Gail's 10 Favorite Books from 2014 (Miss Carriger Recommends)

Well my dear Gentle Reader, the end of the month ~ and year ~ is upon us. This month the book group read Daughter of the Empire by Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts and I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. I went on to reread the entire trilogy, and it didn’t disappoint. It never does. I will say that this time around I noticed some of the slower bits, the whole exile sequence in the final book has never really appealed to me and I usually skim it on a reread. But I still think the trilogy holds the test of time as an excellent fantasy series and one of the best strong women leaders out there. I’m not going to write a full review, because you know that I love it. Instead…

Here are my reading statistics for 2014:

52: Number of Fiction books read and finished in 2014

10 Romance
8 YA
14 Fantasy
9 Science Fiction (includes steampunk)
4 Urban Fantasy
5 Anthology
2 Other
(Many fit into multiple genres I just categorized by what I felt fit best)

63: Number of fiction books read and rejected in 2014
- 13 full, the rest samples (I do NOT believe that once started I have to finish a book)
27: Number of books deleted in extreme annoyance after only a few lines

10 Favorite Books I read in 2014

Sword Masters ~ Selina Rosen
Black Dog ~ Rachel Neumeier (review here)
Newt’s Emerald ~ Garth Nix (review here)
Clockwork Heart ~ Dru Pagliassotti (review here)
Sworn to Raise: Courtlight #1 ~ Terah Edun
Paradox series ~ Rachel Bach (review of first book here)
To Play the Lady ~ Naomi Lane (warning, unfinished series!)
Theirs Not to Reason Why series ~ Jean Johnson
Dark Triumph ~ Robin LaFevers (review of first two books in this series here)
Bitterwood ~ Rowan Speedwell (review here)

So if you are looking for something to read in 2015, these are a few of my recommendations. I’m looking forward to a lot of travel at the beginning of 2015, which means lots of reading. I’m hoping to match my numbers from 2014, if not beat them. And fingers crossed I discover 10 more books I enjoyed. Can’t wait for 2015!

{What is Gail’s Book Group reading for December? Daughter of the Empire by Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts}

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