2015 Reading List and Favorite Reads

aTime again to share my reading log. This year I read 159 books. My goal each year is 150. Most of the books are Kindle editions, some are from Audible. I finally signed up for e-books from the local library, which helps me stay within my book budget.

My favorite category is once again outdoor, nature, and adventure non-fiction. Below is my list of favorite books for the year!

Best Book in All Categories

  • Winter World, Bernd Heinrich

Fiction   

  • Moby Dick, Herman Melville

Non-Fiction    Nature, Outdoors  

  • Winter World, Bernd Heinrich
  • Runner up-Arctic Dreams, Gary Lopez

 Non-Fiction    Essays/Story Collections  

  • Essays After Eighty, Donald Hall

Non-Fiction, Culture 

  • Finding Home: How Americans Prevail, Sally Ooms

Non-Fiction, Other Memoir 

  • A Broken Halleluja: Rock-n-Roll, Redemption and the Life of Leonard Cohen, Leibovitz

 History  

  • The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelts Darkest Journey, Candice Millard  (Audible)

Travel  3

  • Off the Map: 25 Adventures to Inspire Your Next Adventure, Fagan

Birds and  Field Guides  14

  • The Silbey Guide to Birds       (print)

Environment  2

  • The Wilderness Within: Remembering David Brower

Writing Skills 

  • Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy, Moore, Dinty

Spiritual Growth, Devotionals  

  • The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere, Pico Iyer

Professional Minister Reading  

  • Metaphors in Mind: Transformation Through Symbolic Modeling, Lawley, Thompkins

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