On Evolving Reading Tastes

Looking back at my 2015 reading life

The bookshelves in my apartment in 2017… the closest I could find to 2015

Hi book pals,

The year is 2015. I live in a fifth-floor walk-up in the East Village and am leaving my job in digital marketing at BaubleBar to take a bigger job leading marketing at a brand-new startup called LOLA. The company wants to revolutionize feminine care products (AKA tampons). I’m about to turn 29, and I’m fairly certain I know everything. We’re still in an Obama presidency and have no idea how good we have it. And—as ever—I’m reading.

Thanks to an avid Goodreads habit started in 2011, when I joined the platform and immediately rated an array of books I’d read at some point prior—Infinite Jest: 5 stars; The Old Man and the Sea: 2 stars; Shopaholic Takes Manhattan: 4 stars—I have a pretty solid picture of my reading life over the past 14 years. So today, I thought it would be fun to deep dive into my 2015 reading and see how my tastes (and the publishing industry) have evolved over the last decade.