Not To Be Trusted With Knives

Books I Read in 2014

December 26, 2014 by Beth

Making this year’s list of books that I read was much easier than last year, since I started using GoodReads to track my reading ((If you know me and we aren’t yet friends on GR, feel free to friend me!))

Fiction books I finished in 2014:

• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
• Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
• Xenocide by Orson Scott Card
• Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card
• The Weight of Blood by Laura McHugh ((A book that I read with my book club.))
• We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo ((Final book club selection of the year – for January 2015’s book club meeting, but I finished it a couple of weeks ago.))

Non-fiction books I finished in 2014:

• The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to be and Embrace Who You Are by Brené Brown
• Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall ((This was a Christmas gift from Sarah and Dave a few year’s ago, but which I didn’t get around to start reading until last December thanks to all that pesky school I was doing. Finished it early this year.))
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot ((Another Christmas gift from Sarah & Dave. They know me well, as I loved both this and Born to Run.))
• A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout ((Another book club selection, but this was a memoir rather than fiction, which all the other book club books have been.))
• Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Catalan ((Borrowed this one from Daniel. Totally fascinating!))
• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ((This is an amazing book and everyone should read it.))
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Books I’m currently reading:

• The Delphi Room by Melia McClure ((I went to the book launch for this as Kalev is friends with the author, so I have a signed copy!))
• Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman
• The Signal & The Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail, But Some Don’t by Nate Silver
• Systems Thinking: A Primer by Donella Meadows
• The H. M.S. Bad Idea: An Anti-Self-Help Comic Collection by Peter Chiykowski ((This book was funded by a Kickstarter – the first and only Kickstarter I’ve ever taken part in.))

So I read 14 books this year with 5 more in progress – the exact same numbers as I had last year  ((Though I suppose there are still a few more days in the year so I might complete some of those “in progress” books in 2014.)) – which surprises me, since I was still in school in 2013 and I figured that in 2014, with both not being in school and the addition of my Skytrain commute to work, during which I do a lot of reading, that I’d have read a lot more books this year. Perhaps I’ll make one of my 2015 goals to read even more books!

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