Read in 2015

1. All the light we cannot see – Anthony Doerr (5*)
2. Through the Woods – Emily Carroll (4*)
3. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot – David Shafer (4*)
4. Migratory Animals – Mary Helen Specht (3.5*)
5. All the Birds, Singing – Evie Wyld (5*)
6. Who ate up all the Shinga? – Park Wan-Suh
7. Blue Lily, Lily Blue – Maggie Stiefvater
8. Dept. of Speculation – Jenny Offill
9. The Story of a New Name – Elena Ferrante
10. Silence Once Begun – Jesse Ball
11. The book of strange new things – Michel Faber
12. An Untamed State – Roxane Gay
13. Girl Runner – Carrie Snyder
14. Ode to Kirihito – Osamu Tezuka
15. Ms Marvel Vol 1: No Normal – G Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona
16. Dancer – Nathan Edmondson
17. The New York five – Brian Wood; Ryan Kelly
18. Pretty Deadly Volume One: The Shrike – Kelly Sue Deconnick; Emma Rios
19. Watson and Holmes: A study in Black – Brandon Perlow and Paul Mendoza; Karl Bollers
20. Florence Gordon – Brian Morton
21. Fairest: in all the land -Bill Willingham
22. The Last Unicorn – Peter S Beagle; Peter B. Gillis; Renae De Liz
23. Rose and Isabel – Ted Mathot
24. Black Widow Vol 1: The Finely Woven Thread – Nathan Edmondson, Phil Noto
25. The Shadow Hero – Gene Luen Yang, Sonny Liew
26. The Last Good Paradise – Tatjana Soli
27. The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai – Han Bangqing
28. The Rat queens vol 1: Sass and Sorcery – Kurtis J Wiebe
29. Vietnamerica: a family’s journey – GB Tran
30. Saga. Volume three – Brian K. Vaughan, writer ; Fiona Staples, artist
31. The Big Skinny: How I Changed my Fattitude: a Memoir – Carol Lay
32. Love on the Dole – Walter Greenwood
33. Wonderland – Tommy Kovac, Sonny Liew
34. The Last Colony (Old Man’s War #3) – John Scalzi
35. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
36. Funny Girl – Nick Hornby
37. Four girls and a compact – Annie Hamilton Donnell
38. Station Eleven – Emily St John Mandel
39. Under a Silent Moon – Elizabeth Haynes
40. Kabu-Kabu – Nnedi Okorafor
41. Pardonable Lies (Maisie Dobbs #3) – Jacqueline Winspear
42. I Remember Beirut – Zeina Abirached
43. Will and Whit – Laura Lee Gulledge
44. Apollo’s Song – Osamu Tezuka
45. Glacial period – Nicolas De Crécy
46. A + e 4ever – I. Merey
47. Nimona – Noelle Stevenson
48. Showa 1939-1944: A History of Japan (Showa: A History of Japan #2) – Shigeru Mizuki
49. Ethel and Ernest – Raymond Briggs
50. Showa: A History of Japan, 1926-1939 (Showa: A History of Japan #1) – Shigeru Mizuki
51. Lost at Sea – Bryan Lee O’Malley
52. A Chinese Life – Li Kunwu and P Otie
53. Tina’s Mouth: An Existential Comic Diary – Keshni Kashyap, Mari Araki (Illustrator)
54. Code Name Verity – Elizabeth Wein
55. Fortunately the milk – Neil Gaiman
56. Black water rising – Attica Locke
57. Mary Poppins – P.L Travers
58. Children of the Sea #1 – Daisuke Igarashi
59. Children of the Sea #2 – Daisuke Igarashi
60. PLUTO: Naoki Urasawa x Ozamu Tezuka, Band 001 – Naoki Urasawa, Ozamu Tezuka
61. Heidi – Joanna Spyri
62. Shadow Scale – Rachel Hartman
63. Mildred Pierce – James M Cain
64. Edward Scissorhands Vol 1: Parts Unknown – Kate Leth and Drew Rausch
65. Hinges Book 1: Clockwork City – Meredith McClaren
66. March Book Two – John Robert Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell
67. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves – Karen Joy Fowler
68. Rot and Ruin Vol 1: Warrior Smart – Jonathan Maberry
69. Deadly Class Vol 1: Reagan Youth – Rick Remender (Writer), Wesley Craig (Illustrator), Lee Loughridge (Illustrator)
70. Pleasantville – Attica Locke
71. Four Souls – Louise Erdrich
72. Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
73. The sculptor – Scott McCloud
74. The Bone Clocks – David Mitchell
75. The Life of a Banana – P P Wong
76. No humans involved (Women of the Otherworld #7) – Kelley Armstrong
77. Lumberjanes #1 to #10 – Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis and Brooke Ellen
78. For today I am a boy – Kim Fu
79. The Rice Mother – Rani Manicka
80. Understanding Comics: the invisible art – Scott McCloud
81. Moominvalley in November – Tove Jansson
82. Honeydew: Stories – Edith Pearlman
83. H is for Hawk – Helen Macdonald
84. All you need is kill 1 – Hiroshi Sakurazaka, Ryosuke Takeuchi and Takeshi Obata
85. All you need is kill 2 – Hiroshi Sakurazaka, Ryosuke Takeuchi and Takeshi Obata
86. Conversation #1 – James Kochalka and Craig Thompson
87. Ms Marvel Vol 1: Best of the best – Brian Reed and Roberto de la Torre
88. Ms Marvel Vol 2: Civil War – Brian Reed and Roberto de la Torre
89. Ms Marvel Vol 3: Operation Lightning Storm – Brian Reed and Roberto de la Torre
90. Ms Marvel Vol 4: Monster Smash – Brian Reed and Aaron Lopresti (Artist)
91. Ms Marvel Vol 5: Secret Invasion – Brian Reed and Adriana Melo
92. Ms Marvel Vol 6: Ascension – Brian Reed, Marcos Marz (Contributor), Paulo Siqueira (Artist)
93. The complete Essex County – Jeff Lemire
94. Ms Marvel Vol 7: Dark Reign – Brian Reed, Pat Olliffe, Patrick Olliffe (Illustrations)
95. In the kitchen with Alain Passard: Inside the world (and mind) of a master chef – Christophe Blain and Alain Passard
96. Love and Capes Vol 1: Do You Want To Know A Secret? – Thomas F. Zahler
97. Cress (Lunar Chronicles #3) – Marissa Meyer
98. Meanwhile in San Francisco: The city in its own words – Wendy MacNaughton
99. Someday, Someday, Maybe – Lauren Graham
100. Sweet moments: two heart warming love stories – David Darck and Lidia Chan
101. Van Helsing’s Night off – Nicholas Mahler
102. Girl in Dior – Annie Goetzinger
103. Love and Capes Vol 2: Going to the Chapel – Thomas F. Zahler
104. Love and Capes Vol 3: Wake Up Where You Are – Thomas F. Zahler
105. Love and Capes Vol 4: What to Expect – Thomas F. Zahler
106. Abelard –  Renaud Dillies
107. Mystique: Ultimate collection – Brian K Vaughan, Jorge Lucas, Michael Ryan, Manuel Garcia
108. Best Food Writing 2014 – Holly Hughes (ed)
109. Death be not proud – John Gunther
110. Adventure Time Vol 1 – Ryan North, Braden Lamb, Shelli Paroline (Illustrator)
111. Adventure Time Vol 2 – Ryan North, Shelli Paroline (Illustrations), Braden Lamb (Illustrations), Mike Holmes (Illustrator)
112. Adventure Time with Fionna and Cake (Vol 1) – Natasha Allegri, Lucy Knisley, Kate Leth
113. Blue is the warmest colour – Julie Maroh
114. Adventure Time: Marceline and the Scream Queens – Meredith Gran
115. Foreign Affairs – Alison Lurie
116. Adventure Time Vol 4 – Ryan North, Braden Lamb (Illustrations), Shelli Paroline (Illustrations)
117. Adventure Time Vol 3 – Ryan North, Braden Lamb (Illustrations), Shelli Paroline (Illustrations)
118. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Fairyland #1) -Catherynne M. Valente
119. The Woods Vol 1 – James Tynion IV, Michael Dialynas
120. Underwater Welder – Jeff Lemire
121. Lucille – Ludovic Debeurme
122. The Chronology of Water – Lidia Yuknavitch
123. Soy Sauce for Beginners – Kirstin Chen
124. Maman’s Homesick Pie: A Persian Heart in an American Kitchen – Donia Bijan
125. Men explain things to me – Rebecca Solnit
126. Come in, we’re closed: an invitation to staff meals at the world’s best restaurants – Christine Carroll and Jody Eddy
127. Dicey’s Song (Tillerman cycle #2) – Cynthia Voigt
128. The Borden Tragedy: a memoir of the infamous double murder at Fall River, Mass., 1892 – Rick Geary
129. Pride and Prejudice (Marvel adaptations) – Nancy Butler and Hugo Petrus
130. The Hobbit – J R R Tolkien
131. To Sir with Love – E.R. Braithwaite
132. CSI: Serial (graphic novel #1) – Max Allan Collins
133. The Cape – Joe Hill, Zach Howard, Jason Ciaramella
134. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler – E.L. Konigsburg
135. Chef – Jaspreet Singh
136. Adventure Time Vol 5 – Ryan North, Braden Lamb (Illustrations), Shelli Paroline (Illustrations)
137. Adventure Time Vol 6 – Ryan North, Braden Lamb (Illustrations), Shelli Paroline (Illustrations)
138. Jem and the Holograms #1 – #3 – Kelly Thompson (Goodreads Author), Ross Campbell (Illustrator)
139. Beguilement (Sharing Knife Quartet #1) – Lois McMaster Bujold
140. Hexed #1 – #7 – Michael Alan Nelson (Writer), Dan Mora (Artist)
141. X-23: Innocence Lost – Craig Kyle, Christopher Yost and Billy Tan
142. X-23 Vol 1: The Killing Dream – Marjorie Liu and Alina Urusov
143. Legacy Lois – McMaster Bujold
144. February flowers – Fan Wu
145. A matter of life – Jeffrey Brown
146. X-Factor Vol 1: The Longest Night – Peter David, Ryan Sook, Dennis Calero
147. Daken/X-23: Collision – Marjorie Liu and Giuseppe Camuncoli
148. Mystery Society – Steve Niles and Fiona Staples
149. Dear Beloved Stranger – Dino Pai
150. The Adventures of Polly and Handgraves: a sinister aura – Bret M Herholz
151. Thumbprint – Joe Hill, Jason Ciaramella, Vic Malhotra
152. Home Cooking: A Writer in the kitchen – Laurie Colwin
153. X-Factor Vol 2: Life and Death Matters – Peter David, Ariel Olivetti, Dennis Calero
154. The Mousetrap – Agatha Christie
155. X-Factor Vol 4: Heart of Ice – Peter David (Text), Khoi Pham (Illustrations)
156. X-Factor Vol 3: Many Lives of Madrox – Peter David, Pablo Raimondi (Illustrations), Khoi Pham (Illustrations)
157. Love like hate – Linh Dinh
158. Ruth – Elizabeth Gaskell
159. Up the down staircase – Bel Kaufman
160. The little world of Liz Climo – Liz Climo
161. The Light between oceans – M.L. Stedman
162. Museum Vaults: Excerpts from the journal of an expert – Marc-Antoine Mathieu
163. Good eggs – Phoebe Potts
164. Red Sonja, Vol. 1: Queen of Plagues (Red Sonja Vol. 2 (Dynamite) #1-6) – Gail Simone, Walter Geovanni (Artist), Jenny Frison (Cover Artists)
165. The house on Fortune Street – Margot Livesey
166. Wild’s End Vol 1: First Light – Dan Abnett and INJ Culbard
167. Spiral-bound: Top Secret Summer – Aaron Renier
168. Lolly Willowes – Sylvia Townsend Warner
169. Bone – Fae Myenne Ng
170. Wild Blue Yonder – Mike Raicht
171. Passage (Sharing Knife #3) – Lois McMaster Bujold
172. The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories – Joan Aiken
173. Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland – Eric Shanower, Gabriel Rodriguez
174. Second thoughts – Niklas Asker
175. The Rosie Project – Graeme Simsion
176. Far Arden – Kevin Cannon
177. The last Chinese chef – Nicole Mones
178. A God in Ruins – Kate Atkinson
179. Double Barrel #1 – #11 – Xander and Kevin Cannon
180. Little Adventures in Oz Vol 1 – Eric Shanower
181. 110 Percent – Tony Consligio
182. Hood – Emma Donoghue
183. Crater XV – Kevin Cannon
184. A Companion to Wolves (Iskryne World #1) – Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear
185. Uprooted – Naomi Novik
186. Supermarket – Brian Wood and Kristian Donaldson
187. Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer – Lynne Cox, Martha Kaplan
188. Miss Dont Touch Me – Hubert and Kerascoet and Joe Johnson
189. Gingerbread Girl – Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover
190. The Shining Girls – Lauren Beukes
191. Inheritance – Balli Kaur Jaswal
192. Sharaz-De – Sergio Toppi (Illustrator), Edward Gauvin (Translator)
193. This burns my heart – Samuel Park
194. Hey Princess – Mats Jonsson
195. Horizon (The Sharing Knife #4) – Lois McMaster Bujold
196. The Royal We – Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan
197. The Dreamer Vol 1: The Consequence of Nathan Hale – Lora Innes
198. Our Endless Numbered Days – Claire Fuller
199. One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories – Edited by Chris Brazier
200. Hugh Fearlessly Eats it all: dispatches from the gastronomic frontline- Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
201. Truth and Consequences – Alison Lurie
202. Lulu Anew – Etienne Davodeau
203. Creatures of the night – Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli
204. The Snow Kimono – Mark Henshaw
205. The Queen of the Tearling – Erika Johansen
206. In Nueva York – Nicholasa Mohr
207. Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant (Delilah Dirk #1) – Tony Cliff
208. The Best American Essays 2011 Edwidge Danticat (Editor), Robert Atwan (Editor), Christopher Hitchens (Contributor), Zadie Smith (Contributor)
209. The Good House – Tananarive Due
210. The Fifth Season (Broken Earth #1) – NK Jemisin
211. The Invasion of the Tearling – Erika Johansen
212. Zombillenium – Arthur de Pins
213. The Strange Library – Haruki Murakami
214. The little Paris bookshop – Nina George
215. Italian Girl – Iris Murdoch
216. The messenger of truth (Maisie Dobbs #4) – Jacqueline Winspear
217. Sorcerer to the crown – Zen Cho
218. Saga: Volume four – Brian Vaughan, Fiona Staples
219. Ms Marvel Vol 2: General Why – G Willow Wilson; Jacob Wyatt and Adrian Alphona
220. Super spy – Matt Kindt
221. Pinocchio, Vampire slayer – Van Jensen and Dusty Higgins
222. Dawn (Xenogenesis #1) – Octavia Butler
223. Adulthood Rites (xenogenesis #2) – Octavia Butler
224. His Majesty’s Dragon ((Temeraire #1) – Naomi Novik
225. At the comics – Lizz Lunney
226. Beauty is a wound – Eka Kumiawan
227. Runaways Vol 2 to 4 – Brian K Vaughan, Adrian Alphona
228. Bitch Planet Vol 1: Extraordinary Machine – Kelly Sue DeConnick, Valentine de Landro, Taki Soma
229. Kira-Kira – Cynthia Kadohata
230. The Collector – Sergio Toppi (Illustrator), Edward Gauvin (Translator)
231. Summer of the Big Bachi (Mas Arai #1) – Naomi Hirahara
232. Ascension (Tangled Axon) – Jacqueline Koyanagi
233. Mendocino Fire – Elizabeth Tallent
234. We can fix it: a time travel memoir – Jess Fink
235. Ms Marvel Vol 3: Crushed –  G. Willow Wilson, Mark Waid, Takeshi Miyazawa (Artist), Elmo Bondoc (Artist), Humberto Ramos (Illustrator)
236. Six suspects: Detective fiction –  Vikas Swarup
237. Here – Richard McGuire
238. Barracuda – Christos Tsiolkas
239. Inheritance – Lan Samantha Chang
240. The Hunter: a Detective Takako Otomichi mystery – Asa Nonami
241. The Moor’s account – Laila Lalami
242. Binti – Nnedi Okorafor
243. Fates and Furies – Lauren Groff
244. Batgirl Vol 1: The Batgirl of Burnside – Cameron Stewart. Babs Tarr (Illustrations), Brenden Fletcher
Thor Vol 1: Goddess of Thunder Jason Aaron (Text), Russell Dauterman (Illustrator)
The Wicked and the Divine Vol 1: The Faust Act Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie (Illustrations), Matt Wilson (Colorist), Clayton Cowles
To all the boys I’ve loved before Jenny Han
Working Stiff: Two years, 262 bodies, and the making of a medical examiner Judy Melenik
Us David Nicholls
The book of unknown Americans Cristina Henriquez
The post office girl Stefan Zweig
The disreputable history of Frankie Landau-Banks E Lockhart
Unseen Academicals Terry Pratchett
The Bone Lady: Life as a forensic anthropologist Mary H Manhein
Anya’s ghost Vera Brosgol
The Veil El Torres
Very far away from everything else Ursula K Le Guin
With Child (Kate Martinelli #3) Laurie R King
Shiver (The wolves of Mercy Falls #1) – Maggie Stiefvater
Personal demon (Women of the Otherworld #8) – Kelley Armstrong
A window opens – Elisabeth Egan
Dumplin’ – Julie Murphy
Miniaturist – Jessie Burton
Winter (Lunar Chronicles #4) – Marissa Meyer
The Fishermen – Chigozie Obioma
A Spool of Blue Thread – Anne Tyler
Honor Girl – Maggie Thrash
A Christmas memory – Truman Capote
Our Souls at Night – Kent Haruf
A little life – Hanya Yanagihara

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