Best books I read in 2015

[sasha_feather]

Fiction:
Mission Child by Maureen McHugh

Non-Fiction:
Bayard Rustin: The Invisible Activist by Jacqueline Jaeger Houtman, Walter Naegle, and Michael G. Long

Comics and Graphic Novels:

The Infinite Wait and other stories by Julia Wertz
Seconds, by Bryan Lee O'Malley
Ms. Marvel volumes 1 and 2 by G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona
The Midas Flesh vol. 1 by Ryan North, Braden Lamb, Shelli Paroline, Steve Wands
Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
Saga, vol. 4 and 5 by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples

Comments

[luinied]

Midas Flesh! That comic sort of made me feel like I should get into comics already, as did the ones in the Hugos packet. (But it's such an intimidating prospect...)

[sasha_feather]

I used to think it was intimidating also. The whole idea of serialization and reboots just makes me go NO. But: comics are great for people like me who have attention span issues (this happened with chronic pain/ fatigue). I can't plow through novels anymore so I read fanfic and comics. What helped a lot was going to comics club, where we squee in a loosely-structured way, and share comics among each other-- meaning we don't have to buy things. I also check things out from the library. I mostly focus on non-superhero titles that don't go on forever. I like non-fiction comics which are often single volume. So, that's what I've done! My whole list is at Goodreads.