Books Read in 2014

Cumulative Reading List

Here's where I'll be tracking my reading in 2014.

I've been pursuing the same seemingly unreachable goal for several years now ﹣ to read fifty books in one year.  I'm a very slow reader (very slow), so reading nearly a book a week is probably never going to be something I'll achieve.  But I keep trying.  Gives me something to shoot for.  In 2013 I read 38 books ﹣ a long way from 50, but a few more than I read in 2012.  So I'm getting closer.  Maybe this year....

JANUARY 2014

1. Coup de Grâce. Marguerite Yourcenar (1939; fiction; 151 pages)
2. The Hundred Dresses. Eleanor Estes; illus. by Louis Slobodkin (1944; children's fiction; 81 pages)
3. Fog Magic. Julia L. Sauer (1943; YA fiction; 128 pages) 
4. The Only Problem. Muriel Spark (1984; fiction; 189 pages)
5. The Universe Versus Alex Woods. Gavin Extence (2013; fiction; 407 pages; ARC)
6. Andrew's Brain. E.L. Doctorow (2014; fiction; 200 pages; ARC)
7. The Book Boy. Joanna Trollope (2006; fiction; 94 pages)

FEBRUARY 2014

8. Ten Lords A-Leaping. C.C. Benison (2013; fiction; 490 pages)

MARCH 2014

9. The Innocent Sleep. Karen Perry (2014; fiction; 325 pages; ARC)
10. While Beauty Slept. Elizabeth Blackwell (2014; fiction; 432 pages; ARC)

APRIL 2014

11. The Thief of Always. Clive Barker (1992; fiction; 288 pages)
12. The Litter of the Law. Rita Mae Brown (2013; fiction; 233 pages)

MAY 2014

13. The Bookman's Tale. Charlie Lovett (2013; fiction; 368 pages)

JUNE 2014

14. Love Story, with Murders. Harry Bingham (2013; fiction; 388 pages)

JULY 2014

15. Midnight in Europe. Alan Furst (2014; fiction; 272 pages; ARC)
16. The Antiquarian. Gustavo Faveron Patriau (2014; fiction; 240 pages; ARC)
17. The Lady in the Lake. Raymond Chandler (1943; fiction; 243 pages)
18. The High Window. Raymond Chandler (1942; fiction; 272 pages)
19. The Quilter's Apprentice. Jennifer Chiaverini (1999; fiction; 272 pages) 
20. The Collector of Dying Breaths. M.J. Rose (2014; fiction; 384 pages; ARC)

AUGUST 2014

21. The Good Suicides. Antonio Hill (2012, 2014; fiction; 352 pages; ARC)
22. Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster. Terrance Dicks (1976; fiction; 192 pages)
23. The Colors of Space. Marion Zimmer Bradley (1963; fiction; 114 pages)
24. The Weight of Blood. Laura McHugh (2014; fiction; 320 pages) 
25. The Transcriptionist. Amy Rowland (2014; fiction; 246 pages; ARC)

SEPTEMBER 2014

26. Peter Pan Must Die (Dave Gurney series #4). John Verdon (2014; fiction; 441 pages; ARC)
27. Island Girls. Nancy Thayer (2013; fiction; 302 pages)
28. The Mist in the Mirror. Susan Hill (1992/2014; fiction; 288 pages)

OCTOBER 2014

29. The Two Hotel Francforts. David Leavitt (2013; fiction; 272 pages)
30. The Celtic Dagger (Alistair Fitzjohn #1). Jill Paterson (2010; fiction; 221 pages)
31. Children of the Revolution (Inspector Banks series #21). Peter Robinson (2013; fiction; 389 pages)
32. The Dirty Book Murder (Antiquarian Book Mystery #1). Thomas Shawver (2014; fiction; 220 pages)

NOVEMBER 2014

33. Murder at the Painted Lady. Barbara Warren (2011; fiction; 186 pages)
34. The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce #6). Alan Bradley (2014; fiction; 368 pages)
35. Bliss House. Laura Benedict (2014; fiction; 400 pages)
36. The Days of Anna Madrigal. Armistead Maupin (2014; fiction; 270 pages)

DECEMBER 2014

37. The Family Under the Bridge. Natalie Savage Carlson (1958; fiction; 123 pages)
38. James Garner's Motoring Life. Matt Stone (2014; nonfiction; 160 pages)
39. The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1925; fiction; about 300 pages)
40. My Father's Dragon. Ruth Stiles Gannett; illus. by Ruth Chrisman Gannett (1948; fantasy; 96 pages)
41. The Light Princess. George MacDonald (1864; fantasy; about 100 pages)
42. Missing May. Cynthia Rylant (1992; fiction; 100 pages)
43. The Cat Who Went to Heaven. Elizabeth Coatsworth (1930; fiction; 96 pages)
44. The Reluctant Dragon. Kenneth Grahame (first published 1898; fantasy; about 60 pages)
45. Chess Story. Stefan Zweig (first published 1941; fiction; 104 pages)
46. With Folded Hands. Jack Williamson (first published 1947; sci-fi; 53 page "novelette")
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