My Favorite Books of 2014
I read 61 books in 2014. For comparison, in 2013 I read 90 books and in 2012 I read 60 books. But it seems that the books I read in 2014 were longer than books I have read in the past years; the graph below represents number of pages read each year:
Though I didn't beat last year or come close to my goal of 120 books, 61 books in a year is a respectable number. I didn't make great choices in my books this year, so finding the standouts was fairly easy. For some reason, I read too many dystopian future books (seven of the 61 were set in the future). Here are my favorites in each of three categories:Top Business Books
- Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmul
- Show Your Work by Austin Kleon
- Show and Tell by Dan Roam
- It's Complicated by danah boyd
Top Other Non-Fiction Books
- Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
- Five Days At Memorial by Sheri Fink
Top Fiction Books
- The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- The Vacationers by Emma Staub
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
- The Children Act by Ian McEwan