Book List 2015

As I have mentioned in the past, I keep a log of the books that I read throughout the year in a Google spreadsheet that I share with some wonderful friends. We share book recommendations and comment on what each other is reading throughout the year. Some years we read more, and some we read less, but we are a no-commitment book club filled with people who love to read and whose opinions we respect. 
In 2015, I set my goal for the year at 75 books - a little bit higher than last year's goal of 65 - and I managed to not only reach it, but to exceed it! Here are the books that I read in 2015, in the order that I read them. My favorites are shown in hot pink and any book that I listened to on Audible has an (A) next to it to indicate that I did so. 
1. One Plus One / Jojo Moyes 2. The Museum of Extraordinary Things / Alice Hoffman 3. Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society / Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows 4. Us / David Nicholls 5. And the Dark Sacred Night / Julia Glass 6. The Patron Saint of Liars / Ann Patchett 7. Walking Dead, Compendium 1 / Robert Kirkman 8. The House Girl / Tara Conklin 9. In the Heart of the Sea / Nathaniel Philbrick 10. The Tao of Martha / Jen Lancaster 11. Murder on the Orient Express / Agatha Christie 12. The Year of Pleasures / Elizabeth Berg 13. To All the Boys I've Loved Before / Jenny Han 14. Before I Go To Sleep / S.J. Watson 15. Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 / Stephen Puleo 16. Attachments / Rainbow Rowell 17. Flash Boys / Michael Lewis 18. Astonish Me / Maggie Shipstead 19. The Girl on the Train / Paula Hawkins (A) 20. Station Eleven / Emily St. John Mandel 21. Landline / Rainbow Rowell 22. Bringing Up Bebe / Pamela Druckerman 23. Yes, Please / Amy Poehler (A)  24. Love Life / Rob Lowe (A) 25. The Paying Guests / Sarah Waters 26. Leaving Time / Jodi Picoult 27. Three Wishes / Liane Moriarty 28. The Orphans of Race Point / Patry Francis 29. The Cuckoo's Calling / Robert Galbraith/J.K. Rowling 30. Love Letters to the Dead / Ava Dellaira 31. The Summer I Turned Pretty / Jenny Han 32. It's Not Summer Without You / Jenny Han 33. We'll Always Have Summer / Jenny Han 34. PS I Still Love You / Jenny Han 35. Everything I Never Told You / Celeste Ng 36. I Am Malala / Malala Yousefzai (A) 37. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena / Anthony Marra 38. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan / Lisa See 39. Someday, Someday Maybe / Lauren Graham 40. The Good Girl / Mary Kubica (A) 41. Modern Romance / Aziz Ansari (A) 42. The Martian / Andy Weir 43. Taft / Ann Patchett 44. Me, Earl & the Dying Girl / Jesse Andrews 45. The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction / Robert McMahon 46. Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness / Susannah Cahalan (A) 47. Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands / Chris Bohjalian 48. The Language of Flowers / Vanessa Diffenbaugh 49. Perfect Little Ladies / Abby Drake 50. The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion / Frannie Flagg 51. The Cold War: A New History / John Lewis Gaddis 52. Medium Raw / Anthony Bourdain 53. The Winter People / Jennifer McMahon 54. Elizabeth is Missing / Emma Healey 55. To Kill a Mockingbird / Harper Lee (A) 56. Happiness for Beginners / Katherine Center 57. Go Set a Watchman / Harper Lee 58. The Sea of Tranquility / Katja Millay 59. Food: A Love Story / Jim Gaffigan (A) 60. Why Not Me? / Mindy Kaling (A) 61. All the Bright Places / Jennifer Niven 62. Fangirl / Rainbow Rowell 63. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children / Ransom Riggs 64. I Kill the Mockingbird / Paul Acampora 65. Down the Rabbit Hole / Holly Madison (A) 66. Going Off Script / Guiliana Rancic (A) 67. The Country of Ice Cream Star / Sandra Newman 68. The Royal We / Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan 69. The Pearl that Broke its Shell / Nadia Hashimi 70. Simon and the Homo Sapien's Agenda / Becky Albertalli 71. Truth and Beauty / Ann Patchett 72. Emmy & Oliver / Robin Benway 73. How to Start a Fire / Lisa Lutz 74. Unbecoming / Rebecca Sherm 75. Carol (or The Price of Salt) / Patricia Highsmith 76. The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap / Wendy Welch
Keeping track of statistics? This year I read 14 memoirs, listened to 12 books on Audible, enjoyed 14 YA novels, made my way through 5 non-fiction works (excluding memoirs), disliked 7 books and either really liked or absolutely loved 20 of the 78 books that I read (the other 51 books I genuinely enjoyed, but neither hated nor loved).
And for some further breakdown, I read 8 books in January, 10 in February, 3 in March, 3 in April, 6 in May, 4 in June, 6 in July, 14 in August, 4 in September, 6 in October, 4 in November, and 8 in December. 
Of my 10 absolute favorites (hot pink above), I still get ALL THE FEELS thinking about To All the Boys I Loved Before, The Orphans of Race Point and The Sea of Tranquility. And the favorites that surprised me the most (meaning that I didn't think these would be favorites) were Before I Go to Sleep (SERIOUSLY. THIS BOOK. IT IS A MUST READ.) and How to Start a Fire. 
Overall, this was a wonderful year for reading, made possible in part by fitness challenges where I spent long hours on the treadmill, a record breaking snowy winter in Boston, listening to books on Audible, and genuinely finding and falling in love with some incredible characters.
Want to join along in my literary adventures? You can follow along with me on Goodreads! Did you meet your reading goals this year? What were your favorites of 2015? Please leave them in the comments - everyone loves a great recommendation!