Books I Read in 2015
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2 min readJan 1, 2016
Book lists are an annual tradition for me. For the past two weeks, I’ve been assembling my 2015 book list as a slow-burn tweetstorm. After reacquainting myself with all 28 books I read this year—plus three audiobooks!—here are my six favorites:
- Non-Fiction: The Power of Glamour, by Virginia Postrel
- Memoir: The Folded Clock, by Heidi Julavits, and H is for Hawk, by Helen Macdonald
- Self-Improvement: Rising Strong, by Brené Brown
- Fiction: The Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson
- Audiobook: Why Not Me?, by Mindy Kaling
And here’s the full list:
- What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, by Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter
- Agency, by Rick Webb
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things, by Ben Horowitz
- Playing Big, by Tara Mohr
- Mental Traps, by Andre Kukla
- H is for Hawk, by Helen Macdonald
- The Charisma Myth, by Olivia Fox Cabane
- Creating Flow With OmniFocus 2, by Kourosh Dini
- How to Invest Your Time Like Money, by Elizabeth Grace Saunders
- Better Than Before, by Gretchen Rubin
- The Folded Clock, by Heidi Julavits
- Women in Clothes, by Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, Leanne Shapton, and 639 others
- Agile Excellence for Product Managers, by Greg Cohen
- The Argonauts, by Maggie Nelson
- Man V. Nature, by Diane Cook
- Bluets, by Maggie Nelson
- the buddhist, by Dodie Bellamy
- The Power of Glamour, by Virginia Postrel
- The Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson
- Meaty, by Samantha Irby
- How Music Got Free, by Stephen Witt
- The Artist’s Way, by Julia Cameron
- Community, by Peter Block
- I Feel Bad About My Neck, by Nora Ephron
- Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehesi Coates
- Stories of Your Life and Others, by Ted Chiang
- Rising Strong, by Brené Brown
- Men Explain Things to Me, by Rebecca Solnit
- Tiny Beautiful Things, by Cheryl Strayed (audiobook)
- Wild, by Cheryl Strayed (audiobook)
- Why Not Me?, by Mindy Kaling (audiobook)
Once more, in tweetstorm form:
Read any books you loved this year? Tell me all about them by responding on Medium or sending me a link over Twitter. Or, add me on GoodReads—I plan to use it a lot more in 2016, thanks to a strong case made by John Manoogian.
See you next year!
