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My year-in-review post is coming, but first, as the year ends, let’s take a look at the very BEST books I read in 2014. As usual, these were not necessarily published in 2014 (although several were).

(* are audiobooks.)

Those that received a rating of 10:

• Have You Seen Marie?*, Sandra Cisneros – fiction
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry*, Rachel Joyce – fiction
• Gretel and the Dark, Eliza Granville – fiction
• Grizzly Years, Doug Peacock – nonfiction
• The Dark Tower, Stephen King – fiction, standing in for the whole Dark Tower series
• MetaMaus, Art Spiegelman – nonfiction

Those that received a rating of 9:

• Wizard and Glass*, Stephen King – fiction
• Turtle Island, Gary Snyder – poetry
• Crossing to Safety, Wallace Stegner – fiction
• Fives and Twenty-Fives, Michael Pitre – fiction (the only one to make the Shelf list)
• The Brothers Lionheart, Astrid Lindgren – fiction
• The Untold, Courtney Collins – fiction
• The Vacationers, Emma Straub – fiction
• How to Build a Girl, Caitlin Moran – fiction
• So We Read On, Maureen Corrigan – nonfiction
• Sex on Earth, Jules Howard – nonfiction
• The Story of My Heart, Richard Jefferies, Terry Tempest Williams, Brook Williams – nonfiction
• The Jaguar’s Children, John Vaillant – fiction
• All the Wrong Places, Philip Connors – nonfiction
• Great Bear Wild, Ian McAllister – nonfiction
• Luigi’s Freedom Ride, Alan Murray – fiction
• Maus I, A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History, Art Spiegelman – nonfiction
• Maus II, A Survivor’s Tale: And Here My Troubles Began, Art Spiegelman – nonfiction

There were lots of 8s, too – it’s been a great year. I had a very hard time choosing a short list of examples for you, so please be satisfied with The Drunken Botanist*, Euphoria, Wayfaring Stranger, The Fish in the Forest, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, The Kind Worth Killing (by Peter Swanson, review to come)…

What did YOU read this year that’s blown you away?

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