[ I read a lot of fantastic books this year, especially in the realms of non-fiction (29 books), queer fiction (15 books – rather low for me), and just about anything featuring cats (19 books). I challenged myself with Guns, Germs, and Steel near the end of the year, and will be picking up Atlas Shrugged on January 1st. Then maybe I’ll just read comic books for the rest of the year… (joking!)]

1. The Outlaw Varjak Paw – S.F Said
2. Babylon’s Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo – Lawrence Anthony
3. Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia – Jean Sasson
4. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban – Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb
5. The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe – John E. Woods
6. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War – Karen Abbott
7. Ten Days in a Mad-House – Nellie Bly
8. The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story – Richard Preston
9. The Wicked and the Divine Vol. One: The Faust Act – Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie
10. Descent to the Goddess: A Way of Initiation for Women – Sylvia Brinton Perera
11. The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony – Will Tuttle
12. In the Wake of the Goddesses: Women, Culture, and the Biblical Transformation of Pagan Myth – Tikva Frymer-Kensky
13. Unit 731 Testimony – Hal Gold
14. Outsider in the White House – Bernie Sanders and John Nichols
15. Survivor – Chuck Palahniuk
16. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers – Mary Roach
17. Ashes and Snow – Gregory Colbert
18. The Wicked and the Divine Vol. Two: Fandemonium – Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie
19. My Sister’s Keeper – Jodie Picoult
20. In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom – Yeonmi Park
21. Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America – Jon Mooallem
22. Prisoner of Tehran: One Woman’s Story of Survival Inside an Iranian Prison – Marina Nemat
23. The Art of Forgetting: Rider – Joanne Hall
24. The Wicked and the Divine Vol. Three: Commercial Suicide – Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie
25. Geisha: A Life – Mineko Iwasaki
26. The Art of Forgetting: Nomad – Joanne Hall
27. The Wild Road – Gabriel King
28. Vestal – Ashley Schwellenbach
29. Nimona – Noelle Stevenson
30. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – JK Rowling
31. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – JK Rowling
32. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – JK Rowling
33. The Raven and the Reindeer – T. Kingfisher
34. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – JK Rowling
35. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – JK Rowling
36. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – JK Rowling
37. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – JK Rowling
38. You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost): A Memoir – Felicia Day
39. Sharp Ends: Stories from the World of the First Law – Joe Abercrombie
40. Catfantastic: Nine Lives and Fifteen Tales – ed. Andre Norton and Martin H. Greenberg
41. Beast of Never, Cat of God: The Search for the Eastern Puma – Bob Butz
42. The Golden Cat – Gabriel King
43. Shadow Cat: Encountering the American Mountain Lion – ed. Susan Ewing and Elizabeth Grossman
44. North of Hope: A Daughter’s Arctic Journey – Shannon Huffman Polson
45. Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart: Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess – Betty De Shong Meador and Judy Grahn
46. The Scourge of the Righteous Haddock – Ashley Schwellenbach
47. Swallow You Whole – Jasper Black
48. The Red Tent – Anita Diamant
49. Delphi Complete Works of Sappho – Sappho of Lesbos
50. The Sign of the Cat – Lynne Jonell
51. Suicide Watch – Kelley York
52. Sinful Cinderella (Dark Fairy Tale Queen Series Book 1) – Anita Valle
53. Part of the Pride: My Life Among the Big Cats of Africa – Kevin Richardson and Tony Park
54. Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper – JL Bryan
55. Tarot: Plain and Simple – Anthony Louis
56. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – JK Rowling
57. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books – Azar Nafisi
58. The Ghatti’s Tale, Book One: Finders-Seekers – Gayle Greeno
59. Heiresses of Russ 2015: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction – ed. Steve Berman and Jean Roberta
60. The Ghatti’s Tale, Book Two: Mindspeaker’s Call – Gayle Greeno
61. The Tygrine Cat – Inbali Iserles
62. The Ghatti’s Tale, Book Three: Exile’s Return – Gayle Greeno
63. The Wicked and the Divine Vol. Four: Rising Action – Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie
64. Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories – ed. D. Alexander Ward and Doug Murano
65. Egyptian Paganism for Beginners: Bring the Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt Into Daily Life – Jocelyn Almond
66. The Gayer-Anderson Cat (British Museum Objects in Focus) – Neal Spencer
67. Cat Born to the Purple: A Sequel to Yeshua’s Cat (Yeshua’s Cats Book 4) – C. L. Francisco
68. This Is How You Die: Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death – ed. Ryan North, et. al.
69. The Girls of No Return – Erin Saldin
70. BaneWreaker: Volume 1 of The Sundering – Jacqueline Carey
71. Godslayer: Volume 2 of The Sundering – Jacqueline Carey
72. The Island of the Blue Dolphins – Scott O’Dell
73. Moth – S.E. Diemer
74. Julie of the Wolves – Jean Craighead George
75. The Book of Lost Things – John Connolly
76. To Reign in Hell: A Novel – Steven Brust
77. The Call of the Wild – Jack London
78. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies – Jared Diamond
79. White Fang – Jack London
80. Three Dark Crowns – Kendare Blake