Hemlokgang's 100 Books in 2014 Challenge

The new year and new challenge evoke the same frisson of anticipation I feel as I finish a book and start thinking of my next choice.....what will the next book.....the next year bring?

Welcome back!

Welcome back! I hope you have a grea year of reading in 2014!

#1 - The Fish Can Sing by Haldor Laxness - *****

#2 - The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx - ****

#3 - The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin - *****

Good luck with your 2014 reading challenges hemlok. I look forward to following you. You are off to a good start!

#4 - Stoner by John Williams *****

You sure are off to a good start. Looking forward to your books in 2014.

#5 - South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami - *****

#6 - Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin - *****

#7 - The Devil's Star by Jo Nesbo - ****

#8 - Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy - *****

#9 - Four To Score by Janet Evanovich - ****

#10 - High Five by Janet Evanovich - ***

#11- Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende - *

Ouch! I usually like Allende, I do hope this one's an aberration!

#12 - Zero Day by David Baldacci - ***

#13 - Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - ****
#14 - Epitaph of a Small Winner by Machado de Assis - *****

#15 - The Obscene Bird of Night by Jose Donoso - *****

#16 - The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes - *****

Oh, The Sense of an Ending was great, glad you liked it too!

#17 - My Song: A Memoir by Harry Belafonte - **

#18 - The Canvas by Benjamin Stein - *****

#19 - The Racketeer by John Grisham - ***

#20 - Mystery by Jonathan Kellerman - ****

#21 - Doctor Sleep by Stephen King - *****

#22 - Instruments of Darkness by Imogen Robertson - ****

#23 - Sister by Rosamund Lupton - ****

#24 - The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman - **

#25 - Maidenhair by Mikhail Sjisjkin - ***

#26 - Snow In May by Kseniya Melnik - ****

#27 - Watership Down by Richard Adams - *****

#28 - Dust by Patricia Cornwell - **
#29 - My Own Miraculous by Joshilyn Jackson - ****
#30 - Black Cross by Greg Iles - ****
#31 - Ruby by Cynthia Bond - ****

#32 - The Transcriptionist by Amy Rowland - *****

#33 - Elsewhere edited by Eliot Weinberger - *****

#34 - Navidad & Matanza by Carlos Labbe - **

#35 - The Housekeeper and The Professor by Yoko Ogawa - ****

#36 - The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers - ****

#37 - The Invention of Wings by Yukio Mishima - ****

#38 - Barren Lives by Gracialiano Ramos - *****

#39 - The Testing of Luther Albright by MacKenzie Bezos - ***

#39 - The Dark Monk by Oliver Potzsch - ***

#40 - The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches by Alan Bradley - ****

#41- The Cove by Ron Rash - ****

#42 - The Snow Queen by Michael Cunningham - ***

#43 - Redeployment by Phil Klay - ****

#44 - Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima - *****

#45 - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
#46 - Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
#47 - Sleepyhead by Mark Billingham

#48 - Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih

#49 - The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri

#50 - Arzee the Dwarf by Chandrahas Choudhury - ****

#51 - The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng - *****

#52 - Hot Six by Janet Evanovich - ***

#53 - The Good Lord Bird by James McBride - ****

The Garden of Evening Mists is the best book - glad to see you enjoyed it too.

I am recommending it to just about everyone......I thought it was beautiful!

#54 - To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway - ****

#55 - The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton - ****

#56 - The Dark by Sergio Chejfec - *****

#57 - Hunger by Knut Hamsun *****

#58 - Godforsaken Idaho by Shawn Vestal - ****

#59 - The Undertaking: Life Studies From The Dismal Trade by Thomas Lynch - ***

>63 hemlokgang: what was that like as a read? It's an odd profession, but we all need them eventually. I nearly rented a flat over an undertakers while a student. We actually turned it down because it had electric storage heaters, not because it was over the undertakers. Instead we rented a house that backed onto the graveyard. At least the neighbours were quiet.

LOL!

Here is the link to the review in my reading journal:
http://my2014readingjournal.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-undertaking-life-studies-fr...

#60 - Travesty by John Hawkes - *****

#61 - The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin - ****

#62 - Phantom by Jo Nesbo - ****

#63 - Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard - ****

#64 - Pig Tales: A Novel of Lust and Transformation by Marie Darrieussecq - *****

#65 - This Is The Garden by Giulio Mozzi - *****

#66 - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt - ****

#67 - The Care and Management of Lies by Jacqueline Winspear - *****

#68 - The Long Way Home by Louise Penny - ****

#69 - Dead Or Alive by Tom Clancy - ****

#70 - Tu by Patricia Grace - *****

#71 - The Lobster Kings by Alexi Zentner - ***

#72 - The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman - ***

#73 - The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope - *****

#74 - Police by Jo Nesbo - *****

#75 - Mr. Tall: A Novella and Stories by Tony Earley - ****

#76 - A Song For Issy Bradley by Carys Bray - ****

#77 - Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands by Chris Bohjalian - ***
#78 - The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje - ****

#79 - The Breast by Philip Roth - ****

#80 - winter Journal by Paul Auster - ***

#81 - The Child: An Audible Drama by Sebastian Fitzek - ***

#82 - Cannery Row by John Steinbeck - *****

Oh, I loved Cannery Row too. A great book.

#83 - The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer - **

#84 - Snow Hunters by Paul Yoon - *****

#85 - The Time Regulation Institute by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar - *****

#86 - Blood Memory by Greg Iles - ****

#87 - The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell - *****

re # 87 -Oh, I have that one- will have to read it soon!

#88 - A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking - ***

#89 - Small: Life and Death on the Front Lines of Pediatric Surgery by Catherine Musemeche MD - ****

hemlok, you're the only person I've seen who liked The Bone Clocks. I'm still waiting for a copy, and this gives me hope.

I thought it was absolutely amazing!

I look forward to your thoughts after you read it, jfetting!

#90 - Lotus Moon: The Poetry of Rengetsu by Rengetsu - *****