Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Books read, 2014

January
1. Stephen King, Doctor Sleep
2. Terry Pratchett, Snuff
3. Stephen King, The Shining
4. Lorrie Moore, Bark 
5. Jeffrey Ford, The Physiognomy
6. David R. George III, Revelation and Dust 
7. Kim Newman, Johnny Alucard: Anno Dracula 1976-1991
8. Steve Rasnic Tem, Onion Songs
9. Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City
10. Jams Tiptree, Jr., Brightness Falls from the Air 
11. James Tiptree, Jr., The Starry Rift


February
1. David Sedaris, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
2. Octavia Butler, Kindred
3. Altariel, A Game of Chess  
4. Melanie Lamaga, The Evolution of Reptilian Handbags and Other Stories


March
1. Roxane Gay, An Untamed State
2.  Mary Gentle, Ash: A Secret History
3.  Violet Kupersmith, The Frangipani Hotel
4.  Jennifer DuBois, Cartwheel
5. Lauren Owen, The Quick


April
1. Polly Courtney, Feral Youth
2.  Sarah Langan, The Keeper


May
1. Jacob Bacharach, The Bend of the World
2.  Rainbow Rowell, Landline
3. Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman, The Fall of the Kings
4. Joe Abercrombie, Half a King
5. Georgette Heyer, Frederica
6. Dorothy Dunnett, Queen's Play
7. Leah Hager Cohen, No Book But the World
8. Kevin Birmingham, The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses
9. Graham Joyce, The Ghost in the Electric Blue Suit
10.  J. R. R. Tolkien, Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary
11. Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin

June
1. Matt Taibbi, The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
2. Theodore Sturgeon, Some of Your Blood
3. Samuel R. Delany, Tales of Nevèrÿon
4. Julie Schumacher, Dear Committee Members
5. Bel Kaufman, Love, Etc.
6. Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, From Hell*
7. P. D. James, Cover Her Face
8. Laline Paull, The Bees
9. Eddie Campbell and Alan Moore, The From Hell Companion
10. Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests
11. Chris Beckett, Dark Eden
12. J. R. R. Tolkien, The Monsters and the Critics: and Other Essays
13. Philip Sugden, The Complete History of Jack the Ripper
14. Daniel Levine, Hyde
15. Thomas Ligotti, The Spectral Link 
16. Matt Cardin (editor), Born to Fear: Interviews with Thomas Ligotti

July
1. Nick Mamatas, Love is the Law
2. Deanna Raybourn, Silent in the Grave
3. Alissa Nutting, Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls
4. Pat Barker, The Eye in the Door
5. Pat Barker, The Ghost Road
6. Alison Lurie, Foreign Affairs
7. Reggie Oliver, Virtue in Danger
8. Jeffrey Ford, Memoranda
9. Alissa Nutting, Tampa
10. Brendan Connell, The Galaxy Club
11. Philip K. Dick, The Crack in Space
12. Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle
13. Shirley Jackson, Other Stories and Sketches (from the Library of America volume)
14. Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
15. Georgette Heyer, Venetia
16. Michael Marshall, The Lonely Dead
17. Genevieve Valentine, Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti
18. Brendan Connell, Miss Homicide Plays the Flute
19. Georgette Heyer, Footsteps in the Dark
20. Grady Hendrix, Horrorstor
21. Deanna Raybourn, Silent in the Sanctuary
22. Jo Walton, Farthing
23. Ian R. MacLeod, The Summer Isles

August
1. John Joseph Adams (editor), The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
2. Caitlin R. Kiernan, Daughter of Hounds
3. Kage Baker, Gods and Pawns
4. Ian R. MacLeod, Journeys
5. Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer, Sorcery and Cecelia
6. Sherman Alexie, Flight
7. Sherman Alexie, War Dances
8. Sue Grafton, "D" is for Deadbeat*
9. Jo Walton, Ha'penny
10. Jo Walton, Half a Crown
11. Georgette Heyer, The Corinthian
12. Edward St Aubyn, Never Mind
13. Kage Baker, In the Garden of Iden*
14. Edward St Aubyn, Bad News
15. Edward St Aubyn, Some Hope
16. Kage Baker, Sky Coyote*
17. Kage Baker, Mendoza in Hollywood*
18. Kage Baker, The Graveyard Game*
19. Kage Baker, Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers*
20. Kage Baker, The Life of the World to Come*
21. Kage Baker, The Children of the Company*
22. Kage Baker, The Machine's Child*
23. Kage Baker, The Sons of Heaven*
24. Kage Baker, In the Company of Thieves

September
1. Angela Pneuman, Lay It on My Heart
2. Edward St Aubyn, Mother's Milk
3. Edward St Aubyn, At Last
4. Charlotte Mosley (editor), The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters
5. Martin Amis, The Zone of Interest
6. Ha Jin, A Map of Betrayal
7. Matteo Pericoli et al, Windows on the World
8. Avi Steinberg, The Lost Book of Mormon
9. Jonathan Carroll, Bathing the Lion
10. William Gibson, The Peripheral
11. Kim Newman, An English Ghost Story
12. Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things

October
1. Karen Armstrong, Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence
2. Jane Smiley, Some Luck
3. Maeve Binchy, Maeve's Times: Selected Writings from the Irish Times
4. Jill Lepore, The Secret History of Wonder Woman
5. Deanna Raybourn, City of Jasmine
6. Chuck Palahniuk, Beautiful You
7. Gregg Herken, The Georgetown Set
8. Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem
9. Alice Munro, Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014

November
1. Laurie R. King, Dreaming Spies
2. Joan Didion, Salvador*
3. Joan Didion, Miami*

December
1. Jose Saramago, Skylight
2. Matt Karlov, The Unbound Man
3. Nicholas Bourbaki, If
4. Joan Didion, Where I Was From*
5. Laurie R. King, The Beekeeper's Apprentice
6. Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet*
7. Laurie R. King, A Monstrous Regiment of Women
8. Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four*
9. Laurie R. King, A Letter of Mary
10. Kelly Link, Get in Trouble
11. Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
12. Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

* indicates rereading



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