? Have you read any of mine? If so, how did you like them?

Happy reading and I’ll see you soon.

Helena