I’m excited about a lot of things for 2015, one among them being starting a new Goodreads challenge because BOOKS, amirite?
This last year, I had the pleasure of reading some really fabulous ones. I’d like to mention them here. Because when you read a great book, it’s good to tell others about it! Then other people read it and soon everyone’s reading great books and the world is a happier place. *rubs face on books*
Note: The following books were not strictly books written in 2014, or anything like that, just ones that I read in 2014. You can find my reviews of each on Goodreads. I’m also limiting this list to fiction books; I’ll post an honorable mentions for nonfiction below, as I read a great deal of that, too.
So here we go!
TOP TEN FICTION BOOKS I READ IN 2014 (in as close to an order as I can get them, but really they’re all enjoyable and numbered lists are stupid and just read them okay?)
#10. Keturah and Lord Death by Martine Leavitt
#9. Dragon Age: Last Flight by Liane Merciel
#8. If I Stay by Gayle Forman
#7. Kenobi by John Jackson Miller
#6. The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki, translated by Jesse L. Byock
#5. The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty
#4. Wife Number Seven by Melissa Brown
#3. World War Z by Max Brooks
#2. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
#1. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
HONORABLE NONFICTION MENTIONS (in no particular order because HAHA no)
The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman by Margot Mifflin
Dangerous to Know: Women, Crime, and Notoriety in the Early Republic by Susan Branson
The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England’s Most Notorious Queen by Susan Bordo
Tough Towns: True Tales from the Gritty Streets of the Old West by Robert Barr Smith
Love and Death in Renaissance Italy by Thomas V. Cohen
Women in Old Norse Society by Jenny Jochens
Hen Frigates: Passion and Peril, Nineteenth Century Women at Sea by Joan Druett
How about you? Read any good books this year? If you have, post their titles in the comments section below! Seriously. Inquiring readers want to know.
Most of the books I read in 2014 I either didn’t finish, or I didn’t like. Think I’m becoming grumpy in my old age!. I did finish and like The Tea Chest by Josephine Moon, and I just finished The Effects of Light by Miranda Beverly-Wittemore, but I’m not sure if I liked that or not.
I do have The Husband’s Secret by my bed in my TBR pile and everyone I know who’s read it has loved it, so fingers crossed I get to it this year.
Happy New Year Hayley
S
Oh, I’m the same way! I’ve gotten highly selective with what I read. There are so many good books out there right now, I have to be picky or else I’ll become broke. ;) I’ll have to check out The Tea Chest, sounds intriguing!
Happy New Year to you, too, Sandie! <3