Books Read in 2014

The links are to my reviews (not all books will be reviewed).

Key:

• LB = library book
• TBR book = book acquired before 1 Jan 2014
• RB = a review book from author/publisher/LibraryThing Early Reviewer Program
• B = book borrowed from family/friends
• NF = non-fiction

January

1. Vengeance by Benjamin Black – LB (from 2013)
2. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell -TBR
3. The Uncertain Midnight by Edmund Cooper -TBR
4. Not Dead Enough by Peter James -TBR
5. The Hangman’s Song by James Oswald – RB (arranged in 2013)
6. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck – TBR
7. Shakespeare’s Restless World by Neil MacGregor – TBR, NF
8. In the Woods by Tana French – LB (from 2013)

February

1. The Crow Trap by Ann Cleeves – TBR
2. Playing With Fire by Peter Robinson – TBR
3. Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie – TBR
4. The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing – TBR
5. Dying in the Wool by Frances Brody – TBR
6. Crucible by S G MacLean – TBR
7. The Steel Bonnets: the story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers by George MacDonald Fraser -TBR, NF
8. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan – TBR
9. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton – TBR
10. The Breaker by Minette Walters – TBR
11. Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – TBR

March

1. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger – TBR
2. Death Under Sail by C P Snow – TBR
3. They Do It With Mirrors by Agatha Christie – TBR
4. The King’s Evil by  Edward Marston – TBR
5. The English: a Portrait of a People by Jeremy Paxman – TBR
6. The Office of the Dead by Andrew Taylor – TBR
7. The Time Machine by H G Wells – TBR

April

1. The Last Enchantment (Arthurian Saga 3) by Mary Stewart – TBR
2. The Potter’s Hand by A N Wilson – LB
3. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath – LB (a re-read for book group)
4. St Bartholomew’s Man by Mary Delorme – RB
5. The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L Sayers
6. The Cabinetmaker by Alan Jones – RB
7. Black Dogs by Ian McEwan – LB
8. Tantalus by Jane Jazz – LB
9. Burial of Ghosts by Ann Cleeves – LB

May

1. The Big Four by Agatha Christie
2. The Lost Army of Cambyses by Paul Sussman – TBR
3. The Dance of Love by Angela Young -RB
4. The Wicked Day by Mary Stewart – LB
5. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman – LB
6. Nemesis by Agatha Christie – TBR
7. The Witch’s Brat by Rosemary Sutcliff – LB
8. No Stranger to Death by Janet O’Kane – RB
9. The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul by Deborah Rodriguez
10. A Whispered Name by William Brodrick – LB

June

1. The Sea Change by Joanna Rossiter – RB, TBR
2. Pictures at an Exhibition by Camilla Macpherson – RB, TBR
3. North Sea Cottage by Dorte Hummelshoj Jakobsen – RB
4. He Wants by Alison Moore – RB
5. Leaving Alexandria: a Memoir of Faith and Doubt by Richard Holloway – NF, LB
6. The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
7. The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly – TBR
8. Sisters of Sinai by Janet Soskice – NF, LB
9. The Discourtesy of Death by William Brodrick – LB
10. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen – TBR

July

1. Midnight in St Petersburg by Vanora Bennett – RB, TBR
2. Casting the Net by Pam Rhodes – RB
3. A Place for Us by Harriet Evans – RB
4. Shadows on Our Skin by Jennifer Johnston – RB
5. Shakespeare: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd – NF, TBR
6. The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier – LB
7. Wycliffe and the Four Jacks by W J Burley
8. The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith
9. I Murdered My Library by Linda Grant – NF
10. Charles Dickens: a Life by Claire Tomalin – NF, TBR
11. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

August

1. The Crow Road by Iain Banks
2. The Shadows in the Street by Susan Hill – TBR
3. Dark Matter: The Private Life of Sir Isaac Newton by Philip Kerr – TBR
4. All Change by Elizabeth Jane Howard
5. The Reluctant Detective by Martha Ockley – RB
6. The Three Graces by Jane Wallman-Girdlestone
7. Mortality by Christopher Hitchens – LB, NF
8. Put On By Cunning by Ruth Rendell – TBR

September

1. The Sunrise by Victoria Hislop – RB
2. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt – TBR
3. Wycliffe and the House of Fear by W J Burley – TBR
4. Testament of a Witch by Douglas Watt
5. The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie – TBR
6. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilmore – TBR
7. Entry Island by Peter May – LB
8. The Brimstone Wedding by Barbara Vine – TBR
9. The Shroud Maker by Kate Ellis – LB

October

1. The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier – TBR
2. The Lake District Murder by John Bude
3. The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie
4. The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel
5. A Short Book about Drawing by Andrew Marr -LB, NF
6. Almost Invincible: a biographical novel of Mary Shelley by Suzanne Burdon
7. Time’s Echo by Pamela Hartshorne – LB
8. In Our Time by Melvyn Bragg – NF, TBR
9. Cauldstane by Linda Gillard
10. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
11. A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
12. She Never Came Home by Dorte Hummelshøj Jacobsen (short story)

November

1. Blue Heaven by C J Box – TBR
2. Lamentation by C J Sansom
3. The Woods by Harlan Coben
4. The Vanishing Witch by Karen Maitland – LB
5. Wycliffe in Paul’s Court by W J Burley – LB
6. Dominion by C J Sansom
7. Sausage Hall by Christina James – RB
8. Service of All the Dead by Colin Dexter – TBR
9. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte – a re-read

December

1. Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende – TBR
2. Hallowe’en Party by Agatha Christie
3. An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge – TBR
4. The Call of the Wild by Jack London – TBR
5. Seven White Gates by Malcolm Saville – TBR
6. Christmas at Thrush Green by Miss Read – LB
7. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding by Agatha Christie – TBR
8. Cause of Death by Patricia Cornwell – TBR
9. Corvus by Esther Woolfson – TBR, NF
10. The Way through the Woods by Colin Dexter – TBR
11. The Runaways by Elizabeth Goudge