2014 ~ An interesting year in reading!
I took the advice of others and decided that life was too short to read what you are not enjoying, so there were many marked as unfinished (The Bees; The Blazing World; By Night In Chile; How A Mother Weaned Her Girl From Fairy Tales; Long Division; The Magicians; Mermaids In Paradise; Perfidia; Red Rising; This Is The Water)
But there were also some that I kept reading (book club? as a form of punishment? prize winners that I didn't enjoy?) and wasted valuable reading time (Annihilation; Family Life; The Fracking King; Frog Music; The Paying Guests; Serena; The Son; The Turner Of Silences; The Wonders) ... whoa ... that is quite a lot of NFM reading (Not For Me).
So ... favourites from 2014 :
THE ENCHANTED by Rene Denfeld
THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS by M.C. Carey
THE LUMINARIES by Eleanor Catton
STATION ELEVEN by Emily St John Mandel
And very much enjoyed : (and just couldn't decide what to move to the Top 5)
Americanah
Galveston
Half A Yellow Sun
The People In The Trees
An Untamed State
And also great reads : (but just out of Top 5 contention)
Bone Clocks
A Dance With Dragons
Egg And Spoon
Fourth Of July Creek
Ghostwritten
The Golden Age
Shibumi
The Wolf In Winter
