Hi all! Jerry Dale here! This will be an odd post, but I thought it would be fun to share with you my booklist. As you can imagine, I’ve got quite a bit of downtime while out traveling with my fellow Mavericks. I’m a pretty rabid reader, so here’s what I took in during 2014. Here’s to great books in 2015! Happy New Year everybody! Books Read in 2014 Top Favorites of the year… 1. All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Finalist for National Book Award 2014) 2. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (2014 National Book Award Finalist) 3. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2014) 4. The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell (Finalist for the Man-Booker Prize 2014) 5. Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (National Book Award Winner 2011) 6. The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (Winner of the Man-Booker Prize 2013) Other books read this year (in the order I read them through the year)… 7. The Motel Life by Willy Vlautin 8. Tampa by Alissa Nutting 9. Go With Me by Castle Freeman Jr. 10. Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones 11. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 12. The Embassy of Cambodia by Zadie Smith 13. The City is a Rising Tide by Rebecca Lee 14. The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton 15. Nightwood by Djuna Barnes 16. Cut Numbers by Nick Tosches 17. The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt (Finalist for the Man-Booker Prize 2014) 18. The Post-Office Girl by Stephan Zweig 19. The Maid’s Version by Daniel Woodrell 20. Going Clear – Scientology, Hollywood, & The Prison of Belief (non-fiction) by Lawrence Wright 21. The Secret History by Donna Tartt 22. Orfeo by Richard Powers (Finalist for the Man-Booker Prize 2014) 23. The Interestings by Meg Worlitzer 24. Seven Days in the Art World (non-fiction) by Sarah Thornton 25. Everyone’s Reading Bastard by Nick Hornby 26. Alena by Rachel Pastan 27. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki And His Years Of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami 28. The Great Glass Sea by Josh Weil 29. Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm 30. Geek Love by Katherine Dunn (National Book Award Finalist, 1989) 31. Tigerman by Nick Harkaway 32. The Magician’s Land by Lev Grossman 33. The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon (National Book Award finalist 2008) 34. Congratulations, by the way by George Saunders 35. Levels of Life (memoir) by Julian Barnes 36. Questions of Travel by Michelle De Kretser 37. The Narrow Road to the Deep South by Richard Flanagan (Winner of the Man-Booker Prize 2014) 38. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson 39. Bellman & Black by Diane Setterfield 40. England, England by Julian Barnes 41. Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle (Finalist for National Book Award 2014) 42. A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews 43. A Little Lumpen Novelita by Roberto Bolano 44. All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 22:41:48 +0000