Wednesday, January 01, 2014

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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2 comments:

  1. Love the ticker. I never thought of adding one for books to my blog!

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  2. You should! It's very easy, and there are some really cute thingies to choose from. This one is from the Ticker Factory website, but I'm sure there are others out there if you want to explore a bit.

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