Well, another year is just about up. I’m not anticipating getting anything else done by January 1st, so here’s what I read this year. Always a little nerve-wracking, since I know so many people who read so much more, but I also know that it’s not really helpful to think of it like that. Your challenges are your own, and all that jazz.

If you’re wondering: the comics are italicized, and the very, very few non-fiction books are bolded.

1. Little, Big – John Crowley
2. Ms. Marvel: No Normal – G. Willow Wilson
3. We Are All Completely Fine – Daryl Gregory
4. Curtsies & Conspiracies – Gail Carriger
5. Me, Myself, and Why: Searching for the Science of Self – Jennifer Ouelette
6. Injustice: Gods Among Us, Vol. 2 – Tom Taylor
7. Ancillary Justice – Ann Leckie
8. Whispers Under Ground – Ben Aaronovitch
9. Saga, Volume 4 – Brian K. Vaughn
10. Gotham Central – Ed Brubaker & Greg Rucka
11. Waistcoats & Weaponry – Gail Carriger
12. Dream Houses – Genevieve Valentine
13. His Majesty’s Dragon – Naomi Novik
14. Doomsday Book – Connie Willis
15. Harrison Squared – Daryl Gregory
16. Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft – Joe Hill
17. Locke & Key: Head Games – Joe Hill
18. Karen Memory – Elizabeth Bear
19. Locke & Key: Crown of Shadows – Joe Hill
20. Locke & Key: Keys to the Kingdom – Joe Hill
21. Emma – Jane Austen
22. Locke & Key: Clockworks – Joe Hill
23. Locke & Key: Alpha & Omega – Joe Hill
24. The Darkest Part of the Forest – Holly Black
25. Three Parts Dead – Max Gladstone
26. The Martian – Andy Weir
27. Murder is Bad Manners – Robin Stevens
28. Rat Queens, Vol. 1: Sass and Sorcery – Kurtis J. Wiebe
29. Powers, Vol. 1: Who Killed Retro Girl – Brian Michael Bendis
30. The Dragons of Heaven – Alyc Helms
31. Ancillary Sword – Ann Leckie
32. Girl Waits With Gun – Amy Stewart
33. Gotham Academy, Vol. 1 – Welcome to Gotham Academy – Becky Cloonan, Brendan Fletcher
34. Batgirl, Vol. 1: Batgirl of Burnside – Cameron Stewart
35. Uprooted – Naomi Novik
36. Alias, AKA Jessica Jones – Brian Michael Bendis
37. The Calculus Diaries – Jennifer Ouelette
38. Ms. Marvel: Generation Why? – G. Willow Wilson
39. The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two – Catherynne Valente
40. Shadowshaper – Daniel José Older
41. Broken Monsters – Lauren Beukes
42. Enchanted – Alethea Kontis
43. The Suffering – Rin Chupeco
44. Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear – Jan Bondeson
45. Hack/Slash Omnibus: Volume 1 – Tim Seeley
46. The Bloody Chamber – Angela Carter
47. Saga, Volume 5 – Brian K. Vaughan
48. Vengeance Road – Erin Bowman
49. Ancillary Mercy – Ann Leckie
50. Lumberjanes, Vol 1: Beware The Kitten Holy – Noelle Stevenson & Grace Ellis
51. Archivist Wasp – Nicole Kornher-Stace
52. Signal to Noise – Silvia Moreno Garcia
53. Injustice – Gods Among Us: Year 2, Volume 1 – Tom Taylor
54. The Clockwork Dagger – Beth Cato
55. Rat Queens, Vol. 2: The Far-Reaching Tentacles of N’rygoth – Kurtis J. Wiebe
56. Hawkeye: Rio Bravo – Matt Fraction
57. Vicious – V.E. Schwab
58. Batman: Dark Victory – Jeph Loeb
59. Batman & Robin: Batman Reborn – Grant Morrison
60. The Singular & Extraordinary Tale of Mirror & Goliath – Ishbelle Bee
61. Six-Gun Snow White – Catherynne Valente

I’ll save the big conclusions for tomorrow, when I post my 2015 Book Superlatives, but a few things I noticed:

I read a lot more YA than I usually do and liked so much of it. In fact, most of my favorite books this year were YA. I definitely plan to read a lot more next year, too, especially since my interest in writing YA has seriously skyrocketed in the last year, year-and-a-half.

I also read a lot more comic books and graphic novels this year than I have in the past. I plan to keep that going too. (Though I’m less likely to try writing them myself. Right now, writing comics is one of those things that falls under the “Super Neat Idea, But I Don’t Want It Enough Right Now to Work For It.”)

I totally gave up on my academic reading challenge, especially after the total fail experience that was trying to read Gulliver’s Travels. (You’ll notice it’s not on the list above. That’s because I struggled mightily through it, only to discover I’d somehow managed to download a seriously abridged and edited version of the story, like I only apparently read half of the book. I never went back because seriously. He goes on TWO MORE VOYAGES?! Does this asshole not learn anything?) And next year I’m planning to take a break from the academic reading challenge entirely, to focus on other genres I’d rather be reading instead.

Most Common Type of Fantasy Book: Fairy Tales, including retellings, original stories, or simply playing with fairy tale tropes.

Number of Fairy Tale Books: 5 (Uprooted, The Darkest Part in the Forest, Enchanted, The Singular & Extraordinary Tale of Mirror & Goliath, Six-Gun Snow White)

I remain a contrary bastard. A couple of the books which seem to be making everybody’s Best of 2015 lists almost certainly aren’t making it on mine.

Here’s one superlative for free: Favorite New Author: Daryl Gregory. (By new, I clearly mean “new to me.” Honorable Mentions go to Max Gladstone, Ann Leckie, Naomi Novik, Rin Chupeco.)

This was a pretty great reading year. Picking my favorite book is going to suck.