My non-required reading list for 2015:

• Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
• See No Color by Shannon Gibney
• The Hundred Year Flood by Matthew Salesses [review here]
• Ghost of Sangju: A memoir of reconciliation by Soojung Jo [review here]
• Yarn: Remembering the Way Home by Kyoko Mori
• Americanah by Chimamande Adiche

 

Other interesting books I read for work:

• Advice for New Faculty Members: Nihil Nimus by Robert Boice
• Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
• McKeachie’s Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research and Theory for College and University Teachers (Fourteenth Edition) by Marilla Svinicki and Wilbert McKeachie
• To Save the Children of Korea: The Cold War Origins of International Adoption by Arissa Oh
• How Chinese Are You? Adopted Chinese Youth and Their Families Negotiate Identity and Culture by Andrea Louie. 
• The Child Catchers by Kathryn Joyce. (I had read chapters of this previously but finished it this year)