Books read in 2015

[tree_and_leaf]

Deborah Devonshire, "Wait for Me."
Chris Riddell, "Goth Girl and the Fete Worse Than Death."
Terry Pratchett, "Wyrd Sisters."
Terry Pratchett, "Lords and Ladies."
Hunter Davies, "A walk around the Lakes."
Andrew Pettie, "Old Winchburgh."
Catriona MacPherson, "Dandy Gilver and the Bothersome Number of Corpses."
Neil Gaiman, "American Gods."
Jo Walton, "Tooth and Claw."
Ann Leckie, "Ancillary Justice."
Gerald Durrell, "The Bafut Beagles."
Erich Kaestner, "Emil und die Detektive".
Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Hallowed Hunt."
Nora Ephron, "Heartburn."
Hugh Fernley Whittingstall, "Veg every day".
Hugh Fernley Whittingstall, "Fruit Every Day."
Mark Oakley, ed., "Readings for Funerals".
Harper Lee, "To Kill a Mocking Bird."
Helen MacDonald, "H is for Hawk."
James Runcie, "Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death."
Terry Pratchett, "Men at Arms."
Catherine Fox, "The Benefits of Passion."
HV Morton, "A Traveler in Southern Italy."
Michael Pye, "The Edge of the World."
Bill Bryson, "At Home."
Catriona McPherson, "Dandy Gilver & The Reek of Red Herrings."
Patrick Leigh Fermor, "A Time of Gifts."
Jean Webster, "Daddy Long Legs."
Jean Webster, "Lieber Feind".
Ewald Arenz, "Don Fernando erbt Amerika".
John Buchan, "The Free Fishers."
Terry Pratchett, "Night Watch."
Diane Duane, "Spock's World"
Terry Pratchett, "Thud".
Margaret Irwin, "Young Bess."
Margaret Irwin, "Elizabeth, Captive Princess."
Barbara Hambly, "Ghost-Walker."
Phillip Yancey, "What's So Amazing About Grace?"
Barbara Pym, "A Glass of Blessings."
Barbara Pym, "Some Tame Gazelle".
Jerome W Berryman, "Teaching a Godly Play."
Mary Renault, "The Bull From the Sea."
Terry Pratchett, "Witches Abroad."
Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull."
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter, "The Long Earth."
EM Delafield, "The Diary of a Provincial Lady."
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter, "The Long War".
Mary Renault, "Fire from Heaven."
Terry Pratchett, "Guards! Guards!"
Agatha Christie, "A Murder Is Announced."
Helen Batten, "Sisters of the East End"
Terry Pratchett, Snuff.
Erik Larsen, "The Devil in the White City."
Jill Lepore, "New York Burning"
JK Rowling, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone."
JK Rowling, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets."
Doerte Hansen, "Altes Land."
JK Rowling, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire".
JK Rowling, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix"
JK Rowling, "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince."
JK Rowling, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows."
Chaim Potok, "The Chosen."
Tony Hillerman, "Coyote Waits".
Rosemary Mahoney, "The Singular Pilgrim."
Rudyard Kipling, "Plain Tales From the Hills."
Tony Hillerman, "The Blessing Way."
Mary Stewart, "The Ivy Tree."
Lettice Cooper, "Yorkshire West Riding". (County Book series).
Christopher St John Sprigg, "Death of an Airman."
Alexander Frater, "Beyond the Blue Horizon."
Robert Neill, "Mist over Pendle."
Jonathan Raban, "Bad Land."
Francis Spufford, "I May Be Some Time."
Harper Lee, "Go Set A Watchman."
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Captain Vorpatril's Alliance."
Lady Fortescue, "Perfume from Provence."
Peter Miller, "All Gone To Look For America."
Evelyn Underhill, "The Light of Christ."
Ben MacIntyre, "Operation Mincemeat."
Sue Grafton, "B is for Burglar."
Sue Grafton, "C is for Corpse."
Joseph O'Neill, "Netherland."
Terry Pratchett, "the Shepherd's Crown."
Philip Kerr, "Grushko."
Sue Grafton, "I is For Innocent."
O. Douglas, "Eliza for Common."
Graham Robb, "The Discovery of France."
Paul Theroux, "Riding the Iron Rooster."
Rachel Joyce, "The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry."
John Buchan, "Huntingtower,"
John Buchan,"Castle Gay".
Penelope Lively, "Passing On."
Robin and Margaret Bidwell, "Morocco: A Traveller's Companion."
Michel Faber, "The Book of Strange New Things."
Graham Greene, "Stamboul Train."
Marilynne Robinson, "Lila."
Jilly Cooper, "How To Survive Christmas."
Hermann Kant, "Die Aula."
Matthew Fort, "Rhubarb and Black Pudding."
Bill Bryson, "At Home."
Claire Tomalin, "Mrs Jordan's Profession."
Mary Beard, "Pompeii".
Ann Leckie, "Ancillary Mercy."
Nancy Mitford, "The Sun King"
Alan Garner, "The Weirdstone of Brisingamen.
Diane Duane, "Doctor's Orders."
Nancy Mitford, "The Blessing."
Paul Theroux, "Deep South."
Hadley Freeman, "Life Moves Pretty Fast."
Catherine Fox, "Love for the Lost."
Catriona MacPherson, "Dandy Gilver and a Deadly Measure of Brimstone."
Catriona MacPherson, "After the Armistice Ball."
Margaret Irwin, "The Proud Servant."
Terry Pratchett, "The Wee Free Men."
Terry Pratchett, "A Hat Full of Sky."
Terry Pratchett, "I Shall Wear Midnight."

Comments

[philosophymom]

Was To Kill a Mockingbird a first-time read, or a re-read in preparation for Watchman? Did you like it (Mockingbird)? I'm always curious about non-Americans' reactions to the book I was raised to think of as the Great American Novel.

[tree_and_leaf]

It was the first time - I liked it a lot, though.

[kivrin]

How did you like Book of Strange New Things?

[tree_and_leaf]

I liked it, on the whole. I worked out what the twist/ solution to the mystery about the aliens was fairly early on, though. I found the protagonist a bit irritating and overly passive/ unreflective - but having read the whole story, that felt justified in the story's terms.

I did prefer it to "The Sparrow", which it's slightly similar to, or at least I felt it was less contrived (the characters in "The Sparrow" are more likeable, though).