2014 was a good year for reading. I discovered new authors whose work I enjoyed: C.S. Richardson, Dennis Johnson, ZZ Packer, Ali Smith, Donald Antrim, and Greg Baxter. I continued my affection for authors with whom I had already been acquainted: Richard Ford, Elena Ferrante, Ben Lerner, George Saunders, Lars Iyer, Lorrie Moore, and Colm Tóibín. I also wrote short reviews of each book I read this past year and posted them on LibraryThing, a few of which I re-posted here on this blog. I’m already looking forward to another great year of reading ahead.
Stats from my 2014 reading list:
- 16 were borrowed from our public library
- 18 have Canadian authors
- 11 were chosen due to personal recommendations from friends
- 7 are by authors who appear more than once on the 2014 list
- 1 was being reread
- 1 was read aloud by my wife and me
- 15 are non-fiction
- 0 are ebooks
Books read in 2014 (72):
- Davis, Philip. Reading and the Reader
- Ford, Richard. A Multitude of Sins
- Keyes, Daniel. Flowers for Algernon
- Birrell, Heather. Mad Hope
- Cole, Teju. Open City
- Evison, Jonathan. The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
- Curtis, Rebecca. Twenty Grand and other Tales of Love and Money
- Boyden, Joseph. Three Day Road
- Moore, Lorrie. Bark: Stories
- Patchett, Ann. This is the Story of a Happy Marriage
- Boyden, Joseph. Through Black Spruce
- Burnside, John. Black Cat Bone
- Welty, Eudora. One Writer’s Beginnings
- Crummey, Michael. Under the Keel: Poems
- Richardson, C.S. The End of the Alphabet
- Humphreys, Helen. Coventry: A Novel
- Saunders, George. Pastoralia: Stories
- Eggers, Dave. The Wild Things
- Bellow, Saul. Ravelstein
- McLeod, Alistair. No Great Mischief
- Saunders, George. CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
- Richardson, C.S. The Emperor of Paris
- Maillet, Antonine. The Tale of Don l’Orignal
- MacLeod, Alistair. Island: The Collected Stories
- Maillet, Antonine. Pélagie: The Return to Acadie
- Fraile, Medardo. Things Look Different in the Light
- Morgan, Robert J. Rise Again!: The Story of the Cape Breton Island, Book One
- Coady, Lynn. Play the Monster Blind: Stories
- Toltz, Steve. A Fraction of the Whole
- Johnson, Denis. Jesus’ Son
- Homes, A.M. The Safety of Objects
- Fitzgerald, Penelope. At Freddie’s
- Strout, Elizabeth. Olive Kitteridge
- Queenan, Joe. One for the Books
- Lee, Hermione. Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life
- Ferrante, Elena. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
- Iyer, Lars. Wittgenstein Jr
- Saunders, George. The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
- Homes, A.M. May We Be Forgiven
- Smith, Ali. Artful
- Munro, Alice. Who Do You Think You Are?
- Ferrante, Elena. Troubling Love
- Lerner, Ben. 10:04
- Gawande, Atul. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
- Fowler, Karen Joy. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
- Baxter, Greg. The Apartment
- Scheffler, Samuel; Kolodny, Niko (ed.) Death and the Afterlife
- Horn, Dara. The World To Come
- Browne, Renni and Dave King. Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to edit yourself into print
- Davis, Lydia. The End of the Story
- Packer, ZZ. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
- Ferrante, Elena. The Lost Daughter
- Ford, Richard. Let Me Be Frank With You
- Tóibín, Colm. The Heather Blazing
- Fforde, Jasper. The Eye of Zoltar
- Lipsyte, Sam. The Ask
- Hadley, Tessa. Married Love
- Smith, Ali. The Accidental
- Berger, John. Bento’s Notebook
- Antrim, Donald. The Verificationist
- Beckett, Bernard. Genesis
- Bausch, Richard. Someone To Watch Over Me
- Hadley, Tessa. Everything Will Be All Right
- Birkerts, Sven. The Other Walk: essays
- Barnes, Julian. Levels of Life
- Finucan, Stephen. Foreigners
- Didion, Joan. Slouching Towards Bethlehem
- Toews, Miriam. All My Puny Sorrows
- Antrim, Donald. Elect Mr. Robinson For A Better World
- Smith, Ali. Girl Meets Boy
- Galloway, Steven. The Cellist of Sarajevo
- Beattie, Steve W. (compiler), Davidson, Craig (compiler), and Nawaz, Saleema (compliler). The Journey Prize Stories 26