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READING 2014
Attached is a list of the books I read in
2014. Sometimes I add markers like (*) to indicate books I
particularly like. I also try to keep track of how many books of a
particular kind (novel, etc.) and from a given country and century
(Eng. 19th, etc.), I read each year. For the complete list of my
reading since 1958, see
http://www.seltzerbooks.com/readall.html
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January
1 Stephen Greenblatt 1 ***The Swerve
AMERICAN 21st 1 ESSAY 1
February
2 Roberta Kalechofsky 8 ***The Book of Anonymities
(in mss.) AMERICAN 21st 1 NOVEL 1
3 Julien Barnes 13 **Levels of Life BRITISH 21st 1 ESSAY 2
4 Katherine Pancol 1 The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles FRENCH 21st 1
NOVEL 2
5 Ammianus Marcellinus 1 The Later Roman Empire
ROMAN 4th 1 HISTORY 1
6 Chretien de Troyes 1 Erec and Enide FRENCH 12th 1 NOVEL
3
7 Chretien de Troyes 2 Cliges FRENCH 12th 2 NOVEL 4
8 Chretien de Troyes 3 Yvain FRENCH 12th 3 NOVEL 5
March
9 Chretien de Troyes 4 Lancelot FRENCH 12th 4 NOVEL 5
10 Mary L. Day Arms 1 The World As I Have Found It AMERICAN 19th
1 ESSAY 3
11 Helen Keller 1 ****The Story of My Life AMERICAN 20th 1 BIO 1
12 Jennifer Barclay 1 **Falling in Honey BRITISH 21st 1 BIO 2
13 Nikos Kazantzakis 5 Journeys GREEK 20th 1 TRAVEL 1
14 Alfred Wesley Wishart 1 A Short History of Monks and
Monasteries AMERICAN 20th HISTORY 2
15 Kate Atkinson 1 ****Life After Life BRITISH 21st 2 NOVEL 6
April
16 Rachel Joyce 1 ****Perfect BRITISH 21st 3 NOVEL 7
17 Bob Seltzer 3 ****Cynk, book 1 (ms.) AMERICAN 21st 1 NOVEL 8
18 Donna Tartt 1 **The Secret History AMERICAN 21st 2 NOVEL 9
19 Rachel Joyce 2 *****The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Frye
BRITISH 21st 4 NOVEL 10
20 Bob Seltzer 4 Cynk, book 2 (ms.) AMERICAN 21st 2 NOVEL 11
21 Thomas Cathcart 1 Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those
Pearly Gates AMERICAN 21st 3 HUMOR 1
22 Tom Dykstra 2 ***Hallowed Be Thy Name AMERICAN 21st 4
THEOLOGY 1
May
23 Anatole France 4 Thais (in French) FRENCH 20th 1 NOVEL 12
24 Max Brooks 1 World War Z AMERICAN 21st 5 NOVEL 13
25 Markus Zusak 1 The Book Thief AUSTRALIAN 21st 1 NOVEL 14
26 Jo Nesbo 1 **** The Snowman NORWEGIAN 21st 1 NOVEL 15
27 Henning Mankell 1 Faceless Killers SWEDISH 20th 1 NOVEL
16
28 Stephen King 1 *** The Wind Through the Keyhole AMERICAN 21st
6 NOVEL 17
June
29 Mark Helprin 2 ***Winter's Tale AMERICAN 20th 2 NOVEL 18
30 Jan-Philipp Sendker 2 A Well-Tempered Heart GERMAN 21st 1
NOVEL 19
31 Carole Spearin McCauley 1 ***Cold Steal AMERICAN 21st 7 NOVEL
20
32 Jonas Jonasson 1 ***The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the
Window and Disappeared SWEDISH 21st 1 NOVEL 21
33 Bob Seltzer 5 Cynk, new draft (ms.) AMERICAN 21st 8 NOVEL 22
34 Carole Spearin McCauley 2 A Winning Death AMERICAN 21st 9
NOVEL 23
35 Donna Tartt 2 ***The Goldfinch AMERICAN 21st 10 NOVEL 24
July
36 Amitav Ghosh 1 ****Sea of Poppies INDIAN 21st 1 NOVEL 25
37 Edmund de Waal 1 * The Hare with Amber Eyes BRITISH 21st 4
BIO 3
August
38 Amitav Ghosh 2 River of Smoke INDIAN 21st 2 NOVEL 26
39 W. G. Sebald 1 ****The Emigrants GERMAN/JEWISH 20th 1 NOVEL
27
40 Amy Bloom 2 Lucky Us AMERICAN 21st 10 NOVEL 28
41 Jo Nesbo 2 **The Bat NORWEGIAN 21st 2 NOVEL 29
42 Jo Nesbo 3 **Cockroaches NORWEGIAN 21st 3 NOVEL 30
43 Stephen King 14 **Dreamcatcher AMERICAN 21st 11 NOVEL 31
44 Simon Van Booy 1 ****The Illusion of Separateness
AMERICAN 21st 12 NOVEL 32
45 Roberta Kalechofksy 9 ***The Book of Anonymities, second
draft, in mss. AMERICAN 21st 13 NOVEL 33
September
46 Donna Tartt 3 The Little Friend AMERICAN 21st 14 NOVEL 34
47 Daniel Kehlmann 1 ***Measuring the World AUSTRIAN 21st
1 NOVEL 35
October
48 David Mitchell 6 ***The Bone Clocks BRITISH 21st 5 NOVEL 36
November
48 Mo Hayder 1 ** Poppet BRITISH 21st 6 NOVEL 37
49 Alexander McCall Smith 18 **The Handsome Man's De Luxe Cafe
BOTSWANA 21st 18 NOVEL 38
December
50 Amitav Ghosh 3 **The Hungry Tide INDIAN 21st 3 NOVEL 39
51 Eleanor Catton 1 ***The Luminaries NEW ZEALAND 21st 1 NOVEL
40
52 J. M. Barrie 1 The Admirable Mr. Crichton BRITISH 20th
1 PLAY 1
53 Michel Faber 2 *The Book of Strange New Things BRITISH 21st 6
NOVEL 41
54 Hilary Mantel 1 **Bring Up the Bodies BRITISH 21st 7 NOVEL 42
55 Mary Karr 1 Lit AMERICAN 21st 15 BIOGRAPHY 1
56 Tana French 5 ****The Secret Place IRISH 21st 1 NOVEL 43
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