2015 in books

So here's everything I read this year, in order of most to least liked:

5 STAR BOOKS
The Martian by Andy Weir
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The Adventuress by Tasha Alexander
The Empty Throne by Bernard Cornwell
How to Listen to and Understand Great Music by Robert Greenberg
William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope by Ian Doescher
The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan
Girl in the Dark by Anna Lyndsey
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Rashomon & Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
History's Greatest Mysteries by Bill Price
The Norse Myths by Kevin Crossley-Holland
Mystery Inc by Joyce Carol Oates
The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson
Customs of the World by David Livermore
36 Books that Changed the World by The Great Courses

4 STAR BOOKS
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Where They Found Her by Kimberly McCreight
This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
Thunderball by Ian Fleming
The Fate of Ten by Pittacus Lore
Chaucer's Tale by Paul Strohm
The A-List by Zoey Dean
The Little Men by Megan Abbott
The Mysterious Disappearance of the Reluctant Book Fairy by Elizabeth George
From the Queen by Carolyn Hart
The Book of the Lion by Thomas Perry
Classic Novels: Meeting the Challenge of Great Literature by Arnold Weinstein

3 STAR BOOKS
Visiting Hours by Amy Butcher
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
 Tall Cool One by Zoey Dean
Girls on Film by Zoey Dean
Back in Black by Zoey Dean
Some Like it Hot by Zoey Dean
Blonde Ambition by Zoey Dean
Heart of Glass by Zoey Dean
Beautiful Stranger by Zoey Dean
California Dreaming by Zoey Dean
Killer Dreams by Iris Johansen
Are You Afraid of The Dark by Sydney Sheldon

2 STAR BOOKS
The Cold Moon by Jeffrey Deaver
Forensic History by Elizabeth A Murray
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

1 STAR BOOKS
Condor in the Stacks by James Grady

So I'm lucky that most of the books I read this year were pretty good, and there weren't too many suckers!

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