The Brainstorm 55: Top 10s of 2015 (Part 3 of 3)

I'm posting my last of the top 10s read in 2015 a little earlier than Friday in case anyone wants to check out some of these before Christmas break. Today features my top 10s for picture books and graphic novels. For fun, I've thrown in my top 10s of books I'm looking forward to reading in 2016 too. Click on the titles of books I've read to see my full review. Click on the titles of books I've yet to read to see more info about them on GoodReads.com.

Fiction Picture Books 
(To help myself, I had to narrow this list down to the top 10 of those published in 2015.)

1. A Fine Dessert: four centuries, four families, one delicious treat by Emily Jenkins, ill. by Sophie Blackall
2. If You Ever Want to Bring an Alligator to School, Don’t by Elise Parsley
3. The Most Wonderful Thing in the World by Vivian French, ill. by Angela Barrett
4. Have You Seen My Monster? by Steve Light
5. Mama Seeton’s Whistle by Jerry Spinelli, ill. by LeUyen Pham
6. My Pen by Christopher Myers
7. Woflie the Bunny by Ame Dyckman, ill. by Zachariah O’Hora
8. The Day the Crayons Came Home (Crayons #2) by Drew Daywalt, ill. by Oliver Jeffers
9. I Will Take a Nap (Elephant & Piggie #23) by Mo Willems
10. Home by Carson Ellis

Graphic Novels/Comics 
(To help myself on this list, I only allowed one book per series.)

1. Phoebe and Her Unicorn (Phoebe and her unicorn #1) by Dana Simpson
2. The Underground Abductor (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #5) by Nathan Hale
3. Case of the Toxic Mutants (Dragonbreath #9) by Ursula Vernon
4. Sunny Side Up by Jennifer L. Holm & Matthew Holm
5. Dragons Beware (Chronicles of Claudette #2) by Jorge Aguirre, ill. by Rafael Rosado, colors by John Novak
6. Target Practice (Cleopatra in Space #1) by Mike Maihack
7. Binky the Space Cat (Binky the Space Cat #1) by Ashley Spires
8. Escape from the Lizzarks (Nnewts #1) by Doug TenNapel
9. The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Power (Vol 1) by Ryan North, ill. by Erica Henderson
10. Bird & Squirrel on the Run by James Burks

Books I Can’t Wait to Get Reading in 2016  - Fiction

Picture books

1. Max at Night (Max #2) by Ed Vere

2. Flora and the Peacocks (Flora #3) by Molly Idle

Lower grade

3. The Princess in Black and the Perfect Princess Party (Princess in Black #2) by Shannon Hale

Middle grade

4. Of Mice and Magic (Hamster Princess #2) by Ursula Vernon

5. Mr Lemoncello’s Library Olympics (Mr Lemoncello’s Library #2) by Chris Grabenstein

6. The Key to Extraordinary by Natalie Lloyd

YA

7. Winter (Lunar Chronicles #4) by Marissa Meyers

8. Calamity (Reckoners #3) by Brandon Sanderson

Adult

9. Bands of Mourning (Mistborn #6) by Brandon Sanderson

10. Dressed for Death (Drew Farthering #4) by Julianna Deering

Books on the Top of My To-Read Pile for 2016  - Nonfiction

1. The Fellowship: the literary lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams by Philip Zaleski & Carol Zaleski
2. Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe
3. Alamo All-Stars (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #6) by Nathan Hale
4. Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: a devout Muslim encounters Christianity by Nabeel Qureshi
5. Poisoner’s Handbook: murder and the birth of forensic medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum
6. Dead Wake: the last crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
7. Extreme Medicine: how exploration transformed medicine in the Twentieth Century by Kevin Fong
8. Genius of Opposites: how introverts and extroverts achieve extraordinary results together by Jennifer B. Kahnweiler
9. Undaunted: doing what God calls you to do (Student ed.) by Christine Caine
10. On Immunity: an inoculation by Eulia Biss
11. Inside Biosphere 2: Earth science under glass by Mary Kay Carson, photos by Tom Uhlman