Fiction is in red. Date of first publication in (parentheses).
1. A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster, Rebecca Solnit (2009) (reread; forget exactly when I last read it) (this is why having lists all over is a bad fucking idea)
2. The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found, Mary Beard (2008)
3. The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins (2015) (yes, I read two serious books and then a trashy thriller. SIGH. I am trying to cut this kind of crap out)
4. The Goblin Emperor, "Katherine Addison"/Sarah Monette (2014) (absolutely smashing, an unexpected delight)
5. Sylvia Plath in Devon: A Year's Turning, Elizabeth Sigmund and Gail Crowther (2014)
6. The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle (1902) (comfort reread, but of nice new Penguin edition with charming notes by Christopher Frayling)
7. Teach Us To Sit Still: A Skeptic's Search for Health and Healing, Tim Parks (2010) (quite enjoyable)
8. The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, David J. Morris (2015) (really excellent)
9. The Name of the Star, Maureen Johnson (2012)
10. Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals, Niall Ferguson (2000) (Morris mentions it)
11. Conversion, Katherine Howe (2014) (man, I swear I am done with freaking YA books)
all 2015 booklist posts
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