I wasn't sure whether to post these or not, but, hey, public accountability will be good for me.

( 2015 Reading Resolutions )

For the past few years, I kept delaying posting my year end lists of favorite books because I hoped to write the books up (and also because I have complicated feelings about favorites, best ofs, and the influence of social bias in aesthetic standards, but that's a longer story). In the end, I never posted on them here at all. (Apparently I haven't ( Read more... )

Favorites

Links to previous years are in the year's end tag. I had a hard time coming up with this year's list, not because I'd read so few worthwhile books, but because I'd read so many; I could easily double the size of the list below. Also, this year, what stayed with me tended to be not individual books, but congeries of books, massive ( Read more... )