64 Books. Whew. It looks like I beat my record from last year (58). This year was very heavy on Charles Stross, who I really enjoy reading. That said, I feel like this year was much lighter on educational non-fiction. I’ll have to correct that this year, so if you have any recommendations, please send them my way!
My favorite booklast year was definitely The Slow Regard of Silent things by Patrick Rothfuss. It is one of the most unique and original books I’ve read. Period. It is definitely worth a read, and I will recommend it to everyone. The only caveat is that you must read the Name of the Wind before starting it.
Other books of note are the Mistborn and WWW trilogies. Both are very enjoyable and provide a lot to chew on.
What were your favorite books you read in 2014?
Here is the list in chronolical order (most recent last):
Red Mars: Kim Stanley Robinson
Blue Mars: Kim Stanley Robinson
Green Mars: Kim Stanley Robinson
Pattern Recognition: William Gibson
Shards of Honor: Lois McMaster Bujold
The Second Machine Age: Erik Brynjolfsson
The Economic Origins of the Territorial State: Scott Abrasion
Singularity Sky: Charles Stross
Crucial Conversations: Kerry Patterson, et al.
Capital in the Twenty-First Century: Thomas Piketty
No Place to Hide: Glenn Greenwald
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Ben Horowitz
Looking for Alaska: John Green
Otherland: City of Golden Shadow: Tad Williams
Otherland: River of Blue Fire: Tad Williams
Otherland: Mountain of Black Glass: Tad Williams
Otherland: Sea of Silver Light: Tad Williams
Dictator’s Dilemma: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Rogues: George R.R. Martin et al.
The End of the Suburbs: Leigh Gallagher
The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations: Jacob Soll
The Family Trade: Charles Stross
The Hidden Family: Charles Stross
The Clan Corporate: Charles Stross
The Merchants’ War: Charles Stross
The Revolution Business: Charles Stross
The Trade of Queens: Charles Stross
The Puzzle Palace: James Bamford
Playing the Whore: Melissa Gira Grant
Atrocity Archives: Charles Stross
The Jennifer Morgue: Charles Stross
Down on the Farm: Charles Stross
The Apocalypse Codex: Charles Stross
The Fuller Memorandum: Charles Stross
The Windup Girl: Paolo Bacigalupi
Political Order and Political Decay: Francis Fukuyama
All the Light We Cannot See: Anthony Doerr
The Slow Regard of Silent Things: Patrick Rothfuss
The Fountains of Paradise: Arthur C. Clarke
The Broom of the System: David Foster Wallace
Feudal Society Volume 1: Marc Bloch
Well of Ascension: Brandon Sanderson
Hero of Ages: Brandon Sanderson
The $12 Million Dollar Stuffed Shark: Don Thompson
Make it So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction: Nathan Shedroff and Christopher Noessel
*Migration Note (06/2024): I used Chat GPT to generate links for each of the books. I did not specify where the links should go, nor did I check to see if they made sense.