2014 Books Read
List created by sakirose on Jan 2, 2014
List Votes: 1 Books: 48 Contributors: 1 Watchers: 0 List Type: Closed
List created by sakirose on Jan 2, 2014
List Votes: 1 Books: 48 Contributors: 1 Watchers: 0 List Type: Closed
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Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by Robert Kolker
Award-winning investigative reporter Robert Kolker delivers a haunting and humanizing account of the true-life search for a serial killer still at large on Long Island, in a compelling tale of unsolved murder and Internet prostitution.
One late spring evening in 2010, Shannan Gilbert, after... more
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Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine by Paul A. O...
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The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
Some stories live forever . . .
Sage Singer is a baker. She works through the night, preparing the day’s breads and pastries, trying to escape a reality of loneliness, bad memories, and the shadow of her mother’s death. When Josef Weber, an elderly man in Sage’s grief... more
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A House in the Sky: A Memoir by Amanda Lindhout & Sara Corbett
The spectacularly dramatic memoir of a woman whose curiosity about the world led her from rural Canada to imperiled and dangerous countries on every continent, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivity in Somalia?a story of courage, resilience, and extraordinary grace.At the age of... more
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Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
A gleeful and exhilarating tale of global conspiracy, complex code-breaking, high-tech data visualization, young love, rollicking adventure, and the secret to eternal life—mostly set in a hole-in-the-wall San Francisco bookstore
The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his... more
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You Are One of Them by Elliott Holt
Sarah Zuckerman and Jennifer Jones are best friends in an upscale part of Washington, D.C., in the politically charged 1980s. Sarah is the shy, wary product of an unhappy home: her father abandoned the family to return to his native England; her agoraphobic mother is obsessed with fears of... more
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The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.... more
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The Quick by Lauren Owen
1892: James Norbury, a shy would-be poet newly down from Oxford, finds lodging with a charming young aristocrat. Through this new friendship, he is introduced to the drawing-rooms of high society and finds love in an unexpected quarter. Then, suddenly, he vanishes without a trace. Alarmed, his... more
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An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Execut...
"A single moment of obedience by an ordinary person started a wonderful relationship and a better life for a poor street child. Maurice started to dream, because Laura showed him compassion and kindness. This is exactly what Jesus is asking his followers to do today in a broken world.... more
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Lexicon by Max Barry
At an exclusive school somewhere outside of Arlington, Virginia, students aren’t taught history, geography, or mathematics—they are taught to persuade. Students learn to use language to manipulate minds, wielding words as weapons. The very best graduate as “poets,” and... more
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The Goldfinch: A Novel by Donna Tartt
The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel.
A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an explosion that takes the life of his mother. Alone and determined to avoid being taken in by... more
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Apple Tree Yard: A Novel by Louise Doughty
An intelligent, erotically charged thriller with deep moral implications
Yvonne Carmichael, renowned geneticist, public authority, happily married mother of two, sits in the accused box. The charge is murder. Across the courtroom, not meeting her eye, sits her alleged accomplice. He wears the... more
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Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel by Helen Oyeyemi
From the prizewinning author of Mr. Fox, the Snow White fairy tale brilliantly recast as a story of family secrets, race, beauty, and vanity.
In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty—the opposite of the life she?s... more
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Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet by Bill McKibben
The bestselling author of Deep Economy shows that we?re living on a fundamentally altered planet ? and opens our eyes to the kind of change we?ll need in order to make our civilization endure. Twenty years ago, with The End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about... more
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Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis
Flash Boys is about a small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders and that, post–financial crisis, the markets have become not more free but less, and more controlled by the big Wall Street banks.
Working at... more
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Archetype by M. D. Waters
Introducing a breathtakingly inventive futuristic suspense novel about one woman who rebels against everything she is told to believe.
Emma wakes in a hospital, with no memory of what came before. Her husband, Declan, a powerful, seductive man, provides her with new memories, but her... more
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Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? by Alan Weisman
A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the bestseller The World Without Us.
In his bestselling book The World Without Us, Alan Weisman considered how the Earth could heal and even refill empty niches if relieved of humanity's constant pressures.... more
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And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
Presents a story inspired by human love, how people take care of one another, and how choices resonate through subsequent generations. Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and step-mother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in... more
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hille...
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was... more
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Afterparty by Daryl Gregory
It begins in Toronto, in the years after the smart drug revolution. Any high school student with a chemjet and internet connection can download recipes and print drugs, or invent them. A seventeen-year-old street girl finds God through a new brain-altering drug called Numinous, used as... more
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Annihilation (Southern Reach, Bk 1) by Jeff VanderMeer
If J.J. Abrams, Margaret Atwood, and Alan Weisman collaborated on a novel . . . it might be this awesome
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine,... more
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink?s landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina and suspense-filled portrayal of the quest for truth and justice.
In the tradition of the best investigative journalism and the finest writing on medicine,... more
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Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan,...
Why do England lose? Why does Scotland suck? Why doesn' t America dominate the sport internationally... and why do the Germans play with such an efficient but robotic style?
These are questions every soccer aficionado has asked. Soccernomics answers them.
Using insights and analogies... more
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Authority (Southern Reach, Bk 2) by Jeff VanderMeer
For thirty years, a secret agency called the Southern Reach has monitored expeditions into Area X—a remote and lush terrain mysteriously sequestered from civilization. After the twelfth expedition, the Southern Reach is in disarray, and John Rodriguez (aka “Control”) is the... more
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The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, Bk 1) by Robert Galbraith ( Pseudonym of J. K....
After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office.
Then John Bristow walks through... more
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I Am Pilgrim: A Thriller by Terry Hayes
Can you commit the perfect crime? Pilgrim is the codename for a man who doesn't exist. The adopted son of a wealthy American family, he once headed up a secret espionage unit for US intelligence. Before he disappeared into anonymous retirement, he wrote the definitive book on forensic criminal... more
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The Dinner by Herman Koch & Sam Garrett (Translator)
A summer's evening in Amsterdam and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant. Between mouthfuls of food and over the delicate scraping of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of politeness - the banality of work, the triviality of holidays.
But the empty words hide a... more
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Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival by Laurence Gonzales
A dramatic and extraordinarily rare survivors? view of a major air crash, twenty-five years after the tragedy.July 19, 1989. While the crippled airliner?United Airlines flight 232?wallowed drunkenly over the bluffs northwest of the airport at Sioux City, Iowa, hundreds of fire and rescue workers... more
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Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore by Walter Mosley
In this scorching, mournful, often explicit, and never less than moving literary novel by the famed creator of the Easy Rawlins series, Debbie Dare, a black porn queen, has to come to terms with her sordid life in the adult entertainment industry after her tomcatting husband dies in a hot tub.... more
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Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock
Sitting at a kitchen table some time in 1966, a young writer developed an idea that would become one the most important and controversial tales of the literary "New Wave". The writer was Michael Moorcock and the story was Behold The Man. Karl Glogauer has never quite fit in. His girlfriend... more
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The Light in the Ruins by Chris Bohjalian
1943: Tucked away in the idyllic hills south of Florence, the Rosatis, an Italian family of noble lineage, believe that the walls of their ancient villa will keep them safe from the war raging across Europe. Eighteen-year-old Cristina spends her days swimming in the pool, playing with her young... more
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Summer House with Swimming Pool by Herman Koch & Sam Garrett (Translator)
When a medical procedure goes horribly wrong and famous actor Ralph Meier winds up dead, Dr. Marc Schlosser needs to come up with some answers. After all, reputation is everything in this business. Personally, he’s not exactly upset that Ralph is gone, but as a high profile doctor to the... more
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Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health by H. Gilbert Welch & ...
From a nationally recognized expert, an exposé of the worst excesses of our zeal for medical testing
After the criteria used to define osteoporosis were altered, seven million American women were turned into patients?literally overnight. The proliferation of fetal monitoring in the 1970s was... more
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Wool (Silo: Wool, Bks 1-5) by Hugh Howey
This omnibus edition contains the Silo series: Wool, books 1-5: Holston / Proper Gauge / Casting Off / The Unraveling / The Stranded.
The story of mankind clawing for survival, of mankind on the edge. In a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of... more
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Shift (Silo Vol 2: Shift, Bks 1-3) by Hugh Howey
Omnibus edition contains the second volume in the Silo series: Vol 2-Shift, Bks 1-3 (Parts 6-8) First Shift: Legacy / Second Shift: Order / Third Shift: Pact -- The sequel trilogy to 'Wool', which takes a leap back in time to show how the chaos started.
In 2007, the Center for... more
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The Girl with All the Gifts by M. R. Carey
Melanie is a very special girl. Dr Caldwell calls her "our little genius."
Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like... more
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Dust (Silo, Bk 3) by Hugh Howey
In a time when secrets and lies were the foundations of life, someone has discovered the truth. And they are going to tell.
Jules knows what her predecessors created. She knows they are the reason life has to be lived in this way.
And she won't stand for it.
But Jules no longer has... more
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The Good Girl by Mary Kubica
"I've been following her for the past few days. I know where she buys her groceries, where she works. I don't know the color of her eyes or what they look like when she's scared. But I will."
One night, Mia Dennett enters a bar to meet her on-again, off-again... more
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The Golem of Hollywood (Jacob Lev, Bk 1) by Jesse Kellerman & Jonathan Kellerman
A burned-out L.A. detective . . . a woman of mystery who is far more than she seems . . . a grotesque, ancient monster bent on a mission of retribution. When these three collide, a new standard of suspense is born.
The legend of the Golem of Prague has endured through the ages, a creature... more
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Acceptance (Southern Reach, Bk 3) by Jeff VanderMeer
It is winter in Area X. A new team embarks across the border, on a mission to find a member of a previous expedition who may have been left behind. As they press deeper into the unknown--navigating new terrain and new challenges--the threat to the outside world becomes only more daunting. In... more
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The Giver (Giver, Bk 1) by Lois Lowry
Twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver does he begin to understand the dark secrets behind this fragile community.
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The Three: A Novel by Sarah Lotz
Four simultaneous plane crashes. Three child survivors. A religious fanatic who insists the three are harbingers of the apocalypse. What if he's right?
The world is stunned when four commuter planes crash within hours of each other on different continents. Facing global panic, officials are... more
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Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a theater troupe... more
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The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
In the spirit of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society and The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Gabrielle Zevin?s enchanting novel is a love letter to the world of books?and booksellers?that changes our lives by giving us the stories that open our hearts and enlighten our minds.
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The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais
"That skinny Indian teenager has that mysterious something that comes along once a generation. He is one of those rare chefs who is simply born. He is an artist."
And so begins the rise of Hassan Haji, the unlikely gourmand who recounts his life’s journey in Richard... more
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The Ghost in the Electric Blue Suit by Graham Joyce
Critically acclaimed author Graham Joyce returns with a sexy, suspenseful,and slightly supernatural novel set 1976 England during the hottest summer in living memory, in a seaside resort where the past still haunts the present.
David, a college student, takes a summer job at a run-down... more
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The Last Policeman (Last Policeman, Bk 1) by Ben H. Winters
What’s the point in solving murders if we’re all going to die soon, anyway?
Detective Hank Palace has faced this question ever since asteroid 2011GV1 hovered into view. There’s no chance left. No hope. Just six precious months until impact.
The Last Policeman presents a... more
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Revival: A Novel by Stephen King
A dark and electrifying novel about addiction, fanaticism, and what might exist on the other side of life.
In a small New England town, over half a century ago, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister. Charles... more