Books Read in 2015

It pains my heart when I read statistics claiming that a quarter of American adults haven't read a single book this year.  Why would someone choose not to enrich their lives?  By reading books, you are more capable of building a robust perspective of the world and your fellow complex earthly beings who also reside here.

Whether you are reading a novel for the first time or re-reading your favorite book, there is never a better day, month or year to crack open a good read.  Listed below are all 33 of the books I've consumed in 2015:

1.  Yes Please - Amy Poehler

For lovers of: Female comedian memoirs 

2.  As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales From the Making of The Princess Bride - Cary Elwes

For lovers of: Behind the scenes tales of giants, sword fighting, and Rob Reiner as told by Westley himself

3.  Night - Elie Wiesel

For lovers of: 1st rate holocaust memoirs

4.  Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy - Donald Miller

For lovers of: Spiritual memoirs that appeal to the millennial/generation X persuasion.

5.  The Awakening - Kate Chopin

For lovers of: 19th century controversial literature

6.  David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants - Malcolm Gladwell

For lovers of: Books that teach you how your personal disadvantages can function as your ultimate advantage

7.  Bel Canto - Ann Patchett

For lovers of: Books that remind you of Breakfast Club but for held hostages 

8.  The Road - Cormac McCarthy

For lovers of: Grim, apocalyptic tales of survival

9.  The Giver - Lois Lowry

For lovers of: Children's dystopian literature

10.  The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan

For lovers of: Mother-daughter narratives that transcend generations

11.  Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn

For lovers of: Alfred Hitchcockian marital page-turners

12.  Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless Love - Francis Chan

For lovers of: Spiritual devotionals trumpeting God's radical love

13.  Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

For lovers of: Gothical romanticism

14.  Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

For lovers of: Satirical (and often times foreseeable) dystopian literature

15.  To The Lighthouse - Virginia Wolfe

For lovers of: Novels featuring minimal storytelling but enriching character development

16.  Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding

For lovers of: Embarrassingly candid confessional diaries 

17.  To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

For lovers of: Beloved classics that nearly restore your faith in humanity (assuming you don't continue with Go Set a Watchman)

18.  About a Boy - Nick Hornby

For lovers of: British 'man-boy' fiction

19.  Emma - Jane Austen

For lovers of: Both Jane Austen and Clueless

20.  Plunder and Deceit - Mark R. Levin

For lovers of: Political non-fiction for millennials but marketed to baby boomers

21.  Midnight's Children - Salmon Rusdie

For lovers of: (Indian) magical realism

22.  Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson

For lovers of: Stories chronicling small-town isolation

23.  The Stranger - Albert Camus

For lovers of: Fiction that ponders and grapples with existentialism and morality

24.  Beloved - Toni Morrison

For lovers of: Post-slavery tales that will give you the hibbie jibbies 

25.  The Fault in Our Stars - John Green

For lovers of: Young Adult weepies

26.  Cannery Row - John Steinbeck

For lovers of: 'Slice of life' novels that zero in on a community's townspeople 

27.  Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World- Bob Goff

For lovers of: Inspirational memoirs that will make you re-evaluate the way you live

28.  Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom

For lovers of: Books that make you want to call up your favorite professor or spiritual mentor  

29.  The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

For lovers of: A Christmas Carol and It's a Wonderful Life

30.  Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

For lovers of: (Latin) magical realism

31.  1984 - George Orwell

For lovers of: Bleak and foreseeable dystopian novels that seem to always remain relevant


32.  Why Not Me? - Mindy Kaling
For lovers of: Memoirs that remind you of the conversations you share with your best friends


33.  A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickins
For lover of:  Classic Christmas tales that will lift your jaded spirits

Which books have you read (or re-read) this year?


See also: Books Read in 2014 
                How To Read Over 20 Novels a Year