Books Read in 2015

Sometime about 10 years ago, I realized I'd only read, like, 2 books all year.  While that's still 200% more books than the average American, and I justified it all by telling myself I'd read a lot of comics (I had.  A LOT of comics.), I felt a bit bad about not reading books without pictures.  So, these days I
strive to read a bit more.

Here's the list of what I read in 2015.  It's only 23 books, but I figure that's about two a month, and that's not awful when you add in the numbers I presented yesterday when it came to movies.  Plus working and whatnot.

Title	Author	Genre	Date finished	1-10 ranking
Mystic River	Dennis Lehane	crime fiction	1/29/2015	6
The Bully Pulpit	Doris Kearns Goodwin	history	3/25/2015	9
Mother Night	Vonnegut	Vonnegut	4/8/2015	8
The Comeback	Stark, Richard	crime	5/2/2015	6
Ready Player One	Cline, Ernest	sci-fi	5/2/2015	5
Backflash	Stark, Richard	crime	5/11/2015	6
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Adams, Douglas	sci-fi	5/21/2015	7
Red Harvest	Dashiell Hammett	crime	6/4/2015	8
Superman: The High Flying History of the Man of Steel	Tye, Larry	non-fiction	6/26/2015	7
Tarzan of the Apes	Edgar Rice Burroughs	Ape Book	7/10/2015	7
Flashfire	Stark, Richard	Crime	7/19/2015	6
Rin Tin Tin - The Life and the Legend	Orlean, Susan	Non-Fiction	8/12/2015	9
The Martian	Andy Weir	Science Fiction	8/20/2015	8
Farewell, My Lovely	Chandler, Raymond	detective	9/3/2015	8
Big Knockover, The	Hammett, Dashiell	crime fiction/ short story		7
If Chins Could Kill	Campbell, bruce	memoir	9/17/2015	1
Rendezvous with Rama	Arthur C. Clarke	Sci-Fi	10/5/2015	8
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow	Irving, Washington	American Classic/ horror/ comedy	10/16/2015	8
The Haunting of Hill House	Jackson, Shirley	Horror	10/21/2015	8
Hocus Pocus	Vonnegut, Kurt	american literature	10/28/2015	7
Isaac's Storm	Larson, Erik	history	11/15/2015	6
Casino Royale	Fleming, Ian	Bond	12/1/2015	7
Live and Let Die	Fleming, Ian	Bond	12/18/2015	4

I actually read a lot of fiction this year, which is not something that's usually been my focus, and I read four book series if you want to count the Parker books by Stark, Marlowe books by Chandler, Continental Op work by Hammett and Bond books by Fleming.

The best of the books I read this year, or the one I've thought about the most, was probably The Bully Pulpit.  Despite the low numerical ranking I gave Live and Let Die, the most frustrating read of the year was probably Mystic River, which is a bit vexing for me as I'd like to get into more modern crime fiction.

In 2016, I want to finally wrap up the Parker book series and read more non-fiction and Chandler.  All seems pretty do-able, and when I get back into my commute, I already have a Chandler book picked out.  As per non-fiction, I'm starting with Glen Weldon's Superman: The Unauthorized Biography, which I've started and already and am loving so far despite the familiar territory it's covering.

I do really enjoy the diversion of science-fiction, and so I also plan to read Clarke's Childhood's End at some point.  I also need to read Jason Dewey Craft's book Old Green World, and there's a kind of funny story about why that hasn't happened.