books i read in 2015

here they are. i’m missing a few because i forgot to write them down.

  1. Anatomy of a Girl Gang by Ashley Little (fiction)
  2. Missing Men by Joyce Johnson (CNF)
  3. Minor Characters by Joyce Johnson (CNF)
  4. Journey Prize Anthology #26 (2014)(short stories)
  5. Novelists by CP Boyko (short stories) (half-read)
  6. The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (fiction)
  7. Conceit by Mary Novik (historical fiction)
  8. Missing Person by Patrick Modiano (fiction)
  9. Regeneration by Pat Barker (historical fiction)
  10. The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker (historical fiction)
  11. The Ghost Road by Pat Barker (historical fiction)
  12. The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks (fiction)
  13. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (fiction)
  14. Light Lifting by Alexander MacLeod (short stories) (reread)
  15. Goldengrove by Francine Prose (fiction)
  16. King Leary by Paul Quarrington (fiction)
  17. The Red Notebook by Paul Auster (essays on craft) (reread for posterity, inspiration)
  18. Close to Hugh by Marina Endicott (fiction)
  19. Smoke River by Krista Foss (fiction)
  20. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (fiction)
  21. Sweetland by Michael Crummey (fiction)
  22. Knife Fight at the Hotel Europa by Mark A. Jarman (short stories)
  23. Fishbowl by Bradley Somers (fiction)
  24. Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (fiction)
  25. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (fiction) (reread)
  26. The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge (NF) (partial read)
  27. Swamplandia! By Karen Russell (fiction)
  28. Chinkstar by Jon Chan Simpson (fiction)
  29. Otherwise Known as the Human Condition by Geoff Dyer (NF) (partial read)
  30. Act Normal by Greg Hollingshead (short stories)
  31. Daddy Lenin by Guy Vanderhaeghe (short stories)
  32. Story by Robert McKee (craft) (partial read)
  33. How Fiction Works by James Wood (craft)
  34. Martin John by Anakana Schofield (fiction)
  35. Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis (fiction)
  36. Chronicle of a Death Foretold (fiction) (reread)
  37. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (fiction) (reread)
  38. 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad (linked short stories)
  39. If I Fall, if I Die by Michael Christie (fiction)
  40. The Abortion Monologues by Jane Cawthorne (play)
  41. The Last Temptation of Bond by Kimmy Beach (poetry)
  42. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (fiction)
  43. Garnethill by Denise Mina (mystery)
  44. Confidence by Russell Smith (short stories)
  45. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain (NF) (reread)
  46. Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules by David Sederis (anthology of short stories) (reread)
  47. Boys by Kathleen Winter (short stories)
  48. Debris Stories by Kevin Hard-castle (short stories)
  49. Journey Prize Anthology #27 (2015) (short stories)