Happy New Year, my friends!

I don’t know about you, but I can’t imagine keeping up with my reading list without Goodreads.  Last year I decided I’d challenge myself to read 75 books by the end of the year—in years past I *thought* I’d averaged about two books per week, so a measly 75 should be a breeze, right?

Weeeelll…between my job and writing and, oh I don’t know, having a family and a life, it proved to be more of a challenge than I though. But I did it. Just barely, but I did it.

My books of 2014 are listed below. I’ve fallen drastically behind on my book reviews, but hopefully I’ll post my favorites by genre soon. {fingers crossed!}

Not included on the list are the countless chapters I’ve read from my supremely talented (and witty) WFWA Critique Group ladies—I can’t wait to see those entire WIPs in print someday!  And I also had the privileged of reading an entire beta draft of an exceptionally gifted writer’s latest work. Since I read three-fourths of it on my kindle, it felt as if the work had already been published. It read like pure honey. I’m honored to have experienced the work.

And now, without further ado—my books of 2014—a mix of women’s fiction, mystery/thrillers, and mainstream, with a pinch of non-fiction, historical, YA, and romance thrown in for good measure:

	Us	Nicholls, David
	This is the Story of a Happy Marriage	Patchett, Ann
	The Perks of Being a Wallflower	Chbosky, Stephen
	Gray Mountain	Grisham, John *
	Golden Son (Red Rising Trilogy, #2)	Brown, Pierce *
	Delicious!	Reichl, Ruth
	Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)	Gabaldon, Diana *
	Spin	McKenzie, Catherine *
	Prince Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles #11)	Rice, Anne
	A Land Remembered	Smith, Patrick D. *
	Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail	Strayed, Cheryl *
	Once More With Feeling	Crane, Megan *
	Before He Was Famous (Starstruck, #1)	Wicks, Becky *
	Skink–No Surrender	Hiaasen, Carl
	Barefoot in the Rain (Barefoot Bay, #2)	Claire, Roxanne St. *
	Outlander (Outlander, #1)	Gabaldon, Diana *
	Endangered	Schrefer, Eliot *
	One Plus One	Moyes, Jojo *
	Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls	Sedaris, David

The Sassy Belles

Albright, Beth *

	Barefoot in the Sand (Barefoot Bay, #1)	Claire, Roxanne St. *
	Writing The Bestseller: Romantic And Commercial Fiction	Porter, Jane *
	The House on Mermaid Point (Ten Beach Road, #3)	Wax, Wendy *
	The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles	Pressfield, Steven *
	After I Do	Reid, Taylor Jenkins *
	It Comes In Waves	Marks, Erika *
	Paper Moon (Moonstruck #1)	Windsor, Linda
	Her Road Home	Drake, Laura *
	The Mystery of Mercy Close (Walsh Family, #5)	Keyes, Marian
	Hands Free Mama: A Guide to Putting Down the Phone, Burning the To-Do List, and Letting Go of Perfection to Grasp What Really Matters!	Stafford, Rachel Macy *
	The Good Girl	Kubica, Mary *
	The Heist (Gabriel Allon, #14)	Silva, Daniel
	Landline	Rowell, Rainbow *
	Forever, Interrupted	Reid, Taylor Jenkins *
	After	Efaw, Amy *
	That Night	Stevens, Chevy *
	Vintage	Gloss, Susan *
	All Fall Down	Weiner, Jennifer *
	Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns (The Devil Wears Prada, #2)	Weisberger, Lauren
	The One & Only	Giffin, Emily *

	China Dolls	See, Lisa *
	Save the Date	Andrews, Mary Kay
	Your Perfect Life	Fenton, Liz *
	Catching Air	Pekkanen, Sarah *
	The Stories We Tell	Henry, Patti Callahan *
	Chasing the Sun: A Novel	Sylvester, Natalia *
	After Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse (Sookie Stackhouse, #13.5)	Harris, Charlaine
	Sweet Life	King, Mia *
	The Shadow Year	Richell, Hannah *
	The Big Beautiful	Duncan, Pamela
	Insane City	Barry, Dave
	The Supreme Macaroni Company	Trigiani, Adriana *
	Where’d You Go, Bernadette	Semple, Maria *
	Kids These Days: A Novel	Perry, Drew *
	Mad About the Boy (Bridget Jones, #3)	Fielding, Helen *
	Bone Deep (Doc Ford, #21)	White, Randy Wayne
	Losing It (Losing It, #1)	Carmack, Cora *
	Sycamore Row (Jake Brigance, #2)	Grisham, John *
	The Expats	Pavone, Chris *
	The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry	Zevin, Gabrielle *

	The All You Can Dream Buffet	O’Neal, Barbara *
	Lost Lake	Allen, Sarah Addison *
	Ripper	Allende, Isabel *
	Command Authority (Jack Ryan, #9)	Clancy, Tom
	Slow Cooker Revolution: One Test Kitchen, 30 Slow Cookers, 200 Amazing Recipes	Kitchen, America’s Test
	The Rosie Project (Don Tillman #1)	Simsion, Graeme
	Dust (Kay Scarpetta #21)	Cornwell, Patricia *
	The Art of Falling	Craft, Kathryn *
	Becoming Josephine	Webb, Heather *
	The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress	Lawhon, Ariel *
	White Fire (Pendergast, #13)	Preston, Douglas *
	The Beast (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus, #21)	Kellerman, Faye
	Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)	Mantel, Hilary
	Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)	Wein, Elizabeth *

Last to Die (Rizzoli & Isles, #10)

Gerritsen, Tess *

How did you do this year?