What I read in 2015

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Here's are the books I read in 2015 and the rating out of 10 I assigned each (r stands for a reread).



Unsettled Dust – Robert Aickman 9 r
Cold Hand in Mine – Robert Aickman 9 r
Creatures of the Pool – Ramsey Campbell 9 r
Joyland – Stephen King 8
Dr Sleep – Stephen King 7
Something Wicked this Way Comes – Ray Bradbury 7 r
Talking It Over – Julian Barnes 10 r
Love Etc – Julian Barnes 10 r

Money – Martin Amis 10 r
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy 8
Summer of Night – Dan Simmons 7 r

Slam – Nick Hornby 8
1984 – George Orwell 10
Nothing to be Afraid of – Julian Barnes 7
Mythago Wood – Robert Holdstock 7
The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson 9 r
Farenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury 7 r
The Unlimited Dream Company – J G Ballard 7
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway 8
The Minotaur – Barbara Vine 8
The Establishment – Owen Jones 9
A Week in December – Sebastian Faulks 10
American Pastoral – Philip Roth 10
Stoner – John Williams 8
I Am Legend – Richard Matheson 7 r
White Noise – Don DeLillo 8
Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd 6
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison 8
Incarnate – Ramsey Campbell 10 r
The Face That Must Die – Ramsey Campbell 8 r
Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis 10 r
Midnight Sun – Ramsey Campbell 9 r
Ghosts Know – Ramsey Campbell 8 r
The Ministry of Fear – Graham Greene 7
The Terror and other novellas – Arthur Machen 9 r
The Darkest Part of the Woods – Ramsey Campbell 9 r
Veronica Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho 7
The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson 9 r
My Work is Not Yet Done – Thomas Ligotti 9
Selected novellas – David Case 6
Childhood’s End – Arthur C Clarke 9
House of Small Shadows – Adam Nevill 9
Half a Life – V S Naipaul 7

The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 10
Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami 8
The Secret History – Donna Tartt 7
Rabbit, Run – John Updike 8
High Rise – J G Ballard 7
The Accidental Tourist – Anne Tyler 7
The Plot Against America – Philip Roth 9
The Human Stain – Philip Roth 10
The Ghost Writer – Philip Roth 8
An American Dream – Norman Mailer 6
The Ascent of Money – Niall Ferguson 6
Porterhouse Blue – Tom Sharpe 8
Shrine – James Herbert 7
The Great Pursuit – Tom Sharpe 7
I Married a Communist – Philip Roth 10
Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami 8
Engleby – Sebastian Faulks 9
The Bookshop – Penelope Fitzgerald 6
Boy Meets Girl – Ali Smith 8
Behind the Scenes at the Museum – Kate Atkinson 7
Time and Time Again – Ben Elton 8
World Gone By – Dennis Lehane 7
Seize the Day – Saul Bellow 8 r

A Burnt Out Case – Graham Greene 9
Changing Places – David Lodge 7 r
The Counterlife – Philip Roth 10
Beloved – Toni Morrison 8

An Experiment in Love – Hilary Mantel 8
Nemesis – Philip Roth 8
The Plague – Albert Camus 10
Animal Farm – George Orwell 10 r
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 8
The Humbling – Philip Roth 8
Exit Ghost – Philip Roth 9
Finders Keepers – Stephen King 7
Lost Girl – Adam Nevill 8
The Hungry Moon –Ramsey Campbell 8 r
Silent Children – Ramsey Campbell 8 r
The Wine-Dark Sea – Robert Aickman 8 r
Scoop – Evelyn Waugh 7
Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth 9 r
The Tenants – Bernard Malamud 9
Everyman – Philip Roth 8

Tortilla Flat – John Steinbeck 7
13 Days by Sunset Beach—Ramsey Campbell 10
Spectral Book of Horror Stories 2 – ed. Mark Morris 8
Albion Fay – Mark Morris 9
Mammoth Book of Short Horror Novels – various 8
A Head Full of Ghosts – Paul Tremblay 9
Skein and Bone – V H Leslie 9

Aickman’s Heirs – ed. Simon Strantzas 8
The Nameless Dark – Ted Grau 7
The Moon Will Look Strange – Lynda Rucker 8
The Needing – Thana Niveau 10
The End – Gary McMahon 8
My Name is Mary Sutherland – Kate Farrell 9

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