Like last year, this past year on Goodreads has seen me read a much smaller number of books than previous years due to the unstable, unpredictable nature of my personal life. When I have had time to read though I made very good use of it and the dominate gameplan for me is finishing up books I had been putting off for years. 
 By far my most important read was The Souls of Black Folk. The foundation text of American sociology and a book that should be required reading at university. This was a book I had put off for years, but finished up in midst of the events of this year, especially in my home state of Maryland. 
 I also finally got on to reading Albert Camus and Toni Morrison properly in The Stranger and Song of Solomon. Both of these books, I have found, deserved their stellar reputations. As of December 27th, you can also count One Hundred Years of Solitude as my big finisher of the year! 
 I read In a Grove, the story that became Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon and I read Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!. Both books helped enlighten me in the ways of complex story writing and I feel "Absalom" to maybe be a better novel than its predecessor The Sound and the Fury though you need to read TSATF to understand "Absalom." 
 Most new poetry I read came from The Portable Roman Reader, but I also read Ezra Pound's Hugh Selwyn Mauberley and Richard Wright's Between The World And Me. I will review some of the Roman poetry in the future (notably Horace), but not right now. I read Wright's poem for the obvious reason that another writer is making name for himself with the same title. 
 I also finally got to experience my first Chekhov play with The Seagull and it was a great experience. 
 Because my undergraduate schooling came to an end this year, I do not have much non-fiction. What I have read though are: 
 The Oxford History of the Roman World which is a group of essays by top scholars on Rome. 
 The Portable Roman Reader again includes speeches and excerpts from famous Romans. 
 Where the West Ends is an "interesting" travelogue examining the eastern European and Asia minor neighborhhod in relation to Russia. 
 Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia is a very good book about David Greene's journey through Russia and Russian history on the route of the Trans-Siberian railway. 
 For my own pleasure I read these books: 
 I finished up, finally: Homage to Catalonia. This book is George Orwell's first-hand account of the Spanish Civil War and in-particular the Barcelona May Days of 1937 when the Soviets bizarrely purged the Spanish Republican forces during its war against Franco. This book had been an especially frustrating read for me. 
 I read Paul Laurence Dunbar's essay Representative American Negroes in preparation for The Souls of Black Folk. It was an interesting look at influential African-American at the turn of the 20th century. 
 Toni Morrison's Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination was a very simple introduction in how influential white writers like Poe, Cather, and Hemingway have treated African-Americans in their narratives. 
 Not gonna talk much about comics I read here because I do not know how to go about it, though I have started cataloging more of them on this site. 
 I am currently reading Race and the American Idea: 155 Years of Writings From The Atlantic. If I read any thing else in 2015 I will update appropriately.