2014 Reading List

I love making lists.  There is something therapeutic about writing down everything and being able to check things off (I never draw a line through things, I opt for a checkmark instead).  Anyways, last year I made a list of books I wanted to read and ended up reading all of those on my list plus some.  I decided to do the same thing this year including books from a blog book club I participate in.  Before I reveal this year's list, here are the books I read last year.

2013 Reading List:

• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
• Daddy's Gone A Hunting by Mary Higgins Clark
• Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult
• The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• Room by Emma Donoghue
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
• The Hobbit by J.R. Tolkien
• The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks
• The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
• Divergent by Veronica Roth
• Insurgent by Veronica Roth
• The Chronicles of Narnia book series by C.S. Lewis

I believe that adds up to 28 books.  My favorites were The Glass Castle, A Thousand Splendid Suns, the Divergent trilogy (I'm finishing up Allegiant right now), We Need to Talk About Kevin, and Gone Girl.  I re-read The Hunger Games trilogy to prepare for the release of Catching Fire in the movie theaters.  Now for 2014!

2014 Reading List:

• Allegiant by Veronica Roth
• The Husband's Secret by Liane Mortiary
• I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
• Night Circus by Eric Morgenstern
• The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
• Matilda by Roald Dahl
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
• Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
• Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
• Z by Therese Ann Fowler
• Wonder by R.J. Palacio
• My Story by Elizabeth Smart
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
• The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls
• The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
• Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
• Nurses in War: Voices from Iraq and Afghanistan by Elizabeth Scannell-Desch & Mary Ellen Doherty
• Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean
• If I Stay by Gayle Forman
• Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
• The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom
• Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
• River Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke

I'll keep you updated on what I think of the books and my progress!

Do you have any book recommendations?