What Did I Read in 2014?
Goodreads certainly makes it easy to track books read every year. But I still like posting a list year at the end of every year so I can look over the books I read and enjoyed...and hated!
If this was the year of anything, it was the year of me giving up and not reading a bunch of books I didn't want to read. Going to conventions and getting free books has meant I take a chance on a bunch of books I wouldn't otherwise try but it always increases my chances of getting something I won't like. So this year I just said fuck it to a number of them and gave them the chuck which I hadn't really ever done in the past. So what did I read...
January 2014
(1) Dangerous Women - Anthology w/ Short Stories - read the stories by Lev Grossman, Sharon Kay Penman, and others but did not read the majority
(2) The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1) by Robert Galbraith - Mystery - Really Enjoyed
(3) Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple - Contemporary Fiction - Enjoyed
(4) Delirium (Delirium, #1) by Lauren Oliver - Young Adult Dystopian - It Was Okay
(5) Possess by Gretchen McNeil - Young Adult Paranormal - Enjoyed
(6) Across the Universe (Across the Universe, #1) by Beth Revis - Young Adult Science Fiction - Enjoyed
February 2014
(7) Cruel Beauty (Cruel Beauty Universe, #1) by Rosamund Hodge - Young Adult Fantasy - REALLY Enjoyed!
(8) Plain Kate by Erin Bow - Children’s Fantasy - Did Not Finish
(9) Sandry's Book (Circle of Magic, #1) by Tamora Pierce - Children’s Fantasy - Did Not Finish
(10) Leave the Grave Green (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #3) by Deborah Crombie - Mystery - Enjoyed
(11) Justice (Galilee Falls Trilogy, #1) by Jennifer Harlow - Superhero Urban Fantasy - REALLY Enjoyed!
(12) Galilee Rising (Galilee Falls Trilogy, #2) by Jennifer Harlow - Superhero Urban Fantasy - REALLY Enjoyed!
(13) Mind Over Monsters (A F.R.E.A.K.S. Squad Investigation, #1) by Jennifer Harlow - Rural Fantasy - Enjoyed
March 2014
(14) To Catch A Vampire (A F.R.E.A.K.S. Squad Investigation, #2) by Jennifer Harlow - Urban Fantasy - Enjoyed
(15) Death Takes a Holiday (A F.R.E.A.K.S. Squad Investigation, #3) by Jennifer Harlow - Suburban Fantasy - Enjoyed
(16) Murder of Crows (The Others, #2) by Anne Bishop - Urban Fantasy - REALLY Enjoyed!
(17) Why Kings Confess (Sebastian St. Cyr #9) by C.S. Harris - Historical Mystery - Really Enjoyed
(18) Night Broken (Mercy Thompson, #8) by Patricia Briggs - Urban Fantasy - Enjoyed
(19) The Shadow Society by Maria Rutkoski - Young Adult Urban Fantasy - It Was Okay
(20) The Boggart by Susan Cooper - Children’s Fantasy - Reread - Enjoyed
April 2014
(21) Enchanted, Inc. (Enchanted, Inc., #1) by Shanna Swendson - Urban Fantasy - It Was Okay
(22) The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #3) by Agatha Christie - Mystery - Reread - Really Enjoyed
(23) Gilded Ashes (Cruel Beauty Universe, #1.5) by Rosamund Hodge - Short Story - Enjoyed
(24)(a) Verity Hart Vs The Vampyres: Part One by Jennifer Harlow - Steampunk - Enjoyed
(24)(b) Verity Hart Vs The Vampyres: Part Two by Jennifer Harlow - Steampunk - Enjoyed
(25) Unearthly (Unearthly, #1) by Cynthia Hand - Young Adult Fantasy - Enjoyed
May 2014
(26) Dark Currents (Agent of Hel, #1) by Jacqueline Carey - Small Town Fantasy - Enjoyed
(27) The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Fairyland, #1) by Catherynne M. Valente - Children’s Fantasy - Did Not Finish
(28) Midnight Crossroad (Midnight, Texas, #1) by Charlaine Harris - Small Town Fantasy - Enjoyed
(29) Everneath (Everneath, #1) by Brodi Ashton - Young Adult Fantasy - It Was AWFUL!
(30) The Girl of Fire and Thorns (Fire and Thorns, #1) by Rae Carson - Young Adult Fantasy - Really Enjoyed
(31) Shades of Milk and Honey (Glamourist Histories, #1) by Mary Robinette Kowal - Regency Fantasy - Enjoyed
June 2014
(32) Emily of New Moon (Emily of New Moon, #1) by L.M. Montgomery - Reread - Children’s Literature - Really Enjoyed
(33) Something Strange and Deadly (Something Strange and Deadly, #1) by Susan Dennard - Young Adult Paranormal - It Was Awful, Did Not Finish
(34) Control (Control, #1) by Lydia Kang - Young Adult Dystopian - Did Not Finish
(35) Winter Rose (Winter Rose, #1) by Patricia A. McKillip - Young Adult Fantasy - Did Not Finish
July 2014
(36) The Glass Sentence (The Mapmakers Trilogy, #1) by S.E. Grove - Children’s Fantasy - Enjoyed
(37) The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2) by Robert Galbraith - Mystery - Really Enjoyed
(38) Ruin and Rising (The Grisha, #3) by Leigh Bardugo - Young Adult Fantasy - Enjoyed
(39) Sinner (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #4) by Maggie Stiefvater - Contemporary Romance - It Was Okay
(40) Attachments by Rainbow Rowell - Contemporary Romance - It Was Okay
(41) After the Golden Age (Golden Age, #1) by Carrie Vaughn - Superhero Urban Fantasy - Did Not Finish
August 2014
(42) The Magicians (The Magicians, #1) by Lev Grossman - Reread - Fantasy - LOVED!
(43) The Magician King (The Magicians, #2) by Lev Grossman - Reread - Fantasy - Loved
(44) The Magician's Land (The Magicians, #3) by Lev Grossman - Fantasy - Enjoyed
(45) Autumn Bones (Agent of Hel, #2) by Jacqueline Carey - Small Town Fantasy - Enjoyed
September 2013
(46) Paper Towns by John Green - Young Adult Contemporary - It Was Okay
(47) The Winter Long (October Daye, #8) by Seanan McGuire - Urban Fantasy - It Was Okay
(48) High Moon (A F.R.E.A.K.S. Squad Investigation, #4) by Jennifer Harlow - Rural Fantasy - It Was Okay
(49) Anna Dressed in Blood (Anna, #1) by Kendare Blake - Young Adult Paranormal - OMG SO BAD!
October 2014
(50) The Time of the Hunter's Moon by Victoria Holt - Reread - Gothic Romance - Enjoyed
(51) The Shivering Sands by Victoria Holt - Reread - Gothic Romance - Really Enjoyed
(52) The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie - Mystery - Enjoyed
(53) The Landower Legacy by Victoria Holt - Gothic Romance - Enjoyed
(54) Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle, #3) by Maggie Stiefvater - Young Adult Fantasy - Enjoyed
(55) The Turn of the Screw by Henry James - Reread - Fiction - Enjoyed
November 2014
(56) The Young Elizabeth (Famous childhoods, #1) by Jean Plaidy - Children’s Historical Fiction - Enjoyed
(57) Wild Things (Chicagoland Vampires, #9) by Chloe Neill - Suburban Fantasy - Did Not Finish
(58) Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abbott - History / Biography - Really Enjoyed
December 2014
(59) Lamentation (Matthew Shardlake, #6) by C.J. Sansom - Historical Mystery - LOVED!!!!
(60) The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton - Fantasy - Really Enjoyed
(61) Foxglove Summer (Peter Grant, #5) by Ben Aaronovitch - Rural Fantasy - Really Enjoyed
(62) The Golden Apple (The Dark Forest, #1) by Michelle Diener - Fantasy Romance - Enjoyed
(63) Festive in Death (In Death, #39) by J.D. Robb - Romance Suspense - Enjoyed
So favorite read of 2014? Probably Lamentation by C.J. Sansom. Tudor history, London, law, architecture along with a mystery....what could be better?
Worst read? My attempts at Something Strange and Deadly and Everneath, both young adult novels. OMG THEY WERE SO BAD!!!!!!