Books I read in 2015 (not including work, travel guides, piano lessons or TaiChi practice)

2015 books

1Q84, Hiruki Murakami (2009)

A Carlin Home Companion - Growing up with George Carlin, Kelly Carlin (2015)

Brainweb:  Douglas E Richards (2015)

Cry for a Nickel, Die for a Dime: Woody Haut (2014)

Deal - My three decades of Drumming, Dreams and Drugs with the Grateful Dead, Bill Kreutzmann (2015)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,  Hunter S. Thompson

No Simple Highway - a Cultural History of the Grateful Dead, Peter Richardson (2014

Predator: the secret origins of the drone revolution, Richard Whittle (2014)

Reckless - My Life as a Pretender, Chrissy Hynde (2015)

Refire Don't Retire, Blanchard + Shaevitz (2015)

Seveneves, Neal Stephenson (2015)

Skink - No Surrender, Carl Hiaasen (2014)

Special deluxe : [a memoir of life & cars] , Neil Young (2014)

The Caryatids, Bruce Sterling (2009)

The Musical Life: Reflections on what it is and how to live it., W.A. Mathieu (1994)

The Peripheral:, William Gibson (2015)

The Waterworks, E.L. Doctorow (1994)

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Hiruki Murakami (1997)

Tomorrow War, J.L Bourne, (2015)

Ultimate Tone:  Bringing my Story to Light  - Carlos Santana (2014)

Books I read in 2014 (not counting work)

2014 Book List:

The album : a guide to pop music's most provocative, influential, and important creations / James E. Perone, editor.

The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho 

The art of the map : an illustrated history of map elements and embellishments / Dennis Reinhartz.  

Be love now : the path of the heart / Ram Dass with Rameshwar Das.  

Cataloging the world : Paul Otlet and the birth of the information age / Alex Wright.  

Clemente : the true legacy of an undying hero / the Clemente Family.  

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Year of Pilgrimage: Haruki Murakami

Emerald city : stories / Jennifer Egan.  

Flash boys : a Wall Street revolt / Michael Lewis.  

God save The Kinks : a biography / Rob Jovanovic.  

Hammer of the gods : the Led Zeppelin saga / Stephen Davis.  

Herbie Hancock : possibilities / with Lisa Dickey.  

The hippest trip in America : Soul Train and the evolution of culture and style / Nelson George.  

Infographic guide to music / Graham Betts.  

The Invisible Circus / Jennifer Egan

The Keep / Jennifer Egan  

Look at Me / Jennifer Egan

MaddAddam : a novel / Margaret Atwood.  

The Martian / Andy Weir

Measuring the World/ Daniel Kehlmann, Vermessung der Welt. English  

One good turn / by Kate Atkinson.  

Polishing the mirror : how to live from your spiritual heart / Ram Dass, with Rameshwar Das ; conceived by Janaki Sandy Gaal.  

Robert Plant : a life / Paul Rees.  

Rose Gold : an Easy Rawlins mystery / Walter Mosley.  

Secrets of Silicon Valley : what everyone else can learn from the innovation capital of the world / Deborah Perry Piscione.  

Simple dreams : a musical memoir / Linda Ronstadt.  

Sting of the drone / Richard A. Clarke.  

Stonemouth / Iain Banks.  

This town : two parties and a funeral--plus, plenty of valet parking!--in America's gilded capital / Mark Leibovich. (Had to quit after a 1.5 chapters)

A visit from the Goon Squad / Jennifer Egan.  

The way of the knife : the CIA, a secret army, and a war at the ends of the Earth / Mark Mazzetti.

Wingnuts : extremism in the age of Obama / John Avlon.  

Work done for hire / Joe Haldeman.  

The year of living biblically : one man's humble quest to follow the Bible as literally as possible / A.J. Jacobs.  

You are here : from the compass to GPS, the history and future of how we find ourselves / Hiawatha Bray.