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Books that I read in 2014

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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

BOOKS READ IN 2014

I tried to read about 120 books, but only finished 106. The ones I didn't finish will be finished in 2015. A few already are. How did I choose them? Mostly I gathered lists of critically acclaimed titles or award-winning ones. I cast a broad net. Children's books, 19th century classics, award-winning mysteries or science fiction novels, etc. The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe print lists of great books at the end of every year. In some cases I was walking through a library and saw books that looked good. Impulse choices. Or the latest who-done-its by my favorite mystery writers.


--‘1Q84,’ by Haruki Murakami [2011]
--Alexander & the terrible, ...very bad day // Judith Viorst [1972] [JUV]
--All-of--a-kind family // Sydney Taylor [1951] [JUV]
-- All Quiet on the Western Front // Erich Maria Remarque [1928]
--The American // Henry James [19th Century]
– American Gods (Neil Gaiman) // 540 pages [2001]
--ARGUABLY: Essays. // By Christopher Hitchens. [2011]
--Art of Fielding // Chad Harbach // 2011
--Aunt Dimity and the lost prince // Nancy Atherton [2013]
--The Beautiful Mystery // by Louise Penny [2013]
--Ben’s Trumpet // by Rachel Isadora (1979) [JUV]
--Big Fat Surprise // Nina Teicholz // NONFIC [2014]
--Bleeding edge // Thomas Pynchon [2013]
--The Bohemians: Mark Twain, etc. // Ben Tarnoff [2014]--GIFT IDEA?
--Bonefire of the vanities // Carolyn Haines [2013]
--The Book of Three // by Lloyd Alexander (1964) [JUV]
--The Brief Wondrous life of Oscar Wao // 2007
--Calculated in death // J D Robb [2013]
--California girl // T Jefferson Parker [2005]
--Candy, a century of panic and pleasure // Samira Kawash [2013]
--Catered Christmas cookie exchange // Isis Crawford [2013]
--Catered Fourth of July // Isis Crawford [2014]
--The child catchers // Kathryn Joyce [2013]
--Claire of the Sea Light // Edwidge Danticat [2013]
-The Corrections // Jonathan Franzen // 2001
--Cuckoo's Calling // Robert Galbraith [2013]
– The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (Mark Haddon) [2002] // 271 pages
--Darwin's radio // Greg Bear [2000]
--Eggs in a casket // Laura Childs [2014]
--The Elegance of the Hedgehog // by Muriel Barbery // 2008 // 325 p.
--Endangered creatures // Stephen Dunkley [2014]--GIFT IDEA?
--Fahrenheit 451 // Ray Bradbury
--A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway (1929)
-The fatal funnel cake // Livia Washburn [2013]
--Fortress of Solitude // Jonathan Lethem // 2003
--Frankenstein // Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
--Freud's last session [play] // Mark St. Germain [2010]
--From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler // by E.L. Konigsburg [JUV]
--Garden of marvels // Kassinger [2014]--=GIFT IDEA?
--The Ghost of the Mary Celeste // by Valerie Martin [2014]
--Going clear: Scientology // Lawrence Wright [2013]
--Good calories, bad calories // Gary Taubes [2007]
--The good Lord bird // James McBride [2013]
--Gossamer ghost // Laura Childs [2014]
--Heir apparent, a life of Edward VII // Jane Ridley [2013]
--Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow (1959)
--Here be Monsters // Alan Snow [2006] [JUV]
--The hired man // Aminatta Forna [2013]
--How to get filthy rich in rising Asia // Mohsin Hamid ]2013]
--The Human Stain // Philip Roth // 2000
--The Imperfectionists (Tom Rachman) // 272 pages // 2010
--Infinitesimal // Amir Alexander [2014]
--Inherent Vice (Thomas Pynchon) // 369 pages // 2009
--The isle of Youth // Laura Van Den berg [2013]
--Jonathan Strange & Mr Morrell // Susanna Clarke [2004]
--Killing Cupid // Laura levine [2013]
--The last child // John Hart // [EDGAR 2010] // 373 p. // 2009
--Lorna Doone // Blackmore, Richard Doddridge.
--Love in the time of cholera // Gabriel Garcia Marquez
--Lucky Planet // David Waltham // NONFIC [2014]--GIFT IDEA?
--Madame Bovary // Flaubert [19th Century]
--Malice in Miniature // Jeanne M Dams [2013]
--Margaret Fuller, a new American life // Megan Marshall [2013]
--Margarita Wednesdays // Deborah Rodriguez [2014]--GIFT IDEA?
--Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides) – Pulitzer Prize // 529 pages // 2002
--Museum of extraordinary things // Alice Hoffman [2014]
--My struggle, book 2: a man in love // Karl Ove Knaussgaard [2013]
--Netherland // Joseph O'Neill // 2008
--Of mice and men // John Steinbeck
--The Phantom Tollbooth // Norton Juster [1961] [JUV]
--A Prayer for Owen Meanyh // John Irving [1963]
--The profligate Son // by Nicola Philips [2013]
--Running with scissors // Augusten Burroughs [2002]
--A season with Verona // Tim Parks [2012]
--Serpent of Venice // Christopher Moore // FIC // read to page 130 [2014]
--Shadows of death // Jeanne M Dams [2013]
--Shalimar the Clown (Salman Rushdie)
--The skies belong to us // Brendan I Koerner [2013]
--The Sound and the Fury // William Faulkner [1929]
--Stakeout // Parnell Hall [2013]
--Station eleven // Emily St. John Mandel [2014]--GIFT IDEA?
--Stay, a history of suicide // by Jennifer Michael Hecht [2013]
--The story of a new name // Elena Ferrante [2013]
--The Strangling on the Stage // Simon Brett [2013]
--Sugar in the blood // Andrea Stuart [2013]
--SWAMPLANDIA! // By Karen Russell [2011]
--Sweetness #9 // Stephan Eirik Clark [2014]
--Sylvester and the Magic Pebble // by William Steig (1969)[JUV]
--TEN THOUSAND SAINTS // By Eleanor Henderson. [2011]
--The tenth of December // [2013]
--Tree of Smoke // Denis Johnson [2007]
--A TRICK OF THE LIGHT // Louise Penny [2011]
--Triple package // Amy Chua // NONFIC [2014]
--Tuck Everlasting // Natalie Babbitt [JUV]
--Vampires in the lemon grove // Karen Russell [2013]
--velveteen rabbit // Margery Williams [1922] [JUV]
--White Teeth // Zadie Smith [2000]
--Wind in the willows // Kenneth Grahame [JUV]
--Winter's bone // Daniel Woodrell [2006]
--The woman upstairs // Claire Messud [2013]
--The wonder of all things // Jason Mott [2014]
--Worst person ever // Douglas Coupland [2014]--GIFT IDEA?
--A Wrinkle in Time // Madeleine L’Engle (1962) [JUV]
--Year of magical thinking // Joan Didion [2005] // 227 p.
--The Yellow Birds // Kevin Powers [2012]
--You can date boys when you're forty // Dave Barry // HUMOR [2014]


Total for year: 106




Books that I read in 2014

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Florida Sailor All is well with the world

Thank you paulh

That is a most interesting list, without counting, I think I may have read half a dozen of them over the years. Could I persuade you to give a brief paragraph or two about your favourites? Or better still you could put a brief Entry on several into Peer Reviewsmiley - grovel

If you have not found them yet, might I recommend the 'His Dark Materials' Trilogy by Phillip Pullman A543034 . The first book was published in the US as 'The Golden Compass' and a film based on the story was released in 2007.

I have read all three volumes this last year, and found them facinating - even though they are in the 'young adult' section.

smiley - cheers

F smiley - dolphin S


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ITIWBS

...lost count...




By the way, I see "A Wrinkle In Time" by Madeleine L'Engle on your list.

If you haven't seen the film version:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290382/

they've done the book justice.




Currently working my way through "Astounding" science fiction, from volume 1, issue 1.


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Sho - employed again!

paul - have you tried Goodreads? you can keep track of everything you've read, start & finish dates, and write a review (or read the reviews of others)

I love it


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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

I've participated in Good Reads. smiley - smiley

"Golden Compass" is a movie that I've seen. I don't think the critics were too fond of it, though.

I will think about writing a paragraph or two on my favorites.


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