2014 Reading Wrap-Up

I can't believe it's time for the 2014 Reading Wrap-Up! So many books this year! And so many of them good! It was so difficult to choose; to narrow it down! But I did, and here are the best and worst reads of 2014! As usual, they are ordered alphabetically by author's last name, because I can't choose which one is better (or worse) than the other. In total, I read 130 books this year. Woot! Woot! I read 5 1-strawberry books, 14 2-strawberry books, 42 3-strawberry books, 52 4-strawberry books, and 17 5-strawberry books. It was a good year.

Best Reads of 2014

Sea of Shadows
(Age of Legends #1)
by Kelley Armstrong
YA: fantasy
Rating: 4 out of 5 strawberries

Thief's War
(Knight & Rogue #4)
by Hilari Bell
YA: fantasy, adventure
Rating: 5 out of 5 strawberries

All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
Adult: historical fiction
Rating: 4 out of 5 strawberries

172 Hours on the Moon
by Johan Harstad
YA: suspense, horror
Rating: 4 out of 5 strawberries

Cruel Beauty
by Rosamund Hodge
YA: fairy tale retelling
Rating: 4 out of 5 strawberries

The Queen of the Tearling
(Tearling #1)
by Erika Johansen
Adult: fantasy
Rating: 5 out of 5 strawberries

The Night Circus
by Erin Morgenstern
Adult: historical fantasy
Rating: 5 out of 5 strawberries

The Shadow Throne
(The Ascendance Trilogy #3)
by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Middle Grade: adventure
Rating: 4 out of 5 strawberries

Jackaby
(Jackaby #1)
by William Ritter
YA: historical fantasy
Rating: 5 out of 5 strawberries

Vicious
by V. E. Schwab
Adult: paranormal
Rating: 4 out of 5 strawberries

The Screaming Staircase
(Lockwood & Co. #1)
by Jonathan Stroud
Middle Grade: supernatural
Rating: 4 out of 5 strawberries

The One Safe Place
by Tania Unsworth
YA: dystopian
Rating: 4 out of 5 strawberries

The Cure for Dreaming
by Cat Winters
YA: historical fiction, supernatural
Rating: 4 out of 5 strawberries

2014 Worst Reads

After the Parch
by Sheldon Greene
YA: futuristic
Rating: 1 out of 5 strawberries

Concrete Fever
by Nathaniel Kressen
Adult: contemporary
Rating: 1 out of 5 strawberries

Fangirl
by Rainbow Rowell
YA: contemporary
Rating: 1 out of 5 strawberries

Jackie
by John Tammela
Middle Grade: nonfiction
Rating: 1 out of 5 strawberries