2014

My complete reading list for 2014. As you can see, I was very busy.

Personal:

The Blade Itself (The First Law #1) by Joe Abercrombie

Before They Are Hanged (The First Law #2) by Joe Abercrombie

Last Argument of Kings (The First Law #3) by Joe Abercrombie

Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive #2) by Brandon Sanderson

The Emperor’s Soul by Brandon Sanderson

The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson

The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line (Veronica Mars #1) by Rob Thomas and Jennifer Graham

The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower #1) by Stephen King

The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower #2) by Stephen King

The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle #1) by Patrick Rothfuss

The Wise Man’s Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle #2) by Patrick Rothfuss

Dragon Prince (Book #1) by Melanie Rawn

Assigned Reading:

Paul’s Case by Willa Cather

Guests of the Nation by Frank O’Connor

Yolanda by Oscar Casares

A & P by John Updike

Car Crash While Hitchhiking by Denis Johnson

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce

Shiloh by Bobbie Ann Mason

My Son the Fanatic by Hanif Kureishi

Tiny, Smiling Daddy by Mary Gaitskill

Greasy Lake by T.C. Boyle

A City of Churches by Donald Barthelme

Tuesday Siesta by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

Good Advice is Rarer Than Rubies by Salman Rushdie

Mr. Andrews by E.M. Forster

The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant

Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Woodstock by Sherman Alexie

And of Clay Are We Created by Isabel Allende

The Dummy by Susan Sontag

Rape Fantasies by Margaret Atwood

Axolotl by Julio Cortázar

Not a Good Girl by Perri Klass

Suicide as a Sort of Present by David Foster Wallace

A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor

Hollywood! by Dagoberto Gilb

Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway

A Dill Pickle by Katherine Mansfield

The Blue Jar by Isak Dinesin

The Moths by Helena Maria Viramontes

The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewitt

Old Woman Magoun by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Yellow Woman by Leslie Marmon Silko

Looking for a Rain God by Bessie Head

The Werewolf by Angela Carter

The Rememberer by Aimee Bender

Book Club:

Stupid and Contagious by Caprice Crane

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg