Unlike previous years, no big “You Must Read This!†books this year. Alas. But many enjoyable reads, particularly among the fiction, which was unusually heavy on the scifi/fantasy this year—perhaps to escape the lousy outside world that was 2014.
FICTION
★ A History of the Future in 100 Objects, Adrian Hon
Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer
Echopraxia, Peter Watts
The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell
The Blade Itself, Joe Abercrombie
Before They Are Hanged, Joe Abercrombie
Last Argument Of Kings, Joe Abercrombie
The Martian, Andy Weir
The Interestings, Meg Wolitzer
NON-FICTION
★ The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, Brad Stone
Love & Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere, Poe Ballantine
Hacking Hollywood, Chuck Salter (ed.)
Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One’s Looking), Christian Rudder
Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things, David Rose
Structuring Your Novel: Essential Keys for Writing an Outstanding Story, K.M. Weiland
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, Chip and Dan Heath
The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human, Noah Strycker
Marvel Comics: The Untold Story, Sean Howe
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, Richard H. Thaler
Designing for Emerging Technologies: UX for Genomics, Robotics, and the Internet of Things, Jonathan Follett et al.
The Genius of Dogs, Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods
Hidden in Plain Sight, Jan Chipchase
My Struggle: Book 1, Karl Ove Knausgaard
POETRY
★ New and Selected Poems Volume One, Mary Oliver
★ The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks (translator)
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