So, would I maintain my rankings in retrospect? Brontosaurs, Drift, Nation, Lock In, the third Magicians book, Ocean at the End of the Lane, the Serpent of Venice, The Golem and the Jinni, The Martian, Hallucinations, It Can't Happen Here, We are All Completely Besides Ourselves...damn I read some good stuff in 2014. Some of the best thanks to Mean Mr. Mustard either due to recommendations this year, or as continuations of past recommendations.
Rabid, Rats. I could have done without those. And Parasite. I'm still bitching about it, so I know it made me mad. And the Incrementalists? I'm amazed it was published. I remember the pain of trying to finish it more than the plot itself (had to do with shared mental constructs). And I learned I can mostly do without Stephen King. 1963 was passable, but overall, King's books bored me.
I've already got things queued up for 2015. Finishing Last of the Doughboys. A number of management and comp sci books. Finally reading Chris Hadfield's books and finishing Doogie Howser's Choose Your Own Adventure autobiography (I could have counted that for 2014, but I think I need to do more iterations).
| 11/2/2014 | Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf: The BBC Adaptation of the One Man Show | Hadoke, Toby | 6.50 |
| 11/1/2014 | Silver (the final exam is survival) | Wooding, Chris | 6.00 |
| 10/28/2014 | Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains, The | Gaiman, Neil (illustrated by Eddie Campbell) | 9.00 |
| 10/21/2014 | Wintersmith | Pratchett, Terry | 8.00 |
| 10/14/2014 | Akata Witch | Okorafor, Nnedi | 7.00 |
| 9/28/2014 | Magician's Land, The (The Magicians Book III) | Grossman, Lev | 9.50 |
| 9/22/2014 | Nation | Pratchett, Terry | 9.25 |
| 9/20/2014 | PragPub: The Second Iteration (Issue #61, July 2014) | Various | 7.50 |
| 9/15/2014 | Cibola Burn (The Expanse Book IV) | Corey, James S.A. | 8.50 |
| 9/14/2014 | PragPub: The Second Iteration (Issue #63, September 2014) | Various | 7.50 |
| 9/7/2014 | Banzai Battalion (Judge Dredd GN) | Wagner, John and Brian Bolland | 7.00 |
| 9/6/2014 | Griff, The | Moore, Christopher and Ian Corson | 4.00 |
| 9/3/2014 | Get Jiro! | Bourdain, Anthony and Joel Rose | 9.00 |
| 9/3/2014 | Lock In | Scalzi, John | 9.50 |
| 8/26/2014 | PragPub: The Second Iteration (Issue #62, August 2014) | Various | 8.00 |
| 8/26/2014 | Black Numbers: The Aleph Null Chronicles Book One | Lappi, Dean Frank | 7.00 |
| 8/10/2014 | Dodger | Pratchett, Terry | 7.75 |
| 8/8/2014 | My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs | Switek, Brian | 10.00 |
| 8/3/2014 | America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't | Colbert, Stephen | 8.75 |
| 7/31/2014 | On Such a Full Sea | Lee, Chang-Rae | 7.00 |
| 7/24/2014 | Mr. Mercedes | King, Stephen | 7.50 |
| 7/23/2014 | Serenity, Vol 3: The Shepherd's Tale | Whedon, Joss and Zack Whedon and Chris Samnee | 6.50 |
| 7/23/2014 | Serenity, Vol 2: Better Days | Whedon, Joss and Brett Matthews and Will Conrad | 7.50 |
| 7/22/2014 | Serenity, Vol 1: Those Left Behind | Whedon, Joss and Brett Matthews and Will Conrad | 7.50 |
| 7/22/2014 | Black Orchid: The Deluxe Edition | Gaiman, Neil and Dave McKean | 6.00 |
| 7/17/2014 | Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power | Maddow, Rachel | 10.00 |
| 7/16/2014 | Planet of Viruses, A | Zimmer, Carl | 9.50 |
| 7/15/2014 | Getting Life: An Innocent Man's 25-Year Journey From Prison to Peace (A memoir) | Morton, Michael | 8.00 |
| 7/5/2014 | Dirty Job, A | Moore, Christopher | 8.00 |
| 7/1/2014 | Ocean at the End of the Lane, The | Gaiman, Neil | 9.50 |
| 6/24/2014 | Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants | Sullivan, Robert | 2.00 |
| 6/22/2014 | Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus | Wask, Bill and Monica Murphy | 5.00 |
| 6/18/2014 | New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird | Guran, Paula (Editor) | 8.00 |
| 6/9/2014 | PragPub: The Second Iteration (Issue #60, June 2014) | Various | 8.00 |
| 6/6/2014 | Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, The | Pratchett, Terry | 9.00 |
| 6/5/2014 | Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror, The | Moore, Christoper | 7.50 |
| 5/27/2014 | Shovel Ready | Sternbergh, Adam | 8.50 |
| 5/23/2014 | Authority: Book 2 of the Southern Reach Trilogy | Vandermeer, Jeff | 9.00 |
| 5/22/2014 | 11/22/63 | King, Stephen | 7.50 |
| 5/8/2014 | The Wee Free Men | Pratchett, Terry | 9.00 |
| 5/4/2014 | Spaceman Deluxe Edition | Azzarello, Brian & Eduardo Risso | 4.00 |
| 5/3/2014 | Final Crisis | Jones, JG & Doug Mahnke | 2.00 |
| 4/29/2014 | Serpent of Venice, The | Moore, Christoper | 9.50 |
| 4/25/2014 | Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal | Moore, Christoper | 9.00 |
| 4/22/2014 | We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves | Fowler, Karen Joy | 9.00 |
| 4/5/2014 | Strange Bodies | Theroux, Marcel | 5.00 |
| 3/27/2014 | Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields | Lower, Wendy | 7.00 |
| 3/23/2014 | Circle, The | Eggers, Dave | 7.50 |
| 3/16/2014 | A Middle-Class Utopia: Lewis's It' Can't Happen Here (Sinclair Lewis at 100: Papers Presented at a Centennial Conference SCSU 1985) | Jones, James T | 7.00 |
| 3/16/2014 | Doctor Sleep | King, Stephen | 7.00 |
| 3/16/2014 | Reading It Can't Happen Here With College Freshman (Sinclair Lewis at 100: Papers Presented at a Centennial Conference SCSU 1985) | Parham, Judy F | 2.00 |
| 3/14/2014 | Shakespeare: The World as Stage (the Eminent Lives Series) | Bryson, Bill | 9.00 |
| 3/13/2014 | Gulp | Roach, Mary | 8.75 |
| 3/11/2014 | Fool | Moore, Christopher | 9.25 |
| 3/7/2014 | The Golem and Jinni | Wecker, Helen | 9.00 |
| 3/1/2014 | Martian, The | Weir, Andy | 9.50 |
| 2/27/2014 | Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity: Version 1.0 (2/12/14) | National Institute of Standards and Technology | 7.50 |
| 2/26/2014 | Un Lun Dun | Mieville, China | 8.00 |
| 2/22/2014 | It Can't Happen Here | Lewis, Sinclair | 9.00 |
| 2/17/2014 | Annihilation | Vandermeer, Jeff | 9.00 |
| 2/17/2014 | Incrementalists, The | Brust, Steven and Skyler White | 1.00 |
| 2/16/2014 | Hallucinations | Sacks, Oliver | 9.00 |
| 2/13/2014 | Dust (Silo Saga) | Howey, Hugh | 7.50 |
| 2/7/2014 | Parasite (Parisitology I) | Grant, Mira | 2.00 |
| 2/1/2014 | MaddAddam | Atwood, Margaret | 7.25 |
| 1/28/2014 | Happy Atheist, The | Myers, PZ | 6.00 |
| 1/27/2014 | Year of the Flood, The | Atwood, Margaret | 7.50 |
| 1/23/2014 | Oryx and Crake | Atwood, Margaret | 7.75 |
| 1/20/2014 | Alif the Unseen | Wilson, G. Willow | 7.50 |
| 1/17/2014 | Superman vs. Muhammad Ali | Adam, Neal & Denny O'Neil | 7.00 |
| 1/16/2014 | Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit | Quinn, Daniel | 6.00 |
| 1/15/2014 | Necromancer's House, The | Buehlman, Christopher | 9.00 |
| 1/14/2014 | In the Tall Grass | King, Stephen and Joe Hill | 2.00 |
| 1/11/2014 | Monstrous Regiment (Discworld 31) | Pratchett, Terry | 8.00 |
| 1/4/2014 | Wind Through the Keyhole, The (A Dark Tower Novel) | King, Stephen | 8.00 |
| 1/1/2014 | Jack Glass | Roberts, Adam | 8.50 |
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