Books of 2014

2014 was a good year for reading. Here are all the books I read in 2014~~some great books, lots of mediocre books, easy beach reads, some non-fiction, book club books. I found a few new (to me) authors that I really like (Louise Penney, JoJo Moyes, Maggie Shipstead, Sarah Waters), and some old favorites (Ian McEwan, Anne Lamott). I sadly read the final book in the Wallander series. I discovered a few new Scandinavian authors. Unfortunately, one of my favorite authors, Anne Rivers Siddons, really disappointed me this year with her new book The Girls of August. She is one of my all time favorites, but this one I could barely finish.  My favorites for 2014 are highlighted in bold.

The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt

Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life, by Marta McDowell

We Are Water, by Wally Lamb

O Pioneers, by Willa Cather

Survival Lessons, by Alice Hoffman

The Gods of Guilt, by Michael Connelly

A Troubled Man, by Henning Mankell

Still Life, by Louise Penny

The Lowland, by Jhumpa Lahiri
My Beloved World, by Sonia Sotomayor

Reconstructing Amelia, by Kimberly McCreight

How the Light Gets In, by Louise Penny

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, by Rachel Joyce

A Colder Kind of Day, by Gail Bowen

The Cuckoo’s Calling, by Robert Galbraith

Sweet Tooth, by Ian McEwan

Me Before You, by JoJo Moyes

The Girls, by Lori Lansen

Island Girls, by Nancy Thayer
A Fatal Grace, by Louise Penny

Hypothermia, by Arnaldur Indridason
The Art Forger, by B.A. Shapiro
The Husband's Secret, by Liane Moriarty
All Fall Down, by Jennifer Weiner

The Arsonist, by Sue Miller

The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green

The Silkworm, by Robert Galbraith

The Language of Flowers, by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Virginia Woolf's Garden, by Caroline Zoob

One Plus One, by JoJo Moyes

The Headmaster’s Wife, by Thomas Green
The Girls of August, by Anne Rivers Siddons

Always Watching, by Chevy Stevens

The Last First Day, by Carrie Brown

The Silver Star, by Jeannette Walls

The Ice Princess, by Camilla Lackberg

The Vacationers, by Emma Straub
And the Mountains Echoed, by Khaled Hosseini

Seating Arrangements, by Maggie Shipstead

The Divorce Papers, by Susan Rieger

Astonish Me, by Maggie Shipstead

Out of the Woods: A Memoir of Wayfinding, by Lynn Darling

Beautiful Ruins, by Jess Walter

The Paying Guests, by Sarah Waters

The Children Act, by Ian McEwan
Off Course, by Michelle Hunevern

The Long Way Home, by Louise Penny

Dear Life, by Alice Munro

All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr

You Should Have Known, by Jean Hanff Korelitz

Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace, by Anne Lamott

Gray Mountain, by John Grisham