Favorites of 2014
It’s the last day of 2014 and time to share my favorite books of the year. Earlier this month I counted down my choices on Twitter for the #libfaves14 campaign. Every year librarians choose their favorite books using this hashtag and they are then compiled into a big, glorious list with the top choices highlighted. If you’re interested, here’s an article about the list with a link to all of the picks. My tweets are captured below with a little blurb about each book. These were my best of the best with one missing: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. I read it after the choices were due, but it is near the top of my favorites this year. I really loved each of these titles and hope that I find more wonderful books like them in 2015.
#libfaves14 No. 10 is I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurdardottir – scary, eerie and so good.
— Anbolyn Potter (@anbolynp) December 8, 2014
#libfaves14 No.9 is A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki – the best book my book club read this year.
— Anbolyn Potter (@anbolynp) December 8, 2014
#libfaves14 No.8 is Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth Von Arnim – utterly delightful and deliciously funny.
— Anbolyn Potter (@anbolynp) December 8, 2014
#libfaves14 No. 7 is The Fortune Hunter by Daisy Goodwin. I love Goodwin's historical novels. She is a new 'must read' author for me.
— Anbolyn Potter (@anbolynp) December 8, 2014
#libfaves14 No.6 is Us by David Nicholls – hilarious and heartfelt.
— Anbolyn Potter (@anbolynp) December 8, 2014
#libfaves14 No. 5 is Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel – a book I learned about from the #ewgc crowd.
— Anbolyn Potter (@anbolynp) December 8, 2014
#libfaves14 No. 4 is Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor – a devastating and brilliant novel about loneliness and aging.
— Anbolyn Potter (@anbolynp) December 8, 2014
#libfaves14 No.3 is Good Evening, Mrs. Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes – honest stories about ordinary folk during WWII.
— Anbolyn Potter (@anbolynp) December 8, 2014
#libfaves14 No.2 is Old Filth by Jane Gardam – a ferocious tale about love and death and survival, told with humorous panache.
— Anbolyn Potter (@anbolynp) December 10, 2014
#libfaves14 No. 1 is Frances & Bernard by Carlene Bauer. Stylish, sexy, spiritual and so smart. I loved every bit of this epistolary novel.
— Anbolyn Potter (@anbolynp) December 10, 2014
Were any of these your favorites too?
