This is always a good time to review what I rated wrong, however. I'd push Wytches (a graphic novel) down. In retrospect, I didn't really enjoy it. Ditto for Afterworlds and Mort(e), although I enjoyed Mort(e) as something different. I'd add that the Corum books aren't really a 9 by any sort of unbiased standard - I just really like them personally and they take me back to my youth when I'd ride my bike to the flea market to buy 10 books for a dollar, or to the library in Monticello to load up.
I had a lot of 1's, which really hauled down the average because I read some exceptional books this year. Sixth Extinction, City of Sin, Chicks Dig Gaming, Smekday, You're Never Weird on the Internet, Sex on Earth, Last of the Doughboys, What If, and at least two tech-related books. There's a pattern there - I'm having much more luck with non-fiction than with fiction. Revival by Stephen King and Smekday being exceptions. I picked up Smekday at Uncle Hugo's because I needed something to read in case I had to wait for Kyle before our tour of the Sears Building Neighborhood after I biked up there. I had no ideas it was a movie (Home) and Eryn and I later watched the movie. The book is a thousand times better than the movie. Revival might not be everyone's cup of tea (the average on Amazon is a 4 out of 5) and the fact that many Stephen King fans hate it (per the reviews) is probably why I like it - I'm a sucker for a good Cthulhu story. I won't argue that it could have been a short story instead of a big book, but if you're reading King you're generally accepting that a lot of pages come with the story.
Here's the list from 2014 and I'll note that Mira Grant's Parasite STILL makes me angry. It was on a "things you should read in 2015" list I was using to create a 2016 Amazon wishlist and gave me flashbacks.
Btw, if Justinian gets out here and wonders where Iron Heel is, I had 10 pages left (seriously), so it goes on the front of the 2016 list.
| 12/21/2015 | Lucky Peach (Issue 17, Winter 2015) | 7.00 | |
| 12/20/2015 | Sixth Extinction, The: An Unnatural History | Kolbert, Elizabeth | 9.00 |
| 12/13/2015 | Armada | Cline, Ernest | 1.00 |
| 12/5/2015 | Michael Moorcock's Elric Vol. 2: Stormbringer | Julien Blondel (Moorcock, Michael) | 1.00 |
| 12/3/2015 | Michael Moorcock's Elric Vol. 1: The Ruby Throne | Julien Blondel (Moorcock, Michael) | 1.00 |
| 12/1/2015 | Number of the Beast, The | Heinlein, Robert A. | 8.00 |
| 11/22/2015 | Secondhand Souls (sequal to A Dirty Job) | Moore, Christopher | 5.00 |
| 11/18/2015 | Oak and the Ram, The (Corum 5) | Moorcock, Michael | 8.50 |
| 11/16/2015 | Bull and the Spear, The (Corum 4) | Moorcock, Michael | 8.50 |
| 11/15/2015 | New 52, The: Futures End (Volume 3) | Azzarell, Brian | 1.00 |
| 11/10/2015 | New 52, The: Futures End (Volume 2) | Azzarello, Brian | 4.00 |
| 11/5/2015 | Building Microservices | Newman, Sam | 9.00 |
| 11/5/2015 | Little Printf, The (Why Do We Code?) | Hebert, Fred | 7.50 |
| 11/3/2015 | Nemesis Games (The Expanse, book 5) | Corey, James S.A. | 8.00 |
| 11/1/2015 | Critical Failures (Caverns and Creatures Book 1) | Bevan, Robert | 3.00 |
| 11/1/2015 | Justice League Dark: Volume I | Milligan, Peter and Mikel Janin | 1.00 |
| 10/31/2015 | Dragon in the Sword, The (Eternal Champion 3) | Moorcock, Michael | 7.00 |
| 10/31/2015 | Agile Metrics in Action | Davis, Christopher W. H. | 8.00 |
| 10/28/2015 | Lucky Peach (Issue 16, Fall 2015) | 6.50 | |
| 10/27/2015 | Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse (collection) | Adams, John Joseph (editor) | 8.00 |
| 10/26/2015 | King of the Swords, The (Corum 3) | Moorcock, Michael | 9.00 |
| 10/24/2015 | Queen of the Swords, The (Corum 2) | Moorcock, Michael | 9.00 |
| 10/22/2015 | Knight of the Swords, The (Corum 1) | Moorcock, Michael | 9.00 |
| 10/5/2015 | Phoenix in Obsidian: Being the Second Book of the Eternal Champion | Moorcock, Michael | 8.75 |
| 10/3/2015 | New 52, The: Futures End (Volume 1) | Azzarello, Brian | 7.00 |
| 10/3/2015 | Eternal Champion, The: A Fantastic Romance (1) | Moorcock, Michael | 8.75 |
| 10/1/2015 | Deadpool by Daniel Way: The Complete Collection - Volume 3 | Way, Daniel | 7.50 |
| 10/1/2015 | Wytches: Volume 1 | Snyder, Scott | 7.00 |
| 9/15/2015 | True Meaning of Smekday, The | Rex, Adam | 9.00 |
| 9/1/2015 | You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) | Day, Felicia | 9.00 |
| 7/13/2015 | City of Sin: London and Its Vices | Arnold, Catharine | 9.50 |
| 6/25/2015 | Afterworlds | Westerfeld, Scott | 7.50 |
| 6/1/2015 | Chicks Dig Gaming: A Celebration of All Things Gaming by the Women Who Love It | Valentte, Catherynne (editor) | 10.00 |
| 5/28/2015 | Spirit Rising: My Life, My Music | Kidjo, Angelique | 7.50 |
| 5/15/2015 | Thief of Always | Barker, Clive | 7.00 |
| 5/1/2015 | Confederated Justice | Scott, Jim D | 7.50 |
| 4/20/2015 | Deadpool by Daniel Way: The Complete Collection - Volume 2 | Way, Daniel | 8.00 |
| 4/15/2015 | Sex on Earth: A Journey Through Nature's Most Intimate Moments | Howard, Jules | 10.00 |
| 4/10/2015 | Holy Cow | Duchovny, David | 7.00 |
| 4/1/2015 | Deadpool by Daniel Way: The Complete Collection - Volume 1 | Way, Daniel | 7.50 |
| 3/22/2015 | PragPub: The Second Iteration (Issue #69, March 2015) | Various | 8.00 |
| 3/22/2015 | PragPub: The Second Iteration (Issue #66, December 2014) | Various | 7.50 |
| 3/22/2015 | Revival | King, Stephen | 9.00 |
| 3/18/2015 | Mort(e) | Repino, Robert | 8.50 |
| 3/15/2015 | 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works--A True Story | Harris, Dan | 8.25 |
| 3/14/2015 | Zeus is Dead: A Monstrously Inconvenient Adventure | Munz, Michael G | 7.50 |
| 3/2/2015 | Fortunately, the Milk | Gaiman, Neil | 9.00 |
| 2/20/2015 | The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War | Rubin, Richard | 10.00 |
| 2/3/2015 | Koko Takes a Holiday | Shea, Kieran | 7.50 |
| 1/25/2015 | PragPub: The Second Iteration (Issue #64, October 2014) | Various | 7.50 |
| 1/25/2015 | American Born Chinese | Yang, Gene Luen | 9.00 |
| 1/25/2015 | Rat Queens: Volume One: Sass and Sorcery | Wiebe, Kurtis J. and Roc Upchurch | 8.00 |
| 1/18/2015 | PragPub: The Second Iteration (Issue #65, November 2014) | Various | 7.50 |
| 1/16/2015 | Your Emails Are Bad and You Should Feel Bad | Cards Against Humanity | 7.50 |
| 1/15/2015 | War of the Words, The (Adventure Classics) | Wells, H.G. | 8.00 |
| 1/15/2015 | Acceptance: the Southern Reach Trilogy Book 3 | Vandermeer, Jeff | 7.25 |
| 1/14/2015 | Your Code As a Crime Scene: Use Forensic Techniques to Arrest Defects, Bottlenecks, and Bad Design in Your Programs | Tornhill, Adam | 9.00 |
| 1/3/2015 | what if? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (by the creator of xkcd) | Munroe, Randall | 10.00 |
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