What's your highest rated of 2015? Looking forward to in 2016?

[Christopher]

Looking back, what books (any genre) did you rate the highest in 2015? Are there books you are really looking forward to picking up this year? Have a stack of to-be-read ready to go? Who has a reading goal and what's the plan? Let's discuss!


Some of my five star rated favorite reads this past year:
-Act of God by Jill Ciment
-The City & the City by China Miéville (Would be a great pick for this group!)
-Locke & Key by Joe Hill
-The Room by Jonas Karlsson
-The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North

This year I want to read several long books that I've always put aside because when you have a 60-80 book goal like I do every year you tend to balk at 500+ pages. I'm not going to worry so much about numbers this year and read all the long books I've been avoiding, interspersed with short reads like Cat's Cradle!
Let me know what you guys think of China Mieville. I think his books could fit in well here.

My TBR (to-be-read):
-Doomsday Book (and the whole Oxford Time Travel Series) by Connie Willis
-A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
-Anathem by Neal Stephenson
-This Census-Taker by China Miéville
-Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories by China Miéville
-The Dumb House by John Burnside
-The Three-Body Problem (whole series) by Liu Cixin
-Red Rising (whole series) by Pierce Brown
-Ancillary Justice (whole series) by Ann Leckie

I've also been avoiding series!

[Jane]

I have a TBR list that I will NEVER get through - and I keep adding to it! I read a lot of dystopian/post-apocalyptic fiction, but I also get on non-fiction kicks. Last January it was disasters - The Great Hurricane: 1938, The Johnstown Flood. The past month I've been on a Scientology kick - started with Leah Remini's book Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology; currently reading Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief. I have a few more I am reading with my daughter.

Last year's favorites - good question. I guess the one I looked forward to the most, as I was part of the Kickstarter campaign, was Prep for Doom. i really liked it - hard to believe it was written by 20 different authors. Some other favorites:
-The MaddAddam Trilogy: Oryx and Crake; The Year of the Flood; MaddAddam
-The Dog Stars
-Swan Song
-The Ocean at the End of the Lane

I DO like trilogies - YA books are almost always trilogies. I enjoyed in 2015:
-The Selection quartet
-The 5th Wave
-Article 5

Stand alone YA I enjoyed: Station Eleven.

I enjoyed reading a lot of our groups' classic reads, even if some of them were tough and not really my cup of tea (Philip K. Dick, I'm talking about you). I have watched a couple of episodes of Amazon's The Man in The High Castle, and I plan to finish the series early this year. VERY different from the book.

For 2016, I will look forward to challenging myself with reading some of our club choices. I am also re-reading The Stand over the next few months for another Goodreads club.

On my list to finish or read this year:
-finish The Return of Little Big Man and get it off my Kindle Unlimited list!
-The Stand
-re-read The Road to High Saffron
-re-read more Vonnegut
- read Margaret Atwood's latest when it goes down in price or I can get it from the library
- and just be open to new books that catch my fancy

Hope everyone has a happy new year, and an exciting TBR list!

[Christopher]

When you said you were reading scientology stuff I thought you might be becoming a scientologist! Phew! BTW I LOVED Going Clear. There's not a lot of nonfic that compels me to pick it up.

[Jane]

Sandhouse wrote: "When you said you were reading scientology stuff I thought you might be becoming a scientologist! Phew! BTW I LOVED Going Clear. There's not a lot of nonfic that compels me to pick it up."

OMG!!! NO!!! LOL. NOT becoming Scientologist - I'm still sane. That book is very chilling, and I'm almost done and have really enjoyed reading it - even though I want to slap certain people in the book!