My books of 2015

[nwhyte]

I read 290 books this year,

Comments

[bopeepsheep]

I really enjoyed re-reading The Twenty-Two Letters, so thank you for the prompt! I did get a copy with the nice illustrations. :)

[nwhyte]

No worries! High reading speed, commute of over an hour each leg by public transport, frequent longer journeys by plane or Eurostar for work, also a fairly rigorous system for determining what to read next!

best graphic works

[bibliofile]

I too have read both the McCloud and the Padua, and they are so different I'm loath to rate one over the other. In some ways they're opposites, the McCloud containing only one story and using images for all the storytelling, in addition to words. The Padua has so much text that the graphics cover only a fraction of the total page area -- more like illustrations -- and then there are all the alternate histories and explanations and branching off. And yet they're both quite brilliant.

So, not quite apples and oranges, but two very different places on the axes of graphic works. How will you decide? I suppose the order matters more in the voting than the nominating, but it's still a conundrum.