2015 Book Challenge Results
Happy New Year, friends! I hope everyone has had a wonderful first few days of 2016 and that you are keeping on track with your New Year’s Resolutions. I have a few health and wellness goals this year (don’t we all?), but one of my annual goals is to make time for reading. 🙂
Reading a variety of genres and authors exposes you to new perspectives and can make you a better writer! Every year, I share my recap of what I read the year prior, as well as links to the blog posts that some of these books inspired.
Below are the books I read in 2015. (Click for recaps from 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.) You can keep up with the current list for 2016 by visiting the Book Challenge page at the top menu or by clicking here.
Books I Read in 2015:
1. The Disaster Artist by Greg Sestero (1/12/2015)
2. The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick (1/29/2015)
3. How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (2/3/2015)
4. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (2/9/2015)
5. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides (3/21/2015)
6. The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom (3/22/2015)
7. Women, Food and God by Geneen Roth (5/18/2015)
8. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (5/22/2015)
9. The Lover’s Dictionary by David Levithan (5/24/2015)
10. Why Men Love Bitches by Sherry Argov (6/4/2015)
11. Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell (6/6/2015)
12. Winkie by Clifford Chase (6/11/2015)
13. I’m Only Here For The WiFi by Chelsea Fagan (6/18/2015)
14. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (6/23/2015)
15. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (7/6/2015)
16. Dating Up by J. Courtney Sullivan (7/24/2015)
17. Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling (9/23/2015)
18. The Mathematics of Love by Hannah Fry (10/1/2015) — Unique Holiday Gift Guide for All Friends
19. When The Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka (11/12/2015) — Adventures in Florida: Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens
20. Many Waters by Madeleine L’Engle (12/11/2015)
21. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux (12/13/2015)
22. Eleven on Top by Janet Evanovich (12/29/2015)
Have you read any of these books? Any suggestions for 2016?
Share your thoughts and recommendations in the comments section below!
I actually just ordered The Mathematics of Love, after seeing it in your gift guide! 🙂 I loved The Disaster Artist. I’m really interested in how the movie turns out.
Recently, I’ve read Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson and The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra. Both are incredible. The Steve Jobs biography was fascinating and sometimes inspiring. And the Tsar of Love and Techno was beautiful, and I’ve never read anything like it before.
This year, I plan on reading Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari, A Game of Thrones (I want to see if it’s worth the hype), Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes, The Kite Runner, Lolita, and His Dark Materials series.
Also, my goal this year is to read 25 books. My 2015 goal was to read 15 books, and I exceed it with 19. 🙂
I’ll have to check some of those out! I have Modern Romance on my nightstand now, and am currently working on The Kite Runner, which has been a great read so far. I read Lolita a few years back and definitely enjoyed – Nabokov has such an interesting writing style. I’d love to get up to 25 books this year! My goal (years ago) was 50 and unfortunately the numbers just kept dwindling every year. 25 is a lot more reasonable! 🙂