Books I Read in 2014

Wonderful story! Read with my 4 and 5 year old sons.

Decent first novel. Page turner.

Excellent first novel.

Good stuff. Lots of games, good analyses.

Superior story-telling.

Very well done. Four stories delicately connected.

Very superior story-telling. Deeply affecting.

Four variably frightening love-gone-wrong stories.

Entertaining, informative read from experienced stock investing teacher and guru. Let's see if it works!

Read to two older sons. Fun, likable characters, including a star superhero, poetry-writing squirrel.

Broad review of the basics. Lots of encouraging tips.

Inspirational. Want to learn more math.

The story of abolitionist John Brown told most imaginatively by a freed slave boy masquerading as a girl.

Informative. Inspirational.

Cogent. Greater positive outlook leads to better health. How do we all get there?

Classic, moving story read to my sons.

Iconic masterwork examines the lives and psyches of some of our 1940 peace time Army in Hawaii.

Fascinating history and analysis by Oxford astrophysics professor.

Lives of three young friends forever sadly redirected by an ultimately fatal poisoning. Murder? Very well written.

Mysterious, intriguing.

Almost.

Yes! From the unlikely, the far-fetched there eventually, gracefully emerges glory.

Classic first English style novel about Nigeria by a Nigerian. Moving story.

Superbly constructed, deliciously written, brilliant first novel!

Good story and analysis of the tragedy and its aftermath. Lake Superior, November 10, 1975.

Masterpiece of story telling! Brilliantly constructed and very cleverly and originally executed. Big congrats to Ellie Catton, our new youngest Man Booker Prize winner (2013)!

Magical! Voted Best of the Booker in 2008.

Fun read. Original. Short short story expert demo.

Entertaining page-turner.

Introducing the inimitable Russian inspector Arkady Renko.

On being a non-American Black in America and Nigeria.

Great page turner!

The dedicated and brilliant founder of Birchwood School tells the inside story of the birth, growth and plan for the future of this small, private, unique and wonderful educational institution.

Diverse, unique pieces.

Rather extraordinary story, very well told.

Bold, irresistible page-turner! Totalitarian North Korean horror story from which blossoms a true love story. Couldn't put it down.

Tragic, disturbing tale, very well told. Alternate chapters tell two parts of the story, one part moving backwards in time so, with perfect timing, it ends at the beginning.

Good long story.

Loved it. Simple but very moving story told insightfully, gently, gracefully.

Real page turner. Love and war.

Intriguing, very well told tale of a long-ago, remote village consisting of a landowner and his tenants whose suspicions, misinterpretations and moral ambiguity lead to its destruction.

Funny, fun read. Dentistry, relationships and religion, with a side of baseball.

Two stories, told alternately, intersect unexpectedly.

Twenty wonderful stories.

Three nostalgic Parisian musings by our 2014 Nobel laureate.

Wonderful story of heroic success despite disability. Read to my 5 and 6 year old sons. 1950 Newbery Medal winner.

Thoroughly brilliant first novel! Hilarious heartbreaker. Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winner.

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