The List 2

Last year, I was very proud of myself for having read 75 books.  My goal was to match that.  I more than did that!  Next year, I hope you read at least 80 books, and I also hope to hit some old classics that I somehow missed in my growing-up, and I also hope to add a bit more non-fiction (though I wasn't devoid of that this year).  And, as per the one-year tradition, I present my books of 2014 and links to their review if I wrote them.  There are many reviews coming, however.  Don't you worry.

1. A Flaw in the Blood (3 stars)
2. A Long Way From Chicago (4)
3. A Year Down Yonder (5)
4. Atonement (3)
5. Catcher in the Rye (4)
6. The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy(4)
7. The Notebook (1)
8. The House of Hades (5)
9. The 39 Clues Unstoppable: Nowhere to Run (3)
10. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (4)
11. Bleeder: a Memoir (5)
12. Teeth (1)
13. Stardust (3)
14. Divergent (2)
15. Child of the Mountains (5)
16. Defy (4)
17. I'd Tell You I love You, But then I'd Have to Kill You (4)
18. The Poisonwood Bible (3)
19. Watership Down (4)
20. Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (5)
21. Over Sea, Under Stone (2)
22. Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover (4)
23. The 39 Clues Unstoppable: Breakaway (4)
24. Only the Good Spy Young (5)
25. The 39 Clues Unstoppable: Countdown (4)
26. Out of Sight, Out of Time (5)
27. The Academy (2)
28. United We Spy (5)
29. Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo (3)
30. Insurgent (2)
31. A Game of Thrones (4)
32. The Supernaturalist (4)
33. Trouble According to Humphrey (5)
34. Allegiant (3)
35. Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution (5)
36. Rip Van Winkle (3)
37. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (4)
38. Our Town (5)
39. The Curse of the Romanovs (2)
40. Doctor Zhivago (4)
41.  Ender's Shadow (5)
42. The Scarlet Letter (4)
43. Five Quarts: A Personal and Natural History of Blood (3)
44. A Clash of Kings (4)
45. The Elite (2)
46. Mary Poppins (3)
47. Summer of the Monkeys (4)
48. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2)
49. River Secrets (4)
50. The Dyslexic Advantage (5)
51. The DaVinci Code (3)
52. City of Bones (3)
53. Sideways Stories from Wayside School (5)
54. The Christmas Box (4)
55. Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows (4) (Full Review soon!)
56. The Five Ancestors: Tiger (2)
57. Fablehaven (4)
58. Knightley Academy (3)
59. Seven Wonders:  The Colussus Rises (4) (Full Review Soon!)
60. Books of Elsewhere: Spellbound (4)
61. City of Ashes (4)
62. The Five Ancestors: Monkey (3)
63. The 39 Clues Unstoppable: Flashpoint (4)
64. The One (2)
65. Promise Me (3)
66. Lost December (3)
67. The Christmas List (4)
68. Books of Elsewhere: The Second Spy (5)
69. The Amulet of Samarkand (5)
70. Looking for Alaska (3)
71. Wool (4)
72. The Shakespeare Stealer (5)
73. Wool 2: Proper Gauge (3)
74. Wool 3: Casting Off (5)
75. Wool 4: The Unraveling (5)
76. Wool 5: The Stranded (4)
77. Forest Born (4)
78. City of Glass (4)
79. Christmas on Nutcracker Court (1)
80. The Blood of Olympus (4)
81. Finding Noel (3)
82. The Gift (2)
83. Five Ancestors: Snake (2)
84. Seven Wonders: Lost in Babylon (5)
85. Out the Rear Window (4)
86. Three Times Lucky (4)
87.  Books of Elsewhere: The Strangers (5)
88. Club CSI: The Case of the Digital Deception (2)
89. Tiger Lily (5)
90. Sahara Special (5) (Full Review Soon!)
91. First Hero (2)
92. The Grapes of Wrath (5) (Full Review Soon!)
93. Club CSI: The Case of the Plagued Play (4)
94. The Return of Abracadabra (3)
95. Rise of the Evening Star (4)
96. The Secret Prince (3)
97. The Tales of Beedle the Bard (3)
98. Seven Wonders: The Tomb of Shadows (5)
99. Capt. Hook: The Adventures of a Notorious Youth (3) (Full Review Soon!)
100. The Bridge of San Luis Rey (4) (Full Review Soon!)
101. Books of Elsewhere: Still Life (5)
102. Vampire Plagues 2: Paris, 1850 (3) (Yes, I am very ashamed of that 3 stars, and yes, I did read the second one first.  I thought it was the first one.  I'll read the first now).


Remember that many that are not reviewed will be in the future--but I don't review books that are part of a series individually.  So, I have to finish the series (or get to the currently latest published) in order to review it.
On to 2015 and bigger and better!

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