December is here. The final month of the year, where everyone starts publishing their "best books of the year" lists and I start to compile my reading list for 2015. More on that next month probably. This month is our last chance to meet our reading goals for 2014 (if we set any - I did, of course, and I tracked the whole thing on a spreadsheet, because that's who I am).
I had two goals for 2014.
1) Read 60 books (I usually set my goal somewhere around 50, then adjust as life happens). I'm about 50 pages from finishing my 58th book of the year right now, so things are looking good for that.
2) Read about one "big" book per month that I have wanted to read before, but never found the time. An attempt to clear away some of my backlog that really worked out well, I think. Read some really interesting books and checked off a few bucket-list books.
Here's my final list of "big" books for 2014 in general order of how much I enjoyed them (I'm going to start Midnight's Children next week and finish before the end of the month).
| Author | Title |
| Laszlo Krasznahorkai | Seiobo There Below |
| David Markson | This is Not a Novel |
| Georges Perec | Life A User's Manual |
| Roberto Bolano | The Savage Detectives |
| Bruno Schulz | The Street of Crocodiles + Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Idiot |
| Jorge Luis Borges | Labyrinths |
| Neal Stephenson | Cryptonomicon |
| John LeCarre | The Spy Who Came in From the Cold + The Looking Glass War |
| Italo Calvino | Invisible Cities |
| Haruki Murakami | 1Q84 |
| Kobo Abe | The Woman in the Dunes |
| Vladimir Nabokov | Pale Fire |
| Thomas Pynchon | Gravity's Rainbow |
| J.G. Ballard | Concrete Island |
So, what do you have left to read in 2014? What are you reading right now?
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