Best Reads of 2015

My favorite (new) reads of 2015 are as follows, in no particular order. I didn’t read that much this year – I didn’t have time. But it was still hard to whittle it down to a manageable least. I read a lot of AMAZING books this year. I usually pick just five, but it is so hard. I read a total of 49 books this year.

Two are non-fiction, which is higher than usual, as I don’t read a lot of non-fiction. And one is a classic. So the following is the top ten list:

1. Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie
2. Fairs’ Point by  Melissa Scott
3. Undercity by Catherine Asaro
4. The Emperor’s Blades by Brian Staveley
5. Stories of the Raksura, Vol 2, by Martha Wells
6. Uprooted by Naomi Novik
7. Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat, by Bee Wilson
8. Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages by Guy Deutscher
9. The Color Purple by  Alice Walker
10. Skyborn by David Dalgish

I have whittled it down to top 5. Like so:

1) Skyborn by David Dalgish    

Skyborn was pretty amazing. People fly and have powers and living on floating islands. There are rules for making war and the description of training of a soldier is very good. Almost the whole story, in fact. Floating all around all the personal angst/difficulty of that are hints of an explosive political situation. I loved it.

2) The Emperor’s Blades by Brian Staveley 

I thought this book was going to a typical grimdark and violent and bloody, with lots of people dying and betrayal. And it is all that. I am not a fan of grimdark, but this one is really good.

3) Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie

I was of two minds of putting this in the top 5. It didn’t blow me away like the first one, but it was still good. If I wasn’t comparing it to the first, it wouldn’t have come up wanting and I wouldn’t have thought twice about putting it here. So here it is.

4) Stories of the Raksura, Vol 2, by Martha Wells

Vol 2 wasn’t as good as Vol 1, but still great and still worth many rereads. It is a collection of stories and it explores the world in more depth.

5) Uprooted by Naomi Novik

This was amazing. It is a like a gritty fairy tale and I would love to see a movie made out of this. I think Disney would do good with this one.

 

Best books of 2014: https://storytreasury.wordpress.com/2014/12/29/best-books-of-2014/

Best books of 2013: https://storytreasury.wordpress.com/2013/12/28/best-reads-of-2013/

Best books of 2012: https://storytreasury.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/best-reads-of-2012/

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