What I read in 2014

Inspired by that dedicated reader Ruth Seeley's recent post, I wanted to catalogue all the books I've read this year in the order I read them. Some are highbrow, some low ... some read out of duty, others eagerly anticipated like The Goldfinch. 

The stand-outs for me were The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (fiction), Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon (non-fiction) and The Complete Maus by Art Speigelman (graphic novel), which somehow I have missed reading all these years.  

The List: 
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka

Salvador by Joan Didion

The Hole in the Middle by Kate Hilton

The Girl who Loved Camellias by Julie Kavanaugh

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Dear Life by Alice Munro

Poetry and Drama by T.S. Eliot

The End of Men: And The Rise of Women by Hanna Rosin

Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem

Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon

Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman & Paul Clark Newell, Jr. (Please see review here)

Lionel Asbo: State of England by Martin Amis

Florence Gordon by Brian Mortin (Please see review here) 

A Recipe for Disaster and Other Unlikely Tales of Love by Eufemia Fantetti

The Ask by Sam Lypsite

The Complete Maus by Art Speigelman

Thirty Eight Witnesses by A.M. Rosenthal

Let's just say it wasn't pretty by Diane Keaton

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

What Maisie Knew by Henry James

11/22/1963 by Stephen King

The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta (Please see review here)

Prison Noir ed. by Joyce Carol Oates (Please see review here)

The Snow Queen by Michael Cunningham (Please see review here)

Let us compare mythologies by Leonard Cohen

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez

A Mother's Story by Gloria Vanderbilt (Please see review here)

My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff

James Joyce by Edna O'Brien

The Rise and Fall of Great Powers by Tom Rachman

The Second Plane - September 11: Terror and Boredom by Martin Amis 

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Hotel on Place Vendome: Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris by Tilar J. Mazzeo

The Children Act by Ian McEwan

Extraordinary by David Gilmour

The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master and the Trial that Shocked a Country by Charlotte Gray (Please see review here)