Here is my 2014 Christmas Letter:
The books I’ve read in 2014 with my star ratings for each. An asterisk indicates a recommended read:
The Kill Order by James Dashner 3/5
A Woman Lost by T.B. Markinson 4/5: to-be-reviewed
The Death Cure by James Dashner 3/5
If I Stay by Gayle Forman 3/5
*Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan 4/5
Caching In by Tracy Krimmer 3/5: to-be-reviewed
This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper 4/5
*Scattered Links by M. Weidenbenner 5/5: to-be-reviewed
*Claudia Must Die by T.B. Markinson 5/5: to-be-reviewed
*Ghostwriter by Tyan Wyss 5/5: to-be-reviewed
The Scorch Trials by James Dashner 4/5
Wildest Dreams by Stefany Rattles 3/5
Neuromancer by William Gibson 1/5
Deny the Moon by Melissa A. Graham 3/5
*Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher 5/5
Zero Anaphora by Luke Brimblecombe 4/5
The Maze Runner by James Dashner 4/5
The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais 4/5
The Genesis Code: Lambda by Robert E. Parkin 3/5
The French for Christmas by Fiano Valpy 2/5
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walters 3/5
Deadly Accounts by C.R. Wiley 4/5
Of Mice and Money by Winifred Morris 4/5
Shift by Bill Castengera 4/5: to-be-reviewed
*Confessions from a Coffee Shop 5/5: to-be-reviewed
*The Solitaire Prince by Tyan Wyss 5/5
Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James 1/5
The Thousand Year Curse by Taylor Lavati 4/5
*Little Bee by Chris Cleave 5/5
*Marionette by T.B. Markinson 5/5
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine 3/5
First to Find by Mark Gessner 5/5: to-be-reviewed
Rock Your Plot by Cathy Yardley 5/5
Landline by Rainbow Rowell 3/5
The Heist by Shaun Jeffrey 4/5: to-be-reviewed
The Cleansing by Danielle Tara Evans 3/5
Coordinates for Murder by Darren Kirby 2/5
*Cache a Predator by M. Weidenbenner 5/5
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean 3/5
Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty 4/5
The Time Sphere by A.E. Albert 4/5
Call off the Search by Natasja Hellenthal 2/5
*Return to Mt. Snagra by Tyan Wyss 5/5
*Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion 5/5
Norwegian by Night by Derek B. Miller 4/5
Intrigue in the House of Wong by Amy Kwei 4/5
*Mind Space Book 3 by David Moore 5/5
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell 3/5
All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner 3/5
Click Date Repeat by K.J. Farnham 4/5
Siren Suicides #3 by Ksenia Anske 4/5
Siren Suicides #2 by Ksenia Anske 4/5
Siren Suicides #1 by Ksenia Anske 5/5
The Boy Who Fell into the Sky by Chad Spencer 3/5
Defending Jacob by William Landay 2/5
A Concubine for the Family by Amy Kwei 5/5: to-be-reviewed
Silo #2 by Hugh Howey 5/5
*I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai 5/5
High Born by Natalia Leigh 4/5
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman 2/5
The Empress Chronicles by Suzy Vitello 4/5
*Mind Space Book #2 by David Moore 5/5
We All Fall Down by Michael Harvey 3/5
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov 3/5
*The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion 5/5
Stars in the Texas Sky by Stephen J. Matlock 4/5
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde 2/5
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 5/5
*The Moment Before by Suzy Vitello 5/5
Roots Entwine by Victoria Bastedo 5/5
Wonderkid: A Novel by Wesley Stace 4/5
The Killing Moon by N.K. Jemisin 1/5
Highland Lord by Colleen Faulkner 3/5
Nightwoods by Charles Frazier 5/5
Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke 4/5
*Mind Space Book #1 by David Moore 5/5
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman 4/5
A clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 1/5
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain 4/5
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green 4/5
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs 4/5
Dawn of Steam: First Light by Jeffrey Cook 4/5
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green 5/5
Paper Towns by John Green 4/5
The White Queen by Philippa Gregory 4/5
Unicorn Battle Squad by Kirsten Alene 3/5
Sunrise Meets the Star by Victoria Bastedo 4/5
*Room by Emma Donogue 4/5
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick 4/5
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia Wrede 4/5
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury 3/5
*The Fault in Our Stars by John Green 5/5
Allegiant by Veronica Roth 4/5
The Pickled Apocalypse of Pancake Island by Cameron Pierce 3/5
*Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn 5/5
Rachel Author Barnard 
Happy New Year!
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