books to read: fiction 2014

[plantgirl]

A - D

1. Allende, Isabel: Island beneath the Sea, 457 (rec, challenge1)
2. Archer, Jennifer: Sandwiched, 298p
3. Baker, Nicholson: The Anthologist, 256p (rec)
4. >>Barry, Rebecca: Later, at the Bar: a novel in stories, 224p (shorts)
5. Bujold, Lois McMaster: Falling Free, 320pp (challenge2)
6. Bull, Emma: Bone Dance, 278p, (re-read, challenge2)
7. Burdett, John: Bangkok Haunts, 305p (challenge3+, Thailand)
8. Butler, Octavia: Parable of the Sower, 299p (re-read, challenge2)
9. Butler, Octavia: Parable of the Talents, 422p (like, challenge2)
10. Carr, Robyn: The Wanderer, 377p
11. Carr, Robyn: The Newcomer, 368p
12. Carr, Robyn: The Wanderer, 377p
13. Carr, Robyn: The Hero, 384p
14. Carriger, Gail: Soulless, 373pp (rec, ebook, challenge2)
15. Castillo, Linda: Dead Reckoning, 330p (challenge3, Texas)
16. Catton, Eleanor: The Luminaries, 848p
17. Crusie, Jennifer: Strange Bedpersons, 256p (re-read)
18. Danticat, Edwidge: Claire of the Sea Light, 238p (challenge1)
19. Díaz, Junot: Drown, 208p (shorts, re-read, challenge1)
20. Díaz, Junot: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, 339p (challenge1)
21. Díaz, Junot: This is How You Lose Her, 213p (shorts, NYT100 2012, challenge1)
22. Donoghue, Emma: Slammerkin, 336p (like, ebook)

E - L

1. >>Erian, Alicia: Towelhead, 321p (NYT)
2. Evanovich, Janet: Manhunt, 219p
3. Farmer, Philip José: To Your Scattered Bodies Go, 220p (Hugo)
4. Grossman, Lev: The Magicians, 424p (rec, ebook)
5. Harper, Karen: Inferno, 390p (challenge3, Montana)
6. Harris, Charlaine: Real Murders, 304p (challenge3, Georgia)
7. Herbert, Frank: Dune, 517p
8. Heyer, Georgette: The Grand Sophy, 386p (rec)
9. >>Homes, A. M.: Jack, 220p (like)
10. Hornby, Nick: Slam, 309p (rec, like, ebook)
11. Hunter, Maddy: Alpine for You, 287p (challenge3+, Switzerland)
12. >>Julavits, Heidi: The Uses of Enchantment, 356p (NYT100 2006)
13. Kadare, Ismail: Chronicle in Stone, 320p (NYT, challenge1)
14. >>Kay, Guy Gavriel: Tigana, 673p
15. Kress, Nancy: Beggars in Spain, 438p (rec, challenge2)
16. Kress, Nancy: Beggars and Choosers, 316p (rec, challenge2)
17. Kidd, Sue Monk: The Secret Life of Bees, 318p (re-read, book club)
18. Kidd, Sue Monk: The Invention of Wings, 651p
19. LeGuin, Ursula: The Left Hand of Darkness, 218p (challenge2)
20. Levy, Deborah: Swimming Home, 157p (NYT100 2012)
21. Lightman, Alan: Einstein's Dreams, 179p (rec)

M - Po

1. >>McDermott, Alice: Child of my Heart, 242p (Powell's)
2. McIntyre, Vonda N.: The Moon and the Sun, 421p (challenge2)
3. >>Miller, Sue: Lost in the Forest, 247p (ebook)
4. Moon, Elizabeth: The Speed of Dark, 340p (rec, challenge2)
5. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o: Wizard of the Crow, 768p (challenge1)
6. >>Noel, Katharine: Halfway House, 365p (NYT)
7. >>Pamuk, Orhan: Snow, 425p (NYT, challenge1)
8. Patchett, Ann: Run, 320p (like)
9. Penny, Louise: A Trick of the Light, 339p (re-read, ebook, challenge3+, Quebec)
10. Penny, Louise: The Beautiful Mystery, 373p (re-read, ebook, challenge3+, Quebec)
11. Penny, Louise: How the Light Gets In, 405p (submitted ebook for purchase, challenge3+, Quebec)
12. Penny, Louise: The Long Way Home, 373p (ebook, challenge3+, Quebec)
13. Phillips, Arthur: The Tragedy of Arthur, 380p (NPR, NYT)
14. Pohl, Frederik: Gateway, 288p (Hugo, Nebula)

Pra - Sc

1. Pratchett, Terry: Monstrous Regiment, 416p
2. Pratchett, Terry: Raising Steam, 365p
3. Pratchett, Terry: The Last Hero, 184p
4. Pratchett, Terry: Unseen Academicals, 406p (ebook)
5. Pratchett, Terry: Thud, 384p (re-read)
6. Pratchett, Terry: Snuff, 398p
7. Pratchett, Terry: Dodger, 360p (ebook)
8. Pratchett, Terry: Nation, 384p (ebook)
9. Pratchett, Terry: The Long Earth, 336p (ebook)
10. Pratchett, Terry: The Wee Free Men, 263p(re-read)
11. Pratchett, Terry: A Hat Full of Sky, 448p (re-read)
12. Pratchett, Terry: Wintersmith, 464p(re-read)
13. Pratchett, Terry: I Shall Wear Midnight, 291p (re-read)
14. Prince, Liz: Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir, 256p (submitted for purchase)
15. Rich, Lani Diane: Wish You Were Here, 288p
16. Riordan, Rick: The Lightning Thief, 400p (rec, ebook)
17. >>Robinson, Marilynne: Gilead, 247p (NYT100 2004, Pulitzer 2005)
18. Ross, Barbara: Clammed Up, 378p (challenge3, Maine)
19. Russell, Karen: Swamplandia!, 410p (Powell's)
20. >>Saramago, José: The Elephant's Journey, 224p (ebook, challenge1)
21. Schield, Cat: The Rogue's Fortune, 192p

Se - Z

1. Shulman, Polly: The Grimm Legacy, 325p (challenge2)
2. Shulman, Polly: The Wells Bequest, 260p (challenge2)
3. Spencer-Fleming, Julia: I Shall Not Want, 657p (re-read, challenge3, NY)
4. Spencer-Fleming, Julia: One Was A Soldier, 327p (like, challenge3, NY)
5. Spencer-Fleming, Julia: Through the Evil Days, 355p(like, challenge3, NY)
6. >>Stegner, Wallace: Angle of Repose, 569p (Pulitzer)
7. Stephenson, Neal: Snow Crash, 470p (re-read)
8. Tiptree, Jr., James: Her Smoke Rose up Forever, 532p (rec, challenge2)
9. >>Toews, Miriam: A Boy of Good Breeding, 237p (like)
10. Tóibín, Colm: The Testament of Mary, 81p
11. Tracy, P.J.: Monkeewrench, 384p (challenge3, MN/WI)
12. Tracy, P.J.: Live Bait, 340p (challenge3, MN/WI)
13. Tracy, P.J.: Dead Run, 326 (challenge3, MN/WI)
14. Tracy, P.J.: Snow Blind, 320 (challenge3, MN/WI)
15. Tracy, P.J.: Shoot to Thrill, 308 (challenge3, MN/WI)
16. Tracy, P.J.: Off the Grid, 320 (challenge3, MN/WI)
17. >>Trevor, William: Cheating at Canasta, 240p (shorts, ebook)
18. >>Tyler, Anne: Digging to America, 277p (Powell's, NYT)
19. Valente, Catherynne: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairlyand, 256p (rec, challenge2)
20. >>Valente, Catherynne: Palimpsest, 371p (rec, challenge2)
21. Verghese, Abraham: Cutting for Stone, 667p (NYT, challenge1)
22. Walton, Jo: Among Others, 302p (ebook, challenge2)
23. Winton, Tim: Dirt Music, 411p (like, challenge1)

Titles in black are unread, I'm actively reading titles in green, titles in any other color have been read.

shorts = short stories
NYT100 = NYT 100 Notable Books of the year
NPR = heard author on National Public Radio
Powell's = recommended by Powell's staff
>> = it's been years, get to it
like = liked other title(s) by author
rec = recommended
challenge1 = personal challenge to read authors from non-Anglo countries
challenge2 = personal challenge to read speculative fiction by female authors
challenge3 = goodreads challenge to read mystery set in each US state
challenge3+ = challenge to read mystery set in every country

Out of 102 titles, so far in 2014 I've:
read: 36
reread: 12

Above list subject to change due to the reading of reviews, the receiving of recommendations, and random whims. The list for 2013.