A note on my selections: Although I liked and was moved by many books this year, these are the ones that have stuck with me, that I still talk about, that I
- Kent Haruf's Benediction (Random House / Knopf), fiction, western
- Larry Watson's Let Him Go (Milkweed Editions), fiction, western Top read of the year
- Jo Baker's Longbourn (Random House / Knopf), historical fiction, Pride & Prejudice
- Philip Caputo's The Longest Road (Macmillan / Henry Holt), nonfiction, travel, social commentary
- Beth Hoffman's Looking for Me (Viking / Pamela Dorman), fiction, southern
- Sharon Short's My One Square Inch of Alaska (Penguin / Plume), fiction
- Paul Lynch's Red Sky in Morning (Hachette Book Group / Little, Brown), historical fiction
- Jess Walter's We Live in Water (HarperCollins / Harper Perennial), short stories
Haven't read any of these. Good to find out about books you may want to look at in 2014!
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The Longest Road intrigues me. I have to say that I did not like We Live In Water as much as Beautiful Ruins, which is the one book I will recommend to everyone.
ReplyDeleteI only read one of those! :--)
ReplyDeleteLots I haven't heard of on here! Will check them out. And I loved Longbourn too.
ReplyDeleteI've only read Looking For Me and it made my best of list as well!
ReplyDeleteI'm halfway through Longbourn and loving it. Excellent vision of life below stairs, and the merging with P&P is seamless. I love the perspective the servants have of their masters.
ReplyDeleteOh wow ... I'm incredibly honored to see my novel on your Best Adult Books list! Thank you so much, Candace!
ReplyDeleteI've only read Looking for Me, so there are some other books that I may need to pick up.
ReplyDeleteI am so excited to read the Jess Walter book. Question - were any of these audio? Just curious... Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteYesh, I haven't read any of these! I am so behind. haha
ReplyDeleteI'm putting The Longest Road on my list to read.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read any of these but Longbourne and Looking for Me are both on my list.
ReplyDeleteI've read one of these! I really feel like my reading volume was so low this year!
ReplyDeleteI haven't read any of these either!
ReplyDeleteI listened to Benediction and Looking For Me on audio, and they were both incredible. I'm definitely going to have to get my hands on Jess Walter's short stories!
ReplyDeleteI'm putting Longbourn on my TBR list. I love these end of the year lists!
ReplyDeleteThis is such a great, varied list. I want to read all of them!
ReplyDeleteGreat list! I've been thinking of reading LET HIM GO - it sounds pretty intriguing!
ReplyDeleteI put Longbourn on my list when you reviewed it, and then was reminded of it from the latest Bookmarks magazine. I will read it in 2014.
ReplyDeleteLooking for Me made it onto my favorites list, too.
I loved Beth Hoffman's book, but never got to Longbourn, since I couldn't renew it from the library and had to return it.
ReplyDeleteI loved My One Square Inch of Alaska by Sharon Short. So glad to see it on the list.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read any of the books on your list, but at least three are on my must read list--hopefully sooner than later. They all sound good though!
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