Books I Read in 2014

My goal for 2014 was to read 85 books. I did not make it. I read 41 new books and re-read 2 books.

Top 7 Personal Favorites I Have Read This Year (Fiction and Non-Fiction):

1. All the Dresden Files books I've read so far - Jim Butcher
2. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
3. Remains of the Day - Ishiguro, Kazuo
4. Orange is the New Black - Piper Kerman 
5. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury 
6. Midnight Riot (Peter Grant #1) - Ben Aaronovitch  
7. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas  

Each category is in order of when I read it...

Bold means I now own it in book form. Italics means I own it in Kindle ebook form.

Fiction Awesome:

• The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
• The Sword in the Stone (Once And Future King #1) - T. H. White
• Fortunately, The Milk - Neil Gaiman
• The Giver (Giver Quartet #1) - Lois Lowry
• Turn Coat (Dresden Files #11) - Jim Butcher
• A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
• Divergent - Veronica Roth
• Club Dead (Sookie Stackhouse #3) - Charlaine Harris
• Remains of the Day - Ishiguro, Kazuo
• The Once And Future King - T. H. White
• Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury 
• Midnight Riot (Peter Grant #1) - Ben Aaronovitch 
• The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas  
• Insurgent - Veronica Roth 
• Allegiant - Veronica Roth 
• The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #4) - Rick Riordan
• The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #5) - Rick Riordan 
• Dead to the World (Sookie Stackhouse #4) - Charlaine Harris 

Non-Fiction Awesome:

• Orange is the New Black - Piper Kerman
• Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson 
• Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby - Sarah Churchwell

Fiction Recommended:

• The Magicians - Lev Grossman 
• The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
• Life After Life - Kate Atkinson
• The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
• Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Scorpio Races - Maggie Stiefvater
• Gathering Blue (Giver Quartet #2) - Lois Lowry
• Emma - Jane Austen
• Killing Floor (Jack Reacher #1) - Lee Child
• Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary - David Sedaris
• The Husband's Secret - Liane Moriarty
• The Bourne Identity (Jason Bourne #1) - Robert Ludlum 
• Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 
• Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
• Eleanor and Park - Rainbow Rowell 
• The Weight of Blood - Laura McHugh 

Non-Fiction Recommended:

• A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness and a Trove of Letters Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression - Ted Gup

Books I Re-Read: 

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
• World War Z - Max Brooks

  Fiction NOT Recommended:

• Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
• Uglies - Scott Westerfeld
• One for the Money - Janet Evanovitch