Top Reads of 2014

[rusty23]

Hopefully others are interested in this topic…. I know I’d like to see what everyone has enjoyed reading the past year. So, I’ll start off with mine.

Books:
The Rising 10th Anniversary Edition
Good Omens
Pet Semetary
The Shining
River of Souls
Lock In
Revival
A Simple Plan
Doctor Sleep
The Twelve
Pure

Audiobooks:
Sharp Objects
A Storm of Swords
The Cuckoo's Calling
Brimstone
Dance of Death

[Sock Monkey]

Good topic and definitely some good reads there!

My Top for 2014 would be:

Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg
Drood by Dan Simmons
Westlake Soul by Rio Youers
Seven Deadly Pleasures by Michael Aronovitz

Honorable mentions:

Dreams in Black and White by John R. Little
Driving Through the Desert by Donna Lynch

[Tommy]

All the books I read in 2014

The Innswich Horror - Edward Lee
Chiliad: A Meditation - Clive Barker
Blue November Storms - Brian James Freeman
Dreamlike States - Brian James Freeman
Weak and Wounded - Brian James Freeman

Pandemic - Scott Sigler
Jack and Jill - Kealan Patrick Burke
The Thief of Always - Clive Barker
The German - Lee Thomas
Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn

Cabal - Clive Barker
Divergent - Veronica Roth
In the Flesh - Clive Barker
Insurgent - Veronica Roth
The Inhuman Condition - Clive Barker

Dark Places - Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
Coldheart Canyon - Clive Barker
Mister B. Gone - Clive Barker
The Enchanter - Vladimir Nabokov

I Travel by Night - Robert McCammon
Mary - Vladimir Nabokov
Sacrament - Clive Barker
Mr. Mercedes - Stephen King
The Queen of Bedlam - Robert McCammon

The Books of Blood Vol. I-III - Clive Barker
Bleeding Edge - Thomas Pynchon
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
Transparent Things - Vladimir Nabokov
Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon

Cuckoo's Calling - Robert Galbraith
Allegiant - Veronica Roth
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage - Haruki Murakami
The Murder of George Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice

The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
The House Next Door - Anne River Siddons
Zombie - Joyce Carol Oates
Damned - Chuck Palahniuk
The Wolf Gift - Anne Rice

The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains - Neil Gaiman
The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine - Peter Straub
Doomed - Chuck Palahniuk
Rape: A Love Story - Joyce Carol Oates

The Orchard Keeper - Cormac McCarthy
Answered Prayers - Truman Capote
First Love - Joyce Carol Oates
The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice
The Wolves of Midwinter - Anne Rice

Beasts - Joyce Carol Oates
Dinner with the Cannibal Sisters - Douglas Clegg
Black Water - Joyce Carol Oates
The Lightening Thief - Rick Riordan
Daddy Love - Joyce Carol Oates

The Silkworm - Robert Galbraith
The Queen of the Damned - Anne Rice
Pandora - Anne Rice
The Sea of Monsters - Rick Riordan
Revival - Stephen King

Mrs. McGinty's Dead - Agatha Christie
Endless Night - Agatha Christie
High Crime Area - Joyce Carol Oates
The Mummy - Anne Rice

still mulling over what my favorites are...

[TJCams]

My top 10 of 2014:

The Terror - Dan Simmons
Relic - Preston & Child
Subterranean - James Rollins
The Shining - King
The Mailman - Bentley Little
Insomnia - King
Weaveworld - Barker
The Bootlegger - Clive Cussler
Song of Kali - Simmons
tie between Carrie, and The Demonologist - Andrew Pyper

[Lincoln]

2014 was my best reading year that I can remember. Some classic re-reads plus some new-to-me authors.

In no particular order:

Ghost Story, Peter Straub
The House Next Door, Anne Rivers Siddons
The Haunted Book, Jeremy Dyson
The Nightwalker, Thomas Tessier
The Elementals, Michael McDowell
Needing Ghosts, Ramsey Campbell

And, some short stories that really stood out:

Peep, Ramsey Campbell
The Forbidden, Clive Barker
The Trains, Robert Aickman
Various 'Oxrun Station' stories, Charles Grant

[bookworm 1]

Some of my favorite books that I have read last year.

Revival
Zombie Love
Dead Gods ( short story) one of the best pieces of fiction I read in a long time. It's by James A. Moore and is in the winemakers anthology.
Memory Tree
Horns
Primitive

[srboone]

My favorites of last year were:

David Copperfield
The Count of Monte Cristo
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Phantom of the Opera

But honorable mentions go to:

Pitfall
Twelve Gauge
Hindsight
Revival
The Great God Pan
Brood of the Witch Queen
Dreamlike States

CD chapbooks:

Holiday Horrors
The Box

And my GR find of 2014:

The Northern Star: Civil War

[JJ123]

Very interesting topic. I didn't read too much last year, but I would like to point out a book I read the previous year (or maybe the year before that?) -- His Father's Son by B. Little. I thought that was really good (wish the ending had been different, though).

I am intrigued by the concept of The Mailman. I will try to read that at some point. I take it that it comes highly recommended since it is mentioned here?

[bugen]

Read a lot of great stuff in 2014. These were my favorites:

Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
Brood of the Witch-Queen - Sax Rohmer
Carrie - Stephen King
A Simple Plan - Scott Smith
The Ruins - Scott Smith
Half a King - Joe Abercrombie
The Angel's Game - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Last Argument of Kings - Joe Abercrombie
The Rain - Michael McDowell
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Conjure Wife - Fritz Leiber
Candide - Voltaire

[Martin]

Unfortunately 2014 was not a good year for me reading wise.

The top books I was able to get through were:
* Revival by Stephen King
* Dinner with the Cannibal Sisters by Douglas Clegg
* The Adventures of the Princess and Mr. Whiffle: The Deep Dark Below by Patrick Rothfuss
* The Adventures of the Princess and Mr. Whiffle: The Thing Beneath The Bed by Patrick Rothfuss