Top Reads of 2015

I've read a total of 429 books this year! Here's a list of some of the hits and misses.  These I "read" in 2015, but were not necessarily published this year. To see my YA favorites, go here!

My 5 Star Favorites:

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• The Martian by Andy Weir
• The Aernaut's Windlass by Jim Butcher
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• Deceptions by Kelley Armstrong
• Eighth Grave After Dark  AND The Dirt on Ninth Grave by Darynda Jones
• Magic Shifts by Ilona Andrews
• Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
• Bitter Bite by Jennifer Estep
• Predator One by Jonathan Maberry
• Burned by Karen Marie Moning
• All Played Out by Cora Carmack
• Asa by Jay Crownover
• Burn for Me by Ilona Andrews
• Blood Games by Chloe Neill
• Never Never by Colleen Hoover and Tarryn Fisher
• Choose Your Own Autobiography by Neil Patrick Harris

My 4 Star Favorites:

• Single Undead Mom's Club by Molly Harper
• The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
• What You Need by Lorelei James
• Boundary Lines by Melissa F. Olson
• Reap the Wind by Karen Chance
• Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson
• Bourbon Kings by JR Ward
• The Veil by Chloe Neill
• Speaking in Bones by Kathy Reichs
• The Greyfriar by Clay and Susan Griffith
• Insider by Olivia Cunning
• The Master by Kresley Cole
• The Unfortunate Decisions of Dahlia Moss by Max Wirestone

The Middle of the Pack:

• Spider's Trap by Jennifer Estep
• Binding Ties by Shannon K. Butcher
• Cujo by Stephen King
• Witches of Echo Park by Amber Benson
• Bully by Penelope Douglas

Favorite Graphic Novels:

• anything DEADPOOL!
• anything BUFFY or ANGEL
• Bob's Burgers Vol. 1
• Dresden Files: War Cry
• Dresden Files: Down Town
• The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffenegger
• Trashed by Derf Backderf
• The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
• Maus & Maus II by Art Spiegelman
• Fables, Cinderella and Fairest series
• Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley
• The Secret Service: Kingsman by Mark Millar
• Joe the Barbarian by Grant Morrison
• Katana: Vol. 1 Soultaker by Ann Nocenti

Skip These!

• Trick Twenty Two by Janet Evanovich
• Dead Ice by Laurell K. Hamilton
• Tall, Dark and Immortal by Cat Devon
• The Demon's Librarian by Lilith Saintcrow
• The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion
• Tomes of Terror: Haunted Bookstores and Libraries by Mark Leslie

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