Happy New Year lovely people! It’s hard to believe another year is over – 2015 seems to have disappeared in the blink of an eye! I did an awful lot of reading in those 12 months (and took a lot of pictures of books!) so I thought I’d do a year in books round up – here is a list of everything I read in 2015:

1. Unwind – Neal Shusterman

2. The Rithmatist – Brandon Sanderson

3. Private Peaceful – Michael Morpurgo (read for work)

4. The Strange Library – Haruki Murakami

5. The Library of Unrequited Love – Sophie Divry

6. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck (re-read for work)

7. Romeo & Juliet – Shakespeare (re-read for work)

8. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte (re-read for work)

9. Abomination – Robert Swindells

10. Eleanor & Park – Rainbow Rowell

11. Only Ever Yours – Louise O’Neill

12. The Golem & The Djinni – Helene Wecker

13. Not That Kind Of Girl – Lena Dunham

14. The Innocent Mage – Karen Miller

15. Thief of Time – Terry Pratchett

16. The Infographic Guide to Literature – Joanna Eliot

17. The Rosie Project – Graeme Simsion

18. The Invisible Library – Genevieve Cogman

19. Steelheart – Brandon Sanderson

20.  Dante and Aristotle Discover the Secrets of the Universe –  Benjamin Alire Sáenz

21. The Coincidence Authority – John Ironmonger

22. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry – Rachel Joyce

23. The Sleeper and the Spindle – Neil Gaiman

24. The Looking Glass Wars  – Frank Beddor

25. All the Bright Places – Jennifer Niven

26.  The Innocent Mage – Karen Miller

27. The Awakened Mage – Karen Miller

28.Not That Kind of Girl – Lena Dunham

29. Earth, Air, Fire and Custard – Tom Holt

30. The Chrysalids – John Wyndham

31. The Soul Trade – E.E. Richardson

32. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry – Gabrielle Zevin

33. All That is Solid Melts Into Air – Darragh McKeon

34. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

35. The Witches – Roald Dahl

36. The Glass Books of The Dream Eaters – Gordon Dahlquist

37. The Knife of Never Letting Go – Patrick Ness

38. Where The Sidewalk Ends – Shel Silversten

39. The Tempest – William Shakespeare

40. DNA – Dennis Kelly

41. Ella Minnow Pea – Mark Dunn

42. Very Good Lives – J.K. Rowling

43. How to Build a Girl – Caitlin Moran

44. The Wise Man’s Fear – Patrick Rothfuss

45. A Mislaid Magic – Joyce Windsor

46. Seraphina – Rachel Hartman

47. Smilers Fair – Rebecca Levene

48. The Colour of Magic – Terry Pratchett

49. Not That Kind of Girl – Lena Dunham

50. Eunoia – Christian Bock

51. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

52. Night of Cake and Puppets – Lani Taylor

53. The Paper Magician – Charlie N Holmberg

54. The Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

55. Eros Unbound – Anais Nin

56. Will Grayson, Will Grayson – David Levithian & John Green

57.The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavander – Leslye Walton

58. Rules of the Red Rubber Ball – Kevin Carroll

59. Tales of Beedle The Bard – J K Rowling

60. Giver – Lois Lowry

61. Sun and Moon – Lindsey Yankee

62. Mental Morfosis – Franz De Paula

63. Throne of Glass – Sarah J Maas

64. Tiny Book of Tiny Stories – Joseph Gordon-Levitt

65. Tiny Book of Tiny Stories 2 – Joseph Gordon-Levitt

66. Tiny Book of Tiny Stories 3 – Joseph Gordon-Levitt

67. Crown of Midnight – Sarah J Maas

68. Night Owls – Jenn Bennett

69. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – J K Rowling

70. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J K Rowling

71. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J K Rowling

72. The Rest of Us Just Live Here – Partick Ness

73. Fever Crumb – Phillip Reeve

74. Heir  of Fire – Sarah J Maas

75. The Fox and The Star – Coralie Bickford-Smith

76. The Uncommon Reader – Alan Bennett

77. Magonia – Maria Dahvana Headley

78. Shadow and Bone – Leigh Bardugo

79. An Ember in The Ashes – Sabaa Tabhir

80. Poisoned Apples – Christine Heppermann

 

I could honestly recommend any one of these books but my favourites were: Dante and Aristotle Discover the Secrets of the Universe, The Wise Man’s Fear, Shadow and Bone, An Ember in the Ashes, Harry Potter (all of them!), The Uncommon Reader, The Throne of Glass series, Very Good Lives, Magonia, The Storied Life of AJ Fikry and Ella Minnow Pea.

Hoping you had a wonderful Christmas and New Year and wishing you a fabulous 2016!