Books, 2014

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Goal: 100 books read by January 1st, 2015

Current Status: 33/100 (as of 12/31/14)

3 Nonfiction
30 Fiction

January: 0

February: 0

March:
A Million Suns, Beth Revis - 3/23

April:
Woman Hollering Creek, Sandra Cisneros - 5/26

The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century, Harry Turtledove, Martin H. Greenberg, et al. - 5/29

June:
The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting, Rachel Shteir - 6/19

The Book Thief, Markus Zusak - 6/30

July:
The Secret History, Donna Tartt - 7/22

August:
Something Red, Jennifer Gilmore - 8/13

Paint It Black, Janet Fitch - (reread) - 8/23

Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine - (reread) - 8/24

September:
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins - (reread) - 9/3

Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins - (reread) - 9/5

Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins - (reread) - 9/7

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J.K. Rowling - (reread) - 9/9

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowling - (reread) - 9/13

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling - (reread) - 9/18

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling - (reread) - 9/22

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling - (reread) - 9/30

October:
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling - (reread) - 10/3

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling - (reread) - 10/15

Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Goldman - (reread) - 10/19

Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn - 10/30

The Woman Who Wasn’t There: The True Story of an Incredible Deception, Robin Gaby Fisher and Angelo Gugliemo, Jr. - 10/31

November:
It, Stephen King - (reread) - 11/16

The Lady and the Unicorn, Tracy Chevalier - 11/21

Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel - 11/21

Allison Hewitt is Trapped, Madeline Roux - 11/22

The Tales of Beedle the Bard, J.K. Rowling - (reread) - 11/30

Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell - 11/30

December:
The Slap, Christos Tsiolkas - (reread) - 12/6

Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman - 12/7

Girl with A Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier - (reread) - 12/13

Drinking Diaries: Women Serve Their Stories Straight Up, Caren Osten Gerszberg and Leah Odze Epstein

The Shining, Stephen King - (reread) - 12/25

How many books read in 2014?

33, plus two that I’m currently reading but didn’t finish before the deadline.

Fiction/Nonfiction ratio?

39:29.

Male/Female authors?

6:16

Favorite book read?

Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel. Good lord, this book was beautiful.

(Runner’s up, in no particular order: Fangirl, Practical Magic, the Hunger Games trilogy, the Harry Potter series, Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Woman Who Wasn’t There, Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century.)

Least favorite?

Something Red, hands down.

Oldest book read?

The Shining.

Newest?

Looks like it’s Station Eleven.

Longest book title?

The Woman Who Wasn’t There: The True Story of an Incredible Deception.

Shortest title?

It, by Stephen King.

How many rereads?

18. Although to be fair, I recently came into possession of my mother’s old Nook and put a bunch of old favorites on it, since the bookcase in my new apartment can’t hold my full collection and I had to make the terrible choice between what physical books I could take and what I had to leave behind.

Most books read by one author this year?

8, since I pretty much devoured the Harry Potter series again.

Any in translation?

Not a one.

And how many of this year’s books were from the library?

Noooooooone.