Book List, 2014

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Book List, 2014

Well, we're almost at the end of 2014, so in keeping with tradition, here's my book list for this past year. I didn't read as many titles as in some years, but there are a couple of real tomes in there too. I've been enjoying a new way of reading: borrowing e-books and audiobooks for free via OverDrive, through the Bibliotheque Nationale. You do it all via your own computer, and can download books to read there or on your tablet or phone. The selection increases all the time, and books can be borrowed for period of 21 days and renewed after that.

I greatly enjoyed the big new biography of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and subsequently re-read some of his works. Other particular highlights of the year were Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; my friend Tom Montag's poetry collection In This Place; Interior Circuit by Francisco Goldman and City of Palaces by Michael Nava - both books about Mexico City; and the wonderful Out of Arizona by frequent Cassandra Pages commenter Roderick Robinson.

For Christmas I was completely surprised and delighted to receive a special gift from J.: a signed copy of Seamus Heaney's North. I'm slowly reading through that now.

(The full list, back to 2002, is here.)

Please post your own lists or highlights of 2014 in the comments!

Book List 2014

North, Seamus Heaney

Dark Voyage, Alan Furst*

The End of the Affair, Graham Greene (re-read)

The Hare with Amber Eyes, Edmund de Waal

Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (re-read)

All Hallow's Eve, Charles Williams

Ways of Seeing, John Berger**

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez** (re-read)

The View From Lazy Point, Carl Safina