2015 Top Ten

[WeDealInLead]

Rules are for fools so here're guidelines instead: only books first published in 2015 count. No reprints, no anniversary editions. Short story collections (King's Bazaar etc.) are OK, Skeleton Crew anniversary edition is no bueno.

1. Tim Powers - Nobody's Home
2. Dan Simmons - The Fifth Heart
3. Neil Gaiman - Trigger Warning
4. Paul Tremblay - A Head Full of Ghosts
5. Stephen King - The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
6. Gene Wolfe - A Borrowed Man
7. Gene O'Neill - The Hitchiking Effect
8. Stephen King - Finders Keepers
9. Clive Barker - The Scarlet Gospels
10. Dean Koontz - Saint Odd

Impressions, thoughts and quick reviews to follow. Honorable mentions too.

[Mattrick]

I read less than ten books :/

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller was the best. Haven't finished Anna Karenina yet but.I'm enjoying it. Blindness by Jose Saramago was fantastic. Cujo was okay. House of Leaves was unique and solid, but definitely not for everybody. I've read zero books published this year so there.

If only you'd read my book, it would be on your list :p

[Priest]

if only books first published in 2015 count i am not going to make 10 , sorry
my backlog is so long i hardly caught up with 2012

[Patrick]

...Catch-22 by Joseph Heller was the best. ...
Excellent book!

I read 21 books this year, but I'd have to check to see which were actually published in 2015 in order to qualify for this list.

[fernandito]

I think I read like 6 books this year

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[Merlin1958]

I read less than ten books :/

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller was the best. Haven't finished Anna Karenina yet but.I'm enjoying it. Blindness by Jose Saramago was fantastic. Cujo was okay. House of Leaves was unique and solid, but definitely not for everybody. I've read zero books published this year so there.

If only you'd read my book, it would be on your list :p


I offered to buy your book, you decided not to accept. If, you don't "read", then why post here? Apparently, you have nothing of value to contribute. Shape up and be constructive or move on, my friend.

[Tommy]

Read 40 books and 10 were from 2015:

10. Figures of Fear - Graham Masterton
9. Make Something Up:Stories You Can't Unread - Chuck Palahniuk
8. Armada - Ernest Cline
7. The Bazaar of Bad Dreams - Stephen King
6. The Unnoticeables - Robert Brockway
5. Finders Keepers - Stephen King
4. Gold Help the Child - Toni Morrison
3. Jack of Spades - Joyce Carol Oates
2. The Scarlet Gospels - Clive Barker
1. Career of Evil - Robert Galbraith

[WeDealInLead]

if only books first published in 2015 count i am not going to make 10 , sorry
my backlog is so long i hardly caught up with 2012

Post whatever list you'd like. I ASSumed more people would participate and managed to make myself feel like an ass.

I have an unhealthy backlog but I still manage to find time for new books. I love new books for the same reasons I prefer watching new movies at the theatres over waiting for the DVD.

[Mattrick]

I just don't have the money to read new books. Gotta buy them used.

[Mattrick]

I read less than ten books :/

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller was the best. Haven't finished Anna Karenina yet but.I'm enjoying it. Blindness by Jose Saramago was fantastic. Cujo was okay. House of Leaves was unique and solid, but definitely not for everybody. I've read zero books published this year so there.

If only you'd read my book, it would be on your list :p
I offered to buy your book, you decided not to accept. If, you don't "read", then why post here? Apparently, you have nothing of value to contribute. Shape up and be constructive or move on, my friend.

Is there a reason why you didn't call out Fernandito for the same thing? Your post added nothing of value, either. In fact, you didn't even talk about anything you've read our inferred you read anything in your post. At least my post was about the books I've read in 2015, excluding a couple rereads, audiobooks and The Walking Dead comics. And there was nothing constructive about your post. Your post was just antagonistic. Practice what you preach.

[becca69]

I only read 15 books from 2015. These are my top 10:

1. Golden Son - Pierce Brown
2. Finders Keepers - Stephen King
3. Brother - Ania Ahlborn
4. Mort(e) - Robert Repino
5. Wylding Hall - Elizabeth Hand
6. The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
7. Secondhand Souls - Christopher Moore
8. Welcome to Night Vale - Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor
9. Burned - Karen Marie Moning
10. Bazaar of Bad Dreams - Stephen King (I had read many of the stories before or it would be higher on the list.)

[Tommy]

I only read 15 books from 2015. These are my top 10:

1. Golden Son - Pierce Brown
2. Finders Keepers - Stephen King
3. Brother - Ania Ahlborn
4. Mort(e) - Robert Repino
5. Wylding Hall - Elizabeth Hand
6. The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
7. Secondhand Souls - Christopher Moore
8. Welcome to Night Vale - Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor
9. Burned - Karen Marie Moning
10. Bazaar of Bad Dreams - Stephen King (I had read many of the stories before or it would be higher on the list.)


Very Nice list! I just realized The Girl on the Train came out in 2015. I have to redo my top ten list now :panic:

[Tommy]

Read 40 books and 10 were from 2015:

10. Figures of Fear - Graham Masterton
9. Make Something Up:Stories You Can't Unread - Chuck Palahniuk
8. Armada - Ernest Cline
7. The Bazaar of Bad Dreams - Stephen King
6. The Unnoticeables - Robert Brockway
5. Finders Keepers - Stephen King
4. Gold Help the Child - Toni Morrison
3. Jack of Spades - Joyce Carol Oates
2. The Scarlet Gospels - Clive Barker
1. Career of Evil - Robert Galbraith

New and improved Top Ten list from 2015:


10. Make Something Up:Stories You Can't Unread - Chuck Palahniuk
9. Armada - Ernest Cline
8. The Bazaar of Bad Dreams - Stephen King
7. The Unnoticeables - Robert Brockway
6. Finders Keepers - Stephen King
5. Gold Help the Child - Toni Morrison
4. Jack of Spades - Joyce Carol Oates
3. The Scarlet Gospels - Clive Barker
2. Career of Evil - Robert Galbraith
1. The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins

[Lurker]

Hmm. I think I read 11 books from 2015, but one of them was published in UK I guess in 2014, but US in 2015. Since it's sooo different I'll kinda skirt and go for 10 1/2.

1. Seveneves - Neal Stephenson
2. The Death Head Chess Club - John Donaghue
3. The Killing of Bobbi Lomax - Cal Moriarty
4. The Grace of Kings - Ken Liu
5. The Dark Forest - Cixin Liu
6. The Meursault Investigation - Kamel Daoud
7. Days of Rage - Bryan Burrough
8. The Explorer's Guild - Jon Baird and Kevin Costner
9. As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust - Alan Bradley
10. The Great Zoo of China - Matthew Reilly

and the most interesting - about surviving England right after William wins in 1066 - written in a sort of Old English: The Wake - Paul Kingsnorth.

[Heather19]

I've only read 6 books that were released this past year and out of them the only one to make my list is A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay.