2015 saw me complete 53 books, down from 68 in 2014; in fact, this is my lowest total since 52 in 2010. Were my books last year longer overall, or did my interest slacken? Possibly both. But there can’t have been more than a couple of days that I didn’t pick up a book at all. My Wednesday column takes a broader look at my year.
Below, in chronological order, are the books I read.
- “Black Moon,” Kenneth Calhoun
- “Clans of the Alphane Moon,” Philip K. Dick
- “The Moon is Down,” John Steinbeck
- “The First Men in the Moon,” H.G. Wells
- The Glass Teat,” Harlan Ellison
- “Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant,” U.S. Grant
- “Vulcan’s Hammer,” Philip K. Dick
- “The Cosmic Puppets,” Philip K. Dick
- “Dr. Futurity,” Philip K. Dick
- “The Man Who Japed,” Philip K. Dick
- “Early Ontario,” Ontario Library Staff
- “More Baths Less Talking,” Nick Hornby
- “The Incredible Double,” Owen Hill
- “The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil,” George Saunders
- “The Dark Side of the Earth,” Alfred Bester
- “No Room for Man,” Gordon Dickson
- “Pulling a Train,” Harlan Ellison
- “Getting in the Wind,” Harlan Ellison
- “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely,” Claudia Rankine
- “Citizen,” Claudia Rankine
- “Three Early Stories,” J.D. Salinger
- “A Small Place,” Jamaica Kincaid
- “The Genocides,” Thomas Disch
- “Something Wicked This Way Comes,” Ray Bradbury
- “R is for Rocket,” Ray Bradbury
- “S is for Space,” Ray Bradbury
- “The Vintage Bradbury,” Ray Bradbury
- “My Ideal Bookshelf,” Thessaly La Force and Jane Mount
- “Martian Time-Slip,” Philip K. Dick
- “The Zap Gun” Philip K. Dick
- “Our Friends From Frolix 8,” Philip K. Dick
- “The Stars My Destination,” Alfred Bester
- “The Best of Fritz Leiber,” Fritz Leiber
- “The Other Glass Teat,” Harlan Ellison
- “The Point Man,” Steve Englehart
- “Again, Dangerous Visions, Vol. 1,” Harlan Ellison, ed.
- “Again, Dangerous Visions, Vol. 2,” Harlan Ellison, ed.
- “Still Room for Hope,” Alisa Kaplan
- “A Journey to the Center of the Earth,” Jules Verne
- “Why LA? Pourquoi Paris?” Diane Ratican
- “Deus Irae,” Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny
- “Valis,” Philip K. Dick
- “After 1903 — What?,” Robert Benchley
- “The Best of Philip K. Dick,” Philip K. Dick
- “The Big Orange,” Jack Smith
- “Wonder,” R.J. Palacio
- “A Pail of Air,” Fritz Leiber
- “The Halloween Tree,” Ray Bradbury
- “Tangled Vines,” Frances Dinkelspiel
- “Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Vol. 1,” H.P. Lovecraft and others
- “I Sing the Body Electric!” Ray Bradbury
- “Old Cucamonga,” Paula Emick
- “The Preserving Machine,” Philip K. Dick
How was your year in reading? I didn’t come close to getting to all the books I’d have liked, but I read what I wanted to read, including many books by favorite authors. And the Steinbeck (No. 3) was especially good.