Pleasure Reading Book List – 2015

Here’s a list of the books I’ve read in 2015 – latest at the top of the list. You can also check out the books I read in 2014.

I’ve bolded the books I enjoyed most.

1. The Light Between Oceans: A Novel – M.L. Stedman
2. Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel – Jeannette Walls
3. Lisey’s Story: A Novel – Stephen King
4. Born to Run – Christopher McDougall – Loved, Loved, LOVED this book. SO well written as well as informative and entertaining.
5. Circling the Sun: A Novel – Paula McLain – FANTASTIC book. True story too. 🙂
6. Once We Were Brothers – Ronald H. Balson – Pretty good.
7. The Good Neighbor – A. J. Banner – Meh. The story wasn’t fleshed out enough to be compelling.
8. Trail of Broken Wings – Sejal Badani
9. The Running Man – Stephen King, Richard Bachman – Eerie in retrospect.
10. Summer Island – Kristin Hannah
11. The Lake (The Lake Series, Book 1) – AnnaLisa Grant – UGH. Terrible. I should have checked the category before purchasing.
12. The Cuckoo’s Calling (Cormoran Strike Book 1) – Robert Galbraith
13. Riding Lessons – Sara Gruen
14. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel – Harper Lee
15. The Shape of Mercy: A Novel – Susan Meissner
16. At the Water’s Edge: A Novel – Sara Gruen
17. The Nightingale – Kristin Hannah – LOVED this book, hated the ending… so sad.
18. The Bazaar of Bad Dreams: Stories – Stephen King (advance order)
19. Finders Keepers: A Novel – Stephen King
20. Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel
21. Stories (The greatest masterpieces of Russian literature) (Illustrated) – Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
22. FAULKNER READER – William Faulkner
23. Utopia – Sir Saint Thomas More
24. Firefly Lane – Kristin Hannah
25. The Complete Stories (FSG Classics) – Flannery O’Connor, Robert Giroux
26. The Ten Thousand Things – Maria Dermout, Hans Koning
27. Outlander: A Novel (Outlander, Book 1) – Diana Gabaldon – Very well written, but romance is NOT my genre at all. 🙂
28. The Winner – David Baldacci
29. 12 Month Passive Income Plan: How to Quit Your Job in 364 Days With Online Passive Income – Russ Banister, Peter Koning
30. Absolute Power – David Baldacci
31. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 1) – Cheryl Strayed
32. The Dead Key – D. M. Pulley
33. Elizabeth Street – Laurie Fabiano
34. The Traitor’s Wife: A Novel – Allison Pataki
35. Secrets of a Charmed Life – Susan Meissner
36. Gray Mountain: A Novel
37. Still Alice – Lisa Genova – Heartbreaking and beautifully written book about a woman with Alzheimer’s.
38. The Girl on the Train: A Novel
39. Sharp Objects: A Novel
40. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harperperennial Modern Classics)
41. Take Me With You
42. Dark Places: A Novel
43. The Fault in Our Stars
44. Divergent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 1)
45. Gone Girl: A Novel – GREAT suspense, surprise ending.
46. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel – Enjoyed this book about life for Japanese Americans on the West Coast during the 2nd World War.
47. The Alchemist – 10th Anniversary Edition – Paulo Coelho
48. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: A Novel – Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
49. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves: A Novel – Karen Joy Fowler
50. The Invention of Wings: With Notes (Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 3) – Sue Monk Kidd
51. All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel – Anthony Doerr – SO sad when I finished reading this book, it could have kept going and going and going. 🙂
52. Big Little Lies – Liane Moriarty
53. Maude – Donna Mabry
54. Revival: A Novel – Stephen King – I’m a King fan.
55. Coming Clean: A Memoir – Kimberly Rae Miller
56. My Sister’s Grave – Robert Dugoni
57. The Cabin: The Manhattan Stories – Donna Mabry
58. Pillsbury Crossing – Donna Mabry
59. Jessica: The Manhattan Stories (Volume 1) – Donna Mabry