Thirty. Some of them dirty, I guess. (2015 book tally)
For reasons I'll figure out, I was a slow and low (that is the tempo...wait) reader this past year. I finished 30 books and graphic novel collections, maybe the lowest tally since I've been keeping track. One month, September, I was reading but didn't finish any books. However, I STILL LIKE TO READ, and I want to read more. Here's the list:
January
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America - Erik Larson, 2003
February
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides, 2002
Friday Night Lights: a town, a team, and a dream - H.G. Bissinger, 1990 (afterword written 2000)
Superior Foes of Spider-Man Vol. 3: Game Over - written by Nick Spencer, art by Steve Lieber with Rich Ellis. Contains issues 12-17.
March
A is for Alien - Caitlin R. Kiernan (greygirlbeast), 2009
April
Clay's Ark - Octavia E. Butler, 1984
Sleepy Hollow: Children of the Revolution - Keith R. A. DeCandido (kradical), 2014
Sylvan Investigations: Work of Hunters - Laura Anne Gilman (suricattus), 2014
Battle Pope: Mayhem (issues 5-8) - Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore, originally published 2000-2001, published in trade paperback 2005
May
Ready Player One - Ernest Cline, 2011
X-Factor Vol. 3: Many Lives of Madrox - Peter David and Pablo Raimondi, issues 13-17, originally published 2006-2007.
The Black Stranger and Other American Tales - Robert E. Howard, edited and with an introduction by Steven Tompkins. Published 2005.
The Martian - Andy Weir, originally self-published 2011, professionally published 2014
Free Fall - Laura Anne Gilman (suricattus), 2008
The Boy Who Lost Fairyland - Catherynne M. Valente (catvalente), 2015
June
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. Three - 1939-1944 - edited and with a preface by Gunther Stuhlmann
Clawed: a Gin & Tonic Mystery (#4) - Laura Anne Gilman (suricattus) writing as L.A. Kornetsky, 2015
The Night and the Land - Matt Spencer (happyspector), 2013
'S' is for Silence - Sue Grafton, 2005
July
Welcome to Grizzlydale: The Forgotten Tyrs Book One - Aaron Duran, 2015
August
Fletch, Too - Gregory McDonald, 1986
Heartsick - Chelsea Cain, 2007
El Borak and Other Desert Adventures - Robert E. Howard, published 2010
September - no books finished
October
Flesh and Fire: Book One of the Vineart War - Laura Anne Gilman (suricattus), 2009
Wild Cards II: Aces High - edited by George R. R. Martin, written by Martin and others, 1987
Cherry Bomb - Caitlín R. Kiernan (greygirlbeast) writing as Kathleen Tierney, 2015
Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection - Kate Beaton, 2015
November
Venus on the Half-Shell - "Kilgore Trout" (really Philip José Farmer, using a pseudonym invented by Kurt Vonnegut), 1974
Four and Twenty Blackbirds - Cherie Priest (cmpriest), first published in unrevised form 2003, published by Tor 2005
December
Robinson Crusoe (full title The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe), Daniel Defoe, 1719
January
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America - Erik Larson, 2003
February
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides, 2002
Friday Night Lights: a town, a team, and a dream - H.G. Bissinger, 1990 (afterword written 2000)
Superior Foes of Spider-Man Vol. 3: Game Over - written by Nick Spencer, art by Steve Lieber with Rich Ellis. Contains issues 12-17.
March
A is for Alien - Caitlin R. Kiernan (greygirlbeast), 2009
April
Clay's Ark - Octavia E. Butler, 1984
Sleepy Hollow: Children of the Revolution - Keith R. A. DeCandido (kradical), 2014
Sylvan Investigations: Work of Hunters - Laura Anne Gilman (suricattus), 2014
Battle Pope: Mayhem (issues 5-8) - Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore, originally published 2000-2001, published in trade paperback 2005
May
Ready Player One - Ernest Cline, 2011
X-Factor Vol. 3: Many Lives of Madrox - Peter David and Pablo Raimondi, issues 13-17, originally published 2006-2007.
The Black Stranger and Other American Tales - Robert E. Howard, edited and with an introduction by Steven Tompkins. Published 2005.
The Martian - Andy Weir, originally self-published 2011, professionally published 2014
Free Fall - Laura Anne Gilman (suricattus), 2008
The Boy Who Lost Fairyland - Catherynne M. Valente (catvalente), 2015
June
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. Three - 1939-1944 - edited and with a preface by Gunther Stuhlmann
Clawed: a Gin & Tonic Mystery (#4) - Laura Anne Gilman (suricattus) writing as L.A. Kornetsky, 2015
The Night and the Land - Matt Spencer (happyspector), 2013
'S' is for Silence - Sue Grafton, 2005
July
Welcome to Grizzlydale: The Forgotten Tyrs Book One - Aaron Duran, 2015
August
Fletch, Too - Gregory McDonald, 1986
Heartsick - Chelsea Cain, 2007
El Borak and Other Desert Adventures - Robert E. Howard, published 2010
September - no books finished
October
Flesh and Fire: Book One of the Vineart War - Laura Anne Gilman (suricattus), 2009
Wild Cards II: Aces High - edited by George R. R. Martin, written by Martin and others, 1987
Cherry Bomb - Caitlín R. Kiernan (greygirlbeast) writing as Kathleen Tierney, 2015
Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection - Kate Beaton, 2015
November
Venus on the Half-Shell - "Kilgore Trout" (really Philip José Farmer, using a pseudonym invented by Kurt Vonnegut), 1974
Four and Twenty Blackbirds - Cherie Priest (cmpriest), first published in unrevised form 2003, published by Tor 2005
December
Robinson Crusoe (full title The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe), Daniel Defoe, 1719