2014 Book Reviews by Rating

A list of my 2014 book reviews by rating. Click the rating to jump to the corresponding section.

• 4.5⭐
• 4⭐
• 3.5⭐
• 3⭐
• 2⭐
• 1⭐

• The Mysterious Howling by Maryrose Wood, read by Katherine Kellgren

• The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
• The Bite of the Mango by Mariatu Kamara and Susan McClelland
• Dark Fire by C. J. Sansom
• Dreadnought by Cherie Priest, read by Kate Reading
• Found: The Missing: Book One by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
• The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson
• His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik
• I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb
• In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
• Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
• Lisey’s Story by Stephen King
• The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan, read by Joshua Swanson
• More Than You Know by Beth Gutcheon
• Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan, read by Ari Fliakos
• NPR Favorite Driveway Moments: Radio Stories That Won’t Let You Go
• The Paper Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg
• The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi
• The Penderwicks at Point Mouette by Jeanne Birdsall, read by Susan Denaker
• Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
• Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
• The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan, read by Joshua Swanson
• Spring Fever by Mary Kay Andrews, read by Kathleen McInerney
• The Sunday Wife by Cassandra King
• Sweet Nothings by Janis Thomas
• This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash
• Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
• The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
• Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
• The Witches by Roald Dahl

• Blubber by Judy Blume
• Testimony: The Legacy of Schindler’s List and the USC Shoah Foundation

• The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka, read by Samantha Quan with Carrington MacDuffie
• City of Thieves by David Benioff, read by Ron Perlman
• Good Harbor by Anita Diamant
• The Innocent by David Baldacci, read by David McLarty and Orlagh Cassidy
• Jane by April Lindner
• The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin, read by Mark Bramhall
• Salt by Isabel Zuber
• Sovereign by C. J. Sansom
• Vintage by Susan Gloss

• Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by various
• Season of the Dragonflies by Sarah Creech

• The Bat by Jo Nesbø, read by John Lee

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