Books of 2014
Happy New Year and welcome to my fourth annual New Year's Day Booklist!
I read a total of sixty-six books in 2014. Slightly more than half were audiobooks - I listen while driving to and from work - and the remainder are about evenly split between ebooks and books on paper. Most enjoyed? It's so very hard to choose! I absolutely loved Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, The Lodger: A Novel by Louisa Treger, and We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler. New to my best-loved mysteries list are Steve Burrows' series debut, A Siege of Bitterns: A Birder Murder Mystery, the Father Christmas Mystery series by C. C. Benison, and the Cait Morgan series by Cathy Ace. I'm eagerly anticipating more from all three authors. And speaking of anticipation, I'm positively itching to read more from Ben Aaronovitch, Susan Elia MacNeal, and Judith Kinghorn. Yes, 2015 is shaping up to be a very good reading year.
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| Just a few of the sixty-six... |
Murder in the Dark
by Kerry Greenwood
Terms of Surrender by
Sheila Seabrook
Murder in Thrall
by Anne Cleeland
Manna from Hades
by Carola Dunn
A Fatal Thaw by
Dana Stabenow
Bryant and May Off the
Rails by Christopher Fowler
The Vault by Ruth
Rendell
A Red Herring Without
Mustard (Flavia #3) by Alan Bradley
Double Shot (Cue Ball Mystery #2) by Cindy Blackburn
A Serpent’s Tooth
(Walt Longmire #9) by Craig Johnson
Sick of Shadows by
Marion Chesney (aka M. C. Beaton)
Murder of the Bride
by C.S. Challinor
Broken Homes by
Ben Aaronovitch
Our Lady of Pain
by C.S. Challinor
Rules of Murder by
Julianna Deering
The Outcast Dead
by Elly Griffiths
His Majesty’s Hope
by Susan Elia MacNeal
The Windermere Witness
by Rebecca Tope
I Am Half-Sick of
Shadows (Flavia #4) by Alan Bradley
The Memory of Lost Senses
by Judith Kinghorn
Still Life by Louise
Penny (re-read)
Fatal Grace by
Louise Penny (re-read)
A Siege of Bitterns by Steve Burrows
A Colourful Death
by Carola Dunn
The Cruelest Month
by Louise Penny (re-read)
The Ambleside Alibi
by Rebecca Tope A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny (re-read)
Dying to Sin by Stephen Booth
Blood and Circuses by Kerry Greenwood
The Baker Street Translation by Michael Robertson
Fated (Alex Verus #1) by Benedict Jacka
Brutal Telling by Louise Penny (re-read)
The Cornish Coast Murder by John Bude
The Valley of the Shadow by Carola Dunn
The Corpse With the Silver Tongue by Cathy Ace
An Expert in Murder by Nicola Upson
The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (aka JK Rowling)
The Corpse With the Golden Nose by Cathy Ace
The Prime Minister’s Secret Agent by Susan Elia MacNeal
A Quiet Kill by Janet Brons
Murder Most Frothy – A Coffeehouse Mystery by Cleo Coyle
The Flight of the Silvers by Daniel Price
Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia #5) by Alan Bradley
Daggers and Men’s Smiles (Moretti and Falla #1) by Jill Downie
An Unwilling Accomplice (Bess) by Charles Todd
The Long Way Home by Louise Penny
Silver Totem of Shame by R.J. Harlick
The Signature of all Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
Unlikely Traitors by Clare Langley-Hawthorne
A Breach of Security by Susan Hill (Serrailler Short)
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Dry Bones (aka Extraordinary People) (Enzo #1) by Peter May
Forever Dead: A Cordi O’Callaghan Mystery by Suzanne F. Kingsmill
A Demon Summer by G.M. Malliet
The Soul of Discretion by Susan Hill (Simon Serrailler Book 8)
Falcon’s Return by Rebecca K. O’Connor
The Lodger: A Novel by Louisa Treger
Gone West: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery by Carola Dunn
Cold Mourning: A Stonechild and Rouleau Mystery by Brenda Chapman
Bryant and May: The Bleeding Heart by Christopher Fowler
The Taxidermist’s Daughter by Kate Mosse
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia #6) by Alan Bradley
The Cornish House by Liz Fenwick
The Walker on the Cape (Sgt. Windflower Book 1) by Mike Martin
Ongoing: The Complete Journals of L. M. Montgomery, The PEI Years, 1889-1900, editors Mary Henley Rubio and Elizabeth Hillman Waterston. For me, this isn't a 'sit down and finish it' sort of book, rather I pick it up every once in a while to read a few entries. As a life-long Anne of Green Gables fan, I'm enjoying the personal glimpses into the author's life as a young girl.
First up in 2015:
Audiobook: Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
Kindle: The Body on the T by Mike Martin
Paper: I can't decide! Something from my tottering TBR pile.
What were your most memorable reads of 2014? Recommendations are always welcome because there's no such thing as too many books!
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posted by Cheryl @ 11:15 am
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4 Comments:
It's funny b/c I just finished writing up a blog post about my 2014 reads...which unfortunately wasn't a lot because family stuff seemed to take all of my time. :-)
In December though, I read Veronica Roth's Divergent trilogy and Oprah Winfrey's What I Know For Sure. It was a super way to end the year, Cheryl. They were all books that I could read and read again.
Happy 2015!
Hi Sheila and Happy New Year! I'll pop over and check out your 2014 book post - always fun to see what others are reading. The Divergent series is on my radar but not (yet) on my TBR. Good to know you enjoyed it.
wow! that is some serious effort. No way could I read that much!! Well done. Found you via #weeklybloghop :)
Maria ~ www.mummygoesmad.com
Hi Maria - thanks for hopping by! I confess, I surprised myself with that number of books. More than half were audiobooks, though, so it was a way to make good use of a long commute to work every day (40 minutes each way). Will stop by your blog for a visit. Cheers!
Cheryl
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