Review Best Books of 2014

[sandy14]

Ok, the end of the year is coming up, so I guess it's time for a round up of the best books of 2014. To be honest, I looked at my shelf and the only book I've bought that was published this year is The Imaginary, by A F Harrald - a beautifully illustrated book aimed at the pre-teen market and I haven't finished it yet. I also received a noew biography of Larkin which I aim to start once I have finished Robinson Crusoe.

So, did anyone read a cracker this year, which some of us may have missed?

[Marbles]

I seldom read books published in the same year unless it is from a writer I admire a lot, or if there's something extraordinary with its publication. But I read Hanif Kureishi's The Last Word and it was good. I reviewed it here: http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?80724-Hanif-Kureishi-The-Last-Word-%282014%29

I am also reading Karen Armstrong latest book [non-fiction, of course] called Fields of Blood (http://www.amazon.com/Fields-Blood-Religion-History-Violence/dp/0307957047) published a couple of months ago.

[easy75]

Books published in 2014 that I read and liked were :

Redployment by Phil Klay
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer
Americanah by Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie
The Narrow Road to The Deep North by Richard Flanagan (technically have 20 pages left...)
Let me be Frank With You - Richard Ford

Of those my favorite was the the Anthony Doer novel. An awesome read. Richard Ford second.