2014 Reading Challenge



2014:
Louize's book recommendations, liked quotes, book clubs, book trivia, book lists (2014 shelf)

  • January
  1. Everlost by Neal Shusterman
  2. Everwild by Neal Shusterman
  3. Everfound by Neal Shusterman
  4. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver (TFG)
  5.  The Schwa Was Here (Antsy Bonano, #1) by Neal Shusterman
  6.  Antsy Does Time (Antsy Bonano, #2) by Neal Shusterman
  • February
  1.  The Prince of Mist by  Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  2. The Midnight Palace by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  3. The Watcher in the Shadows (Las luces de Septiembre) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  4. The Illusions of Eventide (House of Crimson and Clover, #2) by Sarah M. Cradit (ARC)
  5. Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
  6. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin (ARC)
  7. The Man by Abraham Lopez (SS)
  8.  Marina by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  • March
  1.  The Truth About Alice by Jennifer Mathieu (ARC)
  2.  The Emissary by Marc Pietrzykowski (ARC)
  3.  A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5) by GRRM (TFG buddy read)
  4.  The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
  • April
  1.  If On a Winter's Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino (TFG)
  • May
  1. Run of the Mill by Dave Patten (ARC)
  2. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
  3.  The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
  4. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (TFG)
  5. Project 17 by Eliza Victoria
  6. The Medea Complex by Rachel Florence Roberts (ARC)
  • June
  1.  Season of the Witch by Natasha Mostert
  2.  Follies Past by Melanie Kerr (ARC)
  3. The City and the City by China Miéville (TFG)
  4.  Previously Loved Treasures by Bette Lee Crosby (ARC)
  5. Why Kings Confess (Sebastian St. Cyr #9) by C.S. Harris
  6. The Utopia Experiment (Covert-One, #10) by Kyle Mills
  • July
  1.  If You're Reading This, It's Too Late (Secret, #2) by Pseudonymous Bosch 
  2.  This Book Is Not Good for You (Secret, #3) by Pseudonymous Bosch
  3.  This Isn't What It Looks Like (Secret, #4) by Pseudonymous Bosch 
  4.   A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (TFG)
  5.   The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (TFG challenge)
  6.  You Have to Stop This (Secret, #5) by Pseudonymous Bosch 
  7.  Dancing After Hours by Andre Dubus 
  • August
  1.  The Once and Future King by TH White (TFG challenge)
  2.   Fear of Flying by Erica Jong (TFG)
  3.  number9dream by David Mitchell
  4.  Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
  • September
  1.  The Ink Readers of Doi Saket by Thomas Olde Heuvelt (SS)
  2.  Ghostwritten by David Mitchell (carry over)
  3.   Jon by George Saunders (SS)
  4.  The Egg by Any Weir (SS)
  • October
  1.  Fludd by Hilary Mantel
  2.  A Sheltered Woman by Yiyun Li (SS)
  3.  The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Dr. Oliver Sacks (TFG)
  4.  And He Built a Crooked House by Robert A. Heinlein (SS)
  5.  Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson
  6.  OFW: This is My Life and Story by Fernando Lachica (FRC)
  7.  The Filipino Werewolf: The Mayan Legend Returns by Fernando Lachica (FRC)
  8.  Gitarista by Reev Robledo (FRC)
  9.  The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains by Neila Gaiman (SS)
  10.  Jack: The Tale of Frost by Tony Bertauski 
  • November
  1.  Flury: Journey of a Snowman by Tony Bertauski (ARC)
  2.  Dwellers by Eliza Victoria (TFG)
  3.  The Swimmer by John Cheever (SS)
  4.  The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
  5.  Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
  6.  The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (TFG challenge)
  7.  Doll Bones by Holly Black
  • December
  1.  Close to Famous by Joan Bauer
  2.  Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell
  3.  Fall Like Rain by Ana Tejano
  4.  The Writer & the Witch by Robin Sloan (SS)
  5.  A Faraway Smell of Lemon by Rachel Joyce (SS)
  6.  The Museum of Literary Souls by John Connolly (SS)
  7.  The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami (SS)
  8.  Door to Lost Pages by Claude Lalumière (SS)






*TFG = The Filipino Group
*ARC= Advanced Reader's Copy
*BBW= Banned Books Week
*SS= Short Story
*FRC=Filipino Reader's Choice Awards