Happy new year, booknuts! Last year’s bulks of offline commitments proved a lot of things,

Happy new year, booknuts!

Last year’s bulks of offline commitments proved a lot of things, and one of them is this: they may turn me into an online Janey-Come-Lately by divorcing me from my laptop, but they could never really tear me off the books I wanted to read.

However, I must admit that the number of books I read in 2014 had dropped a few notches from the number of novels I flipped through in 2013 (needless to say, I failed to complete my GoodReads challenge). I’m just so glad that most of what I decided to pick turned out to be paperback jackpots, thanks to some of my bibliophile-friends’ recommendations.

Before I move on to new novels this year, I present here some of my favorite 2014 reads in no particular order:

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Goldfinch* by Donna Tartt
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (reread)
Invisible Monsters Remix by Chuck Palahniuk
It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
A Separate Peace* by John Knowles
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby

Check out my lists of top lit picks for the previous years:

*reviews to follow

Again, happy new year! I hope you find lots and lots of amazing novels this year, and I hope you get to spread the love by telling other people about them. :)

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cross-posted at my blogspot.