My Year in Books, By the Numbers

Out of the 58 books I read in 2014:

     16 were written by male authors

     42 were written by female authors

     31 were nonfiction

     27 were fiction

     9 were graphic novels

     6 were young adult novels

     10 were audio books

Books Read in 2014

(chronological)

Kind of Cruel by Sophie Hannah

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

Daring Greatly by Brene Brown (Audio)

Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh

A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit

The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty

Drift by Rachel Maddow (Audio)

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (Audio)

The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson

My Planet by Mary Roach (Audio)

Never Have I Ever by Katie Heaney

An Irish Country Doctor by Patrick Taylor (Audio)

Dad is Fat by Jim Gaffigan (Audio)

To the Letter by Simon Garfield

Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein

The Telling Room by Michael Paterniti (Audio)

A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear

An Irish Country Village by Patrick Taylor (Audio)

Moranthology by Caitlin Moran

The Orphan Choir by Sophie Hannah

Wonder by R.J. Palacio

Kids Are Weird by Jeffrey Brown

One Summer by Bill Bryson (Audio)

I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt

Alone Forever by Liz Prince

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (Audio)

New Life, No Instructions by Gail Caldwell

The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien

Little Fish by Ramsey Beyer

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

The Big Tiny by Dee Williams

Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki & Mariko Tamaki

Save the Date by Jen Doll

Eight Girls Taking Pictures by Whitney Otto

10% Happier by Dan Harris

Landline by Rainbow Rowell

Page By Paige by Laura Lee Gulledge

Delancey by Molly Wizenberg

Elegy for Eddie by Jacqueline Winspear

A Sting in the Tale by Dave Goulson

The Secret Place by Tana French

Alice K's Guide to Life by Caroline Knapp

Happy the Land by Louise Dickinson Rich

Over Easy by Mimi Pond

Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham

Shoplifter by Michael Cho

Leaving Everything Most Loved by Jacqueline Winspear

Innocence Under the Elms by Louise Dickinson Rich

The World of PostSecret by Frank Warren

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

An Age of License by Lucy Knisley

Food by Jim Gaffigan

Tape by Steven Camden

Blue Mind by Wallace Nichols