Favorite Books of 2014

Each year I find myself reading multiple books at once. I can’t seem to pick one and settle down with it. Several call my name at once.
Out of the stacks beside my chair or bed, I have favorites when most have been read. In 2014, nothing changed.

My favorites of 2014 are listed below in no particular order:

Creative Nonfiction:

Committed by Patrick Ross

My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor

My Father’s Gardens by Karen Levy

Always Returning by D.A. Hickman

Ever Faithful to His Lead by Kathleen Pooler

Survival Lessons by Alice Hoffman

Growing Up Country by Carol Bodensteiner

Fiction:

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

Dear Mr. Knightley by Katherine Reay

There Was an Old Woman by Hallie Ephron

A Fitting Place by Mary Gottschalk

The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin

Bittersweet by Miranda Beverly Whittemore

How to Climb the Eiffel Tower by Elizabeth Hein

The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The Bookman’s Tale

Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler

For Writers:

Write Within Yourself by William Kenower

Self-Publisher’s Legal Handbook by Helen Sedwick

Social Media Just for Writers by Frances Caballo

Avoid Social Media Time Suck by Frances Caballo

Story Engineering by Larry Brooks

Spirituality and Faith:

Raw Faith by Kasey Van Norman

The Trail by Ed Underwood

Waves of Change by Pamela Hernandez-Kaufman LMFT,
MJ Plaster, and Dr. Melissa Riley

Now, it’s your turn. What are some of your favorite reads from 2014? 

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