Past editions of this list: 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008. This list is also available in pictorial format at Pinterest.
It was a good year for reading here! Thirty-eight books finished. Some illustrated books, some YA novels, one academic book read for review. BG=Book Group selection. I’m in two book groups, so a lot of my reading is driven by that.
This year in books (for me) was shaped by the closing of Mysterious Galaxy Redondo Beach in the late spring, the first of several local business closures this year that upset my routines–RIP Cork’er, Neighborhood Grinds, Soup Bar, and soon, Harmony Works.
These are numbered in chronological order, from January to December.
1. Jo Walton, Farthing
2. Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
3. Kirsten Miller, Kiki Strike: The Darkness Dwellers
4. Meg Wollitzer, The Ten-Year Nap BG
5. Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees
6. Naoki Higashida, The Reason I Jump
7. David Handler, Runaway Man
8. Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam
9. Mark Dunn, Ella Minnow Pea BG
10. Helen Dunmore, The Greatcoat
11. Colum McCann, Transatlantic
12. Jessica Ellen Sewell, Woman and the Everyday City
13. Andy Weir, The Martian
14. Jeff Vandermeer, Authority
15. Lauren Groff, Arcadia BG
16. Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves BG
17. Gerbrand Bakker, Ten White Geese
18. Rupert Thomson, Divided Kingdom
19. Jane Jeong Trenka, The Language of Blood
20. Octavia Butler, Fledgling
21. Paul Auster, Book of Illusions
22. Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch BG
23. Haruki Murakami, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
24. Tana French, Faithful Place
25. Natalie Danford, Inheritance
26. Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being BG
27. Jeff Vandermeer, Acceptance
28. Cory Doctorow, Little Brother BG
29. David Gerrold, The Martian Child
30. Hari Kunzru, Transmission
31. Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland BG
32. Oliver Sacks, Hallucinations BG
33. Jo Walton, My Real Children
34. Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers
35. Jonathan Auxier, The Night Gardener
36. Kenny Fries, The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory BG
37. M. L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans BG
38. John Scalzi, Lock In
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