A Year in Books

[gilda_elise]

Books read in 2014. About half novels (mostly historical or horror/scifi,) about half non-fiction. At a count of forty-five, not quite one a week. Yet the list of "to be read" never seems to get any smaller.



The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Boleyn Deceit (The Boleyn Trilogy #2) by Laura Andersen

Room by Emma Donoghue

The House of Lanyon (Exmoor Saga #1) by Valerie Anand

To a Native Shore: a Novel of India by Valerie Anand

One Third of a Nation: Lorena Hickok Reports on the Great Depression by Lorena Hickok

No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam by Reza Aslan

Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth by Curt Stager

Starman: The Truth Behind the Legend of Yuri Gagarin by Jamie Doran

Elizabeth of York: The Forgotten Tudor Queen by Amy Licence

Countdown: Our Last Best Hope for a Future on Earth? by Alan Weisman

Star Trek and History by Nancy Reagin

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident by Donnie Eichar

While Beauty Slept by Elizabeth Blackwell

Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire by James Romm

King's Dragon (Crown of Stars #1) by Kate Elliott

Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues by Martin J. Blaser

The House Of Allerbrook (Exmoor Saga, #2) by Valerie Anand

The Bees by Laline Paull

No Time Like the Past by Greg Cox

Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness by Neil Swidey

The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi

The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis by Thomas Goetz

The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon

'Loyalty in Me Lieth': King Richard III and Francis Viscount Lovel by Richard Mark Hogg

Bird Box by Josh Malerman

The Basement by Bari Wood

The Fire Rose (Elemental Masters, #1) by Mercedes Lackey

The Boleyn Reckoning (The Boleyn Trilogy, #3) by Laura Andersen

My Accidental Jihad by Krista Bremer

In the After (In the After #1) by Demitria Lunetta

Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England by Thomas Penn

No End Save Victory: How FDR Led the Nation into War by David E. Kaiser

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

In the End (In the After #2) by Demitria Lunetta

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides

A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention by Matt Richtel

All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid by Matt Bai

City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran by Ramita Navai

Dragon's Child (The King Arthur Trilogy, #1) by M. K. Hume

The Boy Who Drew Monsters by Keith Donohue

Five Days Left by Julie Lawson Timmer

Edgar Allan Poe: The Fever Called Living by Paul Collins

The High Divide by Lin Enger

Comments

[hsv-fangirl.livejournal.com]

I bow to you! I read zero books in 2014 :-/ Hopefully I'll do better in 2015.
At least I know where to go for some good recs!
xx

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

Just as long as you stay away from the Star Trek book, you'll be okay. *g* I should have known better. They haven't written a good Star Trek novel in a long time!

[ariss-tenoh.livejournal.com]

That is impressive. Congrats on finishing those books.

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

Thanks. But I just can't help myself. :-)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

What a fab list - and I like your covers grid, too! You know, I think I can even see some fiction in there... *g*

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

I was surprised that half (well, 22 out of 45, *g*) are fiction. I think they got lost in the crowd because I read several in a row, and then moved over to nonfiction. No rhyme or reason to it.

The grid I got from Goodreads. I love how they send you a list at the end of the year.

[moonlightmead.livejournal.com]

Whee, well done. I love reading other people's lists! Some definite themes emerging here!

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

I so seem to have zeroed in on history, politics and horror (or am I being redundant with the last two? *g*)