THE BEST OF 2014

THE BEST OF 2014

This is a list of the best of the best of the 72 books and short stories that I read
or listened to in 2014. They did not have to be released in 2014.

I broke the books into several categories. The reviews are linked. 

* indicates the best book in that category.


Fiction books:

The Black Box (Harry Bosch #18) by Michael Connelly
Steelheart (The Reckoners Book #1) by Brandon Sanderson
Republic: A Novel of America's Future by Charles Sheehan-Miles

Short Story:
The Big Trip Up Yonder by Kurt Vonnegut
Noose by Ernie Lindsey
Mildred by Sean Ryan O'Reilly
Hard Place by Ernie Lindsey

Non-Fiction books:
*Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think by Victor Davis Hanson
Game Plan: How to Protect Yourself from the Coming Cyber-economic Attack by Kevin D. Freeman
An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America by Nick Bunker
Crazy is Normal: A Classroom Expose by Lloyd Lofthouse
The History of the Ancient World:  From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome by Susan Wise Bauer

Fiction audiobook:
*Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (Read by Kirby Heyborne)
Orbit by John J. Nance (Read by John J. Nance)
The Sea of Trolls (Sea of Trolls Trilogy #1) by Nancy Farmer (Read by Gerald Doyle)
Trident's First Gleaming: A Special Operations Group Thriller by Stephen Templin (Read by Brian Troxell)

Non-fiction audiobook:
*The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible (audiobook) by Simon Winchester (Read by Simon Winchester)
Mandela: An Audio History by Radio Diaries (multiple performers)
A Call to Arms: Women, Religion, Violence and Power by Jimmy Carter (Read by Jimmy Carter)
NPR Chronicles: World War I  by NPR (multiple performers)
NPR Driveway Moments: All About Animals by NPR (multiple performers)

*Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez

*Truth and Dare by Nathanael Green

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