ALL of the books I read in 2015…subjective favorites in bold:
Blackwater, by Jeremy Scahill
The Infinite Sea, by Rick Yancey
On Immunity, by Eula Biss
The Last True Story I’ll Ever Tell, by John Crawford
A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall, by Will Chancellor
Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer
Speaker for the Dead, by Orson Scott Card
The Female Brain, by Louann Brizendine
The Ocean at the End of the Lane, by Neil Gaiman
Hell House, by Richard Matheson
The Collector, by John Fowles
Flatland, by Edwin Abbott
Feed, by Mira Grant
The Buried Giant, by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Dept. of Speculation, by Jenny Offill
A Little Life, by Hanya Yanigihara
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson
In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods, by Matt Bell
Xenocide, by Orson Scott Card
Bright-Sided, by Barbara Ehrenreich
Children of the Mind, by Orson Scott Card
Satin Island, by Tom McCarthy
Deadline, by Mira Grant
Blackout, by Mira Grant
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, by Jon Ronson
Hush, Hush by Laura Lippman
To the End of June, by Cris Beam
The Vanishers, by Heidi Julavits
Terms of Service, by Jacob Silverman
Biohazard, by Ken Alibek
Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole, by Allan H. Ropper
Brain On Fire, by Susannah Cahalan
The Viral Storm, by Nathan Wolfe
The Living, by Matt de la Pena
It’s Not About Perfect, by Shannon Miller
Plague Time, by Paul W. Ewald
The New Killer Diseases, by Elinor Levy and Mark Fischetti
Inside the O’Briens, by Lisa Genova
When Germs Travel, by Howard Markel
The End of Illness, by David Agus
Abroad, by Katie Crouch
My Brilliant Friend, by Elena Ferrante
The Hunted, by Matt de la Pena
No Time to Lose, by Peter Piot
The People of Forever are not Afraid, by Shani Boianju
The Darwin Awards, by Wendy Northcutt
The Ice Twins, by S.K. Tremayne
Find Me, by Laura Van Den Berg
Infectious Madness, by Harriet A. Washington
Hyacinth Girls, by Lauren Frankel
The Story of a New Name, by Elena Ferrante
I guess I would describe this overall as eclectic people with difficult relationships against a backdrop of zombies and germs?