Last year in books

My goal was to read 52 books in 2015. I only managed 48, but they were a solid 48. I blame throwing a wedding in the last few weeks of the year for missing those last 4. Here's what I read.  All the bolded ones are the ones you really should read too.

1. Yes Please
2. Riding Lessons
3. My Sister's Grave
4. The Secret Place
5. The Magician King
6. The Magician's Land
7. The Queen of the Tearling
8. The Wide Window
9. Flash Boys
10. Red Rising
11. The Orphan Master's Son
12. Spoiled
13. Beyond Belief
14. To Kill a Mockingbird (I was supposed to read this in high school but I never did. Shhhh)
15. Bird Box
16. Under the Banner of Heaven
17. On Immunity
18. Flora
19. The Girl on the Train
20. Longbourn
21. Destiny of the Republic
22. Golden Son
23. The Invasion of the Tearling
24. Go Set a Watchman
25. In the Unlikely Event
26. The Husband's Secret
27. All the Light We Cannot See
28. Wild
29. Everything I Never Told You
30. Failure is Not an Option
31. The Royal We
32. Americanah
33. Dead Wake
34. Thirty Million Words
35. Astonish Me
36. The Selection
37. I Know Why the Caged Bird Signs
38. Watergate: A Novel
39. Challenger Deep
40. Trickster's Queen
41. Jackaby
42. The Elite
43. Ready Player One
44. The One
45. Arcadia
46. Fates and Furies
47. Beastly Bones: A Jackaby Novel
48. The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

This list could not have happened without the fist-full of jelly beans that is The Selection series. I cruised through the first four books with such agony over how they were the worst and yet I could-not-would-not stop. If you want to feel particularly bad about yourself as an unpublished author, I highly recommend them.

Also, I recognize that reporting out on this list is five months late. How did it get to be May so fast? Considering how I'm doing on other deliverables, half a year late is really not that bad.