The Best Books We Read in 2014
Yesterday my group, Booklovers Never Go To Bed Alone - Literary Adventures and I got together over coffee for a Book Chat and discussed what was the best book we each had read in 2014. It was a great discussion and I came away with a great list of books to check into. Some of them I have read and agree they were among my favorite books, some of them I'd heard of but not had a chance to read and some are totally new to me and sound very intriguing. Knowing that most booklovers are always looking for good book recommendations, I thought I'd share this list with you.
3500: An Autistic Boy's Ten-Year Romance with Snow White by Ron Miles
All The Light We Can Not See by Anthony Doerr*
Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay
Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
Cutting for Stone by Abrahem Verghese*
The Dinner by Herman Koch
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery*
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt*
Hawaii by James Michener
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
Living Water by Obery Hendricks
The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman*
A Perfect Red by Amy Butler Greenfield
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert*
Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt*
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (especially good on audiobook narrated by Bryan Cranston)*
We also went on to discuss what we are currently reading and some other book recommendations came up. Those titles are listed here:
Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane*
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson*
Lisette's List by Susan Vreeland
London by Edward Rutherfurd
A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks*
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant*
The Shock of America by David Ellwood
Still Alice by Lisa Genova*
Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood
The Visitors by Sally Beauman
I hope you found something you want to pick up and read.
Happy Reading!
*These books have been discussed in our book clubs and I have linked to each books resources page.
