2014 Reads
January
Where There’s Love, There’s Hate by Adolfo Bioy Casares and Silviana Ocampo
A Schoolboy’s Diary by Robert Walser
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
A Sport and A Pastime by James Salter
Filboid Studge, The Story of the Mouse that Helped by Saki
A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
February
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
Love & Misadventure by Lang Leav
Now Then and Elsewhen by Nikki Alfar
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Summer Without Men by Siri Hustvedt
The Mango Bride by Marivi Soliven
Monet at Giverny by Karin Sagner
March
The Kite of Stars and Other Stories by Dean Francis Alfar
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Alienist by Caleb Carr
After The Body Displaces Water by Daryll Delgado
April
Longitude by Dava Sobel
Blankets by Craig Thompson
Civilwarland in Bad Decline by George Saunders
Nobody Move by Denis Johnson
The Day of the Oprichnik by Vladimir Sorokin
May
If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino
Table for Two by Marla Miniano
The Athenian Murders by Jose Carlos Somoza
The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Sad Comics for Dirty Lovers by Rob Cham
Abangan: The Best Filipino Komiks 2014 edited by Rob Cham, Adam David, Carljoe Javier, and Elbert Or
Frost/Nixon by Peter Morgan
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
June
Fairy Tale Fail by Mina V. Esguerra
The Graveyard by Marek Hlasko
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
Sin City: A Dame To Kill For by Frank Miller
July
Sylvia by Leonard Michaels
The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
August
Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark
In Love by Alfred Hayes
September
Two Crocodiles by Fyodor Dostoevsky and Felisberto Hernandez
Moon Palace by Paul Auster
Summer Blonde by Adrian Tomine
The Trouble with Poetry by Billy Collins
October
The Woman Upstairs by Clare Messud
The Tenth Man by Graham Greene
The Whispering Muse by Sjon
Trese: Tales from the Diabolical by Budjette Tan and Kajo Baldisimo
The Verificationist by Donald Antrim
November
Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
Tenth of December by George Saunders
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
December
Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
There Once Lived A Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Missing Person by Patrick Modiano
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine
Bonsai by Alejandro Zambra
Great books. I’m inspired!