A listing of the books I read this year. The date shown is the date I finished reading the book. Links contain my affiliate code - support this site by buying a book or three.
These books are hors catégorie, beyond categorization.
date | title | author | format | length | genre | new/reread | rating | |
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10/19/2014 | The Martian | Andy Weir | Hardback | 387 pages | Science Fiction | new | ★★★★★★ | |
5/3/2015 | Born to Win: A Life-long Struggle to Capture the America's Cup | John Bertrand | Hardback | 385 pages | Non-fiction | reread | ★★★★★★ | |
2015 books |
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1. | 1/1/2015 | What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions | Randall Monroe | Hardback | 303 pages | Non-fiction | new | ★★★★★ |
2. | 1/3/2015 | The Doll: A Novel | Taylor Stevens | Hardback | 352 pages | Fiction | new | ★★☆☆☆ |
3. | 1/4/2015 | The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe | Stephen Harding | Hardback | 223 pages | Non-fiction | new | ★★★★☆ |
4. | 1/10/2015 | The Catch: A Novel | Taylor Stevens | Hardback | 358 pages | Fiction | new | ★★★★☆ |
5. | 1/12/2015 | Reamde | Neal Stephenson | Audiobook | 38 h 34 m | Fiction | re-listen | ★★★★★ |
6. | 1/20/2015 | The Escape (John Puller Series) | David Baldacci | Hardback | 480 pages | Fiction | new | ★★★☆☆ |
7. | 1/20/2015 | Lock In | John Scalzi | Hardback | 336 pages | Science Fiction | new | ★★★★☆ |
8. | 1/30/2015 | Ratlines | Stuart Neville | Audiobook | 10 h 19 m | Fiction | new | ★★★★☆ |
9. | 2/7/2015 | The Twelve (Book Two of The Passage Trilogy): A Novel (Book Two of The Passage Trilogy) | Justin Cronin | Kindle | 600 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★★ |
10. | 2/8/2015 | Wool | Hugh Howey | Paperback | 507 pages | Science Fiction | new | ★★★★★ |
11. | 2/17/2015 | The Hanged Man's Song | John Sandford | Audiobook | 9 hours | Fiction | new | ★★★★☆ |
12. | 2/19/2015 | Monster | Frank Peretti | Hardback | 464 pages | Fiction | new | ★★☆☆☆ |
13. | 2/21/2015 | The Boost | Stephen Baker | Hardback | 336 pages | Science Fiction | new | ★★★☆☆ |
14. | 2/22/2015 | Ghosts of Bungo Suido | P. T. Deutermann | Hardback | 343 pages | Fiction | new | ★★★★☆ |
15. | 2/27/2015 | Official Privilege | P. T. Deutermann | Hardback | 392 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
16. | 3/04/2015 | The Footprints of God: A Novel | Greg Iles | Paperback | 546 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
17. | 3/04/2015 | Storm Front (A Virgil Flowers Novel) | John Sandford | Audiobook | 9h 30m | Fiction | new | ★★★☆☆ |
18. | 3/07/2015 | The Fool's Run (Kidd) | John Sandford | Paperback | 299 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
19. | 3/12/2015 | White Plague (A Joe Rush Novel) | James Abel | Hardback | 336 pages | Fiction | new | ★★★☆☆ |
20. | 3/13/2015 | Rules of Prey (The Prey Series Book 1) | John Sandford | Kindle | 372 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
21. | 3/14/2015 | Shadow Prey (The Prey Series Book 2) | John Sandford | Kindle | 464 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
22. | 3/15/2015 | Eyes of Prey (The Prey Series Book 3) | John Sandford | Kindle | 372 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★☆☆ |
23. | 3/15/2015 | Silent Prey (The Prey Series Book 4) | John Sandford | Kindle | 400 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★☆☆ |
24. | 3/16/2015 | Winter Prey (The Prey Series Book 5) | John Sandford | Kindle | 356 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
25. | 3/17/2015 | Night Prey (The Prey Series Book 6) | John Sandford | Kindle | 420 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
26. | 3/19/2015 | Mind Prey | John Sandford | Paperback | 442 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
27. | 3/21/2015 | Sudden Prey | John Sandford | Paperback | 449 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
28. | 3/22/2015 | Secret Prey | John Sandford | Hardback | 392 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
29. | 3/22/2015 | Certain Prey | John Sandford | Hardback | 339 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
30. | 3/23/2015 | Easy Prey | John Sandford | Hardback | 407 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★☆☆ |
31. | 3/23/2015 | Field of Prey | John Sandford | Audiobook | 12 hours | Fiction | new | ★★★★☆ |
32. | 3/25/2015 | Chosen Prey (Windsor Selection) | John Sandford | Hardback | 357 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★☆☆ |
33. | 3/26/2015 | Mortal Prey | John Sandford | Hardback | 416 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
34. | 3/28/2015 | Naked Prey | John Sandford | Hardback | 368 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
35. | 3/29/2015 | Hidden Prey | John Sandford | Hardback | 400 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★☆☆ |
36. | 3/31/2015 | Broken Prey (Lucas Davenport) | John Sandford | Hardback | 400 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
37. | 4/2/2015 | Invisible Prey | John Sandford | Hardback | 384 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
38. | 4/3/2015 | Phantom Prey | John Sandford | Hardback | 373 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★☆☆ |
39. | 4/5/2015 | Wicked Prey (Lucas Davenport, No. 19) | John Sandford | Paperback | 464 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★☆☆ |
40. | 4/6/2015 | Storm Prey | John Sandford | Hardback | 416 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★☆☆ |
41. | 4/7/2015 | Buried Prey | John Sandford | Hardback | 472 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
42. | 4/9/2015 | Silken Prey: A Lucas Davenport Novel | John Sandford | Hardback | 463 pages | Fiction | new | ★★★★★ |
43. | 4/11/2015 | Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader | Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli | Audiobook | 16.5 hours | Non-fiction | new | ★★★★★ |
44. | 4/11/2015 | Stolen Prey | John Sandford | Hardback | 464 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★☆☆ |
45. | 4/12/2015 | The Deep Blue Good-by: A Travis McGee Novel | John D. MacDonald | Paperback | 240 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★☆☆ |
46. | 4/13/2015 | Nightmare in Pink | John D. MacDonald | Paperback | 146 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★☆☆ |
47. | 4/14/2015 | A Purple Place for Dying: A Travis McGee Novel | John D. MacDonald | Paperback | 158 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★☆☆ |
48. | 4/15/2015 | The Quick Red Fox: A Travis McGee Novel | John D. MacDonald | Paperback | 160 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★☆☆ |
49. | 4/17/2015 | Long Lost | David Morrell | Paperback | 354 pages | Fiction | new | ★★★☆☆ |
50. | 4/17/2015 | The Countess of Stanlein Restored: A History of the Countess of Stanlein Ex Paganini Stradivarius Cello of 1707 | Nicholas Delbanco | Hardback | 104 pages | Non-fiction | new | ★★★★★ |
51. | 4/23/2015 | Train Man | P. T. Deutermann | Paperback | 448 pages | Fiction | new | ★★★★☆ |
52. | 4/25/2015 | Parasite (Parasitology) | Mira Grant | Hardback | 504 pages | Science Fiction | new | ★★★★★ |
53. | 4/26/2015 | Symbiont (Parasitology) | Mira Grant | Hardback | 528 pages | Science Fiction | new | ★★★★★ |
54. | 4/27/2015 | 1356: A Novel | Bernard Cornwell | Audiobook | 11 h 56 m | Historical Fiction | new | ★★★★★ |
55. | 5/3/2015 | Born to Win: A Life-long Struggle to Capture the America's Cup | John Bertrand | Hardback | 385 pages | Non-fiction | reread | ★★★★★★ |
56. | 5/4/2015 | Impasse: A Novel | Royce Scott Buckingham | Hardback | 304 pages | Fiction | new | ★★★☆☆ |
57. | 5/5/2015 | The Godwulf Manuscript (Spencer, No. 1) (Spenser) | Robert B. Parker | Paperback | 204 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
58. | 5/6/2015 | God Save the Child (Spenser) | Robert B. Parker | Paperback | 202 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
59. | 5/7/2015 | Mortal Stakes (Spenser) | Robert B. Parker | Paperback | 190 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
60. | 5/8/2015 | Promised Land (A Spenser Novel) | Robert B. Parker | Paperback | 218 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
61. | 5/10/2015 | The Judas Goat (Spenser) | Robert B. Parker | Paperback | 208 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
62. | 5/10/2015 | Looking for Rachel Wallace (Spenser) | Robert B. Parker | Paperback | 224 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
63. | 5/10/2015 | Early Autumn (Spenser) | Robert B. Parker | Paperback | 221 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★★ |
64. | 5/12/2015 | A Savage Place | Robert B. Parker | Paperback | 186 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★☆☆ |
65. | 5/14/2015 | The Winter King | Bernard Cornwell | Audiobook | 19 h 55 m | Fiction | new | ★★★★★ |
66. | 5/14/2015 | Ceremony (Spenser) | Robert B. Parker | Paperback | 224 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★☆☆ |
67. | 5/15/2015 | The Widening Gyre (Spenser) | Robert B. Parker | Paperback | 192 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
68. | 5/16/2015 | Valediction (Spenser) | Robert B. Parker | Paperback | 288 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
69. | 5/16/2015 | A Catskill Eagle (Spenser, Book 12) | Robert B. Parker | Paperback | 384 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★★ |
70. | 5/17/2015 | Taming a Sea-Horse | Robert B. Parker | Paperback | 308 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
71. | 5/18/2015 | Gathering Prey | John Sandford | Hardback | 416 pages | Fiction | new | ★★★★☆ |
72. | 5/23/2015 | Seveneves: A Novel | Neal Stephenson | Hardback | 867 pages | Fiction | new | ★★★★★ |
73. | 5/25/2015 | Dark of the Moon (A Virgil Flowers Novel) | John Sandford | Paperback | 432 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
74. | 5/25/2015 | Pale Kings and Princes (Spenser, No 14) | Robert B. Parker | Paperback | 297 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
75. | 5/26/2015 | Crimson Joy (Spenser) | Robert B. Parker | Paperback | 292 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
76. | 5/26/2015 | Playmates (Spenser, No 16) | Robert B. Parker | Paperback | 288 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
77. | 5/27/2015 | Stardust (Spenser #17) | Robert B. Parker | Paperback | 320 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
78. | 5/28/2015 | Pastime (Spenser 18) | Robert B. Parker | Paperback | 352 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
79. | 5/28/2015 | Double Deuce (Spenser) | Robert B. Parker | Paperback | 272 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
80. | 5/31/2015 | Heat Lightning (Virgil Flowers, No. 2) | John Sandford | Paperback | 448 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
81. | 6/2/2015 | Rough Country (A Virgil Flowers Novel) | John Sandford | Hardback | 447 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
82. | 6/3/2015 | Thin Air (Spenser) | Robert B. Parker | Paperback | 320 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
83. | 6/4/2015 | Chance (Spenser) | Robert B. Parker | Paperback | 352 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
84. | 6/5/2015 | Small Vices (Spenser) | Robert B. Parker | Paperback | 338 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
85. | 6/7/2015 | Hush Money (Spenser) | Robert B. Parker | Paperback | 384 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
86. | 6/7/2015 | Hugger Mugger (Spenser) | Robert B. Parker | Paperback | 352 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
87. | 6/8/2015 | Bad Blood: a Virgil Flowers novel | John Sandford | Hardback | 400 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
88. | 6/10/2015 | Shock Wave (A Virgil Flowers Novel) | John Sandford | Paperback | 418 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
89. | 6/10/2015 | The Detachment (John Rain) | Barry Eisler | Kindle | 325 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
90. | 6/11/2015 | The Martian | Andy Weir | Hardback | 387 pages | Science Fiction | reread | ★★★★★★ |
91. | 6/13/2015 | Mad River (A Virgil Flowers Novel) | John Sandford | Paperback | 432 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★☆☆ |
92. | 6/15/2015 | The Monkey's Raincoat (Elvis Cole) | Robert Crais | Paperback | 237 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
93. | 6/16/2015 | Stalking the Angel | Robert Crais | Hardback | 231 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
94. | 6/20/2015 | Shibumi: A Novel | Trevanian | Paperback | 440 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★★ |
95. | 6/21/2015 | Satori | Don Winslow | Paperback | 504 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★★ |
96. | 6/22/2015 | A String of Beads (Jane Whitefield) | Thomas Perry | Hardback | 388 pages | Fiction | new | ★★★★☆ |
97. | 6/25/2015 | The Five Fingers | Gayle Rivers & James Hudson | Paperback | 331 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
98. | 6/29/2015 | Spencerville | Nelson DeMille | Kindle | 660 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
99. | 6/30/2015 | A Time to Kill | John Grisham | Audiobook | 15 h 56 m | Fiction | new | ★★★★☆ |
100. | 7/4/2015 | The Watchman: A Joe Pike Novel | Robert Crais | Kindle | 388 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
101. | 7/11/2015 | The Martian | Andy Weir | Audiobook | 10 h 53 m | Fiction | new | ★★★★★★ |
102. | 7/30/2015 | Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War | P. W. Singer & August Cole | Kindle | 416 pages | Fiction | new | ★★★★☆ |
103. | 8/5/2015 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium Series) | Stieg Larsson | Audiobook | 16h 19m | Fiction | reread | ★★★★★ |
104. | 8/11/2015 | The English Spy | Daniel Silva | Hardback | 484 pages | Fiction | new | ★★★★☆ |
105. | 8/22/2015 | The Architect's Apprentice: A Novel | Elif Shafak | Hardback | 432 pages | Fiction | new | ★★★★★ |
106. | 8/27/2015 | The Girl Who Played with Fire: The Millennium Series, Book 2 | Stieg Larsson | Audiobook | 18h 38m | Fiction | reread | ★★★★★ |
107. | 9/14/2015 | Five: A Novel | Ursula Archer | Hardback | 336 pages | Fiction | new | ★★★★☆ |
108. | 9/21/2015 | The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest | Stieg Larsson | Audiobook | 20h 20m | Fiction | reread | ★★★★★ |
109. | 9/28/2015 | The Bone Season: A Novel | Samantha Shannon | Hardback | 452 pages | Fiction | new | ★★★★☆ |
110. | 10/12/2015 | Invasion of Privacy: A Novel | Christopher Reich | Hardback | 384 pages | Fiction | new | ★★★☆☆ |
111. | 10/12/2015 | Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory | Ben Macintyre | Audiobook | 11h 18m | Non-Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
113. | 10/18/2015 | The Enemy (Jack Reacher, Book 8) | Lee Child | Kindle | 400 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
114. | 10/24/2015 | The Hard Way (Jack Reacher) | Lee Child | Kindle | 512 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
115. | 10/26/2015 | Ready Player One | Ernest Cline | Audiobook | 15h 46m | Fiction | reread | ★★★★★ |
116. | 10/28/2015 | Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace | Michele Slatalla | Paperback | 240 pages | Non-Fiction | reread | ★★★★★ |
117. | 11/01/2015 | The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage | Clifford Stoll | Hardback | 326 pages | Non-Fiction | reread | ★★★★★ |
118. | 11/11/2015 | Dangerous Ground | Larry Bond | Paperback | 449 pages | Fiction | new | ★★★☆☆ |
119. | 11/14/2015 | Armada: A Novel | Ernest Cline | Audiobook | 11h 58m | Science Fiction | new | ★★★★☆ |
120. | 12/01/2015 | Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft | G. Pascal Zachary | Hardback | 338 pages | Non-Fiction | reread | ★★★★☆ |
121. | 12/07/2015 | Runner (Sam Dryden) | Patrick Lee | Hardback | 336 pages | Fiction | reread | ★★★★★ |
122. | 12/09/2015 | Saturn Run | John Sandford and Ctein | Audiobook | 16h 35m | Science Fiction | new | ★★★★★ |
123. | 12/24/2015 | Signal: A Sam Dryden Novel | Patrick Lee | Hardback | 320 pages | Fiction | new | ★★★★☆ |