Since some of you were asking, I wanted to share my 2015...

Since some of you were asking, I wanted to share my 2015 Goodreads challenge with you!

I read 50 books this year, and you can see all of them here.

Here are my top 10 favorites out of the 50, in no particular order:

Wild, Cheryl StrayedPretty Baby, Mary KubicaThe Good Girl, Mary Kubica
Slade House, David MitchellWe Have Always Lived In The Castle, Shirley JacksonLuckiest Girl Alive, Jessica KnollGirl In A Band, Kim GordonDark Places, Gillian FlynnSharp Objects, Gillian FlynnThe Untethered Soul, Michael A. Singer

Of course I also read a bunch of Russian lit this year (Nabokov, Dostoevsky and Bulgakov, my three favorites), and out of all of those, these were my favorites:

The Eye, Vladimir NabokovThe Double, Fyodor DostoevskyHeart of a Dog, Mikhail Bulgakov

I like looking back at the books I read for the year because you can see certain themes emerge. Mine seemed to be: descending into dark chaos and finding your way out, independent women slaying their journeys, and magical surrealism. Solid.

Of course the highlight for me this year in terms of books was publishing my first novel, Meditations In Wonderland. A journey all in its own. (The Kindle version is on sale right now for $1.99 just for another few days!)

That’s likely why I stepped away from non-fiction, spiritual and self-help this year. Fiction was a welcome break from the work that went into revising and editing, and I was still finding some inspiration for it in the beginning of the year and trying to study the trends I was seeing in popular literary fiction.

I’m looking forward to more favorites to come in 2016 - inbox or chat me with your upcoming reads!

Happy page-turning,

Anna