2015 in Books

May

• The Woman Who Borrowed Memories by Tove Jansson, trans. by Silvester Mazzarella and Thomas Teal
• At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid
• The Boy Who Lost Fairyland by Cathrynne Valente
• Trader by Charles de Lint
• Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
• The Illustrated Mum by Jacqueline Wilson
• I’ll Ask You Three Times: Are You OK? by Naomi Shihab Nye
• A Desperate Fortune by Susanna Kearsley
• The Awakened Kingdom by NK Jemisin
• Dreaming Spies by Laurie King
• Mortal Love by Elizabeth Hand
• Tribe of the Tiger by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
• The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
• Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
• Culture and Imperialism by Edward Said
• The Wedding by Dorothy West
• An Absolute Gentleman by R.M. Kinder
• Race of Scorpions by Dorothy Dunnett
• The Boy Who Drew Monsters by Keith Donahue
• The Lost Art of Dress by Linda Przybyszewski
• Yes Please by Amy Poehler
• Legacy by Lois McMaster Bujold
• Beatrix Potter by Linda Lear
• The Galaxy Game by Karen Lord
• Wonders of the Invisible World by Patricia McKillip
• My Education by Susan Choi

April

• The Game by Laurie King
• Marta Oulie by Sigrid Undset, trans. by Tiina Nunnally
• The Bone Knife by Intisar Khanani
• Beguilement by Lois McMaster Bujold
• Lord Hornblower by C.S. Forester
• Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
• Fairy Tale by Alice Thomas Ellis
• Hush by Jacqueline Woodson
• The Family Man by Elinor Lipman
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
• Your Cat by Elizabeth Hodgkins
• Outsmarting Cats by Wendy Christensen
• Trick Training for Cats by Christine Hauschild
• Starting From Scratch by Pam Johnson-Bennett
• Think Like a Cat by Pam Johnson-Bennett

March

• Angels of Destruction by Keith Donahue
• Spirits of the Ordinary by Kathleen Alcala
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• Home and Exile by Chinua Achebe
• Present Darkness by Malla Nunn
• The Phoenix Guards by Steven Brust
• Mere Christianity by CS Lewis
• Ru by Kim Thuy
• Naming Nature by Carol Kaesuk Yoon
• Justice Hall by Laurie King
• Folk Keeper by Franny Billingsley
• Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile
• The Night Counter by Alia Yunis
• Forests of the Heart by Charles de Lint
• The Seeker by R.B. Chesterton

February

• The Warden by Anthony Trollope
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
• The Bride’s Story, vol.2 by Kaoru Mori, trans. by William Flannagan
• Through the Woods by Emily Carroll
• Bosnia & Herzegovina: a Tradition Betrayed by Robert Donia & Robert Fine, Jr.
• Harbinger of the Storm by Aliette de Bodard
• Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
• The Spring of the Ram by Dorothy Dunnett
• The Morville Hours by Katherine Swift
• Keep Still by Eleanor Taylor Bland
• The Innocents by Margery Sharp
• The Bride’s Story vol. 1 by Kaoru Mori, trans. by William Flannagan
• Temptations of Power by Shadi Hamid
• The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett
• Niccolo Rising by Dorothy Dunnett
• Maybe This Time by Jennifer Crusie
• Sylvester by Georgette Heyer
• Beyond the Limbo Silence by Elizabeth Nunez

January

• After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson
• Teaching the Trees by Joan Maloof
• The Ghost Rider by Ismail Kadare
• All About Love by bell hooks
• The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
• The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell
• The Complete Ivory by Doris Egan
• The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
• O Jerusalem by Laurie King
• Four Queens by Nancy Goldstone
• Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat
• Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie
• The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje
• With the Lapps in the High Mountains by Emilie Demant Hatt, trans. by Barbara Sjoholm (thoughts)
• Complications by Atul Gawande
• Aunty Lee’s Delights by Ovidia Yu
• The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
• Borders of Infinity by Lois McMaster Bujold
• The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two by Catherynne Valente (thoughts)
• Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett (thoughts)
• Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold