What I (Re)Read in 2015

Since 2008 I've vowed to read 52 (for-pleasure) books every 52 weeks. Usually, I keep it.

This year I also promised to re-read some of my favorite books, to remember why I loved them and better learn how they worked.

And I did! ...But I couldn't stick to strictly rereads. There's just too much out there in the world that I need to get my hands on.

All in all I reread fewer books than I first-time read. But I do plan to keep returning to beloved books in 2016.

I put away 65 book this year. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't proud.

My Top 10 Reads from 2015
1. Euphoria - Lily King
2. The Chronology of Water - Lidia Yuknavitch
3. Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth - Xiaolu Guo
4. The Turner House - Angela Flournoy
5. Bad Girls, Honey: Poems about Lana del Rey - Megan Falley
6. Breathing Machine: A Memoir of Computers - Leigh Alexander
7. Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth - William Bryant Logan
8. Mary Oliver forever, just everything, always.
9. The Star Side of Bird Hill - Naomi Jackson
10. Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates


2015 Rereads
Eva Luna - Isabel Allende (fiction)
The Tiger's Wife - Tea Obrecht (fiction)
Body Bereft - Antje Krog (poetry)
Room - Emma Donoghue (fiction)
Sabriel - Garth Nix (fantasy)
Before I Forget - Andre Brink (fiction)
White Oleander - Janet Fitch  (fiction)
Saga, Vol. 1 - Brian K.Vaughan and Fiona Staples (graphic novel)
Saga, Vol. 2 - Brian K.Vaughan and Fiona Staples (graphic novel)
Saga, Vol. 3 - Brian K.Vaughan and Fiona Staples (graphic novel)
Saga, Vol. 4 - Brian K.Vaughan and Fiona Staples (graphic novel)

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz (fiction)

The World Shared - Dariusz Sosnicki (poetry)

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - E.L. Konigsburg (children's fiction)

The Phantom Tollbooth - Norman Juster (children's fiction)

Sula - Toni Morrison (fiction)

The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros (young adult fiction)

Maniac Magee - Jerry Spinelli (young adult fiction)

Cavedweller - Dorothy Allison (fiction)

The Red Tent - Anita Diamont (fiction)

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (fiction)

One Day - David Nicholls (fiction)

Daytripper - Fabio Moon Gabriel Ba (graphic novel)

The Bonesetter's Daughter - Amy Tan (fiction)

The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice (fiction/horror)

The Queen of the Damned - Anne Rice (fiction/horror)

Dream Work - Mary Oliver (poetry)

2015 First-Time Reads
Saga, Vol. 4 - Brian K.Vaughan and Fiona Staples (graphic novel)
Logicomix - Aposotolos Doxidas (graphic novel)
Euphoria - Lily King (fiction)
Ex-Machina, Book 1 - Brian K. Vaughan (graphic novel)
Clariel - Garth Nix (fantasy)
Woods and Chalices - Tomaž Šalamun (poetry)
A Worldly County - John Ashbery (poetry)
The Chronology of Water - Lidia Yuknavitch (memoir)
Walking - Henry David Thoreau (essay)
Freud - Corinne Maier and Anne Simon (graphic novel)
Scott Pilgrim, Vol 2: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World - Bryan Lee O'Malley (graphic novel)
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood (fiction. I put it down after 100 pages. Woof.)
Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth - Xiaolu Guo (fiction)
Leviathan Wakes - James S.A. Corey (science fiction)
Native Guard - Natasha Trethewey (poetry)
Save Twilight - Julio Cortazar (poetry)
The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins (mystery)
The Merchant of Venice: A Graphic Novel adapted by Gareth Hinds (graphic novel)
Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan (pretty trashy fiction SUE ME)
Adulthood Rites - Octavia Butler (science fiction)
Breathing Machine: A Memoir of Computers - Leigh Alexander (essay/memoir)
The Turner House - Angela Flournoy (fiction)
Caliban's War - James S.A. Corey (science fiction)
The Star Side of Bird Hill - Naomi Jackson (fiction)
Scott Pilgrim Vol 3: Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness - Bryan Lee O'Malley (graphic novel)
Scott Pilgrim Vol 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together - Bryan Lee O'Malley (graphic novel)
Reinventing Yourself: Overcome you anxiety and fear when faced with life's problems and challenges - Mario Alonso Puig (self-help)
Saga Vol. 5 - Brian K.Vaughan and Fiona Staples (graphic novel)
Bad Girls, Honey: Poems about Lana del Rey - Megan Falley (poetry)
The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolaño (fiction)
All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr (fiction)
Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth - William Bryant Logan (creative nonfiction)
All are Welcome Here - Elizabeth Berg (fiction)
Naming the World: And other exercises for the creative writer, edited by Bret Anthony Johnson (essay collection)
Versed - Rae Armantrout (poetry)
In Light of India - Octavio Paz (nonfiction/essay)
Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl - Donald Sturrock (biography)
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates (creative nonfiction/essay)