This year I read a lot of short fiction and re-read some of my favorite children’s books. I also mixed it up with my favorite classics (Jane Eyre, The Great Gatsby, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Lord of the Flies), a wildly popular book of the time (Me Before You ) and one of my favorite reads of the year, The Interestings.
And 2014 was also the year when I re-read my all-time favorite book, Youngblood Hawke!
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak – 5 stars
The Round House by Louise Erdrich – 3 stars
“Saint Marie” from Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich – 4 stars
“The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” by Ernest Hemingway – 5 stars
“Two Kinds” from The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan – 5 stars
The Silent Wife by A. S. A. Harrison – 4 stars
“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber – 5 stars
Sea Creatures by Susanna Daniel – 4 stars
“The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant – 5 stars
“The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck – 5 stars
Stiltsville by Susanna Daniel – 3 stars
“A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner – 5 stars
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes – 4 stars
The Caged Graves by Dianne K. Salerni – 5 stars
Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt – 3 stars
“Red Moccasins” by Susan Power – 5 stars
“Cold Snap” by Thom Jones – 5 stars
“The Mail Lady” by David Gates – 4 stars
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë – 5 stars
The Pieces We Keep by Kristina McMorris – 3.5 stars
Catalina Kiss by Tracy Ewens – 3 stars
“Babylon Revisited” by F. Scott Fitzgerald – 5 stars
The Spirit in the Stick by Neil Duffy – 4 stars
The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer – 4 stars
“This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona” by Sherman Alexie – 4 stars
“The Fastest Runner on Sixty-first Street” by James T. Farrell – 4 stars
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty – 3 stars
“The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” by D. H. Lawrence – 5 stars
“Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates – 4 stars
“Death by Landscape” by Margaret Atwood – 5 stars
“First, Body” by Melanie Rae Thon – 4 stars
We Are Water by Wally Lamb – 3 stars
“Nicodemus Bluff” by Barry Hannah – 4 stars
“Landscape and Dream” by Nancy Krusoe – 4 stars
“What the Thunder Said” by Janet Peery – 4 stars
The American Heiress by Daisy Goodwin – 3.5 stars
The Eighth Day by Dianne K. Salerni – 4 stars
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer – 5 stars
“The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell – 5 stars
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald – 4 stars
“The Girl on the Plane” by Mary Gaitskill – 4 stars
“An Angel on the Porch” by Thomas Wolfe – 5 stars
Death in a Red Canvas Chair by N. A. Granger – 3 stars
One Hundred Hungry Ants by Elinor J. Pinczes – 3 stars
The Horse Who Lived Upstairs by Phyllis McGinley – 5 stars
Robert the Rose Horse by Joan Heilbroner – 4.5 stars
A Friend Is Someone Who Likes You by Joan Walsh Anglund – 5 stars
The Lion and the Little Red Bird by Elisa Kleven – 5 stars
Home for a Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown – 5 stars
Tommy’s Mommy’s Fish by Nancy Dingman Watson – 5 stars
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey – 5 stars
Calendarbears by Kathleen and Michael Hague – 4 stars
Pete’s a Pizza by William Steig – 5 stars
Youngblood Hawke by Herman Wouk – 5 stars (all-time favorite book)
Coma by Robin Cook – 3 stars
“Gryphon” by Charles Baxter – 5 stars
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey – 3.5 stars
Before I Go to Sleep by S. J. Watson – 2 stars
If I Stay by Gayle Forman – 3 stars
Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow – 4 stars
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote – 4 stars
“House of Flowers” by Truman Capote – 4 stars
Premiere by Tracy Ewens – 4 stars
Mary Coin by Marisa Silver – 4 stars
Dear Life by Alice Munro – 4.5 stars
Wilderness Tips by Margaret Atwood – 4 stars
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs – 3 stars
In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick – 4 stars
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith – 3.5 stars
Lord of the Flies by William Golding – 5 stars
All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner – 3 stars
The Amish Midwife by Mindy Starns Clark and Leslie Gould – 3 stars
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