Books Read in 2014
Novels
1. In The Age of Love and Chocolate - Gabrielle Zevin
2. The Diamond Deep - Brenda Cooper
3. Neptune's Brood - Charles Stross
*4. Shovel Ready - Adam Sternbergh
5. The Visionist - Rachel Urquhart
6. On Such a Full Sea - Chang-Rae Lee
7. A Highly Unlikely Scenario - Rachel Cantor
8. He Drank, and Saw the Spider - Alex Bledsoe
9. Dead Set - Richard Kadrey
10. Ascension - Jacqueline Koyanagi
11. A Darkling Sea - James L. Cambias
*12. Strange Bodies - Marcel Theroux
13. Broken Homes - Ben Aaronovitch
-14. The Martian - Andy Weir
*15. Influx - Daniel Suarez
*16. Galveston - Nic Pizzolotto
17. Honor's Knight - Rachel Bach
18. The Marriage of Sticks - Jonathan Carroll
19. Waking the Moon - Elizabeth Hand
20. Black Moon - Kenneth Calhoun
--21. Notes from the Internet Apocalypse - Wayne Gladstone
22. You Should Have Known - Jean Hanff Korelitz
**23 Annihilation - Jeff Vandermeer
*24. Viriconium - M. John Harrison
*25. After I'm Gone - Laura Lippman
26. The Gin Closet - Leslie Jamison
*27. The Weight of Blood - Laura McHugh
28. The Serpent of Venice - Christopher Moore
*29. Light Boxes - Shane Jones
**30. The Blazing World - Siri Hustvedt
*31. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry - Gabrielle Zevin
**32. Authority - Jeff Vandermeer
33. Astonish Me - Maggie Shipstead
34. The Summer Without Men - Siri Hustvedt
35. The Confabulist - Steven Galloway
36. While We Run - Karen Healey
37. The Lost - Sarah Beth Durst
38. My Real Children - Jo Walton
**39. The Woman Upstairs - Claire Messud
40. Veronica Mars: The Thousand Dollar Tan Line - Rob Thomas and Jennifer Graham
41. Heaven's Queen - Rachel Bach
42. Afterparty - Daryl Gregory
43. The Emperor's Children - Claire Messud
44. A Shiver of Light - Laurell K. Hamilton
45. The Memory Garden - Mary Rickert
46. The Kings and Queens of Roam - Daniel Wallace
*47. Hild - Nicola Griffith
48. All Those Vanished Engines - Paul Park
49. Shattered - Kevin Hearne
**50. The Fever - Megan Abbott
51. World of Trouble - Ben H. Winters
52. Invisible Beasts - Sharona Muir
53. The Transcriptionist - Amy Rowland
*54. Full Fathom Five - Max Gladstone
55. Sinner - Maggie Stiefvater
56. We Are All Completely Fine - Daryl Gregory
*57. The Magician's Land - Lev Grossman
58. The Fifty Year Sword - Mark Z. Danielewski
59. Tigerman - Nick Harkaway
**60. The Hundred-Year House - Rebecca Makkai
*61. The Borrower - Rebecca Makkai
**62. The Girl With All the Gifts - M.R. Carey
63. Lock In - John Scalzi
*64. Acceptance - Jeff Vandermeer
65. Echopraxia - Peter Watts
--66. Sweetness #9 - Stephan Eirik Clark
67. Dying is My Business - Nicholas Kaufmann
68. Dept. of Speculation - Jenny Offill
69. White Noise - Don DeLillo
70. The Scale of Maps - Belén Gopegui
71. Wolf in White Van - John Darnielle
*72. Broken Monsters - Lauren Beukes
73. Bad Machine - Victor Lavalle
74. Rooms - Lauren Oliver
75. Goodhouse - Peyton Marshall
76. The Ghost in the Electric Blue Suit - Graham Joyce
*77. City of Stairs - Robert Jackson Bennett
*78. Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
*79. Hopscotch - Julio Cortázar
80. Poison Fruit - Jacqueline Carey
*81. There Is No Lovely End - Patty Templeton
82. Horrorstör - Grady Hendrix
83. Ancillary Sword - Ann Leckie
84. Hawk - Steven Brust
85. Belzhar - Meg Wolitzer
86. Pretty - Jillian Lauren
87. The Peripheral - William Gibson
*88. Blue Lily, Lily Blue - Maggie Stiefvater
89. The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu
90. Dear Committee Members - Julie Schumacher
-91. The Unknowns - Gabriel Roth
92. Nobody is Ever Missing - Catherine Lacey
**93. Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng
94. Rainey Royal - Dylan Landis
95. The Wallcreeper - Nell Zink
*96. 10:04 - Ben Lerner
97. The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
98. Green Girl - Kate Zambreno
99. Bathing the Lion - Jonathan Carroll
*100. Needle in the Groove - Jeff Noon
101. Leaving the Atocha Station - Ben Lerner
Anthologies & Collections
1. Tenth of December - George Saunders
2. Superheroes - edited by Rich Horton
*3. Beyond the Rift - Peter Watts
4. Last Summer at Mars Hill - Elizabeth Hand
5. Questionable Practices - Eileen Gunn
6. Robot Uprisings - edited by Daniel H. Wilson and John Joseph Adams
*7. Crush - Richard Siken
8. Bark - Lorrie Moore
9. Boundary Problems - Greg Bechtel
10. Between Here and the Yellow Sea - Nic Pizzolatto
11. Home - Clementine von Radics
12. As Often as Miracles - Clementine von Radics
13. Rogues - edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois
14. Long Hidden - edited by Daniel Jose Older and Rose Fox
15. Games Creatures Play - edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kelner
16. We See a Different Frontier - edited by Fabio Fernandes and Djibril al-Ayad
*17. Nejma - Nayyirah Waheed
18. New and Selected Poems - Mary Oliver
19. A Thousand Mornings - Mary Oliver
20. Solaris Rising 2 - edited by Ian Whates
21. A Universal History of Infamy - Jorge Luis Borges
22. Monstrous Affections - edited by Kelly Link and Gavin Grant
23. Stone Mattress - Margaret Atwood
24. The Court of Lies - Mark Teppo
*25. The Haunted Girl - Lisa M. Bradley
*26. Unseaming - Mike Allen
27. My Noiseless Entourage - Charles Simic
**28. Prelude to Bruise - Saeed Jones
29. Reach for Infinity - edited by Jonathan Strahan
30. Honeybee - Trista Mateer
31. The World Split Open - edited by Jon Raymond
*32. When the Only Light is Fire - Saeed Jones
*33. Citizen: An American Lyric - Claudia Rankine
Nonfiction
1. Daring Greatly - Brene Brown
2. Chihuahuas: A Complete Owner's Manual - Caroline D. Coile
3. Chihuahuas for Dummies - Jacqueline O'Neil
4. In The Land of Invented Languages - Arika Okrent
5. The Yarn Whisperer - Clara Parkes
6. Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World: Gary Vaynerchuk
7. Craft Cocktails at Home - Kevin Liu
8. Knitting yarns: Writers on Knitting - edited by Ann Hood
*9. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism - Doris Kearns Goodwin
10. Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator - Ryan Holiday
11. Because I Said So! - Ken Jennings
12. I Don't Know What You Know Me From - Judy Greer
*13. The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis - Thomas Goetz
**14. A Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen - Liel Liebovitz
**15. A Field Guide to Getting Lost - Rebecca Solnit
**16. The Faraway Nearby - Rebecca Solnit
**17. The Empathy Exams - Leslie Jamison
18. The Shaking Woman; or, A History of my Nerves - Siri Hustvedt
19. Spent - Antonia Crane
*20. A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip - Kevin Brockmeier
**21. Wonderbook - Jeff Vandermeer
22. The Phantom of Fifth Avenue - Meryl Gordon
23. Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time - Bridget Schulte
24. Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About Our Everyday Deceptions - Stephen Macknik & Susana Martinez-Conde
*25. The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery - Sam Kean
*25. Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies - Alastair Bonnet
26. The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload - Daniel J. Levitin
27. There Is No God and He is Always With You - Brad Warner
*28. Bad Feminist - Roxane Gay
*29. Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine - Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
*30. The Happiness of Pursuit - Chris Guillebeau
*31. The Other Side - Lacy M. Johnson
32. Playing the Whore - Melissa Gira Grant
*33. Some Girls: My Life in a Harem - Jillian Lauren
34. Why We Love Serial Killers - Scott Bonn
*35. Being Mortal - Atul Gawande
**36. Thrown - Kerry Howley
*37. How We Got To Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World - Steven Johnson
38. Virtual Unreality - Charles Seife
39. Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters - Philip Eade
40. Redefining Realness - Janet Mock
41. Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace - Anne Lamott
42. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory - Caitlin Doughty
43. Falling Into the Fire - Christine Montross
*44. One Summer: America 1927 - Bill Bryson
*45. Yes Please - Amy Poehler
*46. At Home: A Short History of Private Life - Bill Bryson
**47. Pulphead - John Jeremiah Sullivan
48. Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World - Mark Miodownik
49. Epilogue - Will Boast
50. Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America - Linda Tirado
51. Alpha & Omega: The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe - Charles Seife