[Originally posted on Facebook]

Continuing the tradition, here are the book I read in 2015:

★★★★★

• Tenth of December - George Saunders [thanks Danielle]
• House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski [thanks James]
• The Secret History - Donna Tartt
• The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood [thanks Asali]

★★★★½

• Freedom - Jonathan Franzen [thanks Asali]
• The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil - Stephen Collins [thanks Danielle]
• Infinite City - Rebecca Solnit [thanks Asali]
• I Am a Strange Loop - Douglas Hofstadter
• “The Cheater’s Guide to Love” - Junot Díaz
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Díaz
• The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work - Alain de Botton [thanks Asali]
• Summa Technologiae - Stanisław Lem

★★★★

• They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? - Horace McCoy [thanks Asali]
• Speak, Memory - Vladimir Nabokov [thanks Asali]
• The Discovery of Neptune - Morton Grosser [thanks Tikhon]
• A Visit From the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan [thanks Asali]
• Marx’s Capital Illustrated - David Smith and Phil Evans
• Men Explain Things to Me - Rebecca Solnit
• The Dead Mountaineer’s Inn - Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
• Everyman - Philip Roth [thanks mom & dad]
• Doing Good Better - William MacAskill
• Arabs & Israel for Beginners - Ron David

★★★½

• Gentlemen of the Road - Michael Chabon

★★★

• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
• Geek Sublime - Vikram Chandra [thanks Danielle]
• New Urbanism and American Planning - Emily Talen

★★½

• Iterating Grace - Anonymous

I’_ve also started subscribing to a few magazines this year - Nautilus and Two Lines Press - and both have been incredible reads so far. I read an issue of Lapham’s Quarterly (VIII.3 - “Philanthropy”) that had a huge influence on me, and I wish I had the time to subscribe to it too, but it’s such a dense magazine that reading it four times a year would leave no time for books 🙁