I keep a running page on books I read during the year but thought it cool to run this list and tally. Also I’m great with words, not with figures. this took me way too long to figure out and isn’t precisely accurate.

total: 114
female authors: 82 [72%]
male authors: 32 [28%]
nonwhite authors: 14 [12%]
2014 releases: 76

JANUARY

1. The Culling by Robert Johnson [The Permanent Press, 2014]*
2. 12th of Never by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
3. The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
4. The Kept by James Scott [Harper, 2014]
5. Dakota by Gwen Florio [The Permanent Press, 2014]*
6. Wild Tales: A Rock and Roll Life by Graham Nash
7. Dancing Fish and Ammonites: A Memoir by Penelope Lively [Viking, 2014]
8. The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout

FEBRUARY

9. Wendell Black, MD by Dr. Gerald Imber [Bourbon Street Books/ Harper, 2014]
10. Waiting to be Heard by Amanda Knox
11. It’s Not You: 27 (Wrong) Reasons Why You’re Single by Sara Eckel [Penguin, 2014]*
12. Wench by Doren Perkins-Valdez
13. The Fever Tree by Jennifer McVeigh [Berkley Paperback, 2014]
14. Tampa by Alissa Nutting [Ecco Paperback, 2014]*
15. Safe with Me by Amy Hatvany [Washington square, 2014]
16. The Wood of Suicides by Laura Elizabeth Woollett [The Permanent Press, 2014]*
17. Fallen Beauty by Erika Robuck [NAL, 2014]*
18. PIONEER GIRL by Bich Minh Nguyen [Viking, 2014]*

March
19. A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
20. The Bedwetter by Sarah Silverman
21. The Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate Alcott [Doubleday, 2014]*
22. Low Country Spirit by Ann Hite
23. Saving the Hooker by Michael Adelberg [The Permanent Press, 2014]*
24. I Don’t Know Where You Know Me From by Judy Greer [2014]
25. CURED by Nathalia Holt [Dutton, 2014]*
26. The Bear by Claire Cameron [2014]
27. The Watch by Roy-Bhattacharya Joydeep
28. Sleep Donation by Karen Russell [2014]
29. The Light in Ruins by Chris Bohjalian
30. Visible City by Tova Mirvis [HMH 2014]*

April

31. Voodoo Ridge by David Freed [Permanent Press, 2014]
32. My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
33. You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz [2014]

May

34. Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia [HMH, 2014]
35. One More Thing: Stories and More Stories by B.J. Novak [2014]
36. Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi [Riverhead, 2014]*
37. Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 by Francine Prose [Harper, 2014]
38. So Long Marianne by Kari Hesthamar [ECW Press, 2014]
39. A Natural Woman by Carole King
40. Cure for the Common Breakup by Beth Kendrick [NAL, 2014]
41. Fallout by Sadie Jones [Harper, 2014]*
42. Astonish Me by Maggie Shipstead [2014]*
43. Trapeze by Simon Mawer*

June

44. Crucial Conversations by May Sarton*
45. Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson [Ecco, 2014]
46. Finding Peace Amid the Chaos by Tanya Brown [Langmarc, 2014]
47. Wonderland by Stacey D’Erasmo [HMH, 2014]*
48. Miral by Rula Jebreal
49. Vulture au Vin by Lisa King [The Permanent Press, 2014]
50. Arts & Entertainments by Christopher Beha [Ecco, 2014]*
51. What I Never Told You by Celeste Ng [Penguin, 2014]*

JULY

52. My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff [Knopf, 2014]*
53. North and South by Elizabeth Bishop
54. Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands by Chris Bohjalian [Doubleday, 2014]
55. A Kind of Intimacy by Jenn Ashworth
56. A Distant Father by Antonio Skarmeta [Other Press, 2014]
57. I Love You More by Jennifer Murphy [Doubleday, 2014]

AUGUST
58. Because it is Bitter and Because it is My Heart by Joyce Carol Oates
59. Ghost Waltz by Ingeborg Day [Harper Perennial, 2014]
60. Dear Daughter by Elizabeth Little [Viking, 2014]*
61. The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton [ecco, 2014]
62. Dollbaby by Laura Lane McNeal [Pamela Dorman, 2014]
63. The Story Hour by Thrity Umrigar [harper, 2014]

September
64. The Drop by Dennis Lehane [William Morrow, 2014]
65. Tomboy: a graphic memoir by Liz Prince [Zest Books, 2014]
66. Bad Feminist: essays by Roxanne Gay [Harper Perennial, 2014]
67. Unspeakable Things by Laurie Penny [Bloomsbury, 2014]*
68. The Fall by Diogo Mainardi [Other Press, 2014]*
69. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood & the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright
70. An Italian Wife by Ann Hood [WW Norton, 2014]

October
71. The Garden of Letters by Alyson Richman [Berkley, 2014]
72. WILD by Cheryl Strayed
73. Love Me Back by Merritt Tierce [Doubleday, 2014]*
74. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
75. Alice + Freda Forever by Alexis Coe [Zest, 2014]*
76. Euphoria by Lily King [2014]
77. The Department of Speculation by Jenny Offill [2014]*
78. Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story by Peter Bagge
79. Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
80. River of Glass by Jaden Terrell [The Permanent Press, 2014]
81. Science . . . for Her! by Megan Amram [Scribner, 2014]
82. The Story of Fester Cat by Paul Magrs [Berkley Trade, 2014]
83. Working Stiff by Judy Melinek [2014]*
84. Utopia by Thomas More

November
85. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
86. The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer [grand central, 2014]*
87. The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty
88. All Days are Night by Peter Stamm [Other Press, 2014]*
89. Rooms by Lauren Oliver [Harper, 2014]
90. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel [2014]
91. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
92. Gray Mountain by John Grisham [doubleday, 2014]
93. The Hormone Factory by Saskia Goldschmidt [Other Press, 2014]
94. Woman with a Gun by Phillip Margolin [Harper, 2014]
95. This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
96. Life Drawing by Robin Black [Random House, 2014]*
97. A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride [Coffee House Press, 2014]

December

98. Being Mortal by Atul Gawande [2014]* (audio)
99. The Fever by Megan Abbott [Little Brown, 2014]
100. Blue is the Warmest Color by Julie Maroh
101. The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant [Scribner, 2014]*
102. In Search of Cleo: how I Found My Pussy and Lost My Mind by Gina Gershon (audio)
103. Rewire Your Anxious Brain by Catharine Pittman and Elizabeth Karle [2015]
104. Thunderstruck and other stories by Elizabeth McCracken [2014]
105. Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle [FSG, 2014]
106. Liar Temptress Soldier Spy by Karen Abbott [Harper, 2014]
107. Sunset Park by Paul Auster
108. I Married a Communist by Philip Roth
109. Nora Webster by Coim Toibin [Scribner, 2014]
110. Redeployment by Phil Kay [Penguin 20141]
111. Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures by Emma Straub
112. The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore [2014]
113. Diary of the Fall by Michael Laub [Other Press, 2014]
114. What the Lady Wants by Renee Rosen [NAL, 2014]