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2015 Reading Challenge

73/200 books read

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Number of pages read in 2015

42132 pages read

2015 Challenge Books

138.
No More Sleepless Nights - Peter Hauri, Shirley Linde
No More Sleepless Nights
Read: 30 December 2015
137.
Facing Climate Change: An Integrated Pat... Facing Climate Change: An Integrated Path to the Future - J T Kiehl
Facing Climate Change: An Integrated Path to the Future
Read: 30 December 2015
Review
136.
Yes Please - Amy Poehler
Yes Please
Read: 29 December 2015
Review
135.
The Job - Janet Evanovich, Lee Goldberg
The Job
Read: 29 December 2015
134.
What Is Fat For?: Re-Thinking Obesity Science - Ignatius Brady
What Is Fat For?: Re-Thinking Obesity Science
Read: 27 December 2015
Review
133.
Why We Write About Ourselves: Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature - Meredith Maran
Why We Write About Ourselves: Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature
Read: 26 December 2015
Review
132.
A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age: Scientific Habits of Mind - David J. Helfand
A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age: Scientific Habits of Mind
Read: 26 December 2015
Review
131.
Hunters in the Dark: A Novel - Lawrence Osborne
Hunters in the Dark: A Novel
Read: 24 December 2015
Review
130.
State of the Wild 2010-2011: A Global Portrait - Eva Fearn, Ward Woods
State of the Wild 2010-2011: A Global Portrait
Read: 16 December 2015
Review
129.
The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us - Alice Roberts
The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us
Read: 14 December 2015
Review
128.
Truth or Truthiness: Distinguishing Fact... Truth or Truthiness: Distinguishing Fact from Fiction by Learning to Think Like a Data Scientist - Howard Wainer
Truth or Truthiness: Distinguishing Fact from Fiction by Learning to Think Like a Data Scientist
Read: 12 December 2015
Review
127.
The Boiling River: Adventure and Discove... The Boiling River: Adventure and Discovery in the Amazon - Andrés Ruzo
The Boiling River: Adventure and Discovery in the Amazon
Read: 11 December 2015
Review
126.
A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding: A Novel - Jackie Copleton
A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding: A Novel
Read: 10 December 2015
Review
125.
The Public Professor: How to Use Your Re... The Public Professor: How to Use Your Research to Change the World - M V Badgett
The Public Professor: How to Use Your Research to Change the World
Read: 2 December 2015
Review
124.
The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World - Oliver Morton
The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World
Read: 29 November 2015
Review
123.
Black Dragon River: A Journey Down the Amur River at the Borderlands of Empires - Dominic Ziegler
Black Dragon River: A Journey Down the Amur River at the Borderlands of Empires
Read: 22 November 2015
Review
122.
Speaking in Bones: A Novel (Temperance Brennan) - Kathy Reichs
Speaking in Bones: A Novel (Temperance Brennan)
Read: 18 November 2015
Review
121.
Wherever There Is Light: A Novel - Peter Golden
Wherever There Is Light: A Novel
Read: 13 November 2015
Review
120.
The Telomerase Revolution: What the Late... The Telomerase Revolution: What the Latest Science Reveals About the Nature of Aging and the Potential for Dramatic Life Extension - Michael Fossel
The Telomerase Revolution: What the Latest Science Reveals About the Nature of Aging and the Potential for Dramatic Life Extension
Read: 12 November 2015
Review
119.
We Are All Stardust: Leading Scientists Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and the Mysteries of Our Existence - Stefan Klein, Ross Benjamin
We Are All Stardust: Leading Scientists Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and the Mysteries of Our Existence
Read: 23 October 2015
Review
118.
The Mare: A Novel - Mary Gaitskill
The Mare: A Novel
Read: 21 October 2015
Review
117.
Harness the Sun: America's Quest for a S... Harness the Sun: America's Quest for a Solar-Powered Future - Philip Warburg
Harness the Sun: America's Quest for a Solar-Powered Future
Read: 17 October 2015
116.
Nonsense: The Power of Not Knowing - Jamie Holmes
Nonsense: The Power of Not Knowing
Read: 13 October 2015
Review
115.
Dogtology: Live. Bark. Believe. - Jeff Lazarus
Dogtology: Live. Bark. Believe.
Read: 12 October 2015
Review
114.
The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue - Frederick Forsyth
The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue
Read: 12 October 2015
Review
113.
Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, T... Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It: Wisdom of the Great Philosophers on How to Live - Daniel Klein
Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It: Wisdom of the Great Philosophers on How to Live
Read: 11 October 2015
Review
112.
Moonstruck: How lunar cycles affect life... Moonstruck: How lunar cycles affect life - Ernest Naylor
Moonstruck: How lunar cycles affect life
Read: 11 October 2015
Review
111.
Work, Energy, and Power (Stick Figure Physics Tutorials) - Sarah Allen
Work, Energy, and Power (Stick Figure Physics Tutorials)
Read: 26 September 2015
110.
All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood - Jennifer Senior
All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
Read: 25 September 2015
109.
Bream Gives Me Hiccups - Jesse Eisenberg
Bream Gives Me Hiccups
Read: 23 September 2015
Review
108.
What We're Fighting for Now Is Each Othe... What We're Fighting for Now Is Each Other: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice - Wen Stephenson
What We're Fighting for Now Is Each Other: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice
Read: 21 September 2015
107.
Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help - Larissa MacFarquhar
Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help
Read: 20 September 2015
Review
106.
The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, an... The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age - David S. Abraham
The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age
Read: 18 September 2015
Review
105.
The Last Season: A Father, a Son, and a Lifetime of College Football - Stuart Stevens
The Last Season: A Father, a Son, and a Lifetime of College Football
Read: 6 September 2015
Review
104.
The Scam - Janet Evanovich, Lee Goldberg
The Scam
Read: 25 August 2015
Review
103.
The Hanging Girl: A Department Q Novel - Jussi Adler-Olsen
The Hanging Girl: A Department Q Novel
Read: 23 August 2015
Review
102.
Bioluminescence: Nature and Science at W... Bioluminescence: Nature and Science at Work - Marc Zimmer
Bioluminescence: Nature and Science at Work
Read: 23 August 2015
Review
101.
With Dogs at the Edge of Life - Colin Da... With Dogs at the Edge of Life - Colin Dayan
With Dogs at the Edge of Life
Read: 21 August 2015
Review
100.
The Courtesan: A Novel - Alexandra Curry
The Courtesan: A Novel
Read: 20 August 2015
Review
99.
Last Night in the OR: A Transplant Surge... Last Night in the OR: A Transplant Surgeon's Odyssey - Bud Shaw, Byers Shaw
Last Night in the OR: A Transplant Surgeon's Odyssey
Read: 18 August 2015
Review
98.
The Teaching Brain: An Evolutionary Trai... The Teaching Brain: An Evolutionary Trait at the Heart of Education - Vanessa Rodriguez, Michelle Fitzpatrick
The Teaching Brain: An Evolutionary Trait at the Heart of Education
Read: 15 August 2015
97.
Game Changers: Energy on the Move - Geor... Game Changers: Energy on the Move - George Pratt Shultz, Robert C. Armstrong
Game Changers: Energy on the Move
Read: 15 August 2015
Review
96.
Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for Soluti... Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis - Tim Flannery
Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis
Read: 14 August 2015
Review
95.
Failure: Why Science Is so Successful - ... Failure: Why Science Is so Successful - Stuart Firestein
Failure: Why Science Is so Successful
Read: 11 August 2015
Review
94.
Connecting the Drops: A Citizens' Guide ... Connecting the Drops: A Citizens' Guide to Protecting Water Resources - Karen Schneller-McDonald
Connecting the Drops: A Citizens' Guide to Protecting Water Resources
Read: 10 August 2015
Review
93.
Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air - David J.C. MacKay
Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air
Read: 7 August 2015
92.
Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex - Michael Hiltzik
Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex
Read: 4 August 2015
Review
91.
Bright Lines: A Novel - Tanwi Nandini Islam
Bright Lines: A Novel
Read: 26 July 2015
Review
90.
The Right Way to Lose a War: America in ... The Right Way to Lose a War: America in an Age of Unwinnable Conflicts - Dominic Tierney
The Right Way to Lose a War: America in an Age of Unwinnable Conflicts
Read: 26 July 2015
89.
Miss Emily: A Novel - Nuala O'Connor
Miss Emily: A Novel
Read: 25 July 2015
Review
88.
Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League - Dan-el Padilla Peralta
Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League
Read: 25 July 2015
Review
87.
Reading Science Stories - Joy Hakim Reading Science Stories - Joy Hakim
Reading Science Stories
Read: 24 July 2015
Review
86.
Voices of the Wild: Animal Songs, Human ... Voices of the Wild: Animal Songs, Human Din, and the Call to Save Natural Soundscapes - Bernie Krause
Voices of the Wild: Animal Songs, Human Din, and the Call to Save Natural Soundscapes
Read: 24 July 2015
Review
85.
Eureka: How Invention Happens - Gavin We... Eureka: How Invention Happens - Gavin Weightman
Eureka: How Invention Happens
Read: 23 July 2015
Review
84.
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life - William Finnegan
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
Read: 17 July 2015
Review
83.
Rising Strong - Brené Brown
Rising Strong
Read: 5 July 2015
Review
82.
A Master Plan for Rescue: A Novel - Janis Cooke Newman
A Master Plan for Rescue: A Novel
Read: 3 July 2015
Review
81.
You Can Date Boys When You're Forty: Dave Barry on Parenting and Other Topics He Knows Very Little About - Dave Barry
You Can Date Boys When You're Forty: Dave Barry on Parenting and Other Topics He Knows Very Little About
Read: 2 July 2015
Review
80.
Among the Ten Thousand Things: A Novel - Julia Pierpont
Among the Ten Thousand Things: A Novel
Read: 20 June 2015
Review
79.
Risky Business: The Economic Risks of Cl... Risky Business: The Economic Risks of Climate Change in the United States - Risky Business Project
Risky Business: The Economic Risks of Climate Change in the United States
Read: 20 June 2015
Review
78.
Water, Ice, And Stone: Science and Memory on the Antarctic Lakes - Bill Green
Water, Ice, And Stone: Science and Memory on the Antarctic Lakes
Read: 17 June 2015
Review
77.
The Star Side of Bird Hill: A Novel - Naomi Jackson Groves
The Star Side of Bird Hill: A Novel
Read: 1 June 2015
Review
76.
The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Toward a Greener Future - David R. Boyd
The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Toward a Greener Future
Read: 23 May 2015
Review
75.
Enchanted August: A Novel - Brenda Bowen
Enchanted August: A Novel
Read: 18 May 2015
Review
74.
The Enchanted April - Elizabeth von Arnim
The Enchanted April
Read: 17 May 2015
Review
73.
Physics in Biology and Medicine (Complementary Science) - Paul Davidovits
Physics in Biology and Medicine (Complementary Science)
Read: 16 May 2015
Review
72.
The Girl on the Train: A Novel - Paula Hawkins
The Girl on the Train: A Novel
Read: 16 May 2015
71.
The Last Bookaneer - Matthew Pearl
The Last Bookaneer
Read: 16 May 2015
Review
70.
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness - Sy Montgomery
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
Read: 16 May 2015
Review
69.
The House of Hawthorne - Erika Robuck
The House of Hawthorne
Read: 16 May 2015
Review
68.
Circling the Sun: A Novel - Paula McLain
Circling the Sun: A Novel
Read: 16 May 2015
Review
67.
We Don't Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy - Caseen Gaines
We Don't Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy
Read: 16 May 2015
Review
66.
Cyber Attack - Marty Gitlin, Margaret J. Goldstein
Cyber Attack
Read: 16 May 2015
Review
65.
Glaciers: The Politics of Ice - Jorge Da... Glaciers: The Politics of Ice - Jorge Daniel Taillant
Glaciers: The Politics of Ice
Read: 16 May 2015
Review
64.
Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab - Steve Inskeep
Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab
Read: 16 May 2015
Review
63.
Everything You Ever Wanted: A Memoir - Jillian Lauren
Everything You Ever Wanted: A Memoir
Read: 16 May 2015
Review
62.
How the Genome Lost Its Junk: Human DNA Reconsidered - John Parrington
How the Genome Lost Its Junk: Human DNA Reconsidered
Read: 4 April 2015
Review
61.
Planck: Driven by Vision, Broken by War - Brandon R. Brown
Planck: Driven by Vision, Broken by War
Read: 2 April 2015
Review
60.
The Buried Giant: A novel - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Buried Giant: A novel
Read: 30 March 2015
Review
59.
The Dream Lover: A Novel of George Sand - Elizabeth Berg
The Dream Lover: A Novel of George Sand
Read: 28 March 2015
Review
58.
A Little Life: A Novel - Hanya Yanagihara
A Little Life: A Novel
Read: 28 March 2015
Review
57.
H is for Hawk - Helen Macdonald
H is for Hawk
Read: 22 March 2015
56.
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating - Elisabeth Tova Bailey
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
Read: 20 March 2015
55.
Death and the Penguin - Andrey Kurkov
Death and the Penguin
Read: 14 March 2015
54.
The Art Forger - B.A. Shapiro
The Art Forger
Read: 14 March 2015
53.
The One That Got Away: A Novel - Bethany Chase
The One That Got Away: A Novel
Read: 14 March 2015
Review
52.
Euphoria - Lily King
Euphoria
Read: 13 March 2015
51.
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonasson
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
Read: 12 March 2015
50.
Traveler of the Century - Andrés Neuman, Nick Caistor, Lorenza Garcia
Traveler of the Century
Read: 10 March 2015
49.
Invisible Cities - William Weaver, Italo Calvino
Invisible Cities
Read: 8 March 2015
48.
Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It - Gary Taubes
Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It
Read: 8 March 2015
47.
Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral - Jessie Redmon Fauset
Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral
Read: 7 March 2015
46.
Bones of the Lost - Kathy Reichs
Bones of the Lost
Read: 7 March 2015
45.
The Life and Death of Sophie Stark - Anna North
The Life and Death of Sophie Stark
Read: 5 March 2015
Review
44.
The Goshawk - T.H. White, Marie Winn
The Goshawk
Read: 4 March 2015
Review
43.
The Secret History of Wonder Woman - Jill Lepore
The Secret History of Wonder Woman
Read: 4 March 2015
42.
Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science - Alice Domurat Dreger
Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science
Read: 2 March 2015
Review
41.
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
Wide Sargasso Sea
Read: 1 March 2015
40.
The Little Paris Bookshop: A Novel - Nina George, Simon Pare
The Little Paris Bookshop: A Novel
Read: 28 February 2015
Review
39.
Jerusalem - José Saramago, Anna Kushner, Gonçalo M. Tavares
Jerusalem
Read: 26 February 2015
38.
Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants - Jane Goodall, Gail Hudson
Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants
Read: 26 February 2015
37.
Malgudi Days - R.K. Narayan, Jhumpa Lahiri
Malgudi Days
Read: 25 February 2015
36.
The Shadow of the Crescent Moon: A Novel - Fatima Bhutto
The Shadow of the Crescent Moon: A Novel
Read: 22 February 2015
Review
35.
We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy - Yael Kohen
We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy
Read: 21 February 2015
Review
34.
The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow - Rita Leganski
The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow
Read: 21 February 2015
33.
La isla de los hombres solos - José León Sánchez
La isla de los hombres solos
Read: 19 February 2015
32.
Land of Love and Drowning: A Novel - Tiphanie Yanique
Land of Love and Drowning: A Novel
Read: 15 February 2015
31.
Boom, Bust, Exodus: The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities - Chad Broughton
Boom, Bust, Exodus: The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities
Read: 14 February 2015
30.
Brown Girl Dreaming - Jacqueline Woodson
Brown Girl Dreaming
Read: 13 February 2015
29.
Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality (Science Masters) - Jared Diamond
Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality (Science Masters)
Read: 12 February 2015
28.
Delirio - Laura Restrepo
Delirio
Read: 10 February 2015
27.
City of Rivals: Restoring the Glorious M... City of Rivals: Restoring the Glorious Mess of American Democracy - Jason Grumet, Bob Dole, Tom Daschle
City of Rivals: Restoring the Glorious Mess of American Democracy
Read: 7 February 2015
26.
Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) - Patrick Modiano, Mark Polizzotti
Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)
Read: 3 February 2015
25.
The Book of Unknown Americans: A Novel - Cristina Henriquez
The Book of Unknown Americans: A Novel
Read: 1 February 2015
24.
To Live - Yu Hua, Michael Berry
To Live
Read: 30 January 2015
23.
The Alphabet House - Jussi Adler-Olsen
The Alphabet House
Read: 25 January 2015
Review
22.
Vitamania: Our Obsessive Quest For Nutritional Perfection - Catherine Price
Vitamania: Our Obsessive Quest For Nutritional Perfection
Read: 24 January 2015
Review
21.
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas R. Hofstadter
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Read: 22 January 2015
20.
What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt
What I Loved
Read: 19 January 2015
19.
Amnesia: A novel - Peter Carey
Amnesia: A novel
Read: 19 January 2015
Review
18.
For the Love of Physics - Walter H.G. Lewin
For the Love of Physics
Read: 16 January 2015
17.
We Should All Be Feminists (A Vintage Short) - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We Should All Be Feminists (A Vintage Short)
Read: 15 January 2015
16.
The Knife - Ross Ritchell
The Knife
Read: 14 January 2015
Review
15.
The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance - Jim Al-Khalili
The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
Read: 11 January 2015
14.
My Sunshine Away A Novel - M.O. Walsh
My Sunshine Away A Novel
Read: 11 January 2015
Review
13.
Adama - Al-Hamad Turki Bray Robin
Adama
Read: 11 January 2015
Review
12.
How to be both - Ali Smith
How to be both
Read: 9 January 2015
11.
Chaos: The Making of a New Science - James Gleick
Chaos: The Making of a New Science
Read: 7 January 2015
10.
Fourth of July Creek - Smith Henderson
Fourth of July Creek
Read: 6 January 2015
9.
Complexity: A Guided Tour - Melanie Mitchell
Complexity: A Guided Tour
Read: 6 January 2015
8.
I Am Radar: A Novel - Reif Larsen
I Am Radar: A Novel
Read: 5 January 2015
Review
7.
White Egrets - Derek Walcott
White Egrets
Read: 4 January 2015
6.
Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It - Ian Leslie
Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
Read: 4 January 2015
Review
5.
The B Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song - Ben Yagoda
The B Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song
Read: 3 January 2015
Review
4.
The Last Good Paradise: A Novel - Tatjana Soli
The Last Good Paradise: A Novel
Read: 2 January 2015
Review
3.
The Small Claim of Bones - Cindy Williams Gutiérrez
The Small Claim of Bones
Read: 2 January 2015
Review
2.
Blood-Drenched Beard: A Novel - Daniel Galera
Blood-Drenched Beard: A Novel
Read: 1 January 2015
Review
1.
Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima - James Mahaffey
Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
Read: 1 January 2015

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