The new year is just around the corner so it’s time to wrap-up 2014. Here are my top ten books read this year.
I kind of had a hard time coming up with books because I liked many of them but there were a few that really made me think.
Here’s my list in no particular order:
The Last Days of California by Mary Miller
Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Mr. Lynch’s Holiday by Catherine O’Flynn
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
We Are Called To Rise by Laura McBride
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Painter by Peter Heller
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
Happy New Year to you all. Here’s to another year of reading!
This is a list of the books I read in 2014. Links take you to the my review of the book. I met my reading goal for the year. Yay!
1. The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories – Volume 3 by Joseph Gordon-Levitt
2. Innocence by Dean Koontz
3. Canada by Richard Ford
4. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
5. The Last Days of California by Mary Miller
6. Police by Jo Nesbo
7. The Troop by Nick Cutter
8. The Secret of Raven Point by Jennifer Vanderbes
9. Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
10. Among Animals by John Yunker
11. The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel
12. Mr. Lynch’s Holiday by Catherine O’Flynn
13. Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
14. Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
15. The Realm of Last Chances by Steve Yarbrough
16. Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
17. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
18. The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman
19. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
20. Casebook by Mona Simpson
21. The Here And Now by Ann Brashares
22. The Cold Song by Linn Ullmann
23. Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
24. Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Pretty by Diane Keaton
25. And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
26. Cutting Teeth by Julia Fierro
27. Under a Summer Sky by Nan Rossiter
28. Landline by Rainbow Rowell
29. The Vacationers by Emma Straub
30. The Circle by Dave Eggers
31. Magnificent Vibration by Rick Springfield
32. The Fever by Megan Abbott
33. All Day and a Night by Alafair Burke
34. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
35. Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King
36. We Are Called To Rise by Laura McBride
37. We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
38. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
39. The Regulators by Stephen King (Richard Bachman)
40. The Three by Sarah Lotz
41. The Martian by Andy Weir
42. The Home Place by Carrie La Seur
43. Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick
44. California by Edan Lepucki
45. A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
46. The Painter by Peter Heller
47. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
48. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
49. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
50. The Way Inn by Will Wiles
51. Euphoria by Lily King
52. I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
53. Big Driver by Stephen King
54. Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
55. A Sudden Light by Garth Stein
56. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
57. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
58. Revival by Stephen King
59. Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink
60. A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines
61. The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion
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